Need advice on time conflict: OH vs Sem
This feels like the kind of dilemma sage elder OMSCSers can have great advice on. As you know, courses are appearing in Canvas and populating our calendars. Here's how that shakes out for me:
I am signed up for RAIT. I know it's not considered an especially hard class, but it will be hard for me, since my only Python experience is Coursera and no, I have no technical background to fall back on. The professor has office hours at 8:30 on Tuesdays.
I am also signed up for the LLMs and Cog Sci Seminar. It's not the end of the world if I can't take it, but I'm obviously interested enough to pay for it, especially since I'm an educator and this seems ultra relevant to figuring out how to deal with my students' LLM addictions (and my own!). The seminar meets Tuesdays at 8.
I'm sort of assuming that means I should drop the seminar. But what do you guys think? I'm asking in part because this is my second semester in OMSCS, and my first semester class didn't have office hours of any kind, so I don't know how they work here. Is it mostly about asking your own questions, or listening to others questions? (In which case missing the first half hour each time seems like a problem.)