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[Kuraudo]

I was new to Smash and didn't quit after getting the business from Carl.

 

[t3h Icy]

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[x After Dawn x]

Never

Ever

Ever.

I call it the engineer inflation theory. 70% of people I know want to be engineers. There will be a lack of engineering jobs. Not only that, but if you haven't noticed, there really isn't much left in this world to develop. I understand engineering smaller things, like chem and whatnot, but large scale engineers are obsolete now, the only large scale productions we should be doing is vertical. We've already f*cked nature over pretty bad here.

Victor is right that you're too young, I think it's pretty safe to say you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.

 

[victra♥]

lol Riley. Even then, civil engineering splits into so many specialized disciplines. For the most part, a lot of them have a lot more to do with sustaining, planning and regulating infrastructure etc than designing and developing. Pretty much everything Tyson has said. Even then, on the topic of "larger scale" development, there's the future lrt expansion which is planned to spiderweb across the city, integrating itself into the suburbs, downtown, etc. It's in the planning stages atm (with a few about to undergo development like the kingsway station etc). The project isn't set to complete until 2040 and by then there's going to be a huge need for engineers of all disciplines as by then many engineers will have retired.

but yeah

civil engineering is only a small slice of the pie

plus, 70% of the people you know want to be engineers, but 90% of those people won't make it =P

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

civil engineering is the sexiest slice of the pie though.

freaking the engineering faculty.

they always tell you in 1st year to look at the person on your left, and on your right. then that only 1 of you 3 will make it to the next year lol.

This is classic. It must be traditional for them haha.

 

[T-block]

only because you encompass env e

comp e is defs not the sexiest slice of the pie

 

[victra♥]

CivE technically includes mining and petro as well. I hate those 2 disciplines though. The most unlegit engineering degrees ever. Everyone in mining seems like a douche lmao.

LOOOOOL i'm actually jealous of compE. I really wish I was exposed to it as an earlier time or if i was just naturally good at programming. I personally think its the best discipline. (and ultra sexy even with the extreme lack of women.)

 

[Jams.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilMblBjoRz0&feature=aso
they always tell you in 1st year to look at the person on your left, and on your right. then that only 1 of you 3 will make it to the next year lol.

In first year I will wave goodbye to the person on my left, then wave goodbye to the person on my right, because I want them to know that only one of us will make it to next year.

Also, who plays LoL here again? Add DumberChild if you want to kick my ***. Please and thank you! =D

Someone will purposefully interpret my pompous joke wrong.

 

[Sraigux]

Yeah, totally saw engineers as stereotypical blueprint builders xD

Thanks for clarifying it for me you guys

the much larger engineering side is to regulate and continue the process of the engineering tasks. engineers who take care of process plants are retiring, who are going to take over to continue monitoring, maintaining, and regulating the plant? future engineers.

Oh, I didn't take this into account. You are totally right though, maintenance is a huge part.

I still stand about new developments. Most of them are pretty dumb. Although environmentally friendly stuff such as the LRT and building vertically is cool.

CivE technically includes mining and petro as well. I hate those 2 disciplines though. The most unlegit engineering degrees ever. Everyone in mining seems like a douche lmao.

Yea, that sounds stupid. They probably are douches who made their uni money in fort mac >.>

Victor is right that you're too young, I think it's pretty safe to say you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.

More of a clue than your drunk smashboards posts

 

[T-block]

tbh i don't know much about mining and petro. i do think it's odd they get their own discipline though.

compE....meh. i bet you'd get sick of programming fast

 

[Dragonz7]

CivE technically includes mining and petro as well. I hate those 2 disciplines though. The most unlegit engineering degrees ever. Everyone in mining seems like a douche lmao.

Oddly enough, mining had a really good if not the best presentation in ENGG 100/101 Convinced two of my friends to switch from their original discipline and choose mining.

Lols all the petro guy did was make money gesture with his fingers and said they make alot of money over and over again.

 

[victra♥]

sounds about right

 

[FalseFalco]

CivE technically includes mining and petro as well. I hate those 2 disciplines though. The most unlegit engineering degrees ever. Everyone in mining seems like a douche lmao.

LOOOOOL i'm actually jealous of compE. I really wish I was exposed to it as an earlier time or if i was just naturally good at programming. I personally think its the best discipline. (and ultra sexy even with the extreme lack of women.)

I have so many white friends in mining I am not surprised by this statement. I think EE is the most valuable right now. Pretty much nothing in mec e can be done without some kind of electronics . That being said it's so ****ing boring I would not last a day. I'm already ready to blow out my brains taking my intro circuit analysis course.

Oddly enough, mining had a really good if not the best presentation in ENGG 100/101 Convinced two of my friends to switch from their original discipline and choose mining.

Mining had the WORST presentation in my year. They had a laidback 4th year alumni come talk about how he drove a truck for his summer job and he said he wasn't such a great student but "C's get degrees right? haha" at which point the mining chair pretty much pushed him off the mic and said "come out to info night there will be free beer and pizza!" and repeated this over and over. I didn't get any sense of what a mining engineer actually DOES. Petro at least they showed the little vid about mapping out oil reserves and such.

