Some more questions about university

[Tony]

You might want to compare the courses that are required for each degree, to see exactly what the differences are. Since I'm most familiar with UW's website:

CE -- http://www.ucalendar.uwaterloo.ca/0001/ENG/comp_eng.html

CS -- http://www.ucalendar.uwaterloo.ca/0809/COURSE/course-CS.html (CS is the description of all courses; BCS requirements checklist is at http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/current/programs/require/2008-2009/bcs.shtml)

[[Gandalf]]

I'm not sure what you already know, but perhaps a simple comparison like such would be helpful for you. When I think of CE I think:
Hardware, circuits, logic gates, networking, bits, engineering, a closer connection to hardware. You'll be doing some of the things any engineer does.
When I think of CS I think:
Software, abstraction, algorithms, problem solving, testing, math, application. You'll be doing some of the things any mathematician or scientist does.

There are many shades of gray in between, and many overlaps, but look at the extremes and try to determine which you have a stronger affinity to. This might give you a better idea of which you want to focus on.

[implosion]

awesome, thanks guys... but honestly.. i don't really know what engineerings, scientists or mathematicians do (as stupid as that sounds)... engineering i think building stuff, scientist i think experimenting and mathematicians solving complex questions with lots of variables.. umm haha ?

what about software engineering (shade of gray =s) ? i'm guessing its a mix of both. But at mcmaster they have software engineering;; game design and embedded systems (i think thats what its called... embedded something..)