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Wow, I thought I was masochistic. What possessed you to take DC and GA (two of the hardest classes) together? I took DC alone and found it manageable if you weren't a perfectionist. Compilers was the most difficult thing I've ever done, though that was mostly due to my own poor time management during phase 3 (generating the intermediate representation). I didn't complete phase 3, so most of my time during phase 4 (em…
You don't have to take GA anymore if you choose the new specialization. https://omscs.gatech.edu/specialization-human-computer-inter...
Neither HCI nor Interactive Intelligence require GA. In II it's one of two courses courses you get to choose between. I think a lot of people select those two specializations just to avoid it. II is also close to the ML specialization, so people who have trouble with or want to skip GA can move to it pretty easily.