Universities

[sockcrotch]

Ok. I know quite a few NFers are at university. Or have recently finished.

 

I need to decide where to go.

 

So where do/did you all go? What courses? And were they good?

 

Thanks.

 

 

...Oh yeah, and what cities are the best to live in?

[ToadMan]

I think your questions are impossible to answer since none of us have a heterogeneous sampling of universities. Rather than ask for opinions of 'good' universities, you should ask for objective statements about the universities.

 

The same applies to cities.

 

Also, don't trust 'Maclean's' magazine's university reviews.

[primetime_deliverance]

I go to Ottawa U and it is nothing that impressive.

 

St Fx or Queens would be my choices if I could do it all over again. That sense of 'small university town, tight community' really turns me on. I'm also not really the city type so that might have an influence on it.

 

Tell us what program(s) you're interested in though.

[Prometheon]

I go to U of T, but the campus in Mississauga, as opposed to downtown. It's nice, though a little small, so I'd reccomend taking a few downtown courses as well, just so you get the full 'Uni Experiance.'

[Computer]

It all depends on what you want to go into, what type of environment you want to live in, the people you want to be around, and how far you want to live away from home. I go to Guelph and am taking Political science, so far, this year has been the best of my life, and I wouldn't want to go anywhere else for university.

[ecnarf]

I go to U of T, but the campus in Mississauga, as opposed to downtown. It's nice, though a little small, so I'd reccomend taking a few downtown courses as well, just so you get the full 'Uni Experiance.'

My high school chem teacher / U of T graduate flat-out told me not to go to U of T for chemistry, simply because of how huge the school is and how easily you get lost in the bureaucracy. That would apply to the downtown campus, I guess. Having grown up a few blocks away from the Scarborough campus, just don't. Not a great place to go to university. Have you noticed anything like that?

 

I can speak very fondly of Western. That being, it's got the number 1 student resident experience in Canada, one of the best looking campuses and solid academics (we recently had an AIDS vaccine developed by a prof go into clinical trials, for example). Also highly reputed business and music schools.

[sockcrotch]

I go to Ottawa U and it is nothing that impressive.

 

St Fx or Queens would be my choices if I could do it all over again. That sense of 'small university town, tight community' really turns me on. I'm also not really the city type so that might have an influence on it.

 

Tell us what program(s) you're interested in though.

I've received conflicting reports about Ottawa U. But I know it has a great international development program, which is cool.

 

As for what programs. I'm considering development, journalism, and polisci among other things.

[Guest apsham]

I'm going to Saint Thomas Uni starting in January and I am going for journalism. The program there is EXCELLENT and it's the reason I chose it. It's closely aligned with the CBC and in third year if you get chosen for the program (20 people do but most drop the idea after taking the 1st and 2nd year courses apparently) you take your classes at an actual CBC station and do work on air and stuff. As far as political science goes, I am taking some of those classes in my first and seconds years.

[shade]

Come to London On Sucka

[garsk]

western is a great school, but still, do you want to live in london? just remember, your not only picking a school, your picking a place to live.

[sockcrotch]

Yeah that's a good point. But I like London. It's mostly the cost of living in Toronto or Vancouver that scares me :angry:

 

I was hanging out with friends at King's in Halifax the other month and they made living there seem pretty convincing somehow. But that's probably cause I went there during Alexander Keith's birthday and there was mass bar-hopping involved ;)

Edited November 19, 2006 by sockcrotch

[Guest jsunC]

Laurier, and U of Waterloo are good party schools, plus waterloo only has a population of 100,000, which is good if you want to live somewhere small. I got to Laurier in Brantford, and although brantford is a pretty scuzzy city, the campus is small with only like 3000 people. It's amazing everyone knows eachother really well, and they have the best residences i've ever seen.

 

Western is also fun, londons a great city and they always have kickass parties

Edited November 19, 2006 by jsunC

[garsk]

ottawa is a great college/university town, i would think that going to a school in montreal would be fun too. also check out school in calgary, it is also a nice city.

