UofT Engineering F!ROSH

[kt11]

Guys, I'm scared.

I think I'll be commuting roughly 50mins to an 1hour each way. Will I have enough "time" in the evening to do homework. Say I get home at 6pm, finish dinner at 6:25pm...will I be doing work well till 2am? It's basically 2h of sleep/study I'm losing...

[skuric]

Guys, I'm scared.

I think I'll be commuting roughly 50mins to an 1hour each way. Will I have enough "time" in the evening to do homework. Say I get home at 6pm, finish dinner at 6:25pm...will I be doing work well till 2am? It's basically 2h of sleep/study I'm losing...

Not sure if this will help you, but I would do quite a lot of work at school, and not just between classes, but after they're all done and most people go home/res. I find that I'm really not efficient at home, and if you're the same, then you might get more work done in the same amount of hours working from school!

[lovelycrap]

Guys, I'm scared.

I think I'll be commuting roughly 50mins to an 1hour each way. Will I have enough "time" in the evening to do homework. Say I get home at 6pm, finish dinner at 6:25pm...will I be doing work well till 2am? It's basically 2h of sleep/study I'm losing...

I wouldn't be too worried. I know plenty of people who commute about as much. You might even have an advantage over people living on their own, if you're not a good self-starter. Living on-campus is hectic and extremely distracting. Most people that I know who commute don't go home until 9pm or later anyways. There are tons of places to study on-campus.

[kt11]

I wouldn't be too worried. I know plenty of people who commute about as much. You might even have an advantage over people living on their own, if you're not a good self-starter. Living on-campus is hectic and extremely distracting. Most people that I know who commute don't go home until 9pm or later anyways. There are tons of places to study on-campus.

Can you tell us how your schedule was? Like, what time you work up -- what time you started homework, what time you went to sleep.

[lovelycrap]

Can you tell us how your schedule was? Like, what time you work up -- what time you started homework, what time you went to sleep.

I lived on-campus at New College my first year, so it's a little different. I basically did things when it was convenient. I never held on to a sleep schedule. However, that isn't to say that everyone was that way. A friend of mine recently graduated with a CIV degree from UofT and he had a rigid schedule that never changed and went to sleep every day at 11pm.

I find that the best thing you can do for yourself is to use your in-class time as wisely as possible. A lot of the stuff you will be exposed to really isn't that bad if you can follow your lectures and ask questions. Some of the otherwise simple subjects would seem nearly impossible if you tried to learn it on your own but 2 paragraphs of notes from a good prof can make it dead easy. Once again, ymmv.... a lot.

Also, "my prof sucked" isn't much of an excuse since no one is stopping you from skipping your classes and going to a different section. I had one particularly bad prof in 2nd year and I stopped going to his lectures early on and changed to a different lecture section. Later in the year, before finals, I returned to his lecture once and there were only about 5 people in the room including me. Poor guy, he was really nice and supposedly a great researcher but he couldn't teach to save his life.

[skuric]

Also, "my prof sucked" isn't much of an excuse since no one is stopping you from skipping your classes and going to a different section. I had one particularly bad prof in 2nd year and I stopped going to his lectures early on and changed to a different lecture section. Later in the year, before finals, I returned to his lecture once and there were only about 5 people in the room including me. Poor guy, he was really nice and supposedly a great researcher but he couldn't teach to save his life.

I always found this weird about uni. Don't you kinda have to go to YOUR prof? I mean, won't there be info about tutorials/labs that's specifically only for that prof, or won't one prof ask you to do an assignment one specific way etc.?

[lovelycrap]

I always found this weird about uni. Don't you kinda have to go to YOUR prof? I mean, won't there be info about tutorials/labs that's specifically only for that prof, or won't one prof ask you to do an assignment one specific way etc.?

I never had a problem with that in 1st and 2nd year. All the sections pretty much do the same stuff. Plus, just make some friends in your section and they can keep tabs for you.

Also, the midterm are usually universal among all sections and the finals are always universal. Labs and projects often mix between sections too. That's like 80% of your mark right there. Quizzes are usually co-ordinated and scheduled ahead of time. In addition to all of that, each course has a website complete with an online forum for students and announcements from professors. You'd really have to be purposely not paying attention to miss something.

[skuric]

I never had a problem with that in 1st and 2nd year. All the sections pretty much do the same stuff. Plus, just make some friends in your section and they can keep tabs for you.

