[UofT Engineers] What's your frosh group

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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!!!

Originally Posted by 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!!!

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

Originally Posted by mystro

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

..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'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 =).

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

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.

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.

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!

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

Originally Posted by Oblivious

..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

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!

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.

^ 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.

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