all systems go?

ok so to recap, i reformatted my laptop. it's in pristine factory defaults condition. and then i installed my lot of software. minus the unnecessary ones of course. so yeah now my system is leaner and meaner. or so they say. i'd really like to take a break from my assignments, but it is unfortunately impossible to do really. everywhere i go i think about them, which to work on first, how to solve the problems and things like that. just irksome. and i'm expecting myself to face similar situations when i start working in future. if i find a job. haha...

a professor spoke to me today. he's one of the head of departments for the IT faculty at UOW. he's from nigeria (aka native african) and from our conversation i realised there are indeed a lot of people studying IT but not really wishing to do any programming at all. SERIOUSLY! what's the point in studying IT if you don't do PROGRAMMING?! kind of defeats the whole purpose. pointless attempt at getting PR in a foreign country that (for some) hardly speaks your language and you hardly speak theirs. i can't imagine how a person who has not done any programming work in the IT field. this would probably mean their math is probably totally CMI, they don't understand computational logic, and the worst of all is they don't know how a computer works?! and they intend to call themselves IT professionals? professional my foot. given the conditions here they'll probably end up doing phone-in technical support or the likes. not to say i look down on these people (i shan't) going into detail lest i start getting ... ahem... racist. or biased. whatev. and i digressed. the professor commented that, as a IT student, one would probably be knowledgeable or at least familiar with minimum of 2 programming languages. i can't help but agree. so those who are less than clueful about this necessity and are still taking IT, i don't see much future in their professional job prospects in this field. if at least got a minimal level of programming skills like me an average (read: nearly almost cmi) still can survive i think. otherwise, good luck to those people.