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It's been pretty good actually. I generally haven't had to due a whole lot of essays. Reports, Observations, etc sure - but thats usually based around a practical assessment piece. But that might be the difference between CS and IT degrees? Im doing IT. Only in a 2 courses Have I done ~100 page reports but those were both done in groups of 4.

Ohh, I forgot you weren't CS. I can't say the papers are all too bad. I never liked being forced to write papers on things I wasn't interested in. At least now I can either choose my topic or find one throughout a large textbook which is pretty helpful in getting a deeper understanding of a particular topic, rather than BS'ing papers which I'd normally like to do. The downside is that a few of these classes have absurd deadlines so you're writing papers weekly and it's hard to learn a new topic and present your research so quickly.

It was. The course itself was probably only 40% on Cryptography. By large the single largest topic being taught in the class though. So between all the other material and the cryptography I came out with an alright grade. not a great grade, but nowhere near a fail or anything. about 70% if you would.

At least you stuck with it. Although I know that getting a D in a major course doesn't count as credit so I hope you were able to pull out a C or more.

I have two that I found difficult for very different reasons.

First, Extended Project - Dissertation that I did in my last year of high school. It was a self directed class and I ended up writing 14000 words for that bitch of a paper.

Secondly, Fine Art Coursework - My whole life. It's what I specialise in and love, but it's fucking difficult since the main difficulty is that you have to be good at being intuitive and solving problems of physics and measurements and practicalities of transport and storage and health and safety/ethics and ensuring that actually, every piece of work you do is of a good standard since the marks you get are based on EVERYTHING you have done. Nothing is left out.

The second one sounds different. I'm not quite sure what kind of work you were actually doing. If you have a description of that class I'd like to hear it.