[SoggyFrog]

Ewww.. Calgary's a terrible city. I think it is, anyhow.

 

I want to go to Vancouver and I want to study something in science but now I'm hearing negative things about the sciences at UBC. ;)

[Prometheon]

I go to U of T, but the campus in Mississauga, as opposed to downtown. It's nice, though a little small, so I'd reccomend taking a few downtown courses as well, just so you get the full 'Uni Experiance.'

My high school chem teacher / U of T graduate flat-out told me not to go to U of T for chemistry, simply because of how huge the school is and how easily you get lost in the bureaucracy. That would apply to the downtown campus, I guess. Having grown up a few blocks away from the Scarborough campus, just don't. Not a great place to go to university. Have you noticed anything like that?

 

I can speak very fondly of Western. That being, it's got the number 1 student resident experience in Canada, one of the best looking campuses and solid academics (we recently had an AIDS vaccine developed by a prof go into clinical trials, for example). Also highly reputed business and music schools.

Yeah, a good friend of mine goes there for biochem, and she has to take the subway between classes, which is a little ridiculous. I've never actually been to the Scarborough campus, so I can't comment on that, but Scarborough in general is pretty shitty.

 

Also, I was super impressed with yuor music program. I'd never thought of Western as a music school, but I hooked up with a girl from Western the other day and she's in your music program and was telling me all about how serious it is.

[ecnarf]

Yeah, it's hardcore, although a girl from my high school in that program says it's easy... compared to a performing arts specialty high school band program, I guess. We were quite elite.

[Prometheon]

Is she in performance or theory?

[ecnarf]

Performance. Plays the trumpet.

 

P.S. Wouldn't it be funny if you hooked up with her?

[Prometheon]

Yeah, that would be retarded/weird ,but the girl I hooked up with was in theory and played the clarient. She was talking about how performance is a lot easier/less hectic that theory, which is why I asked.

[Ryan44]

umm ya the only good tihng is calgary is sait. u of c is a piece, and the college is worse than jr.high

[Dan #3]

Don't go to Brock. St Catharines is filled with enough wanker college kids as it is.

[bishopx]

Hey down in the Lower 48, University Of Rhode Island, and Brown University are great schools(Granted I'm biased, I went to both)

[Lauren]

one of the best looking campuses

i hate western's campus. one of the worst i've seen (although i haven't seen a lot). carleton has a gorgeous landscape and one of the best jounalism programs in the country. our caf food was voted #1 in macleans (but then we boycotted their stupid survey thing and we mysteriously got last the year after...).

[cringleman]

Obligatory promotion of Halifax coming:

 

I've lived in the Maritimes my entire life, but traveled quite a lot. There are two places I've loved this much: Halifax and Ballarat (in Victoria, Australia). It's just very important to bear in mind that Halifax isn't actually all that big -- it isn't a city on the global scale at all, and probably not even so on the national scale.

 

What it is is a lot of fun, if you enjoy any of the things going on, here (great music scene if you're into anything like Matt Mays, Joel Plaskett or the likes of Jimmy Swift or Windom Earle; hella good climbing in the vicinity; super-saturation of bars in the downtown; etc.).

 

Additionally, Dal's PoliSci programme isn't too bad, and King's is supposed to have a great journalism reputation (though you should be warned that their Foundation Year Programme is supposed to be pretty tough). I know Dal also has an International Development stream, but I have no idea how it ranks (plus we're boycotting the MacLean's survey, so we're not even in any rankings).

 

[Edit: In line with previous comments, Dal's campus ain't real sightly, though. If you want to do some urban bouldering, though ... the buildering here is pretty good.]

Edited November 20, 2006 by cringleman

[ecnarf]

one of the best looking campuses

i hate western's campus. one of the worst i've seen (although i haven't seen a lot). carleton has a gorgeous landscape and one of the best jounalism programs in the country. our caf food was voted #1 in macleans (but then we boycotted their stupid survey thing and we mysteriously got last the year after...).

Lauren, you judged Western's campus ugly when you walked from the gates to my residence, a grand total of 100 metres.

 

Seriously.