So, here's the 3rd entry in my "Advice for new UBC students" series (I know, I'm not all that creative :P ) - today, I'll talk about everything an incoming UBC computer science student should know. This is written primarily for students in the Faculty of Science; students who are studying comp sci, but are pursuing a BA / BCOM instead of a BSc, will have to deal with different requirements as determined by their faculty.

One of the unique things about CPSC at UBC is that it is the only specialization you can declare immediately upon entering Science as a 1st year …

As promised in my first blog post in my "Advice for new UBC students" series (previous post here), I'm going to stop focusing on Science so much and talk about stuff that's more applicable to all incoming UBC students. I'm not quite sure where to start though, so here's an unorganized list of everything that I can think of right now that's worth mentioning. Maybe I'll clean this up in the future.

There's actually a number of great blogs run by other UBC students out there on the web with lots of helpful info; my favourites include Carly's blog and …

It's that time of year again, when schools all across the province are wrapping up, and students who are graduating from high school are starting to look more carefully at their post-secondary future, many of whom are attending UBC in the upcoming winter session. I still remember how I spent my last week in June last year, flipping through and trying to absorb as much information from the UBC Academic Calendar, as I tried to create that illusive, perfect worklist. Back then, I ended up looking through a number of student blogs for some more personalized advice and less dense …