University Fair

Cervantes · **Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:37 pm

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Ontario Universities gathered together to give you the info.

I went today. Very informative. Got myself a 7 or 8 pound bag of brochures. Suddenly I want to go to McMaster for Pure Math or Engineering Physics, or a combination of the two.

Who's going? What did you think of it? Did it help you decide where you're going? Where are you going?

Mr. T · **Posted:** Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:21 pm

Yah, I went to it (even though I'm only in grade 11). I looked at Ryerson, McMaster, Queens, Western, York, UofT. I inquired about courses related to business / medecine (I haven't decided which field I'm going to go into yet). I also looked into early acceptance -- that is if I'm able to maintain my mid-90s average this year. Sorry to disappoint all you compsci / physics lovers, but I'm taking neither of those courses (because I am not seeking a career in those fields), so all the programming I'm doing is in my spare time. Rolling Eyes

Naveg · **Posted:** Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:26 pm

Still worried about getting outsourced to India are you?

Martin · **Posted:** Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:37 pm

Pwned wrote:

Yah, I went to it (even though I'm only in grade 11). I looked at Ryerson, McMaster, Queens, Western, York, UofT. I inquired about courses related to business / medecine (I haven't decided which field I'm going to go into yet). I also looked into early acceptance -- that is if I'm able to maintain my mid-90s average this year. Sorry to disappoint all you compsci / physics lovers, but I'm taking neither of those courses (because I am not seeking a career in those fields), so all the programming I'm doing is in my spare time. Rolling Eyes

Mid-90's average? You're wasting your time. Really. Go out and have some fun. You're only young once.

Mr. T · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:11 pm

Martin wrote:

Mid-90's average? You're wasting your time. Really. Go out and have some fun. You're only young once.

Why does everyone naturally assume that i spend all my time studying? Sad

I have many extracurriculars including highschool baseball, rep baseball, and volunteering. Very Happy

naveg wrote:

Still worried about getting outsourced to India are you?

Ya, I lose a lot of sleep thinking about it. Laughing

Naveg · **Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:45 am

Pwned wrote:

Why does everyone naturally assume that i spend all my time studying?

Because you do.

Mr. T · **Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:22 pm

Then how would I find time for all my extracurriculars "Vladimir." 8)

Martin · **Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:05 pm

Anyway, I'm in applied math (co-op) at Waterloo. It's fun...a lot of math and a lot of physics. I want to go to grad school for something computer science related after though.

It's worth looking into in any case. If you want to go to work right out of undergrad, I'd go with either engineering or computer science if I were you.

Neo · **Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:35 pm

I thought you were in cs, did you switch? Confused

Martin · **Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:13 pm

Yeah. Physics is my massochistic dream. Kind of ironic, considering that my grade 12 physics mark was a 55.

Mr. T · **Posted:** Fri Oct 14, 2005 9:56 pm

Martin wrote:

Anyway, I'm in applied math...

In my highschool, applied math is the lowest level of math. Does it have a different meaning in your university? Confused

md · **Posted:** Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:04 pm

applied math is applying math to real world problems in univeristy, not dumb math...

An example would be studying fluid dynamics, certainly not easy math. I'm sure martin can give better examples...

rizzix · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:27 pm

cryptography Wink

(also not easy)

Flea · **Posted:** Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:30 pm

Oh yeah, I went to that uni fair... i really like how waterloo sounds.

But im not at all a math type person, and programming is getting really hard for me this year and I want to do english, specifically their rhetoric course...

before i decide for sure, what's waterloo like? how hard is english there according to what youve heard? if you dont know, its ok.

Hikaru79 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:35 pm

Martin wrote:

Yeah. Physics is my massochistic dream. Kind of ironic, considering that my grade 12 physics mark was a 55.

If you had Mohan, that's pretty impressive. There's a wall of fame above the room for students with over 60. Wink

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