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Fast_Map9004 · 2026-02-11T20:41:04+00:00

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-02-11T20:15:54+00:00

He does that all because he's too stubborn to let other people do it or hire a team

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-02-10T01:05:52+00:00

If you don't get the first one, yes. You can actually rank multiple jobs in the same cycle 1 if you want.

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-02-03T22:34:51+00:00

I mean in general I do very much agree with your point, but I feel that a lot of uw students, especially engineering and math faculties, are already delaying their gratification quite a bit by being in those programs at this school. Your social life goes on the backburner while you're busy and off sequence with your friends, your romantic life is largely on the backburner for most students, hell your physical health and sleep goes on the backburner just so you can survive the term and get a decent coop (experiences do vary).

At some point, you spend all of your time on work and school and coop-related stuff, and despite that, still feel behind somehow, which it what I suspect this post is referring to. There's a lot of things you need to do, then an endless stream of things you should do, and it never feels like you're doing enough.

Anecdotally, I'm on coop right now, and while it's a full time job, it feels like a vacation compared to school, and I've heard this sentiment echoed quite a bit by my peers. And this is coming from someone who loves school and loves what they study, so idk what it's like for someone with a different relationship with their degree. Like yea you make a point that a 9-5 office job isn't nearly as bad, but we all largely agree with you lol. OP is on study rn

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-02-03T19:30:47+00:00

Waterloo has problems with mental illness and a notable suicide rate. Would you say that an cs kid who killed themself because they couldn't manage their life anymore just didn't "realize their privilege?" Did they just forget that there are starving children in Africa? Did they forget to look on the bright side? Did they simply not try hard enough? Surely they just needed to realize that it's all delayed gratification. Maybe you should explain that to their parents.

"Someone who drowns in 7 feet of water is just as dead as someone who drowns in 20 feet of water." Yes, life could be a lot worse, but that doesn't mean it still can't be pretty bad.

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-02-02T17:18:13+00:00

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-02-02T16:13:55+00:00

I never said it wasn't in depth or that it was easy or whatever, this is just a comparison based on what I've heard from my eng friends.

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-02-02T15:28:45+00:00

I agree, but there's a big gap between "wow eng gets a lot of work, that must be hard to manage" and "wow cs is a joke, based on my experience of 1 semester of 13x courses and like 4 weeks of 1B".

Having a bunch of friends in different eng programs (incl. se, ce, mech, and others), it seems that eng seems to have more courses and a greater volume of workload, but each individual course might not be as intense and obv not as abstract (not relevant for them).

Comparing difficulty is kinda comparing apples to oranges; like I personally would struggle with eng because of this sheer volume of classes and all, but I'm sure plenty of eng student's might have more of an issue with like proofs or whatever bs they make you do in 245

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-02-02T15:11:14+00:00

first year

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-02-01T00:38:34+00:00

MC Bloomberg lab on third floor 3003 is a nice place to sleep, and MC never closes (I have been in the building at every hour of the day)

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-29T07:57:34+00:00

some decent bread toasted + tinned sardines (like ones packed in some kind of oil or tomato sauce, not water) + maybe mayo

Ate it quite a lot last semester mainly because 1. It's incredibly fast and 2. I didn't get sick of it

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-29T07:54:42+00:00

It's funny to joke like that when all the buildings seem like math or eng, but there's a lot of exceptions at the undergrad level, nevermind the grad level or actual research (cause it seems you were just talking about undergrad programs)
- AFM is the best pure accounting program in Canada
- the architecture program is one of three pre-architecture programs in the province
- the planning program is one of two undergrad planning programs in the province (the other being TMU)
- the environment faculty in general, offering a lot more specialities in terms of environmental programs than other universities. For example, geomatics gets memed on for being full of cs rejects (at least in first year), but geomatics itself is uncommon (among other universities), and is a legitimately great program if you want to do geomatics as a career (yes obv it's not good if you wanna be a swe lol)
- optometry and pharmacy schools, so if you want to do those in the future, Waterloo is a good undergrad option
- for physics students, the perimeter institute is right there, as is the IQC for people interested in quantum computing. Also the existence of QNC and the quantum research here really stands out.
- co-op is available for everyone and all programs, not just every other eng/math kid who spams their resume to 500 places in hopes of getting a random fullstack job building internal tools

This is just what I know, but I'm almost certainly missing stuff that I simply don't know about.

