[CS-FSLUG] [OT] Re: Seeking opinions

[Yama Ploskonka]

at U of S you will get to sing "The Last Pirate of the Saskatchewan" 
with a crowd, if that weights any in your calculations...  (I am 
listening to it right now in your honor)

:-)

Yama

Nathan T. wrote:
> Hello again
> 
> I'm considering U of S (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon) as an
> option. Most of my friends from P.A are going there and it would
> probably be the best match to the majority of my recent education
> excluding what I've gotten since we've moved to Yellowknife. The
> university of Saskatchewan has a co-op program, I haven't looked into
> what that is yet but I imagine it's one of those ones where you spend
> some time learning, and some time working for a company as part of
> your education.
> 
> My guidance counsellor at school has gone beyond the call of duty to
> help me by finding information on Universities, he has also suggested
> the University of Waterloo, which as I recall once attracted Microsoft
> as a good place to go fishing for fresh blood.
> 
> After high school I'm going to nag my parents into getting me a grade
> 12 home schooling math text book, they already have the connections. I
> do believe I need this because I haven't gotten a complete grade 12
> math due to the move and the difference in the curriculum here, and
> I've had particular difficulty in my Calculus class because the
> teacher doesn't do much teaching and without all the prerequisite math
> I'm finding it very difficult to move ahead with such an uninformative
> text book as the one we're using.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken the video "Sorting out sorting" which compared
> different sorting algorithms was done either by or for the University
> of Waterloo, this is just something I read in a comment though and I
> don't know how true it is. From what I'm hearing Waterloo is the place
> to go if I want companies to want me, but U of S will have some
> familiar faces. A computer science degree won't do me any good unless
> it means I'll be employable by some big companies if I so choose, but
> I know I'll be able to count on my friends' help if I go to U of S. Is
> one a better choice than the other?
> 
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