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[quote=natalie]aren't you the one who got butthurt because i asked you if you could read? "can you read?" wasn't even me defending canada or taking you seriously. it was a simple, rhetorical question but if it made you sad, i'm deeply sorry rofl[/quote]
Oh, then I must have misinterpreted you explicitly calling me a nationalist, butthurt, and ignorant. You [i]totally ignored[/i] every valid point I made the past few posts, resorted to low-ball comments, unsubtle sarcasm, and continue to do so even now. This argument stemmed from you throwing out false comments, and quoting the comment I had already retracted before your post, yet you don't seem to understand that. I guess I'll just ignore anymore of your inane BS because you're not even willing to offer supporting evidence for your own claims; it's no use arguing with someone who has a mentality of a typical umadbro forum-goer.

This isn't getting us anywhere so please don't reply to this post and we'll continue with our lives. That and our posts are totally unrelated to the OP now.

@Yumtoast: aren't you the one who got butthurt because i asked you if you could read? "can you read?" wasn't even me defending canada or taking you seriously. it was a simple, rhetorical question but if it made you sad, i'm deeply sorry rofl

[quote=NoobCake]What makes one school better than the other? I'm just curious because isn't the education theoretically supposed to be the same, so if you place one individual in a top school and one in a "not so top" school, shouldn't their success be the same for any given program? One's success isn't determined by the school they go to but by the amount of work and effort they put into their studies to achieve their goals, wouldn't you agree?

Just curious.[/quote]
In a perfect world, you'd be right, but every instituion has a different way of teaching curriculum and that always produces different results (this is why people go to UCLA for engineering and not UC Merced). But don't you think the amount of effort a person puts into their studies in high school is their proof of their success? I mean, if we were all hypothetically all hard-working/studious and ended up as 5.0GPA valedictorians, there wouldn't be a need for different tiers of colleges. A person's success isn't determined by the school they go to, but it's a decent indicator; you can't possibly say that Harvard and some random college are equal. If your dream was to be an engineer at Google and you worked your ass off in high school to get into UCSD (average high school GPA of students is over 4.1), I'd say you'd be better off in the future than if you worked your ass off in high school to work hard in SDSU.

I phrased my rebuttal poorly, but I can't really put this in words.

@natalie: I posted links and provided evidence because if you're going to take me seriously, it's only fair if I take this topic seriously. Since you claimed that I was a nationalist like always, that would imply you've [incorrectly] read a solid amount of my posts before. If you've read my posts, you would notice that I offer high-quality posts for high-quality OPs -- low-quality threads get low-quality posts, it isn't limited to this thread. Though I'm making an exception here because your post is relatively low-quality (you couldn't even be bothered to write more than 2 sentences and use punctuation) and I would normally reply back with an awful comment, but I don't feel like extending this argument further so I'm going to try and end it now with a block of text you won't even read. And I'd like to ask why you said that I was a nationalist as always? I'm curious to why you thought that because I rarely post in government and country threads as it is. I just defend America when needed, just like how you defended Canada when I trash-talked it ITT. Go find a thread where I defended America's actions in terms of the Iraq war, the obesity epidemic, health care, etc. Is it wrong to like the country you live in? I spend a good amount of time writing inclusive replies like this, so I'd appreciate it if your reply [if you're going to reply] isn't another name-calling session. People like you that have to start a fight over nothing are so irritating, though I'm exactly that kind of person.

But if you really want me to look like a moron, go find a post where I was being a nationalist like always. Not even I can recall the last time I defended America on Basil, and I didn't even mean for my earlier post ITT to be a USA-flattery post; it's always been a country that's compared with Canada, so I used it as an example.

@Yumtoast: with all the sites, aren't you just proving to me that it wasn't just a joke? i would have ignored your comment but you were being a nationalist for no reason, like you always are

[quote=Yumtoast]You're taking my post way too literally and seriously here. Though I'm not going to complain about that, I'm agitated that you're labeling me as ignorant when it was just a damned joke.

