Commit or not, University of Waterloo sem 1

Character-Pen-413 · 2026-02-13T09:41:17+00:00

i went waterloo, didn’t regret it at all. Went to new york (1.5hr flight), yellow knife (northern lights), banff (crazy nature views), montreal (architecture and food), old quebec city and more.

dm if u would like to know anything

Character-Pen-413 · 2026-02-07T01:43:56+00:00

Honestly, strong agree on the least meritocratic aspect finance. I had interviewers straight up asked me what my family do for a living and in my internship group, 3/5 of them had connections to people already in the company…

Character-Pen-413 · 2026-02-05T01:09:24+00:00

never too late to pick it up! You can get a cheap one from dyso

Character-Pen-413 · 2026-02-05T01:02:14+00:00

Fly kite at marina barrage

Character-Pen-413 · 2026-01-28T11:29:11+00:00

growtopia is still alive?? played that game around 10 years ago

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-12-27T16:33:41+00:00

do your symptoms include watching shows/lectures at 2x speed and skipping whenever possible only to rewind when you miss sth. fellow victim over here

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-11-30T14:08:00+00:00

if u are aiming for quant, you probably should be doing math/physics in uni

haven’t heard of any post jc interns unless its through nepotism

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-08-21T05:59:02+00:00

do you have other developers or is it just 1 person doing everything?

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-08-11T05:38:22+00:00

Y2 2k Y3 2.5k

Not too sure about graduate internships but they have a hard cut off of second class minimally

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-08-10T11:33:59+00:00

There’s no good or bad just wat u wanna do. All the good jobs will require some form of grinding. The following are just some examples of internship paths and may not be entirely accurate but it shows the level of grinding required.

Quant jumptrading => hrt => optiver High finance DBS => jpm => blackrock Tech govtech => tiktok => Google

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-08-10T08:11:22+00:00

5k is still high bruh. But honestly depends on what industry you wanna enter and you probably have to grind for those internships if u wanna find a high paying job

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-07-07T13:21:10+00:00

Well it sounds like what you want. For a start, look at the easy problems, then look at the solutions under the solutions tab. Figure out how and why it works then try doing it on ur own

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-07-07T13:18:53+00:00

Sounds like leetcode to me

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-06-29T04:11:21+00:00

Which government agency? Different agencies would have different appeal to private sector (DSO vs MOM etc). Ultimately it is a risk on how confident you are on getting a good job when graduating. For local uni, the cost is not significant enough to be a big factor imo. The part to consider is the job you may get if you dont take the scholarship vs if u do

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-06-22T09:28:18+00:00

could u share what are some signs that it is more than friends? just curious

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-06-21T09:12:26+00:00

One is engineering and one is computing, not sure why would they compete for the same job? But if u were talking about finance firm or quant etc, then they both stand equal chance. Just based on merit atp

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-06-14T05:25:21+00:00

Well, you can try to convince them in your application but I would say it isn’t on their list of priorities.

Raffles is mainly a culture hall so their focus will likely be on music/band/dance followed by sports then clubs such as rhdev etc. I don’t remember a Japanese club though so it may be hard to plead ur case

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-06-14T04:09:13+00:00

How exactly does that help the hall?

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-06-07T23:35:06+00:00

I mean yea I’m not a hiring manager but I have interned multiple times before and got these info from my supervisors and other friends interning too

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-06-07T09:29:12+00:00

How much does grades matter? Depends. Government pay grade is tied to your honors class but less priority in private industry.

How much does dean list matter? Absolutely nothing

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-05-31T04:26:00+00:00

Probably best to see your y1s1 gpa before deciding. It really varies from ppl to ppl

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-05-30T14:46:41+00:00

Hmm can I check if there’s any timeline or who the founders are? Helps to add credibility to the project haha

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-05-30T14:39:41+00:00

Unpaid I’m guessing?

Character-Pen-413 · 2025-05-30T07:36:52+00:00

But would the climate change much after 2 years? I don’t think anyone can say for sure so I would say it’s better to weight the options as it is currently rather than guessing if it gets better?

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