by Jon | Aug 11, 2017 | Careers, Clubs, Health and Wellness, Student Life
In my first days of university I discovered that I loved to play ultimate frisbee. In undergrad, I would join pick-up games outside my residence or play on my class intramural team. By the time I finished undergrad, I was showing up to intramural games in the hope...
by Jon | Jul 27, 2017 | Clubs, Engineering, Student Life
I was a mechanical engineering student at the University of Waterloo. One thing that many engineers love to do is to build stuff. Some of us are even pretty competitive about it. Enter the engineering team… What is an engineering team? Engineering teams form...
by Jon | Jul 13, 2017 | Careers, Co-op, Interviews
I completed a mechanical engineering degree at the University of Waterloo, which is a co-op undergraduate degree program. That means that every other term I had to go through interviews until I found a co-op job for my following term. I’ve put together some of...
by Jon | Jul 7, 2017 | Graduate school
University courses are often denoted by 3-digit course codes that start with the year they are designed to be taken in. At my school and in my program, it went like this: 100s: First year – General Topics, high school course prerequisites 200s: Second year...
by Jon | Jun 29, 2017 | Applications, Engineering, Graduate school
Graduate school isn’t for everybody, but it is an excellent opportunity and depending on your desired career path it may be required. I chose to attend graduate school in my last year of mechanical engineering undergraduate studies. Over the course of my bachelor’s...
