That truly depends on the person..if u kno how to manage your time properly, you can do well..

OR you can try to prepare for it as best as possible, thas what im doing cause I had a terrible chem teacher who taught us cation is positive cause of the 't' in cation (t looks like a + or w.e)

I rather review regardless if I got 50 or 100 in any course..it will give us a slight advantage in the beginning and learning basic fundamentals do help..

I would disagree. Reviewing your high school material for university is in my opinion a waste of time. All of your courses will review it all anyways, there is really no point. I didn't review and probably forgot almost everything as soon as I graduated high school and I had no problem in first year whatsoever. Enjoy your summer. Forget high school.

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University of Alberta - Mechanical Engineering '11

Yeah I love it when teachers give helpful memory aids.

It all depends. I spent an hour or two a day on homework, and then when exams came around it was about the same amount of time devoted to studying. I played varsity rugby which was usually a 10 hour a week time committment at the very least. I also had time to hang out with my boyfriend almost daily and go out with my friends every weekend.

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University of Alberta - Mechanical Engineering '11

I think so. They're all regulated by the CEAB so most engineering programs are going to be fairly similar.

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University of Alberta - Mechanical Engineering '11

karla, I think it's a bit disingenuous for you to keep saying that engineering isn't hard, seems like an ego-boosting sort of thing. Almost everyone I know in that program have said, yes, it is fairly difficult and you have to put a lot of work into it. Some people are smarter than others, and have easier times with school, and you may be one of those people, but frequently saying it's easy seems as insincere as the way another certain poster (cough) keeps saying how mind-numbingly difficult it is.

Just my opinion...

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York University, Geomatics Engineering

All university programs require a decent amount of work if you want to do well. It is true that Karla seems to be a "top student". The other person you bring up wound up in Engineering because Laurier Business wasn't a good enough school for his standards and he didn't make it into his first choices of business schools. I did CS, not Engineering, but CS is also widely considered to be "hard". I'm not of the impression that my classmates completely abandoned their social life, nor did I. I'd even go so far as to say that in my first semester, my roommate who was in Arts worked harder than I did, while I'm pretty sure I got better marks (note here that the first semester of intro programming was a pretty trivial class for me, and I'm fairly certain my high school preparation at a school that offered IB in Ontario was better than hers at a school in a small town in NS).

My personal belief is that it is probably easier to "coast" through an Arts degree for most people, but that doesn't mean it doesn't require a lot of work to do really well at that Arts degree. My friend who did a Geology degree ended up taking a 3rd year History course and honestly felt that the history course was the hardest course she took (the course was on a topic relating somewhat to geology, Environmental History or something like that). Maybe she wouldn't have felt the same way if she was aiming for C's rather than A's, I don't know.

If you struggle in Math, sure, Engineering may be super tough for you - and maybe it's not the right program for you. But some of those Engineers might do terribly in an Arts degree because they suck at writing.

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Then I have to kind of wonder about your engineering program. I've looked over the engineering program at York (Which isn't even "top-tier" for engineering like U of T), and engineers have to take more credits than regular students (arts degrees need 90 credits, while engineering degrees require 140-156 depending on stream), in essence cramming 5 years worth of credits into 4 in order to get that degree, and the schedules end up very crowded. I don't see how anyone can say that the workload is comparable. Especially since multiple math/science courses is certainly more work than multiple social science courses. And I know this because my brother is an Arts student.



Again, I don't think it's a myth, and I think it's almost universally accepted that certain programs (engineering, medicine) are harder than certain other programs (social work, political science).

Again, if you're able to get good marks easily and all that, that's good and all, but I still think it's a bit disingenuous.

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York University, Geomatics Engineering

Although that is true, it still doesn't mean every school is at the same difficulty. I think you can relate it just how high school was. Everyone takes the same courses but some schools it's much harder to get a 80+ in a course than another.

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-University of Toronto Electrical Engineering 1T0!

any one regretting going to ivey schulich or QC and wish they went to the other 2

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My signature was to big so they killed it

Time is an ocean it has an ebb and flow, It gives me a RUSH of blood to the head the same way Snakes and Arrows do!

I regret my highschool choice. I should have gone someplace where I would actually be challenged rather than bored/apathetic. The IB program probably would have been a better choice for me.