Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell

I've spent the last hour crunching some numbers here. With events heading in this direction, more than ever I want to get into waterloo and that costs money. Lots of money. I did the numbers for tuition & fees, books, costs of renting a room, food, gas money and a little bit extra for some fun and i figure $60,000 in expenses throughout all 4 years there. Of course, me being me, I've worst cased this, which means if I get a good deal on an apartment, good deal on books and gas prices go down, then that's less. But say $60,000 anyways to be on the safe side. Then, I looked at my income for the next 5 years. (One year cegep, four years university assumed). I figured I can make, at $8/hour (which is possible, hell I know people who get more) and working my ass off, around $57500. That's not including my RESP which totals over $12000 I believe. (I think 12000 is the principle plus i get 750$ a year for four years or something like that. Which means another 15000. So after working my ass off for five years (thats at 20 hours a week during school and something like 50 when i'm not) plus an RESP is 72500$. Not bad. And well over the 60000 I think is needed. (Don't you love it when your parents save for you?) This isn't including any scholorships and, looking at them, I think I can get at least one. So it looks like, financially, Waterloo is on!

I was also browsing through their website and I discovered that they accept students out of first year cegep. Which means that I can go after this year, if I have the course requirements.

So what are the course requirements... Advanced Functions and Introductory Calculus, English, Geometry and Discrete Mathematics, and either grade 12 M Computer & Information SCience or one other Grade 12 U course. (this is the Ontario stuff obviously... we don't have grade 12 do we?). In Quebec, this means what then? Mathematics 102 (202 recommended) and Mathematics 105 for the math courses. English is two 603 english courses.As for the last one I have no clue. (I suppose it's just one pre-U science program. What I can't figure out is wtf is MAthematics 102 202 or 105? my math course codes are stuff like 201-NYA-05, 201-NYC-05 and 201-NYB-05. grr! stupid system...

alright, alright, I'm calm. I've got a meeting with the CEGEP tomorrow so maybe I'll find a guidance conselor and ask them about it. 'Cause if I'm taking one of the courses I need in third term or fourth, I want to switch it into first/second term if I can.

Alright, enough about CEGEP and university. It's a year in the future, I've got some time to figure out the course stuff. As for the money well... I plan to start working at the beginning of september, after I see what the course load and homework load is like. All that's going to change is the number of nights I'm avaliable to work... if it's heavy I'll stick to one or two nights/week. If it's fairly light maybe four or five. plus a day on the weekend, maybe even two if there's light homework.

cegep starts a week today. i'm getting really excited. i also really want to get the courses that I need nailed down so I can really focus in them. I know I'll need English but I was never an awful english student... just not a brilliant one. (stupid grammer of mine). If I can't figure it out, I'll just try my best in all the math courses... but Math was always my strong suit. Guess I'm lucky... I'm good at math and I like programming and you need math to do programming. sweet deal really. I'm good at what I like.

I get to take Philosophy and Rationality first term... that's going to be interesting. Can't wait to start confusing my classmates with various discussions on evil. Maybe even my teacher if we get a bad one. and I have gym... *shudder* I really hope I get to do softball. I'm actually good at that. I also get to take a course in a wordprocessing suite... like Word/Excel/Powerpoint/etc/etc/etc. Ha! That is going to be so freaking easy. (It's going to be a slack course that I can cut if I need to probably). Lets see.... whatelse. General Bio I, that's going to be a struggle. Biology was not my favorite course. But I don't really need it so as long as I pull off a passing mark, I'll be good. Cal I... math... well everyone's told me calculus is hard but the basics weren't that hard for me to learn. And General Chemistry. I got lucky... no french! French is next semester... bastards. Why couldn't they put all the french classes in 3/4 so I could just drop them all.

So I'm 28 class hours a week and an estimated 20 hours of homework. still leaves plenty of time for working and playing.

argh... can't wait til I go back to school. This year is goign to be really interesting, I'm hoping they actually start to teach us stuff we can use... not like last year with our BS courses about light...

alright, I'm done on that topic.

Laterz all.

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