$50 million to U of C Engineering

[RougeUnderoos]

A Soogle gearch tells me that this guy is a)rich (actually didn't need to search to figure that out) and b) the business school @ York has his name on it too.

I don't see a connection to Cowtown though.

Cha-ching ching for the nerd herd.

[Winsor_Pilates]

If only the Engineers would share it with the rest of us students.

[Clarkey]

"Seymour Schulich"

Now there is a catchy name for a school, it's right up there with Haskayne.

[browna]

Originally posted by Clarkey@Jun 22 2005, 07:12 PM
"Seymour Schulich"

Now there is a catchy name for a school, it's right up there with Haskayne.

If the 6/49 ever hits $50 million, I'll outbid Haskane's 16$M ego trip by pulling one of my own. 20$ million should do it.

The latest magazine from the Faculty, has an interview with Hasykane who's "just getting used to using email" and "still does the accounting by hand". :unsure: This is the visionary who leader of the Faculty into the 21st century?

My 20$ million donation would put my name up there, and I'd have my glowing sub 3.0 GPA up there and copies of my transcripts for each new prospective student all to see and be encouraged by. (It was 3.3 after my first two years at MRC, but the whole U of C experience was the shinguards at that Faculty). Oh, I got my Commerce Degree. Its somewhere.

That, or make it the JR Ewing School of Business, and play JR's best quips in Dallas in the wngs of Scurfield Hall.

Or I'd just spend my money on something useful. Give some to the good people at MRC who prefer to move forward with higher education, rather then those at the U of C Hayskane School of Business (and other faculties, law) who's whole purpose in their careers seems to be avoiding the nervous breakdown and ulcers from forming 11 for months of the year, waiting eagerly to see what Macleans is going to rank them this year (usually just above The Prarie Bible College of SW Manitoba (Correspondance)).

Thank goodness for the world class high performance centre there, and a pretty good medical research lab, otherwise MRC is miles ahead of the U of C as far as experience, teaching, and overall educational usefullness.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Originally posted by Clarkey@Jun 22 2005, 07:12 PM
"Seymour Schulich"

Now there is a catchy name for a school, it's right up there with Haskayne.

Yeah, but Haskayne's first name is Richard, thereby making it the School of Dick.

Anytime I hear the word Seymour I just automatically attach the Skinner to the end of it nowadays.

[calf]

Originally posted by I-Hate-Hulse+Jun 22 2005, 09:29 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (I-Hate-Hulse @ Jun 22 2005, 09:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Clarkey@Jun 22 2005, 07:12 PM
"Seymour Schulich"

Now there is a catchy name for a school, it's right up there with Haskayne.

Yeah, but Haskayne's first name is Richard, thereby making it the School of Dick.

Anytime I hear the word Seymour I just automatically attach the Skinner to the end of it nowadays. [/b][/quote]
no no, it's Dick's S.o.B.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally posted by browna@Jun 22 2005, 07:47 PM
My 20$ million donation would put my name up there, and I'd have my glowing sub 3.0 GPA up there and copies of my transcripts for each new prospective student all to see and be encouraged by. (It was 3.3 after my first two years at MRC, but the whole U of C experience was the shinguards at that Faculty). Oh, I got my Commerce Degree. Its somewhere.

Okay I didn't go to the UofC and I don't have a degree in business or anything of the sort but it sounds like you are saying "my GPA at MRC was 3.3 and it sunk bo below 3 at the UofC so that faculty sucks".

Are you?

[Faid1]

Originally posted by browna+Jun 22 2005, 06:47 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (browna @ Jun 22 2005, 06:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Clarkey@Jun 22 2005, 07:12 PM
"Seymour Schulich"

Now there is a catchy name for a school, it's right up there with Haskayne.

Thank goodness for the world class high performance centre there, and a pretty good medical research lab, otherwise MRC is miles ahead of the U of C as far as experience, teaching, and overall educational usefullness. [/b][/quote]
U of C is really that bad, huh?

[Incinerator]

I cant wait to get out of this money sucking shinguardhole known as the UofC, if I got $25 mil I'd do something useful like buying all the empty luxury boxes at the 'dome, as many as I can get my hands on. Then we can all have a 82 game CP party muahahahaha

[Cheese]

(from Little Shop of Horrors)

Suddenly Seymour


Lift up your head.
Wash off your mascara.
Here, take my kleenex,
Wipe that lipstick away.
Show me your face,
Clean as the mornin'.
I know things were bad,
But now they're ok.

Suddenly, Seymour,
Is standing beside you.
You don't need no make-up,
Don't have to pretend.
Suddenly, Seymour,
Is here to provide you
Sweet understanding.
Seymour's your friend.

Nobody, ever,
Treated me kindly.
Daddy left early.
Mama was poor.
I'd need a man, and I'd
Follow him blindly.
He'd snap his fingers, "Me?"
I'd say, "sure."

Suddenly, Seymour,
Is standing beside me.
He don't give me orders.
He don't condescend.
Suddenly, Seymour,
Is here to provide me
Sweet understanding.
Seymour's my friend.

Tell me this feeling
Lasts 'til forever.
Tell me the bad times
Are clean, washed away!
Please understand that
It's still strange and frightening.
For losers like I've been
It's so hard to say...

Suddenly, Seymour,
He purified me.
Suddenly, Seymour,
Showed me I can!
Learn how to be more!
The girl that's inside me.
With sweet understanding,
With sweet understanding,
With sweet understanding,
Seymour's my man.