However, if we're actually being serious about the quality of Canadian universities, they [Canada's top universities] pale in comparison to America and UK's top universities. IIRC, only 2 or 3 Canadian universities are on the world's top 100 while America places all over the list; this isn't even a population or country argument, FYI. Please, there's no need for name-calling when this thread wasn't meant to be taken seriously -- it's a prank thread and I shouldn't have to be sh|talked for my posts. You don't see me calling out the person that posted "y u no hav fun" when I mentioned inb4.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Universities
http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/top-400-universities-in-the-world?page=4
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/mar/05/world-top-100-universities-reputation-rankings-times-higher-education[/quote]

What makes one school better than the other? I'm just curious because isn't the education theoretically supposed to be the same, so if you place one individual in a top school and one in a "not so top" school, shouldn't their success be the same for any given program? One's success isn't determined by the school they go to but by the amount of work and effort they put into their studies to achieve their goals, wouldn't you agree?

Just curious.

[quote=natalie]what's the point of editing your post if someone's already quoted your bashing on canadian schools? don't be so ignorant

and i read the first page, did you?[/quote]
You're taking my post way too literally and seriously here. Though I'm not going to complain about that, I'm agitated that you're labeling me as ignorant when it was just a damned joke.

However, if we're actually being serious about the quality of Canadian universities, they [Canada's top universities] pale in comparison to America and UK's top universities. IIRC, only 2 or 3 Canadian universities are on the world's top 100 while America places all over the list; this isn't even a population or country argument, FYI. Please, there's no need for name-calling when this thread wasn't meant to be taken seriously -- it's a prank thread and I shouldn't have to be sh|talked for my posts. You don't see me calling out the person that posted "y u no hav fun" when I mentioned inb4.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Universities
http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/top-400-universities-in-the-world?page=4
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/mar/05/world-top-100-universities-reputation-rankings-times-higher-education

@Yumtoast: what's the point of editing your post if someone's already quoted your bashing on canadian schools? don't be so ignorant

and i read the first page, did you?

[quote=LowWillpower]First day, first year engineering at Dalhousie university. First class there are like 300 packed into an auditorium, and they tell us to write this placement test. First page isn't too bad, kinda hard questions, second page is stuff I don't really get, 3rd page is a mess.

Like 4 minutes in someone stands up and yells "SCREW THIS" kicks the door open and storms out. Last page of the test was a bonus question asking about teenage mutant ninja turtles.

Moral of the story, they gave us a fake test and got a 3rd/4th year student to fake storm out just for fun.[/quote]

Engineers seem to know how to have the most fun...

#engineeringpride

[quote=KinkyPlayToy]y u so late, dum person living under a rock[/quote]

not every1 is as kewwwllwll as you

[quote=natalie]can you read?[/quote]
I retracted my post long before you replied; I should ask you the same question.

Must feel bad for those in the room that actually did fail.

[quote=Snooki]there was a rumour on campus that the exam was going to be a fake, and that's why they did this
the dude in the front was actually taking this seriously...
my room mate was actually writing this exam and told me they stupid/ ridiculous questions like, "that's the density of an elephant, a glass vacuum?"[/quote]

[quote=Yumtoast]So this is what Canadian universities are like? Seems like an awful engineering department if students can get away with all this noise on exam day.

inb4 Canadians feel obligated to defend UoT
inb4 y u no hav fun[/quote]

@Yumtoast: can you read?

[quote=Yumtoast]So this is what Canadian universities are like? Seems like an awful engineering department if students can get away with all this noise on exam day.

inb4 Canadians feel obligated to defend UoT
inb4 y u no hav fun[/quote]

y u no hav fun

Seems like an awful engineering department if students can get away with all this noise on exam day.

well they pay 10 grand a year.

im an engineering failureee

not even funny

there was a rumour on campus that the exam was going to be a fake, and that's why they did this
the dude in the front was actually taking this seriously...
my room mate was actually writing this exam and told me they stupid/ ridiculous questions like, "that's the density of an elephant, a glass vacuum?"

First day, first year engineering at Dalhousie university. First class there are like 300 packed into an auditorium, and they tell us to write this placement test. First page isn't too bad, kinda hard questions, second page is stuff I don't really get, 3rd page is a mess.

Like 4 minutes in someone stands up and yells "SCREW THIS" kicks the door open and storms out. Last page of the test was a bonus question asking about teenage mutant ninja turtles.

Moral of the story, they gave us a fake test and got a 3rd/4th year student to fake storm out just for fun.

it's a good school. my friends ditched bc because they wanted to go to uoft so badly

I love how everyone's 4 minutes got killed cause of this.

My brother goes there.