Waterloo Schedule

[z_cross_fire]

^ I don't have any clear purpose of taking the physics lab.

Also, after reading what monkey had to say...

monkey @ Sun Nov 01, 2009 12:48 am wrote:

PHYS121: Most of what we`ve learnt is an extension of the mechanics we learnt in high school, with significantly more challenging problems. There is content in this course that is not present in the Ontario high-school curriculum (at least I dont think so) e.g. rotational dynamics and angular momentum. They used to teach special relativity in PHYS 121, but unfortunately they removed it this year. And Endless, this course IS NOT super-easy. It is the standard first-year course for physics majors. For some reason, some of the assignment questions require integration, which we have not covered in math.

PHYS121LAB: Don`t take this course if you don`t have to . It is a waste of time. We are expected to write our lab report during the lab itself. There simply isn`t enough time to write a good lab report. I find that the lab-reports I write in this class are sub-par to even the lab-reports I wrote in high-school. There is no time to do the calculation for uncertainties, nor enough time to do a proper analysis of your results and evalution of experimental errors. They ask the TAs to mark the lab reports easy, but there is simply no point to taking a course in which nothing is learnt. It is almost like the opposite of learning since our lab reports are worse than in high-school, due to the time constraints. I am very dissapointed with this course.

Source: http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=22023&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60

...I think I shouldn't take it.

Edit: Yes, Lab counts as 0.25, so I currently have 2.75.

[cheese_cake]

according to my list view, i have got: [2741 003 LEC Th 19:00 - 21:50 RCH 101 Larry Smith 12/09/2011 - 05/12/2011]

however it does not show on the weekly calendar view. what does it mean?

//just curious, hare there any opinions on the following lecturers; Robert Mann(phy); Edward Vrscay(calc); Rahim Moosa(algebra); Troy Vasiga(CS)?

[Tony]

cheese_cake @ Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:33 pm wrote:

what does it mean?

schedule view's default hours cut off night classes. Adjust the hours, and refresh the view.

[z_cross_fire]

@cheese_cake
Vasiga is good. I had him for a sample lecture (showing 3 sorting algorithms) during March-break Open House.
For others, you can check Rate My Professors.

[crossley7]

Vasiga came into my high school one morning this year and he seemed pretty good even though most of the material he covered I already knew. (I think our teacher picked the content that was going to be covered and Vasiga just came up with the problems and presented it) I still learned a bunch about stuff that i thought i knew