[UofT Engineers] What's your frosh group

[mystro]

Inquiring minds wish to know ;)

[TheFuteballer]

I'm a gamma but it really doesn't make a difference... its only for the races I believe..

and don't try to stick to just your group.. mingle with everyone else too!!!

[mystro]

I'm a gamma but it really doesn't make a difference... its only for the races I believe..

and don't try to stick to just your group.. mingle with everyone else too!!!

Actually
you will be with your group most of the time during the first few days. IF you seperate from your group you're liable to lose them because every group does something else at a different time, so I wouldn't recommend it toooooo much.

You can mingle with other groups and I do infact recommend it, but it's usually more fun if you stick with your group. Many of my good friends today are the ones I was in a frosh group with first year :)

P.S. gamma rocks ;)

[Oblivious]

Actually
you will be with your group most of the time during the first few days. IF you seperate from your group you're liable to lose them because every group does something else at a different time, so I wouldn't recommend it toooooo much.

You can mingle with other groups and I do infact recommend it, but it's usually more fun if you stick with your group. Many of my good friends today are the ones I was in a frosh group with first year :)

P.S. gamma rocks ;)

:lol: ..i was a Gamma..but then I drifted away into Beta ;) There were so little people that actually stayed in Gamma..seemed too small to begin with :P

[ch1nkyfl1p]

i'm in lambda =). what's up with frosh week though? we start classes on the thursday and we have the evaluation on wednesday morning? how was hart house farm in the past..seems fun but also $$..thanks in advance for any help and apologies for the questions =).

[TheFuteballer]

yeah study REAL hard for the evaluation! It's a review of ALLL of high school and its REALLY HARD :lol:

[Eyies]

You can really interchange your FROSH groups they don't care. As for the evaluation, you should know your grade 12 material off by heart. The test doesn't "really" affect anything, but is noted on your transcript, so you probably want to do well. Materials covered include all grade 12 maths, and mostly physics. In addition there are some 1st year engineering included with topics such as Integration, Statics calculations (Force, equilibrium, Moments), and Dynamics calculations (Moment of inertia, General Kinematics, Angular Momentum and Impulse etc, all done within the 3 different frames of reference)

Don't overstress, but it is noted on your transcript, at least try to nail the grade 12 components, and as for the 1st year material, see if you can do some readings of the textbooks, and crunch a few basic formulas. When I did it, calculator (the basic sorts listed on UofT Eng site was permitted) and as far as I remember, no formulas were provided. Marks were awarded both steps + final answer as in high school.

It is absolutely mandatory to attend this by the way, the people who don't go to frosh make this evaluation up at a later date but because of the later time, the test is generally harder, so it is in your best interest to go to the FROSH one, else well, you take the harder one. Best of luck!


edit: Oh by the way, the scoring for the evaluation is similar to GPA using a point system, with anything above 85 being 4.0 . I'm not sure if this is true, but I have heard instances of people having "low" marks for PEY but they have taken this score into account and let him proceed, or vice versa (with moderate marks, but exceedingly low score on this evaluation). I believe PEY is the only thing which this evaluation "may" effect.

[astrix]

heh woo frosh!
i'll be a leader this year so if you wanna meet up w/ an RFD'er
JOIN PHI (not that i'm avertising it)

but make sure you PARTICIPATE you will meet friends that WILL help YOU in skule.

[Oblivious]

And it would also help if you learned how to integrate in high school...

I know some high schools like mine did while others didn't so you'd be better off reading the first 6 chapters of any Calculus textbook.

Good luck, and represent your high school!

[PlayerOne]

meet lots of people, and don't stick to your group, just cuz you're assigned to a group doesn't mean a thing they don't take attendance or whatever; they don't care

just meet people in your group, once you've met a few, found out what faculty they're in, got a little friendly with them, go ahead and follow another group, meet more people, friends are very helpful in your first year, cuz it'll be tough adapting to the new style of schooling, you'll need friends to help each other out and get through first year

[mystro]

:lol: ..i was a Gamma..but then I drifted away into Beta ;) There were so little people that actually stayed in Gamma..seemed too small to begin with :P

I was in delta during first year, then in psi in second year and in gamma this year

gamma still rocks :)

:P

[f00kie]

To the froshies... enjoy those few days while you can.

Oh, and yes, do study for the test that they give you at the beginning. They test for how well you try to understand and solve the problem. Obviously, you have to know some basics (well, all of the material from high school), but since you're in Engineering, they expect you know more. They don't expect you to do integration with several variables yet, but they'd like to see how you might go about solving such a problem.

