phantom

i am mcgill cs graduate. I love my school! having said that, i met lots of great friends from different departments during my school years. we still hang out together even we are working now. but at the same time, I have to say I agree 95% with laserjet's point of view according my experience. 5% is that microsoft was still recuiting ppl at mcgill at that time i got my interview, but very very few ppl can finally get into their seattle campus. I attended ibm company info 2001 actually, still remembered the guy from ibm toronto lab told us he graduated at concordia. my best friend in cs went to a US company in boston in 2002, but now decided to back mcgill to study medicine.

so... know what you want and just enjoy it.

Peace

faq

It seems you and laserjet both graduated around 01/02.  This world is changing.

The difference between you and me is that I experienced two universities. McGill and Concordia.  I did much much more programming in McGill than in Concordia.  For the same workload, maybe you are required to finish it with a group in one and half months in Concordia; in McGill, you have to finish it by yourself in two/three weeks.  In Concordia, I saw quite a few phd students have difficulties in understanding paper; in Mcgill, even master students are required to implement the algorithm proposed by paper (not only understanding).  That's what I saw and experienced.  I did say there were excellent students in Concordia, but you can get more chances and thorough training in McGill.

Post by phantom
i am mcgill cs graduate. I love my school! having said that, i met lots of great friends from different departments during my school years. we still hang out together even we are working now. but at the same time, I have to say I agree 95% with laserjet's point of view according my experience. 5% is that microsoft was still recuiting ppl at mcgill at that time i got my interview, but very very few ppl can finally get into their seattle campus. I attended ibm company info 2001 actually, still remembered the guy from ibm toronto lab told us he graduated at concordia. my best friend in cs went to a US company in boston in 2002, but now decided to back mcgill to study medicine.

so... know what you want and just enjoy it.

Peace