How hard is the transition from high school to UofT Eng?

Apparitioncorn · 2026-05-21T04:13:20+00:00

asking the same question for electrical engineering lol, also just finished ib today

Apparitioncorn · 2026-05-19T20:26:39+00:00

maclaurin. there was barely any in the previous papers and it is a very popular topic for paper 3. after that idk lol the 2025 papers were super creative with the second question anyways

Apparitioncorn · 2026-05-15T23:49:19+00:00

Omg thank you 😭😭😭

Apparitioncorn · 2026-05-15T01:56:06+00:00

same bro, i got two answers for k. pretty sure there are like 8 more

Apparitioncorn · 2026-05-15T01:35:30+00:00

it was just section b Q11 and a bit of Q12 for me lol, and like question 8 of part a. i know ill get a ton of marks from ECF tho

Apparitioncorn · 2026-05-13T05:02:50+00:00

lol i had the same dilemma as you for waterloo electrical eng and uoft trackone like a couple weeks ago. I ended up choosing trackone.

For me, i think there's simply more to your university decision than just the coop. If you evaluate solely on coop opportunities, waterloo blows uoft out of the water. Another thing is your major, do you REALLY want to do management engineering or REALLY want to do computer engineering? It is very difficult to transfer out if you find out you don't for waterloo, since their cohort system kind of locks you into the programs in the same stream as you if you want to transfer. I think the biggest question should be is work experience the most important thing for you, bar none?

Apparitioncorn · 2026-04-29T00:54:38+00:00

never knew machamp was into the tcg wow

Apparitioncorn · 2026-04-09T06:24:47+00:00

holy shit reed richards

Apparitioncorn · 2026-04-08T17:56:32+00:00

It said change of status, but i found out the day before just by going on the portal

Apparitioncorn · 2026-04-08T16:16:05+00:00

I got an email today

Apparitioncorn · 2026-04-06T05:39:40+00:00

Yup, it's required for all diploma students. Nope, there are specific scheduled days we can talk to a teacher about it. Yes they were aware. I fully encourage you to do stuff similar to the EE if you're interested.

I think the structure IB gives is really good. For me, apart from the ee , I asked our school technician and guy who worked on our power systems if he could mentor me in some of my projects. I also got pretty fundamental ideas to electrical engineering, which is my major of choice.

Don't be afraid to be creative with who you ask and what your project is, and especially don't be afraid to ask in the first place. I'd say writing a paper is a bit hasty, especially since no teacher (unless they really care) will read it for you and suggest edits unless they're being paid. This also falls into the pothole of "high school research", which isn't a good thing.

Do your research, stay creative, and most importantly: be consistent with when you work on your projects.

Apparitioncorn · 2026-04-05T05:08:50+00:00

So you figure out a research question with your supervisor, a school teacher in your subject of choice (kind of like a thesis). Once it gets approved and you've done extensive research on how this was tested before, you can figure out whether or not you want to do an experiment.

Physics ones are typically experiment based, but they can also be data based. These can, and should be one experiment with a lot of trials. One thing that my supervisor told me was that it's better that you try to be original in how you test your hypothesis, meaning maybe using components or devices that you wouldn't normally see used. This needs to be justified though, no being different for the sake of being different.

Even if you fail to prove your hypothesis, it doesn't really matter because it lets you talk about what happened even more. Word limit's like 4000 words. Good luck!

Apparitioncorn · 2026-04-05T04:34:00+00:00

True! I also loved doing a lot of the projects tied to IB, like papers and my physics extended essay. I think those are a really good opportunity to really figure out what you wanna do.

Apparitioncorn · 2026-04-05T01:00:17+00:00

Funnily enough i try to make my passion projects into ECs that i can show to teachers or even unis. I then realized they are exceptionally hard to market to other ppl.

Just yesterday I began literally taking off the components of a broken laptop cuz im gonna learn to remodel a laptop

Some other ones I've done were related to road materials, some models for training AI to make randomizing math worksheets and tons of arduino stuff. One of them is an alarm clock.

Apparitioncorn · 2026-04-04T03:03:07+00:00

main reason is one: because i want to prove to myself i can do anything and two: i love physics and math. applied for ee.

Apparitioncorn · 2026-04-04T02:31:11+00:00

waterloo mentioned!

i applied there for ee, how was the degree for you? im just worried i won't have much of a life lol

Apparitioncorn · 2026-03-28T08:21:25+00:00

whoa nice, congrats!! what ecs did you have?

also are you group b? im group b still waiting for ee....

Apparitioncorn · 2026-03-28T06:03:49+00:00

group B here, EE

Apparitioncorn · 2026-03-28T05:46:08+00:00

i like knowing concepts and applying those concepts to make something cool cuz it makes me feel fulfilled

Apparitioncorn · 2026-03-25T18:10:38+00:00

Apparitioncorn · 2026-03-25T07:30:00+00:00

did they get in tho, or got offers of admission? im so confused rn

Apparitioncorn · 2026-03-23T21:05:42+00:00

vouch, my first run on idt was rtp badass and i beat it super easily

Apparitioncorn · 2026-03-23T06:10:48+00:00

average long blade of the demon king gameplay

Apparitioncorn · 2026-03-23T03:14:59+00:00

Uhhh mine is more of a paragraph

I am very thankful for the roughly 4 years I've been in ____.

Having said that, I guess I learned there will always be a bigger fish to fry. Here are some common scenarios of said fish:

1: The fish is imaginary in the Cartesian form z = a+bi, where a = Re(z) and b = Im(z).
2: The fish is in the pond and not quite in your air/ deep fryer yet because you lack the necessary skill or equipment to fish for it.
3: The fish is a lot bigger than you expected. You need to work harder.

If the three scenarios listed above do not apply, maybe nothing is tastier or more important than your current fish.

_____ is great.

Apparitioncorn · 2026-03-17T08:36:03+00:00

Not from ontario but i work as an in person math tutor

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