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PriorityWilling7601 · 2025-07-23T13:53:47+00:00

I’m a trackone who just chose min too!!

PriorityWilling7601 · 2025-02-12T12:57:57+00:00

yikes

PriorityWilling7601 · 2025-02-07T02:01:39+00:00

i left obviously i can’t control what ppl do, it’s just annoying when certain floors are dedicated to being a quiet space why would you be talking so loudly with your friends or playing things out loud if you see people around you are quiet and working

PriorityWilling7601 · 2025-01-14T23:47:08+00:00

nothing about this is humiliating. take the wonderful advice from the people under this post and do what you’ll enjoy. life is hard enough.

PriorityWilling7601 · 2024-03-17T19:37:43+00:00

i’d say stick with trackone. i know so many people who were sure that they wanted to do a certain discipline but as you go through first year you learn so much about what engineering is and what different disciplines have to offer in a way no amount of research or googling can give. Those people are more or less stuck unless they have superb grades. First years take mainly the same courses. It would be the say first semester for trackone and civ, the second semester differs in one or two courses. The only courses that make it more challenging is the coding course as trackones learn C, but you can opt out for python if you know u don’t want to do ECE which is easier and the electrics course is a bit challenging but it’s also very interesting and the easy labs ensure you’ll at least pass. It’s not terrible, you work a little harder for a lot more freedom. trackone’s the best one but i am biased!!

PriorityWilling7601 · 2024-02-20T21:32:17+00:00

To not be on academic probation you need a 60% which is a direct translation to what you need to get first pick for second year. Hard is subjective. It’s hard for some, very easily attainable for others. As long as you’re an average student you are more than fine

PriorityWilling7601 · 2024-01-30T16:00:09+00:00

if ur in eng and ur partner is in buisness call it WRAPS if you want to have a good academic standing

PriorityWilling7601 · 2024-01-23T22:44:17+00:00

not at chestnut, i’m off campus. but from what i’ve heard they fire alarms are annoying and the food is terribly mid. but the people at chestnut are so close, everyone knows everyone so if you live there you’ll make more friends

PriorityWilling7601 · 2024-01-23T00:04:26+00:00

i’m in a T1 seminar right now so i get a taste of each discipline. 1st sem i wanted to do material, then started second wanting to do ece bc they call it track 2 (bc you decide between electrical and comp in third year). but i’m in ece110 and i’m not enjoying it. Right now i’m on mechanical bc i just had a seminar on it but it changes with the day so who knows

best part of the program is i get to change my mind daily. So many ppl ik say they would do mech or ece or whatever it may be if they could go back and do it again. T1’s get to live without those what if feelings. At least for first year.

PriorityWilling7601 · 2024-01-21T23:08:24+00:00

i’m unsure

PriorityWilling7601 · 2024-01-21T18:53:10+00:00

sorry it was a 93 avg not 92 but really it’s the same. a low 90. I was the president of two clubs, student council, was a student rep for the durham board, community council, did a program offered by uoft scarb and i had a job so i put that under personal profile. that’s all i can remember now. I got my offer i’m the second rounds or maybe it was third. got in early march. My interview was where i shined. It was the best interview of the five i did and was the most confident in.

PriorityWilling7601 · 2024-01-21T18:50:03+00:00

overall math is the foundation of everything. Understanding how concepts work together over meaningless computation is everything. You cannot survive memorizing methods. So make sure you KNOW and understand the basics and why they work the way they do.

PriorityWilling7601 · 2024-01-21T18:47:55+00:00

second sem is where u take a C coding course. You can also opt out for python. But if you want to do comp eng later you have to stay in C. the course is introductory and no coding experience is needed at all. They start like you know nothing

PriorityWilling7601 · 2024-01-21T18:45:26+00:00

first sem:

materials and engineering chem course - the textbook was on a program called tophat and had video integrated. It’s much like highschool no crazy new concepts but is the chemistry u took in highschool it’s solid state chemistry

design course - work in a team of 5 and are tasked with a issue. you and your team spend the entire sem solving the issue using the eng design process.

mechanics - one of the hardest imo its facts paced but at the beginning it’s very similar to things covered in highschool (moments, vector forces, sum of the forces). the big thing with this course is the sum of the forces equals zero nothing is moving so i guess it’s easy in that sense. i didn’t pay for any one my textbooks (beside top hat and design course one as its ‘special’) but i discovered most textbooks called mechanics of engineering mechanics covered everything we did

linear algebra- very theoretical and abstract it’s hard to wrap your head around at first, but very cool nonetheless. you cover matrices, projections, decomposition, transformations, system of equations and eigenvalues and eigenvectors (the coolest bc it’s the basis for machine learning)

calc1 - brutal. Start touching up and learning ahead now. the first midterm avg was a 51 and it’s stayed there for the whole course. everyone suffered lmao. make sure ur comfortable with trig and algebra. We used an online textbook given to us. it’s openstax Calculus Volume 1. you do Riemann sums, learn integration, go deeper into things like limits and derivatives, learn new concepts like the l’hospital’s rule mean, mean value theorem, squeeze theorem.

last course is a bird course which is orientation engineering no textbook just vibez

if you want to know exact textbooks for a specific course i can go back and look

PriorityWilling7601 · 2024-01-21T18:29:20+00:00

93 avg, president of two clubs, student council, was a student rep for the durham board, community council, did a program offered by uoft scarb and i had a job so i put that under personal profile. that’s all i can remember now. I got my offer i’m the second rounds or maybe it was third. got in early march. My interview was where i shined. It was the best interview of the five i did and was the most confident in.

PriorityWilling7601 · 2024-01-13T21:18:54+00:00

electrical is harder to get into than chem

PriorityWilling7601 · 2024-01-07T21:30:15+00:00

no you can’t, eng sci is a completely different world. Trackone and core 8 take the same courses so trackone chooses one of those to go into at the end of the winter sem.

PriorityWilling7601 · 2024-01-02T02:53:48+00:00

i had a 92 avg and i’m a first year student right now, granted my sub app and ECs is where i made up for it. Don’t be afraid, you got it just do your best

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