Hey guys, I'm Cece Varrasso. I'll be starting in September for engineering at Mac. I can't wait! I've never been good at writing about myself, but I really want to meet people so I'll give it a shot.

I'm not a serious person at all, and love music. (especially playing guitar and bass clarinet!) Some corrent favorites I listen to are: Deftones, Reel Big Fish, Swallow the Sun, Berlioz, Cynic, Whitechapel, and Vildhjarta (:

Besides being really into music I'm someone who's down for anything so long as it's fun. I also like jokes and making people laugh. This year my friends and I wrapped the vice principle's car in gift wrap because he was promoted from head of the math department to vp. :3 I also came to school with full zombie make-up on for the bi-yearly Nelson vs. Zombies game at my high school.

I have no idea what the future holds for me, but at the moment I want to go into mechanical engineering or engineering physics. We shall see how the year goes.

So what's up everyone? Can't wait to meet you in September!

Hi Cece welcome to Mac Eng

You mentioned you are interested in mechanical or eng physics, here are some useful links to look at:

McMaster faculty of Engineering:
http://www.eng.mcmaster.ca/
First year engineering courses:
http://registrar.mcmaster.ca /calen...13/pg1197.html

Department of Mechanical Engineering:
http://mech.mcmaster.ca/
Mechanical engineering courses:
http://registrar.mcmaster.ca /calen...12/pg1816.html

Department of Engineering Physics:
http://engphys.mcmaster.ca/
Engineering physics courses:
http://registrar.mcmaster.ca /calen...12/pg1785.html

McMaster Undergraduate Calendar 2012-2013:
http://registrar.mcmaster.ca /calen...12-13/pg3.html
Course selection:
http://registrar.mcmaster.ca /regis...%20Final. pdf

Reading course codes:
Lets take Math 1ZA3 as an example:
>> The 1 at the beginning means that its a first year course (2 would be for second year and so on...)
>> The 3 at the end states that its a 3 units course. All of your courses in first year engineering are 3 unit courses except for programming (1D04).
>> Later on in engineering some courses will be 4/5 units, its normal !
>> Math indicates that it's math course.

Mechanical engineering is a competitive program to get into in second year, so keep working hard in first year and try not to drop anything.
Take a look at this website:
http://www.eng.mcmaster.ca/eng1/requirements.html
Examples:
6.6 C.A. x 37 units = 244.2 points
6.6 C.A. x 31 units = 204.6 points
8.0 C.A. x 34 units = 272 points

You can see that if you drop/fail anything you will need to work extra hard to get into a competitive program like civil/mechanical. Also, don't listen to the website and do take the 2 electives in first year because if you don't then you will be down to 31 units and will need to work really hard to get into mechanical. The electives are not important for going into second year engineering, but they will raise your points to get into a competitive program in second year.
If you have a free choice, you don't need to worry about dropping courses, as long as you don't fail anything (because failing just 1 course means losing your free choice). Also, free choice doesn't include Elec&Biomedical, Chem&Bio eng, management.

Hopefully that helps

Thanks a lot