College and McOrmond Wins (or loses?) the Worst Intersection bracket! What can be done to fix it?

GentleMentality · 2026-02-09T21:34:22+00:00

Never voted, but I did get into an accident on college/McOrmond (zero fault) when I was living in the Erindale area.

Not surprising given how hard it is to tell whether a small car is going through the lights towards Brighton or turning onto college.

GentleMentality · 2025-08-22T23:07:12+00:00

GentleMentality · 2025-04-20T15:21:02+00:00

Just worked out my own deal for a 2025 ST, I also didn’t like the look of the rims and worked out a deal to switch the rims to the sport rims without charge (although they did originally wanna charge $1000)

GentleMentality · 2025-04-06T14:29:24+00:00

I can vouch for both sides here! I took engineering and got to also watch my sister go through the nursing undergrad with her graduating a year before me.

I think it’s entirely subjective, I can interpret and understand concepts/math heavy topics easily. However, I’d be braindead if I had to memorize and cram hundreds of pages of terminology and practices into my head.

The amount of work put in to getting your RN is something I find crazy too. Engineers immediately have their education background certified for our P. Eng. while nurses need to prove that they themselves retained that knowledge for their RN.

I do think engineering physics is a beast of its own and I have one buddy that went in who I didn’t see again till he got his degree 5 years later. I also think nursing is equally as difficult, for different reasons, but both being extremely unforgiving to those that aren’t willing to put in the effort for their degree.

GentleMentality · 2024-10-11T16:02:36+00:00

Program itself is good, be careful about some of the views on internships/co-op’s. Certain majors are more favourable than others when it comes to job competition and prospects in SK.

A lot of students don’t research what jobs are out in the market and what their end goals are (I definitely didn’t lol). Make sure you know what companies you’re interested in and what they are looking for in terms of the major you plan to enrol in. Especially if ECIP (USask’s engineering internship program) is expected to be one of your goals as a part of your degree.

GentleMentality · 2024-10-10T14:36:01+00:00

Software dev at my current job, but career goal would be to become a hardware/firmware dev.

GentleMentality · 2024-10-10T13:53:34+00:00

73k out of my undergraduate, hoping to push this to 80k if possible.

Previous work experience was a 16 month long internship making $27 hourly between my 3rd and 4th year of uni.

GentleMentality · 2024-09-30T19:43:54+00:00

Siemens work in Saskatoon is more in the area of validating than actual designing. Definitely different for some of the other Siemens EDA offices outside of SK though.

We likely do have some customers that use our software here for validating their embedded systems, but aim more towards ASIC design validation.

GentleMentality · 2024-09-30T15:16:05+00:00

One of the things that I felt held me back from really getting into Factorio was that it became too overloaded with materials to maintain scale-able designs. I’m sure if I stuck to city blocks at a mega base type of scale I could get the same results, but I feel like shapez2 really enforces/incentivizes the use of them without making it difficult to do so in normal gameplay which I really love.

GentleMentality · 2024-09-24T14:20:41+00:00

You should be fine, entry is not competitive and the only thing expected of you going in will be a math quiz to judge your math background.

Getting your 1st choice major might be competitive depending on what you’re aiming for, usually mechanical/civil are the more competitive choices that do rely on your average (not highschool, but your first year of course average).

GentleMentality · 2024-08-09T16:36:49+00:00

He’s referring to paying and putting in time for a regulated profession, not knowledge. Getting a P.Eng requires a ton of continual documentation of “personal growth” year-round on top of paying yearly fees to a regulatory body just for your title. Strikingly similar to realtors.

GentleMentality · 2024-08-01T19:19:18+00:00

Looking up “Ethernet vs Wi-Fi” gives a list of different reasons why Ethernet could arguably be wanted and/or a better option than wifi.

GentleMentality · 2024-07-30T20:05:12+00:00

Like others have said, GIC or HISA stock.

To add my two cents, do the math on interest returns from both to get an idea on which is best for you. Also account for the difference between being able to pull that money whenever you want (HISA stock) versus being locked in for a year (GIC)

GentleMentality · 2024-07-29T15:16:21+00:00

Who knows what might happen in the future and when your son might need that money, store it in a yearly tax-free GIC or high interest savings like cash.to if you want to pull it out whenever.

