christa lynn wrote:On UBC:
Personally I think it's a pretty good school. I'm taking / have taken a lot of math courses and I've found that they succeed in teaching me what I need to know. It's kinda hard to give you more than that without introducing my physicist bias towards math (ie. it's a tool and is only interesting as such). I have heard that at UBC, in math, material is spread over more courses than it is in other places but I don't have anything to back that up or refute it.
The weather is pretty mild. Our winters consist mostly of rain. It usually only really snows about once per winter.
If you're going to stay in residence I would suggest Fairview or Gage. You'd have to cook for yourself but even if you're a bad cook it's generally better than the food in the dorm style residences (Totem, Vanier).
UBC is more or less a campus school but with really easy access to the city. The main campus is surrounded on three sides by water and on the other by forest. A quick bus ride will take you off campus and bus passes are included in tuition. Also, busses from downtown run until 4am (I think) every night except sunday night (monday morning really). We also have some good pubs on campus.
http://www.ubc.ca
http://www.math.ubc.ca
Thank you lots
UBC is actually one of the unis that the psychology department have recommended (they tell you which ones are best to fit in with what we need to know, etc), so that's good to know it's got a good maths department from a students viewpoint!
Only trouble is, we need higher grades to go there
If you do come here be sure to tell me, I'll give you a good tour ("this is the math building ... this is the math annex ... this is the math auditorium ... this is the Pit Pub, it is just like it's name implies ...").