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pyrnight

Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:40 pm


I could waterloo, but should I waterloo?

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I probably have decent enough grades to make it to waterloo. I was in gifted education, and I am capable of getting 95's but I'm usually to lazy, I'm sure next year in gr 12 I will finally get off my ass and try in school. I have around an 85% average right now (trying to hit 90%), but next semester is almost a garunteed 100% (comsci, com eng, tech, chemistry) so I should have a good overall  average ( but this is just gr 11 so it doesn't matter all too much). The thing is, I've heard some bad stories about how much work you have to do....

I know I'm kind of just rambling here, but what I really want to know is, are you UW students enjoying your time, or being worked to death? Should I go?

Also, I enjoy programming for the most part, but not obsessively. I don't seem to really love doing any one thing.... Its the only thing that I haven't gotten bored of in a month so CS is so far my only option for what I would like to do as a living (but before I try to get a real job I'm definitely going to try to start my own business first).

1 more thing... I like fast paced teaching, I don't like to be taught things over and over again, or I just can't take it and lose concentration (the reason i have