the OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO thread

[nkwu]

I'm interetsed in those stores too. I know this isn't a BST Thread, but if anyone reading has a "Linear Algebra with Applications" 5th Edition(Copyright 06) Get at me by PM. I think it's the first year htey used it though.

For those engineers, Ithink a majority of 101 (like me: SE 101) use a Introduciton to Professsional Engineering and Little Brown Compact Handbook. What's in the Intro to Pro Engineering book?

[TurboRegal]

heh, nanotech, you're tuition must be nice, i thought i had it bad in mech.

Hmm, ya it's pretty hefty, like 6000 per semester.... Oh well, you get what you pay for...

This is RFD, so just wondering, does anyone have a coupon code or a way to get this any cheaper

[jayehs]

ummm 2B in comp engineering is NOT the hardest term. It is the point where it starts to get hard. I would say 3B was the hardest and most work by far, then 3A then 2B. 4A could be hard depending on what you are taking and 4th year design project implementation.

2B was only hard for us since 241 lab was absolutely ********. Ed Spike had no guidelines and procedures or anything for those labs, they were absolute mess. I know so many people that got 30% on those labs because they weren't sure what they had to put in the reports. My reports were 40 pages each so i ended up doing ok. But then this was long time ago. So many people complained that year about how disorganized the labs were. I heard Ed Spike even has a powerpoint slides up during the labs now that shows exactly what you have to do... :P

Advice? just make sure you keep up with 241 cuz there's quite a bit of material. don't leave it till last minute before the exam, there are lot of practice questions to do. other than that there's not much else.. 222 was fun. 251 was just plain dumb. i don't know if they changed the course or not but looking back i don't remember a single thing we did in that course other than stupid assignments in prolog which you'll never use again. 204 was pretty easy and 231 was ok also.

[dyangu]

I'm interetsed in those stores too. I know this isn't a BST Thread, but if anyone reading has a "Linear Algebra with Applications" 5th Edition(Copyright 06) Get at me by PM. I think it's the first year htey used it though.

For those engineers, Ithink a majority of 101 (like me: SE 101) use a Introduciton to Professsional Engineering and Little Brown Compact Handbook. What's in the Intro to Pro Engineering book?

That Linear book is new this year -_-'' I just finished first year and I'm stuck with the old one. You don't absolutely need it though, assigments are optional in that course.
Intro to prof eng is for that mandatory joke course, taught BY Applevich. Complete BS but you might need the book cause Applevich wanna make money. He's made a new edition every year for 3 years now... so you won't find it used any where.

Apparently a lotta people fail outta 1B in ECE... wonder how many of my classmates'll be back next semester.

[andrew2good4u]

I'll be in waterloo in september too. Computer science co op.


My rez is V1 west 1

[frog]

3B computer engineering student (well going into 3B in Sep. '06)

i should be working on my WTR not surfing RFD......lol.

We're probably in the same class. I transferred out of '08 CompE to '09 EE this past summer but I'm still going to be taking 427 in the fall. My other 3 core classes will be with the 2BEs.

[veryhuman]

I just finished 4B act sci 2 days ago you guys have fun eh. V1 isnt just for first year (I stayed there for my entire 4th year, didnt like looking for sublets).

[mingming]

I've never stayed at V1, couldnt stand the food. I think I've eaten there twice all this time.

This was where I've stayed thru these years:

1A - Beck Hall (UW Place)
1B - MKV-West
2A - MKV-West
2B - 134 Columbia (WOCH)
3A - 134 Columbia (WOCH)
3B - MKV-West
4A - MKV-West

Now for my final term next winter...

4B - Wellesly (UW Place)

Talk about coming full circle!!! Also, definitely need MKV for summer (or try your best to). AC is your best friend during those hot months. All your friends will want to come over.

[jljdaigl]

I will have to admit, Residence was an amazing experience, Eby Hall 8th floor, UW Place, but I dont think I could go back, well maybe I could as a don but other than that I wont. Would rather save money by finding my own place and living with good friends. But I do know some people who are the complete opposite and who want to stay in res the whole time. Everyone is different I guess haha...

But AC was definately something I wish I had when I was in rez during the extremely hot summer :S that was brutal

[kgoyal]

ummm 2B in comp engineering is NOT the hardest term. It is the point where it starts to get hard. I would say 3B was the hardest and most work by far, then 3A then 2B. 4A could be hard depending on what you are taking and 4th year design project implementation.

2B was only hard for us since 241 lab was absolutely ********. Ed Spike had no guidelines and procedures or anything for those labs, they were absolute mess. I know so many people that got 30% on those labs because they weren't sure what they had to put in the reports. My reports were 40 pages each so i ended up doing ok. But then this was long time ago. So many people complained that year about how disorganized the labs were. I heard Ed Spike even has a powerpoint slides up during the labs now that shows exactly what you have to do... :P

Advice? just make sure you keep up with 241 cuz there's quite a bit of material. don't leave it till last minute before the exam, there are lot of practice questions to do. other than that there's not much else.. 222 was fun. 251 was just plain dumb. i don't know if they changed the course or not but looking back i don't remember a single thing we did in that course other than stupid assignments in prolog which you'll never use again. 204 was pretty easy and 231 was ok also.