Also, the midterm are usually universal among all sections and the finals are always universal. Labs and projects often mix between sections too. That's like 80% of your mark right there. Quizzes are usually co-ordinated and scheduled ahead of time. In addition to all of that, each course has a website complete with an online forum for students and announcements from professors. You'd really have to be purposely not paying attention to miss something.

So, no pop-up quizzes whatsoever? And regular quizzes are always consistent too with each section right? Like the prof you're cheating with will have the same quiz on the same sections as the prof you cheated on correct? (For lack of a better way to put it )

[jubaitca]

i sincerely hope you are not in ece... this isn't a personal attack (or not meant to be) but there's alot of people in ECE so it that way and don't bother interacting / talking to their other classmates! Like seriously WTF!? All the other disciplines are all friends and get together, and you see ECE's where 90% of the people study by themselves, there's no sense of community and why? Because people just don't "want" to meet other people... i'm sick of it

Hey man, when you are required to study most of the time in ECE, then you gotta do what you do. But you just try to make it as fun as possible with your friends...that's how I maintained some sort of social life in there.

Even if I tried to make friends in other dicsiplines, I probably won't have time to hang around (and plus I didn't live in RES).

Although I was getting pretty jealous of all the other disciplines getting involved everywhere and chill'n

[lovelycrap]

So, no pop-up quizzes whatsoever? And regular quizzes are always consistent too with each section right? Like the prof you're cheating with will have the same quiz on the same sections as the prof you cheated on correct? (For lack of a better way to put it )

That's usually correct. I've yet to experience a true pop-quiz with absolutely no warning. If you just read the class forums, read the emails you get from your profs and talk to other people in your sections every now and then, I'd say its pretty much impossible to miss something worth marks or be truly surprised about something like a quiz. Midterms and exams are obviously never a surprise for anyone, except maybe for the mark you get after you take them.

[TheFuteballer]

haha enjoy ur frosh week...before all hell breaks loose with classes!

hey TheFuteballer (bijan)!! weird how it's been a year since i started talking to you on rfd!! you know you're one of the coolest ece ppl out there!

with that...where are all the chems ? we're the program with the girls !

hhaha thanks i think the chems are too cool for RFD

TheFuteballer = Bijan?

Hey man, I'm that guy always asking you questions on the ECE group on Facebook! Change the 'r' in my username to something else to get my last name!

heyy yeah i didn't notice that at all, funny how all the ece's are on rfd

You do realize there are two ECE common rooms right? The new one has a big screen TV, surround sound, DVD player, cable and all that.

Also, who said you had to only interact with people in your discipline? You have tons of shared classes in 1st year where you sit side by side with all the other disciplines. You want to meet people? Get involved in EngSoc and just hang around the Atrium.

No one said you have to interact with people in your own discipline however we ECE's don't get the priveledge to share classes with the other disciplines (other than APS) so we're really stuck with our own group for most of the day until we're free to run to the atrium!

So, no pop-up quizzes whatsoever? And regular quizzes are always consistent too with each section right? Like the prof you're cheating with will have the same quiz on the same sections as the prof you cheated on correct? (For lack of a better way to put it )

I remember there was one class (I don't recall which however) where the proff asked us to stay in our own tutorial section and not move around since each teacher was going to start from a different topic and move around from there

but otherwise, no pop-quizzes, and you'll be given plenty of warning for upcoming things (usually on the first week they will give you a date for every quiz, test, midterm, etc. for the rest of the semester)

[Eyies]

Come to the crappy ECE common room in annex and jits with me/us. =)

[skuric]

Come to the crappy ECE common room in annex and jits with me/us. =)

Are you like, automatically part of the ECE discipline club if you just chill in the ECE common room? :P

[Eyies]

Nope, trust me the annex common room is REAL ghetto, the only thing appealing there is the cheapest pop machine on campus (sold out often), a jits table, and semi comfy couches. The place is dirrrrty, four r's.

I just go there when I'm not in some computer lab doing junk between classes, really not that many people chill there, just the regulars who play jits haha.

[hugejazz]

Nope, trust me the annex common room is REAL ghetto, the only thing appealing there is the cheapest pop machine on campus (sold out often), a jits table, and semi comfy couches. The place is dirrrrty, four r's.

I just go there when I'm not in some computer lab doing junk between classes, really not that many people chill there, just the regulars who play jits haha.

The only upside is that it is pass-code protected, so if you are running away from cops, campus security, artsies, etc... you can hide there.