General Updates for the past week

Finally got connected to internet at the new residence. It's been quite a while since I have updated. so let's back track a little bit.

School has already started here. UTC has lots of courses to choose from so it's not a problem of finding the one that you would be interested in. The problem for me was finding the equivalences. After the research, I have chosen:

Processing of biomedical data
Introduction to Industrial Design
Numerical Methods
Microprocessor, and Interface
International Economy
French

This is the best I can do right now considering I had no warning that the control course was not offered this term. :( and hopefully they will be give the correct course credit when I take them back to Canada.

There was also a biomed imaging course that I really wanted to take, but it conflicted with the numerical methods course...I guess you can never have it all right?

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The system here is rather nice I find. For the first week the time schedule is packed with lectures from EVERY course that is offered this term, no tutorials. If you don't like the courses you have chosen based on the course description, you can change it later; On the same token, if you happen to find one that interests you after attending the introductory lecture, you can add it into your enrollment as well.

Lectures are rather difficult to understand because the profs speaks really fast. I can understand at best may br 60 % of the materials... hopefully things will pick up soon. There are seems to be projects for every course, and oral presentations in the end (all in french!) I dont expect a light term.

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I also found out that in fact the link between Waterloo and Compiegne is quite strong. When I went to UTC to inquire about the equivalent course for Control at the place of course inscription. when I mentioned that I am from the university of Waterloo, a senior professor immediately mentioned that he had actually worked closely with Professor Jernigan for quite a while in the past, and said he had really enjoyed the experience.

I was of course pleasantly surprise to see that Waterloo indeed does have a pretty strong reputation! :D

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Among all the cool ppls I met, there was one french kid David who is young but doing already doing some impressive work. He's only in his first year of university but he has been working on building his own cockpit for quite while now. The cockpit is a full scale structure, including all the control panels, display screens of a real airplane. He's also fully licensed to fly a small plane. He also told me that he really wanted to be a pilot in the future. I am quite impressed that he had already figured out what he wanted to do, considering that I am still poundering on what I wanted with my life...

I found UTC has a lot of courses that are geared towards specific careers. It's a nice feature for the people who have already figured out what they want out of their careers. A different system indeed.