The General Chit Chat Thread 3

[metro.]

If you had one parent from Sweden and another from the US and were born in Canada would you have a triple citizenship to each of the 3 countries? o_O

Yes. I can get Irish and American citizen ship on top of my Canadian.

[megido-rev.M]

I'm so sleepy and annoyed atm...

[Tiffanys]

I'm so sleepy and annoyed atm...

Go to sleep?

[Burkingam]

Sleeping is for the weaks.

[1000mAh]

Tomorrow's Friday!

Today's Friday!

Never before did I notice how multinational workplace this is :/
I can hardly see personel who speak fluent Finnish nor ppl whose native tongue is Finnish.
But they all speak English more or less fluently, only with each other though.

@Burk, sleep is for those who work.

[Ozzaharwood]

I have Fridays off so I don't need to sleep.

mAh, you should come to Canada some time if you like multiculturalism. I'm pretty sure we have every single race of person possible here in decent numbers.

[Burkingam]

@Burk, sleep is for those who work.

Nah my bosses wouldn't want me to sleep on the job.

[metro.]

I have Fridays off so I don't need to sleep.

mAh, you should come to Canada some time if you like multiculturalism. I'm pretty sure we have every single race of person possible here in decent numbers.

You have fridays off and you're worried about attending class?

[Ozzaharwood]

I have Wednesdays and Fridays off. It's my first year though so I have no clue what to expect, haha. I just scheduled all of my classes so that I'd have two days off, so I have quite a lot of lectures on the days I actually do have to go to school.

[metro.]

I have Wednesdays and Fridays off. It's my first year though so I have no clue what to expect, haha. I just scheduled all of my classes so that I'd have two days off, so I have quite a lot of lectures on the days I actually do have to go to school.

You don't have any labs, do you?

[Ozzaharwood]

No, not for the first two weeks. I'll be starting them next week though, and I'll definitely go to those.

[Tiffanys]

Make sure you aren't taking too many hard classes at a time. Never listen to those moronic advisers that try to give you everything possible. It's easy to get completely overwhelmed when you first start out and I think that coupled with a complete change in learning environment from high school is what results in so many kids dropping out before their 3rd term and tons of others never making it past the 2nd year.

I was lucky since I went to a preparatory school but most people don't have that. I did the complete opposite of what I'm advising, but not many people are like me.

In group projects/labs expect to be the one that does literally all the work and everyone else to be completely incompetent and/or lazy fools that if they even do the work it's so subpar that you're better off doing the whole thing yourself. You might get lucky, but... I always got grouped with total retards (up until grad school) which amazed me that they were even accepted.

Also, learn to be really long winded for lab reports. You have to write paragraphs or pages about something you could summarize in like 2 sentences. Sadly, it's a habit that'll probably carry over into the rest of your life and you'll start writing really long winded there too which annoys some people with the "tl;dr" attitude. Sadly our institutions don't care for efficiency but want all that long bloated bs.

[Ozzaharwood]

Wow, that's a lot of info. Thanks for the tips, I really appreciate it. I'll definitely take it all into account.

[Tiffanys]

Long technical papers are really soul rending, just a warning lol.

[BrownMasterV]

Ooh a new university student? I just finished my first year as a chemical engineer, but I'm switching over to electrical engineering. I'd say push yourself as fucking hard as you can your first year, just to test your limits. Things are generally pretty easy the first year so you kinda have room to fuck up a tiny bit.

Example:

First quarter I took 5 classes and 1 lab and held 1 job and was an officer of a chemical engineering org and my uni's Engineers Without Borders chapter. Started skipping lectures after about 2 weeks, too, and basically didn't go to class for that whole quarter. GPA: 4.0!

Second quarter I took 5 classes and 1 lab, held 2 jobs and took up a 2nd officer position in the same org. Went to class more often than the 1st quarter but my grades weren't as hot. GPA: 3.95

Third quarter I took 5 classes and 1 lab, picked up research alongside the two jobs and the officer positions. Went to class pretty much every day but holy shit that was a hard quarter. GPA: 4.0

Oh, and because my university is on the beach, partied/got wasted every single weekend!

So I guess what I'm trying to say (aside from the shameless bragging because I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed with work right now and want to feel better about myself) is that you need to find where you fit on the spectrum of how much you are able/willing to take.

My tips:
Push yourself. Hard.
Get involved
Don't get caught in the clique-y-ness that can form in college (that shit is supposed to die in high school)
Keep an open mind and don't say no to anything

[Tiffanys]

The problem with pushing yourself too hard rather than gradually testing the waters is that if you fuck up bad you could end up losing your scholarship/grant/funding/whatever and some really bad shit can go down. It's too risky to recommend to people. You could get someone to fuck their entire life over like that. Better safe than sorry imo.

[BrownMasterV]

That's true I guess. I went hard and got lucky then. My financial aid situation (read: zero) made it so that I didn't have anything to lose haha

[JoonasTo]

Just plan it out man.
You can cut one year off the default graduation time easily if you do.
That one year less uni means one year less living on the poverty line and it gives you 50k more money in your life. Worth it.

[metro.]

The problem with pushing yourself too hard rather than gradually testing the waters is that if you fuck up bad you could end up losing your scholarship/grant/funding/whatever and some really bad shit can go down. It's too risky to recommend to people. You could get someone to fuck their entire life over like that. Better safe than sorry imo.

Yeah, just fucking send it. Taking 7 classes first semester? Probably a mistake, but hey! I only failed one of them! And it wasn't even the hardest one, that makes sense right?

Srsly though, everyone treats failing a class like it's the end of the world, it's honestly probably not.

Just plan it out man.
You can cut one year off the default graduation time easily if you do.
That one year less uni means one year less living on the poverty line and it gives you 50k more money in your life. Worth it.

Dude do you even pay for school? You live in socialism land don't you?

[JoonasTo]

Nope, free education rules.

But regardless, staying in uni for long is stupid. Even more so if you pay for it.