My UWI Experience Pt.3 : Last Lap and Next Steps
2021-2022 : Smaller Classes, Harder Work My final year was one of the most challenging years for me at UWI, surpassing even my first year. This was mainly due to the fact that I chose more difficult elective courses such as Intro to Data Analytics and Intelligent Systems, despite having no background knowledge in those domains. Although the first and second years laid the foundation for programming, it did not prepare me for the complexities of the Horizontal Apriori Algorithm (used in Data Mining). Each programming course in the final year was densely packed with foreign concepts that were not always easy to grasp in class, which meant that I had to spend a lot more time studying and preparing for exams. Even the lecturers would often say, "Today's topic should be an entire course on its own." Group projects carried more weight, with Human Computer Interaction being an entirely group-based course. Additionally, I contracted COVID-19 during the semester, which made att...