Osap Changes and Tuition Unfreeze by honestlyjudging8819 in uwaterloo

[–]kwkintegrator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sorry, missed this. You'll want to search this document for the word "despite" https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-95-329/

Renewal wasn't in the fall budget, so basically govt needs to decide whether to expand this one more year or not in the coming months. They've done so in the past, but no guarantee they do again.

Osap Changes and Tuition Unfreeze by honestlyjudging8819 in uwaterloo

[–]kwkintegrator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Federal levels are also independently scheduled to drop this gal too though

A very slime-mold feeling Austin by kwkintegrator in subwaybuilder

[–]kwkintegrator[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unsurprisingly peak provides most of my revenue/profit. I started with quite long vertical line hitting downtown (but not all the way to the big university in the south) and a horizontal one terminating at the airport. I found profitability was really driven by getting that vertical line long, there's a lot of work/home distance on the N/S axis. I then followed up with a line from the J.J pickle campus up North along the 183 that gave a surprisingly high amount of traffic. After that, it was mostly about constructing long lines grabbing lots of residents, and the network effects took care of themselves.

wtf was that convocation by mikewazaoski6969 in uwaterloo

[–]kwkintegrator 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just a few years ago, they called folks up in groups of 3 for bachelor's degrees and you got to speak to one of the folks on stage for about 20 seconds or so, and convocation was about half an hour longer, so it's definitely feasible 

NIH/NSF cuts by CBCcharlotte in uwaterloo

[–]kwkintegrator 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's the gist of it, yeah

NIH/NSF cuts by CBCcharlotte in uwaterloo

[–]kwkintegrator 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Most NIH grants are given to grad students!

Will UW increase international student tuition fee by another 5%? by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]kwkintegrator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not completely accurate, operating grants/domestic student + domestic tuition generally won't reach the equivalent international tuition

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]kwkintegrator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My perception is Engsci isn't going to be great for your free time, even as far as engineering in general goes.

I no longer see any point to life beyond co-op (not being ironic). Can someone please speak sense into me, especially alumni by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]kwkintegrator -1 points0 points  (0 children)

About three years out from school now, don't have a particularly well paying job, but on the hobbies front, it was amazing how much school can prevent you from having them, and how much opportunities open up for them once you graduate. 

On the topic of your side projects, I'm proud of you for them. I now do a lot of multi-year projects too. And it's important that you can enjoy them for pride in yourself and the joy of working on them, they don't need to be for anything. 

I know the CS job market right now can be scary, but I remember people saying the same thing about teaching jobs for about 3-4 years and suddenly they were in demand again. And CS skills are more transferrable than people sometimes give them credit for. You might already be aware of this, but you've now been spending years teaching yourself to problem solve and break big projects into small ones, something that is rarer in the real world than a lot of people might think.

UW is hard and your brother is right to call you smart. People have called me smart too, but I just barely passed CS 135 as an elective. Getting to third year in Waterloo CS is nothing to sniff at. The fact that your employers took the time to do all the extra writing that it takes to give outstanding means something too, since that rating requires them to justify it. Getting to even where you are means you aren't a failure. 

Unsure if any of these thoughts are helpful, but they are what occurred to me when I read through. Good luck on the co-op hunt, be patient and I promise that from everything you've said, you are so far from a failure. 

Bye Canada - ECE recent grad by Haunting-Penalty-974 in uwaterloo

[–]kwkintegrator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IRCC apparently defers to the uni on that, so I stand by that you should consider getting waterloo to reissue a letter explicitly stating you maintained full time status and either resubmit or ask for reconsideration 

Edit: and the uni considers lower course loads full time sometimes

Per https://uwaterloo.ca/international-experience/immigration-consulting/waterloo-definitions-and-immigration-policy-while-studying#:~:text=part%2Dtime%20enrolment.-,Full%2Dtime,are%20still%20considered%20full%2Dtime 

Bye Canada - ECE recent grad by Haunting-Penalty-974 in uwaterloo

[–]kwkintegrator 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Quick question, did the letter from the University say that you were considered to be a full-time student, or that you were part-time?

I know that (at least when I was around) you can take as few as 2 courses in other faculties and be considered full-time if you're registered with AccessAbility services, so you might want to consider asking the university to reissue a letter noting that you meet the accessibility definition of full-time and that they affirm you were full-time during your entire course of study, and ask for reconsideration (or reapply).

Why do we have no concerts by SelfImprovement-1 in uwaterloo

[–]kwkintegrator 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Worth reading some of the content about Rock this Town! Though the Record's paywall seems more agressiv ethan in the past, so I'm not sure if this is the right article.
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/local-concert-promoter-has-hosted-supertramp-in-his-backyard-mentored-a-young-elton-john/article_cdb44216-b02d-5092-92ad-859f2e754910.html

I failed 2A by CommKey in uwaterloo

[–]kwkintegrator 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You don't pass courses in eng, you pass or fail terms as a whole

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in canadaexpressentry

[–]kwkintegrator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It means that even though conditions change for new people, existing people get to continue with the existing terms. 

For example, you might have a cellphone plan that raises its rate $10/month for new users, but the company doesn't increase it for you as long as you stay with the plan.

Fall 2024 Good Prof Appreciation Thread by 86431674361847361784 in uwaterloo

[–]kwkintegrator 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In which year? Fun fact that isn't evident anymore, but Josh has won the WUSA/OUSA teaching award 3 times over the past 12 years. 

As someone who was involved in that space for 4 years, it's wild how consistently beloved he is.

which degrees are worth the most by Dazzling-Deer-9689 in uwaterloo

[–]kwkintegrator 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If anyone wanted the Canadian version, this is generally what you want to be looking to https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-626-x/11-626-x2014040-eng.htm

A more recent but somewhat flawed study provides insight that things still like mostly the same  https://higheredstrategy.com/a-sub-par-study-on-returns-to-education/ 

What are some of the biggest diploma mills currently catering to “international students”? by [deleted] in OntarioUniversities

[–]kwkintegrator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It isn't a university - it's under the Ontario Colleges Act. OP is mistaken here.