After working for a while as a programmer, I went back to uni to do some post-grad work (while still holding down a full time programmers job). I noticed a cou

After working for a while as a programmer, I went back to uni to do some post-grad work (while still holding down a full time programmers job). I noticed a couple of things: Doing the assignments was really easy. My reactions were something like "omg, they wrote a complete and proper spec!" - but it wasn't that. When I reflected upon it, I realised that the spec was very short, but they had removed all ambiguity from it, which made the assignments ridiculously easy compared to real life work. Secondly although I swore I wouldn't do this, I turned into one of the 'mature students' (read as: grumpy-old-men types) who laugh at students whenever they complain about their workload.