My partner art works 40 hrs a week with a wife and a 2 year old son. I myself work 22 hrs a week and am busy myself. Like the others, I am dissapointed in the department for not giving us any input before this new schedule took place. It seems to me that there was not much clear communication between picone and the rest of the professors in what he saw for this course. Our advisor Dr. Halpin is busy also, and we have been working independently without him having to look over our shoulder every step of the way.
Feedback is hard to get when professors are very busy with classes and outside projects.
I also find it discouraging that we give a presentation at the end of february, almost 5 to 6 weeks before the final presentation. Our projects are not completed, but Picone expects this to be very close to the final presentation. I cannot understand how this practice will help being so far away from the final presentation. We have determined our constraints, and those will be met to complete the project according to the paperwork done.