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and im starting this topic because i regret my uni choice a bit. I am going to: UWO for the MOS program, management and organizational studies with the AEO status for IVEY. I was originally debating between: Mcgill Commerce vs. UWO/IVEY and Queens and i regret not going to mcgill a tad (i had dreams about going to mcgill after i rejected them, it was a terrible nightmare!) mostly because montreal is an AWESOME city and since im not french, chances of me living in montreal later on in my life is very little and id love to live there for a part of my life and i think uni would be the best chance...  anyone else?
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No I don't think so. I'm living at home, which I know is the right choice for me right now, I have great friends, a great boyfriend, I am doing very well in school and my life is great. I'm sure it could've worked out just as well elsewhere, but I'm quite happy with where I chose to go to school.
University of Alberta - Mechanical Engineering '11
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You don't need to be French to live in Montreal...
-Stringer
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I'm absolutely 100% sure that going to a school LIKE Acadia was the best choice for me. I also think leaving Ontario was a good thing. I feel that it helped me do better in my first year, and after doing well that first semester I was really motivated to keep doing well. With regards to Acadia specifically, the closest I have to a regret stems from the cost - which is higher both because it's in NS (which has high tuition), because of the laptops, and, I feel, for other reasons that are somewhat disguised by the laptops, like taking out big mortgages to renovate all the residences. This being said, one reason I ended up at Acadia rather than, say, St. FX or Mt. Allison, is that I didn't realize that some of the other smaller schools offered Computer Science. It may be that I was scanning through a department list rather than a program list, and at some of them it's a department of "Math & Computer Science" which I may have missed. I know it wasn't that I was looking down on them because they didn't have a separate department, I honestly didn't think they had CS programs. So I never seriously considered them as alternatives, but if I had I might have ended up at one of them instead.
 
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YEAH YOU SCREWED UP. DON'T WORRY YOU WILL SCREW UP A LOT MORE LATER ON TOO SO MAYBE THIS ONE WILL LOOK SMALLER IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS?
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Lamoid wrote:YEAH YOU SCREWED UP. DON'T WORRY YOU WILL SCREW UP A LOT MORE LATER ON TOO SO MAYBE THIS ONE WILL LOOK SMALLER IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS? smooth
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for the longest time i had not wanted to go to u of t (i was accepted, but only applied for the sake of rejecting them) and i brushed them off as elitist.. but then just this past sunday i was with a friend walking around the campus, and i REALLY liked it. it's way nicer than that of ryerson.
i hadn't seen their campus before, only a small area of it.. but just walking around that day it felt like a nice atmosphere.
and u of t's reputation is way better than ryerson's. but i knew that before.
but i'm still pretty excited for ryerson this fall.. who knows, i may end up loving it. if not, i could always just transfer second year. plus i'm getting 1,500 scholarship from ryerson.. u of t offered me a big fat 0.
Ryerson 2012
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I regretted my choice for U of T a "little" bit after I read about all the horror stories of how GPAs are extremely low and how you're just a number, but after visiting the campus and meeting some people in my program, I feel a LOT better. I would say I am VERY satisfied with the choice that I made.
UTSG Rotman Commerce (Victoria College) 2012
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Honestly, I did regret not choosing stanford for undergrad but I realize that the debt would have been unacceptable to me and that my decision was in the interest of my long-term benefit.
For grad school, I have no regrets. I love my program, the department and the intimacy of it all.
BAH '08 (Queen's) MA'11 (Queen's)
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I'm not regretting my university choice, but I am regretting my high school choice(s).
In hindsight, I should have just went to IB or an academic school. My enrollment in the enhanced program means nothing in the eyes of universities. I'll fare well in Waterloo, sure, but I'll always be overshadowed by the fact that I could've gotten to where I am (and undoubtedly further) with much less effort by picking easier teachers, having a lighter schedule, and going to a lenient high school. Ah, talk about wasted effort. I'll look back on this one at fifty and shake my head.
My only fear now is that I'm not repeating the same mistake by going to engineering. So far, the lack of course flexibility and the rigorous schedule seems to make this resemble high school all over again. I like applied sciences and maths. But seriously... I'm smart and diligent enough to become a doctor or lawyer if I tried, and sometimes I wish I could just take some potent elixir that morphs my interest in engineering into medicine or law. It would've made everything so much easier.
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BrackenClelk wrote:I'm not regretting my university choice, but I am regretting my high school choice(s).
In hindsight, I should have just went to IB or an academic school. My enrollment in the enhanced program means nothing in the eyes of universities. I'll fare well in Waterloo, sure, but I'll always be overshadowed by the fact that I could've gotten to where I am (and undoubtedly further) with much less effort by picking easier teachers, having a lighter schedule, and going to a lenient high school. Ah, talk about wasted effort. I'll look back on this one at fifty and shake my head.
