Thinking of starting some dating events for UW students and wanted to see if anyone would actually show up before I put the work in lol.

Idea 1: speed dating night

~10 short dates (6 min each),. After each date you privately tap yes/no on your phone. If you both said yes, you get each other's contact the next morning. Nobody finds out who said no.

Was thinking maybe I could also create some themed dating nights - book lovers, asian students only, indian students only, or sum.

Idea 2: live dating show

Kind of like the balloon-pop / blind date shows on TikTok. In SLC Great Hall.

Anyone interested? I feel like this would help with all of the loneliness on campus.

fyi I've never interacted with the real Professor Hans De Sterck before, so this was highkey kinda ominous.

This email was sent twice in 10 minutes to my non-uw address (kinda concerned about how they got my private address from, but eh, i barely care)

stay safe guys!!

Title. I’m 2A math and an offer I have for the winter as a swe is nice but the company isn’t very interesting. My last internship was at a really cool startup based in the states working in a cool problem space and this company is a pretty mid Canadian startup. I’m pretty sure it is somewhat of a downgrade. That being said, it is my second coop (though it isn’t very late into recruiting cycle) so am I being too picky? Should I reject this offer and try and get better?

does anyone have any tips on this front?? i’ve been applying broadly (work study, pac, libraries, the postings wusa sometimes puts up, etc) but have had no luck so far. i’m in 2a and i have previous job experience but only as a camp counsellor so it’s been rough. i’d appreciate any advice or suggestions on where to apply!

Is there an easier way to import lecture slides directly:
Learn -> goodnotes
I currently do:
Learn -> save slides on files/google drive -> import to goodnotes

anybody know where/when events are at

curious if there is traffic on king street this weekend. Would pull, but is it worth?

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I'm an engineering student looking for co op. I've been getting interviews at good companies(internal + external) but always seem to struggle to answer questions during them. I have challenges with both behaviorals and technicals. The common theme is poorly communicating my thoughts and using lots of filler words. I get so nervous to the point where my mind goes blank and I can't solve or respond to simple questions that I could probably handle find under a more casual setting.

With behaviorals, I struggle to respond to "tell me about yourself" or "name a time you solved a difficult challenge/worked with a team/etc". I feel like the "tell me about yourself" part is really just asking you to explain why you're a good fit for the role. I struggle to give a pitch that's comprehensive without rambling for too long. My formula is pretty much program+school -> what I did at each internship(currently working at my third) -> projects. My intro feels generic and I always ramble about my experience/projects because I don't want to give a superficial summary. Often it becomes incoherent. Does anyone have tips for these types of questions?

For technicals, I fall into the same trap every time(coding, debugging, or even verbal situational questions). I talk really fast out of nervousness and go quiet when I get stuck. Normally, I'm not an awkward person at all, I just get stressed out by interviews because it feels like any answer that isn't exactly what they're looking for is an immediate disqualification. Does anyone have tips or a mental framework for tackling these situations? I think a useful mental model would be asking clarifying questions and stating any assumptions before diving in. People say what's most important is not the answer you arrive upon, but explaining how you got there. How true is that really? How do you continue or ask for hints when you get stuck? Sometimes you get hit with a question that you have no domain or technical knowledge of. I don't want to say "idk" or "can you give me hint".

If anyone struggles with the same bad habits, or has advice to overcome these weak points please share!

next quiz will be 100 trust

In short: I have a pretty 9/10 larped-up LinkedIn, but to anyone who's actually worth their salt, it's only 4/10 skillwise (it's basically all larped-up GPT wrapper apps + some Fullstack SWE internships).

I wanted to try my hand at making a startup so I made a simple LinkedIn page and added it to my experience section. Note: it doesnt even have a website yet; there is NO evidence that it rlly exists.

Since then, I've been getting 1.5 emails/week from random company's DM-ing me on linkedin. I'm just wondering if this is the normal frequency of outreach emails for a larped-up situation like this. For ppl who have founded smth or larped founding smth, how many emails were yall getting related to that?

Also, I got an email from nextcanada.com asking to apply to their upcoming batch of NEXT 36. I've never heard of them before, so I'm highly skeptical that I actually have an "impressive profile", and more think it might lowk be an email address farm. I just wanna make sure I'm not actually being rlly gullible and giving my details out to contact into farms.

1A math here, applying to tech roles for summer. pretty much every OA i get i pass and then get an interview, so that part's been fine. but almost all of them feel like auto sends, and outside that i'm just getting rejected everywhere

starting to think it's the 2031 on my resume getting me filtered out. could also be that i'm just bad lol but the OA to interview part has been working so idk

anyone deal with this as a first year? did changing how you list your grad date to like 2030 help or nah

Hii!! I’m currently taking BIOL 130, and our first midterm is on October 20. I was wondering if anyone who’s taken the course before could share their experience.

How difficult did you find the midterm? Were the questions mostly based on memorization, or were they more conceptual and application-based? I’m especially wondering if there were questions involving experimental scenarios, predicting outcomes, or connecting different concepts.

Also, what study methods worked best for you? Were the lecture slides and practice questions enough, or would you recommend using other resources?

I’m trying to prepare as effectively as possible, so any advice about the difficulty, question styles, or things you wish you’d known beforehand would be really appreciated.

Thank youuu!!

Hello my fellow students, I have been searching high and low for fantuan and I’m wondering if anywhere here sells it. I shall insert a photo.

Yes ik we’re getting m4 soon but MC will always be my goat. Hopefully a waterloo alumni worked on the new roadster idk what else to say

Hi, Is it necessary to include an activity that demonstrates my soft skills on my resume, or can I include a Python project instead, even if it isn’t related to actuarial science?

to anyone in jt course rn or in the past, is the modelling kit worth it?

guys im so stressed how was it last yr if i do his unit reviews will i be ok 😢

Just failed my recent quiz and I studied a decent amount but when the quiz comes I get absolutely horrible, I really need some help from people who are actually scoring well my weakness is literally the short answer questions and MC T/F.

Hey everyone, I'm a first-year CS student at Waterloo looking to build some solid projects for my resume before applying to co-ops.

For those of you who have landed a CS co-op, what projects did you have on your resume that helped you stand out? I'm especially interested in projects that actually made a difference in getting interviews, rather than just being another basic CRUD app or tutorial project.

Would also appreciate knowing what tech stack you used, how long the projects took, and whether they helped you land interviews at bigger tech companies or startups.

Thanks!

i’m currently in first year math honours and am taking 13# for both of my maths and cs courses. just last week i had a quiz for all three classes and did really bad one all of them. my averages before these quizzes were all 90+.

i scored 50% on 135, 65% on 137 and 52% on cs. my electives are fine rn but idk what should i do about these grades bc i need at least 60 to take the next courses in 1B. i’m aware that i’m pretty far from a 60 but i feel like im losing confidence in the classes seeing how much time and effort i put into studying for the quizzes.

i have another 137 quiz on monday and my 135 midterm on Wednesday. any recommendations or tips?