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On June 07 2011 17:03 CholmesInk wrote:I live in Arizona! and the UofA is great! it just depends if you are willing to suffer through 110'F at 11 am and 91 at 10 pm. i mean if you can bear the heat UofA is a great choice!  and from the looks of it you will save money, and ratheyon (sp) is right there as well to start your carrier when you graduate! but congrats on getting accepted and i hope your future is bright! BTW the CSL team for the UofA is alright! <3 CholmesInk
In this case, UoA refers to the University of Alberta.
Downsides of living off campus: commuting time. Hours of bus rides/travel will start to wear down on you after a while. Find some ways to keep yourself busy during commuting (iPods, newspapers, studying, sleep, etc.)
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Today was my decision day, and although i had often swayed to go to UBC, i have been convinced at the superiority of the UofA engineering program compared to UBC. I think as an overall UBC might be a better school but UofA's engineering program awsome.
Plus im likely going to be going into petroleum engineering for my 2nd year [UofA only school to offer an accredited program in whole of canada], assuming my back doesnt break and im able to get good enough GPA for my choice!
I will be trying to get a room at Lister res asap as currently imo n the waitlist so for the first few months im gonna live off campus. Anyone who wants to help or make a friend plz pm me! Looking forward to spending next couple years in the engineering center of canada!! Wooo :D
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Pick the one that doesnt ban beards.
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I did but i also spoke to a petro engineering at CNRL my mothers work, i will likely be choosing between mech and petro come my 2nd year  my father is a geologist so it all fits for me!
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Residence life is a lot of fun, and you will meet lots of awesome people. From my experience it was well worth it. Really the only negative points being that it's quite expensive compared to renting/cooking your own stuff, and there are a lot of distractions and partying and such (part of what makes it so awesome, but also bad at times).
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NEW CRISIS!!!
What elective do i pick? I have these choices:
ANTHR 101, 110, 150
CLASS 102, 103, 104, 110
ECON 101, 102
ENGL 121, 122, 123, 124, 125*
HIST 110, 111, 112, 114, 115, 116
LING 100, 101
PHIL 101, 102, 120, 125
POL S 101
PSYCO 104
SOC 100
I know for every school its different but for some people at the UofA or other canadian uni.. what is an ez class for ez gpa boost?? Rember im in engineering so something light will be nice
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What the hell man, you didn't even post what the classes are. Pick something that interests you, otherwise it will just be a terrible, boring, useless experience.
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Are those your only choices? I filled up all my electives with language classes. 100% useful in the future no matter what your career. Not easy mode unless you want to learn the language.
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Emperor i dont mean to sound snotty but you can easily tell what teh classes are from the abrevb's ;/
Link the english classes have to do with literariture and disecting or something hecki cant even spell literariture lol.. I was actualy between Econ and Classics. Anyone take Econ in first year was it difficult? Id like to GPA buffer a bit!
Classics just cause i find rome interesting..
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Econ 101 is really easy and possible to get 100% in...IF YOU KNOW IT. Some people struggle with it but they are really bad at high school math as well generally. Math classes have the advantage of having a right or wrong answer while a lot of other classes require presenting arguments. Philosophy, english, and history classes, for instance, you can't really get above a 90, and the 90% is really only reserved for 1 or 2 people.
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Ya I know that English Classes are on literature analysis and all that junk. I wouldn't do philosophy, english, and all that because they're hardcore on the writing. Personally I'd rather not do courses hard on writing unless it's mandatory. Classics is the study of classical literature, not history. If you want to study history of Rome then go check out your history courses.
I'd go with Gnial and go with Econ. Introduction to economics is pretty easy; there's math but you're engineering so obviously your math skills are more than enough for intro to economics.
When I said languages I meant like learning a new language like Chinese, Japanese, German, etc. I'm pretty sure all universities have language classes for electives. I'm doing Chinese (ez credit since I'm Chinese) and Korean.
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On June 16 2011 08:00 bdictkam wrote:
Emperor i dont mean to sound snotty but you can easily tell what teh classes are from the abrevb's ;/
Link the english classes have to do with literariture and disecting or something hecki cant even spell literariture lol.. I was actualy between Econ and Classics. Anyone take Econ in first year was it difficult? Id like to GPA buffer a bit!
Classics just cause i find rome interesting..
Sorry I can't tell the difference between HIST 115 and 116 or ENGL 124 and 125 :/
I have a friend who took Econ, and she found it easy but very boring. I took Poli Sci, which I found quite interesting and very useful, and to be honest Arts classes are pretty easy as long as you read and attend conferences. As long as you put the effort in any class can be a "GPA buffer". You might want to look around for a good professor, if you know anyone who goes to UofA ask around for a good Arts professor and see if they are lecturing any first year courses.
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Poli Sci was like my last choice! How come u found it useful if u dont mind? I mean whats the point of having Classic classes when u are doing engineering.. seems so useless to me ;/
Edit-Gnail so u recommend i do econ 101 cause its more of a right or wrong answer class and easier to get a better mark if u try then an argument kind of written class?