Make sure you read each question carefully, and work diligently.

Good luck!

[bmw_xperience]

LAME FROSH!!!

LAME NAMES too.. like what happened to AlphaQ (I'll f**k you) and La Tour De PANTS, and other good ones?? LAME!!!

whoever come up with these lame frosh group names have no creativity.

[Eyies]

^ Wasn't AlphaQ a little chant/motto from Alpha group and not a group name? I thought FROSH always used greek alphabet/variables as names. Did you even GO to frosh?

edit: I remember in Sigma they had a pretty dorkified cheer. It was like "HEY SIGMA".. "Come get "sum"!". Haaaaa. Oh well all in good fun.

[astrix]

when did they have different frosh group names? they've always used the greek letters?

[mok86]

i was an OMEGA wooohooo! lol clearly the best group EVER

[Eyies]

when did they have different frosh group names? they've always used the greek letters?

Exactly. -__- BMW can go home, he's probably an artsie that saw us cool engineers running around and doesn't know what he's talking about =)

[laser7500]

I was in delta during first year, then in psi in second year and in gamma this year

gamma still rocks :)

:P

Gamma frosh leader? Me too :D

[mystro]

Gamma frosh leader? Me too :D

well then we only have a short list to guess the names ;)

[astrix]

phi leaderr

[ch1nkyfl1p]

anyone go to the orientation session tonight? sort of useless. out of about 120ppl there...maybe 20 girls? haha..1/6. better get used to being the minority =).

[Eyies]

^ I remember going to those in my first year.. pretty garbage, although it is amusing seeing a lot of people go crazy and actually take notes in the orientation. I just remember them bashing and basically doing the pecking order of ENG SCI > EE/COMP > REST.. for the maths anyways. Good fun =).

[TheFuteballer]

there was an orientation session tonight!? WTH.. i heard nothing of this... where did you hear from?

[ch1nkyfl1p]

there was an orientation session tonight!? WTH.. i heard nothing of this... where did you hear from?

hahha..we got emails from the engr ppl and it was in the first year book they sent us. no worries though, nothing much. they gave us the general exam scheds (may 11 for ES&P?) and took any questions. if you want to go to one it's still not to late. go register for tom night's.

[eightyeight]

WTF?!?

This is an actual test?? I thought it was one of those fun tests or something.. Considering it is in the middle of frosh week I assumed it would be more fun than hard...

Are there people who didn't know about this/simply didn't study and bombed the test in previous years?? I don't remember much from G. 12 Physics.. It was first semester last year :S:S

[astrix]

WTF?!?

This is an actual test?? I thought it was one of those fun tests or something.. Considering it is in the middle of frosh week I assumed it would be more fun than hard...

Are there people who didn't know about this/simply didn't study and bombed the test in previous years?? I don't remember much from G. 12 Physics.. It was first semester last year :S:S

u shouldn't worry too much, they have a quick lecture monday night to prep u for it. going through some of hte questions. major hint dropping if i reemmber from my frosh year

[alienas]

Im in Beta (first year)...so there's acutually calculations on the evaluations?!?!?!? Damn, I dont remember anything at all!

[Eyies]

Im in Beta (first year)...so there's acutually calculations on the evaluations?!?!?!? Damn, I dont remember anything at all!

Do a quick brush up with your notes from high school =). Ideally you might wanna look into 1st year stuff a bit though.. but yes, some people have bombed it because they didn't know of it. The evaluation doesn't affect much though, but it is noted on your transcript (I think for PEY sometimes they consider it).

[simms]

4th year chemmie, 3rd year of being a leader...

it's gonna be a fun time guys... shame most of you can't drink yet though. :D

the test is just an example of how bad the exams will be... just study hard, prepare and most of you will be OK.

[cless]

Yeah froshies advice: study well for the exam that you'll hear about, it's pretty significant, prepare lot's beforehand and you should be ok, don't forget to attend the prep class for it too. Don't forget to go early cause it will be ppaacked, and do stay cause usually they give out the most important hints at the end.

[laser7500]

Its also a good idea to draw diagrams whenever they could be helpful - they'll make your answers clearer for the markers and help you figure out the question.

[blarg]

anyone go to the orientation session tonight? sort of useless. out of about 120ppl there...maybe 20 girls? haha..1/6. better get used to being the minority =).

Did they mention how many people in the previous year (0T9) dropped out? or like the percent of them that did?

[simms]

Did they mention how many people in the previous year (0T9) dropped out? or like the percent of them that did?

The numbers are in the calendar...

[blarg]

The numbers are in the calendar...

