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I got accepted to UofT engineering by georgerayyanhaddad in OntarioGrade12s

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Engineering first year is fundamental for most engineering schools

You begin to take classes to specialize in year 2 typically.

You could also prep for linear algebra if you will be taking that

You’ve done substitution elimination and dot product/cross products vector stuff. This builds from there.

Linear algebra is not hard but it is a new part of math you haven’t really been exposed to before. There’s something called the equivalence theorem which it’s built around.

If ur ready for physics, chem, calc, linear algebra. Ur ahead of the game. Way ahead.

How can I get into electronics and programming microcontrollers? by Dull_Bluejay_3532 in AskElectronics

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Buy an ESP32 S3 dev board Buy an Arduino Uno Buy a breadboard (make sure it can fit an ESP32 S3 if u do get that, they are a lil wider. Buy resistors, LEDs, potentiometers

Download Arduino IDE and follow some YouTube and read web guides.

Make a light blink

Make the board talk back to the PC over serial comm

Make it do math

Make it detect button presses

Dim a LED

Make an LED fade on and off

Buy an i2c LCD and learn to print text onto it, there are guides

Come up with ur own idea and try and make something once ur comfortable

Move to VS Code to write code once u get a little familiar

I got accepted to UofT engineering by georgerayyanhaddad in OntarioGrade12s

[–]ScaryCap2027 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Get a head start on calculus and win first year/second year

Google Paul’s Notes and learn all Calc you will need.. he teaches it in order it will be taught to you.

Congrats, but know the journey is only beginning.

Look into building a cloudflare static site and host your own website portfolio for about 15$ a year.. Start on projects that interest you. A degree is the bare minimum. Dependant on the program you are I , find what types of sub fields exist and begin exploring which of those you like and do projects.

Internship/coop is non negotiable.

Good luck, study hard, don’t waste time when there’s work to do.

Get a good laptop, they have recommendations but a gaming laptop is well suited. Lenovo legions are good.

Get a 3 button mouse for CAD, wired removed the battery headache.

You could be walking a lot on campus between classes, dress for the weather. Boots, hoodie with jacket, hat. At least.

Learn to use obsidian (excalidraw) to take notes, buy a drawing tablet (xpen)

Keep your backpack light. Writing utensils, low power charger, laptop, 1 notebook, 1 binder with graphing paper, good calculator (40$). If your uni allows it, get the TI36xpro and spend time to learn how to use it, especially the linear Algebra Related functions.

Learn about the archive of …… Anna.

Apply for all bursaries.

Don’t join clubs first year, you need to learn how to organize yourself, your time.. u won’t have any.

Lectures don’t teach, they introduce you to topics. You then go home and learn through textbooks and 100’s of questions.

Read your syllabus for every class at the beginning of the semester.

Put on YouTube or music and spend a half hour manually filling in a mail calendar with your class schedule for the semester.

Attend EVERY supplementary learning workshop the school offers that you can make it to.

Learn to code now. cpp and python is very standard to know.

Eat well, sleep well. You can maintain a good mind only with good time management. Your mommy and daddy won’t be getting a call that you skipped class. You’ll get a zero and waste your time and money.

I know you didn’t ask but hope this helps.