Edit2- Link Yes i want to steer clear from heavy writing classes as much as possible is econ the only one that list that kind of like that? Ignoring the class numbers and knowing whta u know about the brances of the electives.
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Ya I'd say that Econ is the least writing intensive thing you got going there. Especially since it's 1st year introduction to economics and you're not in graduate school or anything, you can only really be right or wrong by the book. So whatever writing you end up doing is going to be pretty straight forward without you having to get creative (unless you want to).
UofA only allows you to pick out of these electives? A have a few friends in Engineering at Waterloo and UofT (I go to UofT too, but not engineering) and both UofT and Waterloo lets you choose from whatever department or faculty when it comes to electives. Especially UofT since they're all about the "breadth" of your undergraduate education.
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Yep for first year these are the only ones oddly enough for 2nd year you get like 3 times the choices id post but id be spamming i think, things like law etc..
Ok ill take econ thanks for the help
!!!Question!!! On my class schedual that ive made i have a bunch of classes stacked, meaning one after another. There is only a 10 min difference between the end of one and the start of another. Ive looked at campus maps etc and sometimes it is not exactly right next to each other in terms of buildings. Sooo is this normal? Do people actualy make it to classes fast enough around campus, the example scheduals they had, also had stacked classes... 10 mins seems like a very short time when its winter
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Hahaha, oh god it's like every engineering stereotype is unfolding before my eyes, can you hold your alcohol?
On June 16 2011 14:01 bdictkam wrote:
Poli Sci was like my last choice! How come u found it useful if u dont mind? I mean whats the point of having Classic classes when u are doing engineering.. seems so useless to me ;/
Go read a political thread on TL, then tell me you think a Poli Sci class is useless lol. But seriously, I fucking hate it when people consider classes "useless"-- since when is it a bad thing to learn stuff? Word to the wise, Arts students are particularly sore over this point.
!!!Question!!! On my class schedual that ive made i have a bunch of classes stacked, meaning one after another. There is only a 10 min difference between the end of one and the start of another. Ive looked at campus maps etc and sometimes it is not exactly right next to each other in terms of buildings. Sooo is this normal? Do people actualy make it to classes fast enough around campus, the example scheduals they had, also had stacked classes... 10 mins seems like a very short time when its winter
Welcome to University.
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Hey bdictkam.....your posting has intrigued me =P it has been a while since I've actually read every post in a thread that spans multiple pages....
I'm in grade 12 right now and am moving up to Edmonton to attend the UoA in the fall. I'm living with family up there and am also taking engineering (hope to go into software or chemical after first year).
I just had to read it all because it struck me that I had a similar plight to yours! I was torn between Calgary and Edmonton for university, but convenience plus the fact that I am a huge Oilers fan drove me to Edmonton.
I chose to take Philosophy as my option and to take it as a night class once a week. From the posts in here people are mainly suggesting to pick GPA boosters (which have merit I'll admit) but you also need to pick a class that interests you. Sure my mark in PHIL might not be amazing, but I enjoy writing and engineering has a distinct lack of that in the courses it offers. Plus I immensely enjoy the ideas of the mind and such, making PHIL a seemingly perfect option for me without the benefit of the grade boosting.
I just want to make sure that you look at it from both sides. Taking an easy class is great, but if you are truly in university for the knowledge and experience I would recommend taking something that interests you and that is not a part of the everyday engineering course load.
Oh and about the time between classes and stuff. Talking to my cousins and mom who all attended the UofA, it isn't too big of a deal. As long as your stuff is mostly centered in one "quadrant" of the campus you will have enough time to get from class to class provided you know the general location of the room (might be tough for the first week or so). Engineering is almost entirely dedicated to one corner of the campus which should make it reasonable to travel from class to class (MATH classes tend to be in CAB or there-abouts, but again it isn't too far a distance to travel).
Excuse my long post but I felt that we are pretty similar and I found it funny that I read the whole thread! Just my two cents on your issues and hopefully you find it useful.
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Do you have stacked classes also kopo?
My econ class is stacked with a math class so im worried ill be running around and not make it in time :X
Kopo what do u know about the electives? Which of them were advised to you as being less writing more mathy and potentialy easier? Do you think econ will be like that?
I dunno if id like writing essay on reality and abstract human derived ideas... but i dont like doing compound interest either  ! I wish there was a floor hockey elective haha...Or maybe a cooking one mmmm Hell id take a geology or something ... crap choice imo
edit- emperor, i get tipsy/buzzed very very quickly, but its not possible for me to get "i dont know what happened drunk". Its either buzzed or i passed out...
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Fall semester I don't have a ton of stacked classes but in winter my afternoon is basically just one big block of class after class. Not fun =/
In terms of electives you just need to pick what interests you most off of that list. I personally enjoy the writing so I looked more into the philosophy, sociology and psychology stuff but it really is your decision. More electives open up for second year and beyond so if whatever elective you choose ends up sucking you can switch it up. Alternatively if you ended up loving the elective you take you can choose to take the next level of it as well.
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