This is
something that's been hanging over my time in this class like a bad smell, a
visible funk that fills the classroom every Thursday at 10AM that I can't
ignore any longer because this week it was at its most intense. This
class is meant to act as a combination class both for CSIT major and CD majors
yet I constantly feel like CD majors end up on the seriously short end of that
stick, we’re the second class citizens it feels like, the homeless guys who
were magnanimously invited to CSIT’s thanksgiving. For instance look at this project we’re currently working on
and how Dr. Tao phrases the terms of the project “select a subject that’s
important to the major,” not the MAJORS, not YOUR major, but THE major, the one
single major that everyone is considered to be part of. My group ended up with the subject of
cloud computing yet I’m a CD major with an emphasis in 3D modeling, this is not
something I should be spending my time on because it’s not actually important
to my career path. Even the terms
of the project itself work exclusively off the idea that you’re the kind of
code monkey whose going to hack out a plan for your programming, nothing to do
with designing interfaces, visual aesthetics, graphics, or anything else
related to the people who are here as communication design majors. There’s a whole segment of my project
that needs to be devoted to the risks of cloud computing and I don’t see that
has anything to do with me, I’m not going to be designing any cloud networks,
at most I might be hiring someone else too and at that point THEY would know
about the threats of cloud computing, that’s why I’d hire THEM. You don’t insist that the Bio majors to
projects on quantum mechanics but demanding CD majors throw together network
security presentations is somehow better?
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