u/Holiday_Guava7211

Has anyone been bothered before by how they grade stuff like a criminal detective and take 80 points out of 100 for the smallest possible mistake (%s, function should have only one use and no printf statements - what a stupid rule)? It's literally impossible for me to get full pts on a homework no matter how hard I try and how closely I read the course standards. They'll always find some loophole in your code in the 5th dimension to dock points. You would think that they implemented an autograder to save some of that tedious human effort on grading hw and lab assignments, and yet they still care to spend that human effort re-reviewing the code and overriding the autograder results just to give you an absymally low grade for some simple nonadherence mistake. This is an introductory C course for god's sake! Why not leave these shenanigans to higher level CS courses?

Rising sophomore here. I signed up for 3 courses over the summer term back in Feb' this year. (CS 159, MSE 270, MSE 260), and all three of them start on 6/15. I also have a research assistant job that averages around 15 hrs per week. Right now I'm thinking of dropping one in case I can't handle the load. Has anyone attempted a similar courseload over the summer before? I'd also appreciate if anyone can share their prior experiences with these courses.