Neoxphuse just reinforcing the stereotype

I say this based on feedback from other people who have done it already.

Yes, UBC is ranked as one of the best schools in UBC. My issue is the teaching. All I ever hear is how most teachers there are unapproachable or only have a couple of hours out of the week available for students. How, most of their time is spent on research. How exams are unrelated to the questions that they have faced in class.

And then the class size of 100+ students. I don't know if this is the case for most classes. And I guess the other thing is how most universities, SFU also, you have to take 1 year of BS classes that have nothing to do with what you want to do.

I never went to UBC and never applied, it wasn't my first choice. But I'm putting out what others have said to me about it.

welcome to every major university.

you are pretty clueless to put it kindly...

Teachers are unapproachable and only have few office hour? Yea.. because many professors at UBC are world-class researchers and their time is best utilized in research, not in trying to re-teach what's been covered in lecture. Students are supposed to make use of study groups, and TAs.

Most of their time is spent on research? Yea... I would like to see humans make advances in this world. Do you?

If you cannot keep up with the university style of learning, you should attend community colleges where the teacher-to-student ratio is much lower. But even then, if you need a teacher to spoon feed you every single concept, you should reconsider whether advanced education is the right path for you (I mean that with no offence).

Hey man, I've completed my schooling a long time ago. And yeah, as students we pay hard money to being "taught" not so all of the money goes to research, but hey, whatever.

Anyway, I don't really care I'm just putting it out there for discussion, so don't take it so personally. I guess advanced education isn't right for me.

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Nice attempt at backpedaling, buddy. How could you "not get why [we] go to UBC" if you're merely basing it off of other people's feedback.

It's the same idea as, say, if you've initially heard that Michael Jordan is a damn good basketball player, and you've never watched a single one of his games/game play, but then some of your buddies tell you that he sucks. You've just accepted the fact that he sucks, and that's that. Oh and you HAVE watched, say, Steve Nash play, so then you automatically assume he's better than Michael Jordan.

Don't get me wrong, Steve Nash does NOT suck. And UBC is not the MJ of universities. But generally speaking, it's the same logic.... IE dumb-ass logic.

I'm not taking it personally or anything, but if you're gonna start something, you better properly back it up. Hell, at the very least, own up to it.

I don't know what you guys are talking about. I'm in Arts/polisci/geog and pretty much all of my profs are super approachable and open-minded, during lectures or after lectures and even more so during office hours and are totally available to meet outside of office hours too.

Maybe y'all are just taking too many Science courses? Or we're just talking to a bunch of engineers here :troll:

I grabbed beers a while back with two of my comp sci profs (although it was a faculty drinking night out). BibleThump

Hi UBC crew,

Coming from Langara's Computer Science. I was accepted to the Arts program but want to do internal transfer into the Computer Science program.

Just wanted to get an idea how difficult the level 1 and 2 computer science courses are at UBC. I'd be walking in with a 3.2 GPA but I'm rlly afraid of my GPA getting tanked if the CompSci courses are rlly difficult.

What's class average like and what did you manage to achieve? Is getting B or above extremely difficult?

Thanks peeps

You can do Comp Sci through Arts, it's the same thing (you can do co-op and same req courses). As for 1st year and 2nd year courses theres: {110, 210} that are the actual programming/creating stuff courses, {121,221,213} that are more of the algorithms and design courses.

Now for me personally, I did terrible in my first year courses in general but looking back 110 and 121 weren't too bad. If you do homework and keep up with things (even if u don't understand 100% of the stuff) you can pull off A-s easily. (I got Bs cause I was dumb)

As for second year, it comes down to a) your interest and b) your profs.
I was into creating shit so I aced 210 ( got an A) but 221 (algorithms) I got destroyed and barely managed to pass due to the prof being ridiculously hard (Class avg was around 61).

Now to answer your question in general, a 3.2 is good and getting a B or above is certainly not difficult. I've noticed that class averages hover around 70+ as I got into 3rd year. But definitely you have to keep an eye out for some profs, you'll hear some names (aka Wolfman, Patrice etc etc) that are the hard profs and generally it may be a good idea to avoid them.

If you want to check class averages theres a site for that. https://webprd01.pair.ubc.ca/reports...request.action
Or google Pair grade distribution ubc. You need your CWL login.

If ya need to know more, holla. Hope to see u on campus in Jan when I get back LOL

Hey bro, thanks for taking the time to write that up for me! I'll make sure to grab you a beer sometime if I decide on UBC :chairdance:

830am graduation earlier today... I'm done! :victory:

^congrats!

Congratulations man. I will be graduating in May 2016.

Anyone checked out the new sub yet? Seen a bunch of photos taken by friends and it looks amazing!

Going tomorrow to pick up my compass, stoked to try out the new food places/pubs

How was it :alonehappy:?

Also, any interest in a weekly evening car meet? I noticed the SFU kids are trying to start their Monday night meets back up. I'm sure there are a few of us lurking around who aren't on here as well since I often see some tastefully modded and otherwise just great looking cars (excluding the exotics) around. Might be worth organizing something, maybe not in the parkades since that costs money but perhaps a weekly Spanish Banks thing? I'd be happy to organize it as well!

It's really nice, friggin' huge. But........ no escalators and you gotta use stairs LOL
Most of the food places aren't open yet, but I tried the thai place. It's good and service was nice (this is before regular semester so take this review with a grain of salt).

On the other hand I just wanna say fuck the compass. I can't believe we are being forced to use this shit. Takes forever to get on the bus, I can't imagine how it will be during rush hour for non-99 buses that don't have all door boarding.

Try the ramen from the new moon. I saw all the chefs eating it during lunch so obviously they think it's good. The pad Thai is legit too.

Got trolled by UBC so hard, super choked. Got an acceptance email for polisci major this morning, got another email saying they made a mistake and sent it to the wrong person and that my application hasn't been reviewed yet.

WTF pulling an SFU on me.

:alone:

Got accepted into the Dietetics major, which means I'm tacking on 3 more years to my degree. However, its typically a masters level program in other parts of Canada so I can't really complain

7 year undergrad squad assemble :rukidding:

Congrats!!! aren't you like 1 of 3? 4? guys LOL that seems to be the case for Dietetics every year.

Congrats!

From our FB group (so far has 20 people out of 32 or 33) theres already 6 guys! Most ever :accepted:

Aaaaand so after being accepted into Political Science and that being a mistake, I have now been declined.

:pokerface:

:facepalm:

Sigh, off to the Arts Advisor...

Also no one in the polisci department replies to emails...