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02-07-2024, 02:04 PM
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#30076 | | Say! Say! Say!
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Originally Posted by Traum  Each to his own as far as lifestyles are concerned, but I am a strong believer that in order to get the full undergrad experience, you really want to immerse yourself in the campus life, and that means spending time on campus, partaking in class / labs / club activities, and utilizing the facilities that the university has to offer, etc..
None of that is cheap nowadays -- I get that. But those university years is really a phase in life that you can never experience (or even approximate) ever again. I treated my first 2+ years of university as little more than just classes, and I came to realize how much of the other aspects of university life that I was missing out on. So I tried my best to change my ways some time in my 3rd year, and I was enjoying my university experience a lot more. | I went to Langara and then BCIT so I pretty much went to class and went home. Didn't join any clubs and only made a handful of friends.
A few years ago, a few co-ops from UBC started at my company. One of them hosted a house party (they lived at UBC) with all the younger coworkers and invited me. Afterwards, we walked around the campus and it was very lively and everyone was out having fun.
I probably should've studied harder during high school and gotten into UBC. 
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02-07-2024, 02:24 PM
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#30077 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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I only went to BCIT and distance learning so yea same, was always home
Did intermural floor hockey for a while until people started trying to be hardcores and then didn’t like my heavy slashing in return 
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02-07-2024, 02:40 PM
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^ I run a floor hockey on Sundays, you can join... we only hack after getting to know you / buying you dinner
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02-07-2024, 02:47 PM
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I cannot say enough good things about BCIT! Industries go to BCIT to hire ... UBC Engineering grads often cannot find jobs. They go to BCIT for one year cert or extra and they find work!
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02-07-2024, 03:16 PM
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#30080 | | private modder
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Originally Posted by Traum Each to his own as far as lifestyles are concerned, but I am a strong believer that in order to get the full undergrad experience, you really want to immerse yourself in the campus life, and that means spending time on campus, partaking in class / labs / club activities, and utilizing the facilities that the university has to offer, etc..
None of that is cheap nowadays -- I get that. But those university years is really a phase in life that you can never experience (or even approximate) ever again. I treated my first 2+ years of university as little more than just classes, and I came to realize how much of the other aspects of university life that I was missing out on. So I tried my best to change my ways some time in my 3rd year, and I was enjoying my university experience a lot more. | Ya but he's in his last semester with only 2 courses to go. At that point, making friends and joining clubs likely isn't top of mind if you haven't bothered to do it in the prior years. But we don't know that about him, maybe he did make lots of friends and join clubs when he lived in town, and now the goal is get the fuck out haha. I remember how that feels.
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02-07-2024, 03:20 PM
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#30081 | | private modder
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Originally Posted by Razor Ramon HG No, I don't think he has passes.
I looked up his reddit account and he was asking why flights in March were more expensive. https://www.reddit.com/r/aircanada/c...ghcwi/pricing/
I think he literally just books them a few months in advance.
This is his daily itinerary for those two days at school. Based on his comments and assuming he leaves the house around 10AM, it sounds like this lifestyle adds an additional 7 hours of transit per day. It's 12 hours for the whole trip, but you can subtract 3 hours for his classes and an additional 2 hours since most people take an hour to get to UBC per direction.
He said he lived in Vancouver for 3 years previously, so he's probably experienced enough and rather chill at home. | He also chimed in and confirmed he's not using FPs but buying BE airfares far enough in advance where he can get a better price. No SQMs though.
Guy sounds legit tbh. He figured it out!
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02-07-2024, 03:28 PM
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#30082 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Originally Posted by 68style ^ I run a floor hockey on Sundays, you can join... we only hack after getting to know you / buying you dinner | Would usually be down but hella out of shape now lol
Even during those intermirals fuck the first game I played overdid it due to competitiveness and felt like I was going to have a jammer half way through lol
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02-07-2024, 06:06 PM
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#30083 | | I told him no, what y'all do?
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Originally Posted by whitev70r I cannot say enough good things about BCIT! Industries go to BCIT to hire ... UBC Engineering grads often cannot find jobs. They go to BCIT for one year cert or extra and they find work! | i found it depends on trends in the timing of the local market and discipline and entry level positions available. for example, right now if you grad BCIT architectural or building sciences, hell ya companies at job fairs will be going to you like the popular girl at prom, not the other way around.