I'm going into 3B Comp Eng in Sept 06. Any advice?

[jayehs]

Advice for 3B?

Courses themselves weren't too hard, just lot of work. I thought 318 was kinda tough cuz i don't like communication system but if you are into that stuff you should do okay. 355 for us was lot of work cuz of the PBX project which ate up lot of time. But I heard from a friend who just finished 3B that you don't do PBX anymore. So I can't really comment on that. I enjoyed 380 but the labs were a lot of work. It wasn't really hard at all but they make you type out all the equations on the computer and it took forever :P Not to mention reports were 40 pages each typed. ugh i'm looking at it right now.. that wasn't fun. lol. 427 was a good course, you learn VHDL. Final project wasn't too bad, i think it could've been done by 2 members. T.A.'s measure the performance of your project and if yours is over a certain point, you get an automatic 95% or something like that. so we just stopped as soon as ours reached that point. Of course lot of people in my classes spent so much time trying to outperform each others *snort snort*

Not much advices for the courses, just do what you have to do. so really only advice for 3B comes down to 4th year design project. Pick your prof. early as they get taken up quickly. I can't say much for the other groups but our advisor played absolutely zero role in our project and i'm sure it was the same for lot of other groups. So don't sit around trying to pick what prof would be most suitable for your project. Chances are that they can't do that much for you anyways. They are the ones that mark your interim report and final report so pick a nice prof.. don't go picking Barby haha.

for 4ydp, all you have to do in 3B is pick prof, topic, write a proposal and do a presentation. For the topic, if you choose to do software only, it shouldn't be too bad during 4A when you have to implement. Hardware is a lot tougher and costs lot more but more fun imo. If you do hardware, you should reserve your parts as soon as possible. When you implement it during 4A, you'd want to start early since I've seen few groups that had their parts fry near the end and they couldn't get replacement parts in time.

Just remember that your project only has to meet the customer requirements. It doesnt' necessary have to be fully functional. So if you think your project will be too tough or large in scale, then set your customer requiremetns low.

[dsgreens]

EX-Waterloo'er here (ie Alumni) offering “Advice from An Old Guy”

First year students, chill out with the text books, yes you will need them all but somebody will have them in PDF form. You’ll find that guy fast enough. Offer the guy a twenty for a copy and poof you’ve saved enough money for a semester worth of beer.

Residence RULES unless you choice not to MEET PEOPLE. So walk around talk to people. Join in on FROSH week, EVERY EVENT, and then join a FROSH committee. You’ll thank me. This will probably be the most memorable week of school, no slack assing it.

The MATH building sucks.

The Psyc build is a trip, get drunk then go for a walk over there.

Larry Smith is the best Prof on campus, take any class he offers, even if you’re not in Economics.

Visit Laurie (WLU) the people there are much prettier then you, it should be your dating pool.

Girls if you’re not in Engineering then walk by Engineering, chances are you’ll get at least one or two date offers.

POETS rules,

The Bomber is better.

The city of Waterloo has three post secondary schools, hence it is built and focused around students don’t be afraid to check it out.

For GOD sacks get out of your room.

Shower you sinky Mathis.

Thursday and Friday 8:30 am classes suck… avoid them. Same applies for 7 pm classes Wednesday…

Join a club or something, the more people you know the more likely you’ll get a job after graduation.

Shower you sinky Engineers

The Co-op process is hard and difficult accept it. But do it.

Waterloo can suck ass because admin doesn’t give a **** about you, you’re replaceable. So make the best out of it, ask question courteously and you’ll throw them off guard.

Your Professors will never mark anything you hand in, there is an Army of grad students to do that. So if something is wrong with your paper/assignment/exam make and appointment or show up to office hours and ask about it. Changes are you’re wrong but there is a good chance they’ll give you a couple marks anyway. Asking questions was worth about 5% a class for me.

If you **** something up academically, figure out why? It’s hard to believe but these courses are building blocks, 4th year will suck if you didn’t figure out 1st. On the other hand if you work hard it 1st, 4th is easy.

Relax it just school.

Shower you sinky Science people.

Find a Prof you like and get career advice, they know lots of stuff and people.

Being drunk in an exam, while fun is not a good way to take the edge off.

Pajamas while fun are not the right thing to where to class, you look stupid.

Booze and email do not mix.

Live off campus, but look early the good places go quick. You’ll need a deck.

That’s all I got, have a great time.

Dave

BMath, BA, MA, FOC 2000, FED 2001, VOC 97-01, Superfan founder, Canada Day 98-02, and a whole bunch of other ****.

[ryan123]

im gonna be in rev first year cs coop. SO what are u guys' opinons on REV?

[nwwong]

which store in toronto? location?

Oh, well I don't know the exact place. But I hear friends from UT buying copied texts from there. I didn't ask since they cater to UT students and proably won't have our UW textbooks.

[nwwong]

I just realized that like, 90% of this thread is engineers. Either there's a lot of us...or only engineers are nerd enough to post here