I am also an undergrad CS major from UTD (whoosh!). It is VERY interesting that you would bring this up because now I am pursuing a masters in CS at a differen

I am also an undergrad CS major from UTD (whoosh!). It is VERY interesting that you would bring this up because now I am pursuing a masters in CS at a different university and grad algorithms is the class I struggled with the most! I ended up having to spend a lot more time on it in grad school and learned a lot more. I think UTD might have a slight deficiency in teaching algorithms IMO.