[StoneCole]

Originally posted by calf+Jun 23 2005, 04:48 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (calf @ Jun 23 2005, 04:48 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Yeah, but Haskayne's first name is Richard, thereby making it the School of Dick.

Anytime I hear the word Seymour I just automatically attach the Skinner to the end of it nowadays.

no no, it's Dick's S.o.B. [/b][/quote]
dude, you must be an engineer.

[calf]

Originally posted by StoneCole+Jun 23 2005, 08:25 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (StoneCole @ Jun 23 2005, 08:25 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

no no, it's Dick's S.o.B.

dude, you must be an engineer. [/b][/quote]
I'm actually in the business school

[browna]

Originally posted by RougeUnderoos@Jun 22 2005, 11:20 PM
Okay I didn't go to the UofC and I don't have a degree in business or anything of the sort but it sounds like you are saying "my GPA at MRC was 3.3 and it sunk bo below 3 at the UofC so that faculty sucks".

Are you?

More or less.
I didn't start doing drugs or dating loose women when U of C hit after two years at MRC.
Or have any more (actually had less) extracirricular stuff going on either.

Class size went from 30 to 50-75+.

Teaching time went down about 4 hours a week.
-MRC had labs/tutorials every class, U of C, didn't.
-U of C started 4 days later, ended a week earlier, had 2 extra days for reading breaks.

Non exsistent teacher hours.

MRC had tests, and quizzes and assignments throughout the semester, worth varying amounts of marks.

U of C, no matter what the class: a 40% midterm, a project or 1 quiz worth 10-15, then a final of 45-50%.

Overall guidenece and ease of ability to answer questions for registration, wait lists etc, a lot less hassle at MRC.

I'd have stayed at MRC if I could've gotten a degree there.

Sure, maybe its my learning style where I need to be challenged and keep up on things on an ongoing basis, and it was right out of HS, so it made for an easy transition to MRC with class size.

But at the time, many of my buddies went to U of C right out of HS and struggled big time. I did too, two years later.

Compared to MRC, U of C is much more impersonal with instructors who don't really care either way, making the classes more like a stockyard, moving people in, and moving them out rather then making it their point to make sure that you get the material, not just hope that you pick it up when you read the text book that night. It was a noticeable difference. And that was going into 3rd year, after those 200+ person classes were done and over with at U of C.

Not to get too sappy, but MRC was a lot more place to be and to learn, as opposed to the sterile environment and experience at the Faculty of Management at the U of C. And all my friends were at the U of C too.

Plus, Faculty of Management never did get too many glowing external reviews back in the day (I was there 8 years ago now), and I still don't think they do.

Just my opinion, but MRC is the way to go if your area of concentration has a transfer program to U of C.

[JiriHrdina]

Interesting. I too graduated from the Faculty of Management at the U of C and have also attended MRC. But I have a much different take.

U of C wish more difficult and pushed me on a lot of different levels.

MRC is easier

U of C treated me like an adult - what I put into the courses equated to what I got out of it

MRC seems to treat their students more like high school students

U of C is focused on knowldge building - more theories and stuff

MRC seems to be more focused on teaching real life skills and practical stuff.

Both have their pluses and minuses but I do think that the Management programs at the U of C is considered to be a very good one. I've read many good reviews of it. And I also felt like when I emerged from the program I was ready.

[Mr. Ski]

I guess I make three doing the MRC -> UofC Faculty of Management thing.

I enjoyed MRC a lot. Thought it was a seamless transition from High School. But... once I got to the UofC I liked my third and forth years even more.

What year's did you two graduate? 2000 for me. Hard to believe it's been five full years since I walked out those doors the last time. Wow. Time flies.

[JiriHrdina]

^^^Graduated in ummmmmm. 1993 I guess. No wait that was high school. So 1997.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Browna, it sounds like you might have not had the best of times there and it may have colored your opinion somewhat. I graduated the same time as you from MGMT and had a very different opinion of my time there.

Jiri Hirdina hits on a few of the critical differences that are worth repeating. That 1) MRC is an easier transition from High School, and 2) The classic arguments between building knowledge at a University or just teaching practical knowledge to students. (The classic, are you learning how to learn, or just learning?)

Is it better to school them by tough love or hand hold them? I don't know the answer to that, but I can tell you the real world typically goes with the former.

Let's be serious about university though. Really, how much of what we learned in school in our degrees is actually applied at our jobs? How much of it was acquired on the job, either through experience, or training, or the real world way of tossing you into the deep end and letting you figure things out? In the latter situation, I think you'd rather have someone that's figured out how to learn for themselves in all types of conditions, rather than someone that's been hand held a bit more.

Now that said, where you go to school is less of a factor than what you do with it. I'm sure every person here that went to university can recollect some idiot that graduated, and you couldn't believe you both had the same degree. It opens doors but you have to walk through them yourself.

I'm about to interview students from MRC and UofC amongst others and I'm keeping an open mind to both. It's the person and the skills and personality I'm after, not their degree.

[Cube Inmate]

Originally posted by I-Hate-Hulse@Jun 23 2005, 08:44 PM
I'm sure every person here that went to university can recollect some idiot that graduated, and you couldn't believe you both had the same degree.

Sorry about that...but I had to cheat...it was too hard! Besides...it doesn't hurt anybody to cheat your way through a degree! Come on!

)

[Ozy_Flame]

Hey guys, if the School of Dick is signing my BComm degree and giving me the business background I need to succeed, then call me one big fat DICKSUCKER!