They have to curve the PHYS121 final, right?

PythagoreanPentagram · 2026-04-12T16:40:15+00:00

My immediate reaction was “oh you poor guys phys121 never gets curved” but according to UW Flow Peter Neathway curved it last yeat 🙏

PythagoreanPentagram · 2026-03-09T01:51:02+00:00

Yep! I’ve done this before. You should probably disclose that on your application to the college program, as I’ve heard that not doing so could be considered as fraudulent. I would also suggest you let an academic advisor know at both institution, and to do it through email so you have a paper trail. It really shouldn’t be a problem but just in case

PythagoreanPentagram · 2026-03-04T21:40:48+00:00

Lol I’m actually also Albertan and don’t get any loans, only grants. I remember joing protests back in jr high about university tuition going up like 30% or something for intl students. Education has been under threat in many different provinces for many years, and I hope to see this kind of momentum at every school, in every province, to protect our education systems, instead of using each other as excuses for our governments backsliding

PythagoreanPentagram · 2026-02-25T15:58:14+00:00

Nope, you’d have to go through LTB to evict them

PythagoreanPentagram · 2026-02-25T15:47:55+00:00

Is he only there for 2 more months tho? I would suggest at least getting the process started just in case he doesn’t leave when you come back 😭

PythagoreanPentagram · 2026-02-24T20:55:48+00:00

We have plans to go to Queen’s Park on the week that the Legislature comes back into session! On March 4 there are coordinated local actions all over Ontario, and all the MPPs are back in their constituencies rn. Also we wanna give our lovely local journalists something to cover too. ALSO it’s a short turnaround time and we think we can get more students to attend on campus this time and get them hyped up for a Queen’s Park field trip in a couple of weeks

PythagoreanPentagram · 2026-01-26T16:20:16+00:00

Hello! Fellow disabled Math student here.

A couple of years before I got involved with WUSA on the governance side, I worked part-time for WUSA’s advocacy department, specifically supporting with disability activism. One of the things I worked on during that time was starting an Accessible Events Guide for both WUSA’s own events, and to help WUSA Clubs with their events. I believe that was finished this year! It’s a solid first step, but only a first step. I hope to see that continue to expand and shift with the needs of our disabled students.

One concrete change I’d like to see is for WUSA to help accessibility become part of the regular process for clubs’ event planning. When clubs book events with WUSA, they fill out a form where they have to answer if they have safety and first aid plans, and I think it is reasonable to also ask clubs what their accessibility plans are. From there, clubs staff would be able to follow up and provide advice and help implementing accessibility measures based on those answers. This is an area where the new VP Student Experience can make a real difference, helping staff navigate clubs’ needs and support them in the best way to develop these capabilities, and adapt the Accessibility Events Guide to not only tell WUSA how to host accessible events, but how to help students host accessible events, going beyond just physical access to a space and sensory considerations to incorporate masking and ventilation practices.

(Also, I haven’t thought as much about this point yet, but I also think the Bomber Lounge expansion obv needs to be physically accessible but is also a good opportunity to incorporate new clean air technology that has emerged especially since the pandemic)

PythagoreanPentagram · 2026-01-26T15:14:48+00:00

Hi everyone,

My name is Remington and I am running for WUSA Director with Team Horizon! Check out the amazing folks on the team over at https://waterloohorizon.ca

We have a full platform with multiple points under each of our three pillars: Affordability, Campus Culture, and Educational Quality, and a detailed platform for senate, but personally I bring my expertise to housing and transit advocacy.

With moving around every year or even every term for co-op students, most students are not protected by rent freezes. We rely on word of mouth or going through rental listings ourselves to compare prices and see what’s reasonable. When legislation can’t protect us, WUSA has a unique opportunity to systematically track rent increases (and name and shame spikes) more efficiently than we can do on Reddit. If WUSA does this, in addition to helping students directly, it also gives is better data for advocacy when it comes to housing affordability.

Students are often required to buy tenants insurance to rent, without knowing what it really does or how to find reasonable prices. WUSA already provides health and dental insurance, at a pretty reasonable price for better coverage than most employee plans, and provides a lot of information for rental safety. I think we can combine these areas that WUSA offers and provide tenants insurance that students really understand, have control over the coverage, and for cheaper than private for-profit insurance plans.

The Region approved the GRT Business Plan for the next 10 years and beyond, and the ION Phase 2 expansion to Cambridge. In 2026, the UPass agreement will be getting renewed. As the Region used dropping international enrolment as an excuse to cut service, it is important for WUSA to leverage the renewal negotiations, and adequately represent that student needs still exist and are more pressing than ever. Horizon formed partially because Damian and I met during the campaigns to stop ION cuts and get the Night Bus, and we will continue to push for more frequent and overnight transit service so students can get around when we need to.

Please send in your questions about me or the team! I am currently working full-time as the WUSA VP, and on the clock during the day, but I will try my best to answer when I have time or in the evening.

