Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!agate!ucbvax!UOTTAWA.BITNET!451061 From: 451061@UOTTAWA.BITNET (Valentin Pepelea) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: University of Waterloo Message-ID: <8907100559.AA11482@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 10 Jul 89 05:35:39 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 44 Amir Michail in <4584@crash.cts.com> writes > I'm going to the University of Waterloo for computer science next fall. Oh, could not make it into Electrical Engineering? Just kidding... Congratulations for making it into Canada s top CS and EE school! > I have heard that it is impossible to have a modem connection in residence > (it is not allowed). Is having my own computer useful at all there? If Waterloo s residences are like Ottawa s, then a receptionist routes all calls made to you through an internal phone network. But you should also be able to have Bell install your own phone line in your room. In any case, it will be very useful for you to have a own computer in your room. Most CS assignements you will get will have to be written in Turbo Pascal. Metacompost Pascal is comes close enough, but using the Transformer to run Turbo on your Amiga is even better. Try also getting an A1010 (5.25 drive. Now let me give you a mild warning. Waterloo will first make you a mathematician, then a Computer Scientist. In the first two years, you will get clobbered with Math courses, and allowed to take only a couple of CS courses per term. I have two friends which enrolled into CS at Waterloo, they got great grades in first year, but then failed so miserably in their second that they got kicked out for good. Waterloo CS is well known for its brain blasters. And remember that unlike in EE, your are not automatically enrolled into Co-op. If you dont make it into Co-op after the first year, I strongly suggest that you transfer to another University. Like Ottawa for example. Our co-op programme is also selective, but somewhat more accessible. Remember that all Canadian Universities are somewhat equal in quality, we dont have the discrepancy existing between the American ones. It is the co-op programme which gave Waterloo its reputation (or that quality of students that it thus attracted) so you are better off getting into another University s co-op programme that getting into Waterloo s regular stream. Valentin _________________________________________________________________________ The godess of democracy? "The Name: Valentin Pepelea tyrants may distroy a statue, Phonet: (613) 231-7476 but they cannot kill a god." Bitnet: 451061@Uottawa.bitnet Usenet: Use cunyvm.cuny.edu gate - Confucius Planet: 451061@acadvm1.UOttawa.CA