Massive pickets at my uni!

[KrazyHorse]

Hey asher: go look at only english universities.

Might tell you something...

[Asher]

I don't know where to find that, I just stumbled across these graphs doing some googling.

[KrazyHorse]

And tuition freezes don't seem to have hurt McGill as the most recognised Canadian university down south...

[KrazyHorse]

Seriously, though: the difference in Quebec probably has a lot to do with the fact that a french-language degree just isn't as valuable as an english-language one. You can't get a job outside Quebec (in NA) with a degree taken in french...

[Asher]

Originally posted by Frogger
And tuition freezes don't seem to have hurt McGill as the most recognised Canadian university down south...

McGill is the most recognised?

I thought Waterloo would be up there.

Waterloo is definitely up there for computers and engineering (and math?), way higher than McGill.

Microsoft, for instance, hires more graduates from Waterloo than any other specific institution in the world. And Waterloo consistently wins or places 2nd in the ACM Olympics each year, McGill doesn't even crack the finals (40 schools).

[KrazyHorse]

Waterloo is definitely up there for computers and engineering (and math?), way higher than McGill.

Waterloo's better for engineering, but McGill still gets more recognition. It also has 10 times more foreign students than any other Canadian university. And they don't pay 2500$ a year like I did...

[Asher]

Originally posted by Frogger
Seriously, though: the difference in Quebec probably has a lot to do with the fact that a french-language degree just isn't as valuable as an english-language one. You can't get a job outside Quebec (in NA) with a degree taken in french...

That's probably true.
I was surprised at the disparity though, especially between Central and Western Canada.

[Az]

Wow, your TAs sure take strikes very seriously.

We just go to the lectures, and don't go to the TA classes.

woohoo. more time in the Cafeteria.

They usually compromise, or something.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Azazel
We just go to the lectures, and don't go to the TA classes.

I've never gone to the TA classes (we call them "labs" at my uni) aside from one this term.

The TA is actually hot (this is compsci, do you know how rare this is!) and she's actually very very useful and the prof is very very bad. I go to the TA classes and not the actual prof lectures.

All the other TAs just mark papers. And it's not like it's hard to mark anyway...

[notyoueither]

You've done it, so you'd know, eh Asher?

[Ramo]

I'm no scab.

Besides, I might have that job in a couple years.

Well, I might screw the picket if there were some sort of test that day.

[Asher]

Originally posted by notyoueither
You've done it, so you'd know, eh Asher?

I'd know what's involved in marking the papers. I get them back.

Here's how computer science programs are marked: Students submit electronically using the "submit" program. Makes a neat directory with all of a student's information.

The TA runs the program with a specified data set with a scripting program.

If the output is correct, 100%.
If not, they look at the code and check off which functions you have and which you don't. Marks deducted according to legend made by prof.
Enter into database, hit okay.

Seeing as the average TA here has 2 labs with about 20 people each, that's 40 programs. And they usually take about 2 weeks to mark them.

[Asher]

And I'm qualified to TA any 200-level CPSC course (intro courses), provided I wanted to. Grad students are only required for 2nd year on, undergrads can TA 1st year courses if they had an A in them.

[notyoueither]

Try reading 300 papers written by people who seem barely literate and only obliquely aquainted with the topic of the course. Kind of like grading the average thread at Apolyton, but at 10 pages per post.

[Asher]

I thought you knew my stance on the social sciences.