"ENGINEER 1P13 | Death by 1000 Cuts" I am being fully serious and am of sound, rational mind when I say that even far after the course's end, this is the worst course I have ever taken in my life. Every example I bring up in this review is based on a real experience I or my friends have had. The grading in this course is impressively inconsistent. You will have a ton of graded deliverables, several that are basically recurring on a weekly basis and are relatively small. A lot of these submissions will be repetitive, and you will sometimes notice that you are tasked with nearly identical things between weeks (all seemingly without any thought put into them) which will needlessly burn through your time. But this isn't the central issue. You will be graded really loosely and inconsistently, w...read more

Most people find the course content extremely bland and boring, and if that doesn't ruin it for you, the fact that it moves at the pace of a funeral march with some incredibly uncharismatic teaching will. Don't go to lecture, it's not very useful. You could review each week's content super quickly and move on with your life.

The professors baby you and waste your time for the most part. I never found any lectures useful and stopped going early(ish) on. The average lesson goes on at a snail's pace, is repetitive, and will have you half asleep in the morning. 10 minutes of content can take up hours of your time, apparently.

all you can do is stop caring and wait, this is a pretty stupid course

Super Easy Course, Prof was a grad student so she made it very easy. Honestly pretty interesting, just had to show up and talk if you're good at that.

First, dear reader, keep this in mind - to enter the upper echelons (your engineering stream of choice), you need the minimum cutoff GPA on the 12-point scale for that stream (unless you're one of the lucky few with "free choice" from exceptional high school grades). 1P13 is a frankenstein result of needing to accomodate every engineering discipline and trying to teach general engineering principles - which does seem like a great idea! But, questionable execution. For starters, the course content is skewed and inconsistent in quality. Around half the course is littered with material science and civil engineering content, which does make one wonder if some desparate civil engineering company was funding it all. That is to say, half the course is already USELESS for many students heading i...read more

Take all the marks you can, triple-check your stuff so you don't lose marks over miniscule errors, email them to dispute unfair grading, and for god's sake just learn Python on your own over the summer or something. Programming is much more a pleasurable pursuit than they make it out to be. High schoolers, do try to get your grades up and aim for the stream you want. And make sure you make your math/physics fundamentals solid for your engineering career - as much as they drone on about the dangers of using AI blindly, they do have a point.