 

[T-block]

circuit analysis gets really fun though. the intro stuff is boring as hell though i agree

 

[victra♥]

i got cooking spices from going to that petro first years night that was pretty sweet

i was thinking of taking EE or Thermo for my tech elective. Any opinions? The other option is mece250 but eff that shiz

 

[Tyson651]

In first year I will wave goodbye to the person on my left, then wave goodbye to the person on my right, because I want them to know that only one of us will make it to next year.

if someone did that to me, i'd punch him in the face. then for sure he won't make it to the next year.

I still stand about new developments. Most of them are pretty dumb.

nowadays, its not really new developments, but more of maximizing efficiency with modifying past developments (or alternative methods than whatever is developed already).

my last work term was development, and i'll say that there's a whole crap load of stuff that still needs to be "developed".

eg. government regulations say that X pollution needs to be reduced by 40% in 2012, 50% in 2013, 60% in 2014.

you're gonna need to be making new developments or increasing efficiency if you wanna stay within the regulations.

i got cooking spices from going to that petro first years night that was pretty sweet

i was thinking of taking EE or Thermo for my tech elective. Any opinions? The other option is mece250 but eff that shiz

E E what and CH E 243?

 

[victra♥]

In first year I will wave goodbye to the person on my left, then wave goodbye to the person on my right, because I want them to know that only one of us will make it to next year.

loloolol

E E what and CH E 243?

I think just the intro course. 230? I'm not sure.

 

[FalseFalco]

nowadays, its not really new developments, but more of maximizing efficiency with modifying past developments (or alternative methods than whatever is developed already).

SUCH A CHEM E THING TO SAY

I'm gonna build a fully functional optimus prime and then you won't know what to say.

 

[victra♥]

lmfaooooo carl.

man i love you so much

Spoiler

you can't build an optimus prime without knowing electronics :trollface:

 

[Alphicans]

Soooooo...... Reading this poem is pretty cool guys.

=D

 

[T-block]

boooooooooooooo

 

[Frio]

Soooooo...... Reading this poem is pretty cool guys.

=D

Im so proud

 

[Tyson651]

SUCH A CHEM E THING TO SAY

I'm gonna build a fully functional optimus prime and then you won't know what to say.

lolol that would be amazing if you built one.

probably take your whole life though.

 

[Jams.]

Quick question, do you have to take English first year if you're in Eng?

 

[x After Dawn x]

nope just second year

 

[T-block]

depends on the discipline. compE's take it third year, for example.

this is u of a of course...not sure how u of c does it

 

[victra♥]

yeah i'm taking it third year as well. it depends

all that matters is that theres only 1.

 

[x After Dawn x]

if i transfer to engg then i don't have to take any english courses :3

 

[T-block]

I ****ING CAUGHT A SHINY PIDOVE **** YESSSsss

 

[Imagination]

sound engineerings a pretty cool guy. I get to listen to music and doesn't afraid of anything.
Also I get to use a dope studio
check this shiz

 

[FalseFalco]

is that all filters and stuff or is it like 15 band EQ for each channel?

 

[victra♥]

...holy mother

edit: lol carl. classic

 

[Sraigux]

What do sound engineers do? Are they like the sound technician guys at concerts and studios?

 

[Imagination]

to be honest I'm not even suposed to use that board yet, not until after i pass a test next year, however I have used it a little bit. Those pot dials are just things like gain, pan, compressor, and stuff like that. you can just pull up an eq on the sequencer and it'll assign it to the mixer with a couple buttons. If you wanna check it out more its an SSL Duality, its pretty sick the studio costed ~1.3mil and is brand new this year. I checked it out last summer and it wasn't even built yet. I'm stuck using a not so great studio until I can take that test, its only like 16 channels and the isolation room isn't even properly soundproofed haha.

What do sound engineers do? Are they like the sound technician guys at concerts and studios?

Sound engineering basically could do anything involving sound depending on where you would want to go with it. In my first semester I programmed a synthesizer doing whatever I wanted, I've wrote some music, I've played some music, I've recorded, mixed, mastered (too a certain degree lol) I'm working on the pregame to designing some speakers at the moment. and in classes i've been recording live performances of classical ****.

 

[Sraigux]

That actually sounds like the most bad*ss degree ever.

 

[SWEET BRO]

thanks for ignoring me at marlborough mall today allan

 

[sleak-]

allan dragonzed you

 

[victra♥]

calgary implementing the dragonz combo

 

[SWEET BRO]

i call out to him while he's talking to some ho, he looks at me



and says what


then turns back to the *****

 

[Dragonz7]

Sounds like something i would do.

Except i wouldn't have even acknowledged you. =(

 

[victra♥]

i call out to him while he's talking to some ho, he looks at me



and says what


then turns back to the *****

loool

get mach'd up