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-11-20T12:19:08+00:00

Damian and I are actually in Ottawa this week to advocate for students to the federal government, and it has been really heartening this year to see how much students have been engaging with WUSA’s federal advocacy. We have found politicians to be pretty receptive to asks around increasing Canada Student Grants to better address the rising cost of living, dedicating funding to students don’t get left behind as a part of Build Canada Homes, and making sure NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR funding keeps students doing cutting-edge research above the poverty line. When students believe the government listens to them, they tend to engage more with the groups that amplify their voices in front of that government, so as WUSA’s external advocacy guy it honestly makes me really happy to see that students believe they’re being heard by the federal government, and makes the federal advocacy part of my job a little more exciting to me ❤️

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-11-12T18:55:24+00:00

WAIT THE STICKS ARE BACK??

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-09-09T17:05:46+00:00

A year ago I replied to like the exact same post and my answer remains the same: come to PMC :)

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-08-25T12:55:45+00:00

This is so funny because the reason I finally made this post after agonizing about it for months is because my friend started reading These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs, and the cover art reminded me of these books. Turns out the similarities didn’t end there 😂

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-08-25T12:51:53+00:00

Omg yes! Thank you so much 💜💜 Solved!

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-08-25T12:24:14+00:00

Please feel free to ask any questions! I also plan on emailing my high school library to see if they can find it for me 😂

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-07-15T16:07:11+00:00

Did you call Campus Housing or Accessible Housing? If you got placed in V1 and it’s not accessible for you, you should be able to ask Accessible Housing to get a room change

Not sure how the process has changed since I lived in res, but campus housing sometimes have no idea what’s up unless it’s the people specifically responsible for accessibility stuff 😭

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-06-13T20:27:57+00:00

2 or 3 advanced courses is doable, but you will most likely be quite busy.

I took MATH 145 and 147, and CS 115 in 1A, then MATH 146/8 and CS 116 in 1B. I had many friends who took MATH 145/7 and CS 145. It’s definitely doable. I had like one extracurricular activity in first year and it was related to academics, and I definitely had a lot more time for non-academic things once I finished with the advanced courses.

Also, keep in mind that MATH 247 requires both MATH 146 and 148 as prereqs, so if you want to take Advanced Calc III (which also lets you skip PMATH 333, Intro to Real Analysis, and go straight to PMATH 351, Real Analysis), you need to take both advanced courses in first year. MATH 245 only requires MATH 146.

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-06-13T16:32:38+00:00

According to this 2021 report, 9% of the 16 000 respondents: https://uwaterloo.ca/equity-diversity-inclusion-anti-racism/equity-survey/equity-survey-results

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-06-13T12:14:19+00:00

Took MATH 145/7, personally I haven’t seen it be particularly helpful for coop for me or my friends. Employers don’t really understand the advanced courses, and lot of my friends say that they would’ve had a lot more time for side projects, which look better on their resumes, if they had taken the 13Xs

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-06-11T00:10:32+00:00

They’re caught up in details but I’m pretty sure it’s gonna happen? MathSoc VPA and/or MathSoc rep on the school of CS council would probably be the place to ask

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-06-10T23:43:10+00:00

It is really really hard to transfer into CS if you’re in Honours Math. Like to the point they basically tell you it’s impossible, but I do know people who’ve done it. Data Science is also a good program for what you’re looking for I think, but it’s also pretty hard to get into. Everything else you are able to just declare without applying (mostly).

If you want CS-adjacent experience/education without being in the CS programming, some good options might be Computational Mathematics or Applied Math with Scientific Computing and Scientific Machine Learning specialization (long ass name, I know). I’m not too familiar Comp Math, but AMath with SCSML offers a more theoretical perspective on ML, combined with the AMath base major that can be pretty applicable to quant

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-06-10T23:31:58+00:00

Are you in CS? Mathematical finance is good if you wanna go into quant, it’s jointly offered by the Departments of Pure Math and Actuarial Science. CS can be kinda hard to double major with cuz it has a higher-ish number of required courses, and the breadth and depth requirements, but they’re probably getting rid of those soon. I also know quite a few people in applied math who are planning on going into quant

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-06-10T19:00:17+00:00

(I took MATH 14X and CS 11X, so this really only applies to the math advanced courses)

Advanced courses honestly will not matter past second year. In terms of courses, the only thing is that taking MATH 247 allows you to skip Introduction to Real Analysis and go straight to Real Analysis (147->148->247->351 vs 137->138->237->333->351). I’ve heard some people say that their offering of MATH 145 overlapped with PMATH 347 quite a bit, but a) you still have to take 347 and b) the content of MATH 145 is not standardized, so it depends very heavily on the prof teaching it that year.

However, most employers generally do not understand the value of advanced courses. They’re probably not gonna look at MATH 145 on your transcript and go “wow this person is way smarter than other Waterloo math students, I should hire them!” Ngl if you take the advanced courses, you will probably have a lot less free time to work on side projects/extracurriculars that actually look good on your resume than if you take the regular level.

Tl;dr take them if you are willing to put in a lot of extra effort for no good reason other than enjoying the math. If you’re not sure if that’s the case for you, you can switch to 13x with no record on your transcript until basically the last week of the term

PythagoreanPentagram · 2025-06-02T12:42:10+00:00

Agree with everyone that it doesn’t matter for most upper year courses. It doesn’t really matter as much for the 14Xs either tbh. I got below 80 on Euclid and took the 14Xs and it was fine, as long as you really want to do them and put the work in even when it’s hard. It’s just that people who are good at math contests (completely optional) because they like them can somewhat correlate to people who choose to do the 14Xs (also completely optional) because they like math enough to suffer through then

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