Posts Tagged ‘University of Waterloo’

From free to $18,000

This week’s Imprint issue’s cover story talks about how UW Retail Services is essentially scamming Feds out of $18,000 in the acquisition of term-by-term textbook list. What used to be provided freely to the Feds Used Bookstore is now going to cost Feds $6000/term for the list of books.
This is quite rediculous considering that UW [...]

Hi I’m back

From the lack of blog posts in the last 2 weeks and a load of obscure Twitter messages, you may have guessed that I was up to something. Well, your suspicions are very right!
I hereby present you with, Courselect, preview edition!

What is it you ask? Well, it is an attempt at unifying all information that [...]

Via the Sir Issac Newton exam

Bonus Video: Streets of Waterloo

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I could imagine Larry Smith rapping, but … David Johnson too?
And that answers the question, what is in the water in Waterloo. Yes… just what is in the water? haha

CS disappears from Waterloo

Where did it go?

Plan B [Update 2]

Since I didn’t get the job offer that I wanted for the next work term, I’ll be staying in Waterloo doing some extra courses as my “Plan B”. I’ve got the preliminary go ahead by the ECE department, so it is only a matter of paper pushing to make it official. What is “it”? A [...]

Soliciting for intern jobs

I made an extra effort this term to seek for jobs outside of the Jobmine system because there simply wasn’t enough jobs that is a good match for my interests, technical skills, and business experiences. My last job at Business Objects was, I’d say, the job with the widest set of responsibility that I could [...]

Don’t let the picture deceive you

This is a photo taken from the ECE 324 lecture when Dr. Wayne Loucks was trying to explain to the class about load lines. Although his drawings on the tablet pc may need significant improvements, he’s actually really really good at explaining the material well in class (for those that listen to the prof, not [...]