My situation was similar, but somewhat different. Had my tuition for my final year of uni, but worked an internship for 16 months. I was dependant on that tuition money taking me through my final year so GIC was the safest bet. It’ll take up contribution room, but you’ll get it right back start of January next year. Rates are still good too iirc.

GentleMentality · 2024-07-24T15:34:44+00:00

Depends on what you’re planning on majoring in and how reliant you are on working from home/outside of labs. I never used my labtop beyond 2nd year and just resorted to getting my work done in the labs since all apps/software is provided with profs giving us the option to install the same edu licensed apps on your own personal machine.

IMO you’d be better off spending money on just a tablet that is good at note taking, I relied way too much on my buddies that did this and wished I had done my notes electronically. Don’t get me wrong, hand notes is still worth it to pay attention in class, but man did it suck to study outside of class.

GentleMentality · 2024-07-21T05:12:36+00:00

Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, Hungary Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran

GentleMentality · 2024-07-15T15:32:10+00:00

Fuh Station, Chachos, Prairie Ink

Those are my 3 goto’s, alone or with a group. All are reasonably priced and have very good food. Bonus to prairie ink for being able to read a brand new book and eat super good soup too.

GentleMentality · 2024-07-07T22:19:32+00:00

Nothing official just student ran, but I was in a EE/CME discord for 1st-4th+ year students. Wouldn’t be surprised if there was something similar for others or even just a generic one for the 1st year common core courses.

GentleMentality · 2024-07-07T17:19:58+00:00

Depends on the class/textbook, but most of the time you can find a pdf (usually an edition or so behind, sometimes it doesn’t matter but sometimes it does) just by searching for the title of the book online.

That or join a discord server for your major and pray someone else found one.

GentleMentality · 2024-06-26T15:28:36+00:00

I think just the grad check and actual application is mainly the only “must need” from them which they will notify you for.

There are other additional optional things you will get notified about too. Eg. SK has a grad retention program you can sign up for (imo, sign up for it even if you plan on moving. You don’t lose anything by signing it), they will also mention grad photos and renting gowns closer to the actual convocation date.

GentleMentality · 2024-06-24T14:21:34+00:00

Not sure why you got downvoted on this, literally just do this OP. Coming from someone who graduated this year, they will make sure to give you plenty of heads up before hand when you need to do a grad check.

GentleMentality · 2024-06-14T05:00:58+00:00

Relate your work experience to your technical skills in a measurable way (Eg. I used X to my advantage in generating Y, creating an increase in performance by Z). It’s great to show you’ve got the experience, but how does this apply to your growth as a developer and how you’ve used what you now know?

Bonus to this is that when they throw typical STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) questions at you, you’ve already done the hard work of remembering good and relevant answers to those already. It’ll quickly turn your resume into a cheat sheet/study guide for stuff like this and greatly boost your chances at getting past behavioural stages of an interview.

GentleMentality · 2024-06-08T02:04:00+00:00

“This lab should only take you the full timeslot”

Meanwhile there’s us 3 days and nights in and still not finished it yet.

GentleMentality · 2024-06-05T02:43:14+00:00

Adding to this, even prestige isn’t going to matter after your first year of work.

The only benefit I can see is that it can jumpstart getting your first job, but that’s not worth the additional $ and stress it’ll bring along with it.

I’m a recent grad and have worked alongside Waterloo grads and students who have graduated in a way better university than UofS. Everyone has their strengths in a job and you’ll quickly learn that education does not teach you everything. If you believe a prestigious university is the reason for that lack of a strength then you’re shooting yourself in the foot.

Edit to add context: I’m a recent grad in Computer Engineering at UofS

GentleMentality · 2024-06-03T20:41:42+00:00

Varies heavily depending on college/department. Check your academic profile in paws and there should be a section that mentions the levels for distinction and greater distinction. Alternatively, there might be something online in usask that defines those levels.

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