I don't know whats wrong with me but I'm not feeling well since morning... I have one more day to decide what I'm gonna do. I've just joined for a Masters program and selected the courses which I was supposed to take. One of them was Operating Systems. Though there was a warning that said: "Take this course only if you know system level programming and heavy command over Unix", I thought I can manage it and opted for this course. Now, we've been given the first assignment in this course. To mimic some command in unix. I spent some 8 hours trying to do that but in vain. I'm sure I'll be able to do it within the next couple of hours if I break my head but most of the people here said: "If you cannot do the first project, drop the course and take something which you feel comfortable at" And I've heard the second project will be something relating to "Create a Small Shell for Unix".
Now I have 24 hours more before I can decide to drop this course. The other subjects that I have in the list are Computer Architecture and Database Systems. I can take one of them or both of them. Though I was more interested in Databases, I took up Operating Systems because many people said that I will be learning a great level of programming here but this course demands something that I don't have as of now. I don't know what to do. I am not from a Computer Science background so I am not an expert at C System Level programming. Its hard to decide about this course because its offered only once a year. So if I drop this course now, I'll have to take it next fall and I'm feeling guilty. I am interested in Web Programming and Computer Networking and I don't know how my decisions will influence my future - Job, Study and Internships because my course itself is for 1.5 years => that I can take course for atmost two Fall Quarters. I don't know what to do. Please please help me...
I'm not feeling good :( Please help me...
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Given that this post is coming in after your deadline, all I can say is whatever you chose to do, be confident in knowing it was the right thing to do then apply yourself wholeheartedly in it. Failure is not an option, but giving everything you got even if it doesn't bear fruit will certainly serve you well and will pay dividends at some point in your life.
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