OMG:
The people running O-Week this year have no idea what they're doing. Waterloo is running O-Week into the ground and making it too academic, too "inclusive", afraid of stepping on anyone's toes and making it as boring as possible. Being a leader this year really sucks.
The people running O-Week this year have no idea what they're doing. Waterloo is running O-Week into the ground and making it too academic, too "inclusive", afraid of stepping on anyone's toes and making it as boring as possible. Being a leader this year really sucks.
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Tuesday, September 4.
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September 4, 2012 at 11:27 PM
STFU YOU DRUNKARD F*CK HOLE.....every year more students want more academic stuff in o-week....and I don't know about anyone else but I don't think the university should be risking alienating any student who would take their 40000+ tuition somewhere else...just so you can hang out and party during o-week....and you don't like being a leader...GO THE F*CK HOME...no one forcing you to be here.
September 5, 2012 at 12:03 AM
couldn't agree with you more op. blame the sso. spending millions of dollars on making things worse
September 5, 2012 at 12:54 AM
Cross Campus leaders are useless this year and are full of themselves. They need to give back the events to the separate faculties. But yes. I regret being a leader this year.
September 5, 2012 at 1:21 AM
agree with op. this school puts so much emphasis on inclusive shit turns boring.
September 5, 2012 at 1:29 AM
^OP, reposting several times doesn't mean you right. Orientation is actually very well done this year.
September 5, 2012 at 1:48 AM
Cross campus is dumb and unification is dumb. Let us keep our separate orientations.
September 5, 2012 at 2:19 AM
@5, 4 here. definitely not op.
(though that's what op would say)
September 5, 2012 at 11:07 AM
I don't see how making something inclusive is a bad thing.
Please explain.
September 5, 2012 at 11:25 AM
With a shitty attitude like that, no wonder you're having a bad time. It has nothing to do with inclusiveness or academic events.
September 5, 2012 at 11:31 AM
Want to do something about it? Organize a re-frosh week next year for upper years. You'll find most of the leaders will actually want to go to that, rather than leading. The result will either be that the SSO will start listening to its leaders about what sucks about frosh week, or you'll have a better party elsewhere.
September 5, 2012 at 11:47 AM
Oh man, I agree with you. It's so academic, that I think they should just forget about o-week in general. Skip orientation, start school on September 1st, and while we're at it, entirely remove things like Spring Break. Keeps things so academic that we will have no choice but to study!
IMAGINE THAT. GOING TO UNIVERSITY TO study. It's like we didn't go to Laurier or York or something.
Keep classy Waterlo0o0o0o0o0, Keep classy.
September 5, 2012 at 12:44 PM
which faculty?
September 5, 2012 at 3:21 PM
@11
Eat my fat log of shit.
September 6, 2012 at 7:46 AM
I'm told there's some danger that frosh will actually know where the libraries are at the end of Orientation. This tragedy must be averted! After all, O-week should be aimed squarely at the students who will drop out and go home broke at Christmas.
September 6, 2012 at 10:51 AM
Hi, I am an EE'82 grad (that's 1982, like before the light bulb was invented). I have no idea how frosh week is being run now, but my tiny bit of insight is that academics are only half of what I learned when I went to UW. If you think anything that is non-academic should be tossed, then you are going to miss 50% of your education. Enjoy your time in school -- it goes by quickly.
September 6, 2012 at 3:11 PM
when i was a science frosh 2010, half of my frosh week was about faculty tours were we were lead around like 12yr olds on a field trip to the zoo... and the the other half consisted of loud high school dances with glow sticks.. either of which were actually helpful for networking with other froshs.
i just checked this year's schedule. unfortunately they've only increased the faculty tour/introduction part and shortened the social activities.
September 6, 2012 at 3:15 PM
^^ I Agree totally with OP & 15.
I am a graduate from Waterloo too, and I can guarantee that academics accounts for one of the smaller portions of your success.
You are more successful networking and getting to know people, and having fun with them. Trust me. When you graduate, you will have forgotten half the shit you learned from a book, and most employers need to teach you their way of doing things anyways.
When you're done school, your degree does not and WILL NOT get you a job!!! It is only a tool in your box. It is your personality that takes you further.
Only 2/10 job openings get posted. The other 8/10? Direct referrals. Get to know people and have fun with them, they'll remember you later in life, and opportunities will present themselves.
Since University, every professional job I have gotten has been through a friend. No employer has ever seen my transcript and has any idea what great/terrible marks I have.
September 6, 2012 at 3:56 PM
Speaking as someone "in the know"ish you have noone but the SSO to blame for what will be the demise of frosh week. The problem is student retention and the SSO has been tasked with decreasing the number of frosh who decide they dont want to be here in their first year. The problem is that the only thing they are really given power over is student life 101 and frosh week. The true way to increase retention would be to increase the "give a damn" of profs which they have no power to do. This leaves a group of people who have a job and have to do something to say they are working so they fuck with stuff that works great to try and "improve" it without consulting those who know the system. Give it time as soon you will have an American frosh week (not really a week) which is a terrible system but is different than our current one which means the SSO can argue that "at least were trying"
September 8, 2012 at 2:48 PM
Completely agree with #15 as a UW graduate myself.
Get involved with student unions, network with your classmates, become a frosh leader even. Get to know your classmates and professors. These people just may be your co-workers, or bosses in future years. I received my first real job offer after University only due to networking at UW. Some of the upper-year students I had made friends with ended up helping me get hired onto a fairly good company to work for.