My only fear now is that I'm not repeating the same mistake by going to engineering. So far, the lack of course flexibility and the rigorous schedule seems to make this resemble high school all over again. I like applied sciences and maths. But seriously... I'm smart and diligent enough to become a doctor or lawyer if I tried, and sometimes I wish I could just take some potent elixir that morphs my interest in engineering into medicine or law. It would've made everything so much easier. oh trust me i also regret my highschool choice and doing IB! so dont feel so bad about not going to IB school. my school had about 20 full-time IB students, meaning we had no choices when it came to classes and i hated doing IB, and i dont believe it helped me get into a university at all. all i can say is that maybe IB english improved my essay writing skills but yeah, thats about it! and i dont really like my highschool either.. shouldve went to a different school
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To those of you who regret going to a competitive HS: Don't
I have no doubt that better HS preparation = better university performance.
BAH '08 (Queen's) MA'11 (Queen's)
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Stringer wrote:You don't need to be French to live in Montreal... \ oh of course not, i visited montreal like twice and had no problem not speaking french, but i can read things and write things to an extent, maybe understand a bit too. what i was saying that while i was a uni student studying at mcgill i am just a student and can live there, but later in my life what are the chances of me getting a job in montreal and living there? who, in montreal where french is the language, is willing to give me a job over other french speaking people? im wanting to go into banking or something financial related which would involve working with other people and doing 'business' and language, in my opinion, is key. if i was some french recruiter at montreal, id go for a bilingual person before hiring someone like me... thats all i meant to say lol im not gonna live somewhere i am not going to get a good job
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CRAZYBUBBA wrote:To those of you who regret going to a competitive HS: Don't
I have no doubt that better HS preparation = better university performance. Absolutly, absolutly... I can whip out stellar essays in an hour where it would take the normal classes 3. Saves my ass in all sorts of papers and exams. Sure I regret not getting higher marks where I could but in the long run having better academic skills is more beneficial.
UWO 2012
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I don't regret going to McMaster, cause it's gonna be a life changing experience..sure I'm leaving a lot of friends behind but I rather move on and leave this city of the a dump (Scarborough) I called home..
I agree with CRAZYBUBBA..its true only if you attend a decent highschool..something i didnt do, and Im attending Mac Engineering and wasting my summer reviewing...sigh...
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I do a bit. I'm going to York and applying to concurrent education in the second year. I was accepted to concurrent education at Wilfrid Laurier also. I regret not going there because I have no gaurantee that I will get accepted to the York concurrent program. For York I have to go through the whole application process including an interview, where as I was already accepted to Laurier and even if there is an interview and I suck at it, I'm accepted so it doesn't matter as much.
Honours English Major/History Minor, York '12
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Regretting a huge waste of time. Not only can you not change the past simply by crying about it, but you will be so focused on what could've happened that you lose sight of the future. I've had the regret problem before, and now I'm doing something about it.
You have 2 choices: you either take actions and try to put yourself into the better position, or you figure out how to take advantage of the current opportunity and propel yourself into where you want to be. There are many paths to your destination. Some may be more difficult, and some may be easier. However, if you work your ass off to try to reach for your final goal, though you may not end up where you'd want to be, you'll still get very far.
Know what you want, plan how to get there, and act on it.
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I know IB kind of sucks when you're in it, but it helped me so unbelievably much in university. Number one I got unconditional acceptance with my PREDICTED grades. Number two I got transfer credit. Number three almost all of the material I learned in first year was review. Pretty sweet deal.
As far as engineering goes, you will get more course flexibility in your upper years, and the schedule isn't quite as rigorous as you may think.
University of Alberta - Mechanical Engineering '11
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kenvin100 wrote:I don't regret going to McMaster, cause it's gonna be a life changing experience..sure I'm leaving a lot of friends behind but I rather move on and leave this city of the a dump (Scarborough) I called home..
I agree with CRAZYBUBBA..its true only if you attend a decent highschool..something i didnt do, and Im attending Mac Engineering and wasting my summer reviewing...sigh...
Is Mac Engineering hard? Actually, is engineering as hard as people say it is?
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changturkey wrote:kenvin100 wrote:I don't regret going to McMaster, cause it's gonna be a life changing experience..sure I'm leaving a lot of friends behind but I rather move on and leave this city of the a dump (Scarborough) I called home..
I agree with CRAZYBUBBA..its true only if you attend a decent highschool..something i didnt do, and Im attending Mac Engineering and wasting my summer reviewing...sigh...
Is Mac Engineering hard? Actually, is engineering as hard as people say it is? I don't know. And no, engineering isn't as hard as people say.
University of Alberta - Mechanical Engineering '11
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