u Toronto vs u Waterloo?

[[Gandalf]]

ecookman, your opinion should be filtered by your own common sense as well. You're obviously not very critical of what you hear...

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if TA's aren't your thing be weary of UoT

TAs and tutorials are great, as a supplement to a lecture.

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At lakehead i have never had a singal class thought by a TA, including allmost all labs.

Sometimes it helps to get the perspective of someone who has more recently been a student in your position, which is why I think a balance of TA/prof involvement is best.

[Dan]

Gandalf @ 11th December 2009, 1:09 pm wrote:

Sometimes it helps to get the perspective of someone who has more recently been a student in your position, which is why I think a balance of TA/prof involvement is best.

Lakehead does have TAs for the courses, they just don't run the lectures. Some labs are run by TAs in other deparments, but for CS however I have only had TAs helping in labs along side a profesor. Also some TAs here have office hours to tutotor students. To be fair tho, my year was rather small, even for lakehead.

I was not trying to make a point that this method is better, just that if ecookman and others where that conisndered about the subject, smaller universites might be a good choice.

[Crazymik3]

I was also stuck between U of T and Waterloo when I got into both. I ended up visiting both, and found Waterloo to be a very boring campus and town.

If that might be a factor for you, I recommend you visit them both for yourself.

[chrisbrown]

Crazymik3 @ Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:48 pm wrote:

Waterloo [...] a very boring campus and town.

Quite untrue, it just takes time to find the right places.

Also, the abundance of students between UW and Laurier makes for some unreal nightlife.

[Crazymik3]

methodoxx @ Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:12 am wrote:

Crazymik3 @ Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:48 pm wrote:

Waterloo [...] a very boring campus and town.

Quite untrue, it just takes time to find the right places.

I figured that was the case. I am also a big fan of big cities living in London(U.K.), so that more than likely contributed to be seeing it as a boring campus in comparison to UofT.