• math,  science,  subject POST

    anybody for actuarial?

    June 19, 2002

    hi, i am an international student and i have got admission from innis college, but i don’t know how to do next! i am confused by the calender and don’t understand how to choose my first year courses. i want to study acturial science, which courses do i need to take? are these diffcult?
    thanks a lot

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  • courses,  math,  peace and conflict,  profs

    the rantings of an unsatisfied student (or how the anti-calendar lied)

    March 19, 2002

    The anti-calender has LIED!
    I have a math course with a professor that is absolutely the worst! The average is somewhere in the 40’s, half of the work is so impossible to do that my tutor couldn’t even help me! And half of it is so easy that it does not prepare you for tests or realistic questions and you fail! The prof is an ass about it, will not bell marks like most other impossible professors, and NOBODY I have spoken with thinks much of him-in fact everybody HATES him! BUT, the all-so-wonderful anti-calender has just praised this professor in this particular course with compliments that made me sick and glory that made me scream like a donkey. It made him out to be a wonderful professor that students just loved. What the hell! Has it been tainted with theevilness of a higher evil power?? I am scared to use it to choose my next classes now! LIES LIES LIES!

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  • extracurricular,  math,  other schools (boo!),  switching

    another harsh dose of reality

    October 9, 2001

    aska: I recieved the following rant from a bitter student –

    Hi, first of all, Great Web site and fantastic work! Very Immpresive! I have just discovered this site two days ago but I am realldy addicated to it now.
    I want to make a point here and I would like to know what is your opinion on it.
    Do you think the university has set up way too many (administrative)barriers preventing students from leaning the knowledge they want most?
    I do. For example, I am a transfer student from YorkU(after completed 2 years comp. Sci there) and trying to get into comp.sci and commerce at UT now. I have every thing they want except I do not have a “pretigious MAT137”. I have done the standard full year calculus course at York already which is a tough course too. And I got A+ for it. I know myself that I have a very strong math background. But the departments does not care. I simply was asked to take it again! Which means more money and more time and even worse, delay of graduation.
    I may agree that MAT137, in some aspect could be harder but I also believe that York’s calculus course should have prepared the students a strong enough background in the filed as well.
    As students, we came to university because we simply want to learn knowledge? Why the hell there are so many “political” stuff making our life so hard? What do you think about this point as a senior university student?
    Thanks very much for your time.

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