You must be joking

Someone once asked me "What is a camel?". The answer was "An over designed mouse created by a committee!". It take a lot of *what ifs* to get from a mouse to a camel.

Students tend to under or over design things. To loosely quote Linus "It's simple to make things complex and complex to make things simple". It does take a fair amount of experience to hit that middle ground.

It is very easy to make a complicated mess especially when you are trying to make everybody in the world happy and address every problem before you start. You will never get passed the design phase.

Now don't get me wrong I am not stating that this is the case. I am simply stating that I could see how this could get way out of control. This is especially true when with students trying to account for every problem. In the working world you tend to spend less time on use cases and more time on getting the job done so you can go home :)