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Just stay away from the bridge in the winter, and you'll be fine.
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Peterborough is the coldest place I've ever been to. We have massive windchills where some nights in the winter it gets to about -40 celsius. You get used to it though and soon enough you'll be wearing shorts outside the first day that is able to break the freezing mark. lol
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.

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I'm used to ALWAYS being able to wear shorts.

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-40?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

JESUIT CRUSTACEAN.

The school better be good.
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But but
MCGILL!
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it depends on your major... what are you planning on studying?
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.

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J-Neli wrote:I'm saddened by the lack of Trent applications...
it was on my list...then i just removed it, lol
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if I could do it all over again I would pick a bigger school like U of T. I came to Trent because it was small, I knew Peterborough very well and liked the city, and they have one of the top psych programs in Canada. Now that I'm double majoring, thinking of Politics has my focus, I think I would have picked a school that offered more politics courses and had a large number of foreign students, or ethnic students. What I get is hippy white kids preaching about how the oil companies are evil, which is not what I want.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.

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That's what you'd get at McGill, too.
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I was at a smaller university before, not I'm at a large one. Switching to a more medium one. I like bigger though, I don't know why.
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My buddy goes to UfT and he's all like "they treat you like a number." But w/e he's a first year student, that's expected.
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Sure, "they" treat you like a number. That happens almost anywhere.

Just pick a professor or two that you really like, and go up to them after a lecture and strike up a conversation, try to make a connection. They're not going to make an effort to get to know every one of the thousands of students at the school, you've got to do it yourself.
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^:nod: But they respect you more for making the effort, and remember your effort and face when it comes grade time.
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For first and at least second year courses here the profs only lecture. They don't do any marking unless there is a problem with the marking the TA does. Some profs lead seminars but a lot of times it is grad students.
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here the seminars are all run by TA's and the marking is generally divided between the TAs and the prof.
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hm yeah i hate thinking about unis but i slowly have to
and i dont have the slightest fucking clue about where to go.
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Cracky wrote:When the time comes, I will apply to trent. Pray I get in, and then rejoice. However i might die in the cold. Is it cold? I am used to 5 degree winters, keep in mind :D
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i feel your pain sarah
i really do
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Sinead, almost anyone can get in to Trent. I think the admissions cut-off is something like 70%, but rumour is they may raise this to 75%. This is only cause Trent is trying to redefine itself and give itself a better public reputation to match its reputation in the scholarly world as being one of the top research schools in Canada (it was actually named top research school for 2 years in a row now)
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.

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dude, we don't even have TA's at my university. Only professors, pretty much all of which have their PhD's. Oh and my biggest class is probably like, 40 students.
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Even I got into Trent and I never went to school and I filled out my application with pencil crayons and they weren't even sharp!
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