by Jessica | Mar 19, 2019 | Arts, Engineering, Humanities, Summer, Travel
With final exams approaching quickly and midterms concluding, many students have one word circling their mind – summer! Where do you see yourself in two months? Perhaps you are working a summer job or hiding inside an air conditioned place. Perhaps you are...
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 | 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...
by Jon | Jun 21, 2017 | Co-op, Engineering, Student Life, Summer
I studied engineering at the University of Waterloo, in a co-op degree program that requires alternating 4 month terms of classes and co-operative education. This lead to me spending several summer terms in class rather than the typical university summer experience...
by Jon | Jun 2, 2017 | Careers, Co-op, Engineering
When I was looking for a university to attend for engineering, the University of Waterloo came highly recommended because of their co-op program. Co-op is like an internship except it is typically a paid position and, at UW at least, it is managed very closely by the...
by Jon | May 22, 2017 | Careers, Co-op, Computer Science, Engineering
When it came time for me to choose a university and degree, I was conflicted. I loved physics, especially the “Physics Olympics” that my grade 12 physics teacher had made a part of my high school experience (i.e., mouse trap cars, predicting ballistic curves, building...
