lots of questions about waterloo

[Prabhakar Ragde]

You're never automatically placed into the advanced math courses. However, you can choose them when you register for your 1A courses with a Euclid score of 80 or higher. You can also choose the advanced CS course (145) with this, or with honourable mention on the CCC.

What jbking says is still true, though Math 247 had 27 people in it last winter.

[endless]

hey horus and any other admitted UW students, i came across this: http://hypemb.com/

it is a forum for admitted students with lots of very useful information.

[SJ]

thx endless and PR

one more question about the advanced courses, since SE is cohort, and people take mostly the same classes together, if I choose either/both of the adv math/cs will it mess up my scheduel for other classes?

[Prabhakar Ragde]

You can't take advanced math or CS in SE.

[SJ]

oh.. oh well
guess thats another reason why SE is special.

[Prabhakar Ragde]

It's a consequence of the cohort system, and of the necessity to have some large fraction of the courses in SE taught by professional engineers. (One consulting report I saw recommended hiring Civil or Mech grads as sessional instructors, since they were cheap and plenty of them were unemployed. Domain knowledge? Not so important when it comes to accreditation, it seems.)

[Horus]

ok, i've got some more questions:

i've got the $1000 university of waterloo merit scholarship. to keep this scholarship, does my final mark have to remain 85%+ (i estimate mine would drop to low 80s cause i'm too lazy to do my assignment, but telling me yes will motivate me to do them )

For the internet in residence, i've read that you are not allowed to download music/movies. but what if you get caught downloading them? do they block music/movie downloading websites? if so can you use proxy and bypass them?

for the advanced math courses, i definitely wants to go in, but my euclid score is only 74... I'm also a bit confused over the actual requirement for advanced math course, in the faculty of math book, it says requires a score of 80+, in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer science book, it says requires a score of 70+. is this a typo, or does ppl who go in computer science needs lower euclid score to get into advanced math? I also need an advisor to sign me in for advanced math, how will this work, do i do a interview or sth?

[Prabhakar Ragde]

Horus @ Mon May 25, 2009 11:08 pm wrote:

i've got the $1000 university of waterloo merit scholarship. to keep this scholarship, does my final mark have to remain 85%+ (i estimate mine would drop to low 80s cause i'm too lazy to do my assignment, but telling me yes will motivate me to do them )

Yes.

No, it doesn't. I don't think there are requirements for keeping entrance scholarships above the requirements for keeping your offer, but do your assignments. One of the biggest problems incoming students have is that they don't do their assignments (which are worth only 10-20% of the mark) and then flame out on exams.

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For the internet in residence, i've read that you are not allowed to download music/movies. but what if you get caught downloading them? do they block music/movie downloading websites? if so can you use proxy and bypass them?

There are bandwidth restrictions. Blow your quota and your connection is throttled. There's an internal P2P network for popular downloads.

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for the advanced math courses, i definitely wants to go in, but my euclid score is only 74... I'm also a bit confused over the actual requirement for advanced math course, in the faculty of math book, it says requires a score of 80+, in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer science book, it says requires a score of 70+. is this a typo, or does ppl who go in computer science needs lower euclid score to get into advanced math? I also need an advisor to sign me in for advanced math, how will this work, do i do a interview or sth?

There was a typo in last year's book, and this year's is not out yet, I think. It's 80+ for all students. You see an advisor in person to get signed in (and for CS 145, you e-mail me with the request).

[endless]

Horus @ Mon May 25, 2009 11:08 pm wrote:

For the internet in residence, i've read that you are not allowed to download music/movies. but what if you get caught downloading them? do they block music/movie downloading websites? if so can you use proxy and bypass them?

i hear we have to ditch our torrent programs for when we move in, and if you get caught downloading torrents you get disconnected. However, there is a DC++ / Shakespeare we can use as PR stated, and it supposedly extremely quick (.33s to DL the average song).

[Horus]

if we can't torrent movies, can we watch movies online?

cause i really can't live without watching movies...

FYI: i watch at least 2 movies / week
2 movies/ day when i'm really bored

[endless]

i'm just guessing here, but i don't think online streaming of movies is illegal for the viewer, only for the website which has uploaded it. so i would imagine you wouldn't get caught/ they wouldn't care.

[jernst]

I'm pretty sure it is illegal to watch movies online when you haven't paid for them, its just that often it makes more sense to go after the sites which are providing them. At the very least its not very ethical to watch something you haven't paid for.

endless @ Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:52 am wrote:

i'm just guessing here, but i don't think online streaming of movies is illegal for the viewer, only for the website which has uploaded it. so i would imagine you wouldn't get caught/ they wouldn't care.

[endless]

okay, maybe it is illegal, but wouldn't streaming a movie be the equivalent of watching music videos on youtube which infringe on copyright?

the way i looked at it was as you said, it is much easier to go after the sources instead of the viewers, and i don't see any reason how one could get in trouble for streaming something that is already on the internet.

i guess this is part of the "problem" of the availability of media with the internet, no one gets in trouble therefore it seems alright.

anyway, maybe someone who is currently at UW can answer your question better.

[Tony]

YouTube has plenty of copyright infringing content, as would any system with user uploaded content.

If you expect to download a lot of content, you are probably better off signing up with a major ISP and and splitting the bill with your room-mates. That way you are not restricted by ResNet rules and limitations.

[Prabhakar Ragde]

Horus @ Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:17 pm wrote:

FYI: i watch at least 2 movies / week
2 movies/ day when i'm really bored

You won't have time for that. Plus when you do you'll want to watch with other people.