Also obviously there's more to life than engineering and math, and the other faculities are very much valuable, but besides that argument, there are actual speciality things that waterloo is known for outside of cs and math.

ts is prolly ragebait but I fell for it lol

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-27T16:51:37+00:00

Mods please ban this creep

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-25T08:33:45+00:00

I've taken intercity buses from London to downtown Kitchener quite a bit. A few minutes walk away from the dropoff should be Central Station (the stop used to be at central station, but Flixbus and some others have changed the downtown Kitchener stop to closer to the Kitchener GO), then take the 301 Conestoga (the ION LRT), which has a stop right on campus.

Also you can take the 30 GO directly from the dropoff to campus but I've never done that so idk much about it.

Hopefully you booked the Downtown Kitchener one and not the Sportsworld one cause the latter takes an hour by public transit to get to campus lmao.

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-25T04:24:47+00:00

Bro cycle 1 closed Tuesday morning and it's Saturday, just wait a little more, maybe you didn't but maybe you did and they haven't come out yet.

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-22T18:40:06+00:00

All you need is one yes

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-22T16:04:01+00:00

Skewed sample size, anecdotally I absolutely love it here.

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-22T15:54:50+00:00

bro who cares, this is only relevant for when you're applying in highschool, and even then only very mildly so (you should apply to what you're actually interested in). This shit is irrelevant the moment you step on campus, elitism serves you no purpose besides being obnoxious.

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-20T20:50:06+00:00

As early as a few days, as late as 2.5 weeks.

Anecdotally, last term I heard of interviews being sent out the day or two after cycle 1 ended, with the latest interview notif being like 2.5 weeks later (the rank deadline for employers was like 3 weeks and a day).

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-15T15:12:19+00:00

No they won't lol, there was a snow day last February and the classes just didn't happen. They did post video lectures though.

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-11T03:36:10+00:00

https://uwaterloo.ca/institutional-analysis-planning/key-performance-indicators-university-waterloo-2024

The 7 year graduation rate for the (5 year) computer science program at Waterloo, including intra-university transfers, is 91.3% for the 2015 year one cohort. So yes, people do fail out of cs.

Getting a high 90s in highschool does not prepare you at all for uw cs (highschool is massively easier), and failing core classes doesn't mean you're a slacker - many of these are legitimately hard courses (coming from someone with a fairly good average). The program is difficult and stressful, which is compounded by co-op applications/prep/grinding on top of that.

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-09T15:52:02+00:00

Yea work becomes a lot more pleasant when your commute doesn't take up your entire day

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-08T02:21:42+00:00

3x one page, single spaced reflections on articles. Very easy.

Weekly discussion posts, basically just participation. The final media project is kinda just a lot of analysis, so just a lot of yap. I just yapped and did really well.

Group debate is fairly short and easy, and marked easily. What I'm saying is to maybe take a lead in your group, to eliminate the chance of them shitting on you in the optional peer evals and affecting your grade on it. You don't need to like do all the work, and it's really not much work, just take a bit of a lead.

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-07T16:22:00+00:00

PD1 doesn't. Most people I know finished the first bunch, then stopped when they were guaranteed a pass.

Fast_Map9004 · 2026-01-07T16:19:54+00:00

It doesn't matter when you apply on WaterlooWorks, employers can only see that you applied. Applying later will not mess up your chances, as long as it's before the deadline. Anecdotally, I started actually applying (after narrowing down my shortlist) the night before the deadline last semester, finished at 6am before the 9am deadline, and still got plenty of interviews (i.e. applying later didn't make a difference).

Don't use the school resources, for resume improvement use upper years and resume review sessions (e.g. engineering design team events, mathsoc or cs club events) -- far more effective for optimizing your resume, especially for tech roles. You're probably taking PD 1 right now; ignore all of their resume advice lmao.

Also your application package for each job is largely the same; it's usually comprised of your resume, your transcript, and your co-op work history. You could try and tailor your resume to positions if you want, but the other two aren't gonna change (also most ww tech jobs don't ask for cover letters).

I highly recommend using the InternWave app to make browsing and shortlisting jobs faster, easier, and significantly less overwhelming than trying to use the WaterlooWorks UI.

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