....calendar? link?

[ch1nkyfl1p]

first year calendars are up! friday off @ 12 =). no stats were given that night about drop out rates.

[laser7500]

Well, essentially 1/3 of engscis either voluntarily switch out, are forced out to a different engineering, or fail.

[eightyeight]

first year calendars are up! friday off @ 12 =). no stats were given that night about drop out rates.

yea me too! are you first year mech eng??

also, does anyone know how i can find out who my profs are this year?
i printed my sched off of rosi, but i don't know how to see whos teaching my courses??

thx in advance

[Thantos]

Ah, Silly Frosh... Haha I remember when I was one. Now we own you! And for all those that care to know..

NSCI RULES!!

[ch1nkyfl1p]

yea me too! are you first year mech eng??

also, does anyone know how i can find out who my profs are this year?
i printed my sched off of rosi, but i don't know how to see whos teaching my courses??

thx in advance

haha...sorries, i'm in chemeng =). you can check the engineering website and look at the course timetable and find your profs...still sort of confused about the lecture, practs and tutorial sections though...

[bananaman]

Yea, definately study for that test. I know a few people who bombed it and were demoted to Mineral Engineering.

[bananaman]

Also one more thing, we have an Engineering dragonboat team and are having a successful summer, heading to our final regatta of the year at Ontario Place to defend our Education Cup title two weekends from now. Visit us at http://dragonboat.skule.ca . We will be looking for hard-working and eager rookies when tryouts start later this year or early next year.

Why am I telling you this now?
If you have no plans for the following summer, join our team! However, being named to next year's team will be very competitive and is recommended that you start increasing your fitness level before tryouts are officially underway. Plus, it's a crapload of fun to paddle and socialize with your teammates. I found my two years with the team more memorable than F!rosh.

[mystro]

Well, essentially 1/3 of engscis either voluntarily switch out, are forced out to a different engineering, or fail.

very few people are forced out all together
most people switch out on their own accord :)

[knight]

when I did that test nobody even cared. the questions were hard and we had the band (aka bnad) come and play music in the middle of the test so it was a joke alltogether . how do you even know how well you did on that test? where does it say your mark ?
keep in mind i am comp eng 0T7 so things might have changed

[slpr]

wassup everyone, beta woot!

oh and about the test on wednesday, i dont see any mention of a prep class in the frosh info package i got a few weeks ago

if anyone can clarify this it would be greatly appreciated, thanks

cant wait till frosh begins

[ch1nkyfl1p]

when I did that test nobody even cared. the questions were hard and we had the band (aka bnad) come and play music in the middle of the test so it was a joke alltogether . how do you even know how well you did on that test? where does it say your mark ?
keep in mind i am comp eng 0T7 so things might have changed

haha..the uoft admin ppl aresuch liars. we asked at the first orientation session if the exam was going to be marked and if it'd affect anything. they said a definite no. guess they want to test you for what you remember?

[astrix]

wassup everyone, beta woot!

oh and about the test on wednesday, i dont see any mention of a prep class in the frosh info package i got a few weeks ago

if anyone can clarify this it would be greatly appreciated, thanks

cant wait till frosh begins

on the frosh website orientation.skule.ca under shedule
there's a tutorial on monday arond 7

[slpr]

alright found it, thanks a lot

[gstrgreg]

alright found it, thanks a lot
good luck on the test froshies..
i guess the important thing to remember is that though MOST people get murdered, those who prepare thoroughly can do quite well

[hugejazz]

I didn't read the entire thread.

But here's a tip. JOIN DELTA because Delta frosh group has the ””” sorority to back them up in any race.

Last year there was a fundraising competition, and ””” cheerleaders helped the Delta frosh. Plus Delta also has a wicked chant.

If you don't like Delta, just join the group with the most energetic leaders. Don't stray off by yourself, or you will lose your hardhat.

[hugejazz]

And about the High School Evaluation Testing during frosh week, you must go to the tutorials beforehand if you want to do well.

The test is important, for it determines your APS teams and tutorial diffculty. It also gives the profs a rough idea of where to start the course (because some years are stupider than others :( ).

[strwbry_joyce]

hey ....im in sigma....
cant wait till frosh starts....
anyone here in eng sci???

o btw wat kind of things are on the evaluation thng???

[laser7500]

hey ....im in sigma....
cant wait till frosh starts....
anyone here in eng sci???

o btw wat kind of things are on the evaluation thng???
It covers a wide range of stuff - its a good idea to go to the tutorial to see what would be covered.

Also, eng sci eh? I'll send you a PM about books :D