20 years ago, i couldn't get a job in my discipline to save my life, went and got my degree hoping the market would recover, nope, still took a couple of years to get entry level sweat shop labour job. mind you this was after the .com bubble so it was a little scorched earth for some time, and the resource & automation sector was thriving while tech sector suffered. so ya if you had a traditional engineering degree, went and got a cert/diploma in the sector that needed skilled workers, highly likely you'd get picked up with specialized education
looking back i probably should have gotten career counselling guidance on the local industry on what to specialize in, i had no f'ing clue the state of the local market, just take classes & grad
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02-07-2024, 06:48 PM
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#30084 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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02-07-2024, 06:51 PM
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They better be giving away a turbo 911 Cab, otherwise thats blatant false advertising
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02-07-2024, 06:56 PM
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#30086 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Quick put it on Reddit and watch what happens
(Fine print says it's a 911 GTS...  )
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02-07-2024, 07:01 PM
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#30087 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Convertible p cars are yucky
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02-07-2024, 07:04 PM
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#30088 | | RS Veteran
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Pretty sure it's just a toy model.
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02-07-2024, 07:13 PM
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#30089 | | 2013, 2016, 2017 & 2018 NHL Fantasy RS1 Champion
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The "Sky Collection" starts at $1.8M wow.
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02-07-2024, 07:47 PM
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#30090 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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How can you give away a Porsche. Even commission on a $5M house is only like $150k, how can they afford to give away a Porsche?
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02-07-2024, 07:55 PM
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#30091 | | I STILL don't get it
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That abandoned townhouse development near Victoria and 33rd now has weather wrap on the old weathered frame. Is that wood still good? https://www.google.com/maps/@49.2397...8192?entry=ttu | |
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02-07-2024, 08:18 PM
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#30092 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Originally Posted by PeanutButter How can you give away a Porsche. Even commission on a $5M house is only like $150k, how can they afford to give away a Porsche? | It’s not the realtor giving it away. It’s the developer who bought that land 20 years ago for several million, found $100m to build a highrise and is now selling 138 units for $1.8 million to probably $6 million a piece.
Seems like they’ve got about $300,000,000.00 to play with Porsches. As an FYI selling realtor commission on new developments is just a fraction of what a normal “deal” would be. They have a contract through the developer to sell. He’ll, half the time it’s not even a realtor, they just have a realtor on the property (sometimes the developer themselves with a licence). Sales get a small commission, more Porsches to give away. Lol
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02-07-2024, 08:47 PM
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#30093 | | in the butt
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Originally Posted by PeanutButter How can you give away a Porsche. Even commission on a $5M house is only like $150k, how can they afford to give away a Porsche? | The same way you get UP TO 5000$ CASH BACK on a 40k civic purchase. Its actually just a 45k civic.
Or furniture stores: ALL FURNITURE MUST GO, 75% OFF!, buts its actually just marked up an extra 75%
Hud91 is probably right tho with his comments
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02-07-2024, 10:03 PM
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#30094 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Way to wholesale Porsches. That’s just great for the brand image when all your buttfuck neighbours have one. At 1.8 that’s barely a 30 year old Vancouver special.
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02-08-2024, 12:24 AM
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#30095 | | RabidMod
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Originally Posted by Badhobz phds are just a waste of time | I don't think it's that PhDs are a waste, I think it's what 68style and others are saying about value: is this type of PhD education actually delivering any added value in any particular workplace?
One of my best friends is a scientist at a pharmaceutical company inventing medications and stuff (he's the guy who lived under the stairs in a place a couple of us shared, while out here doing his post-doc). Could they hire someone without a PhD to do that kind of thing? Maybe. But then they wouldn't be competitive. They need people capable in experimental research and pushing the envelope in science to have patentable new products to sell.
And some people on my team have PhDs. They speak EM field theory, and basically prophesize how it all interacts when we pull together all the wacky circuitry the rest of us come up with. Maybe we could just build it and see what happens. But building hardware takes time, and every failure means making us that much later to market. And sometimes there's stuff that doesn't show up just testing a handful of prototypes, and you'd only see failures when scaling production volume into the hundreds of millions. So the value in them, is in being able to look out ahead and theorize and model to know what would happen before we try to build.
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02-08-2024, 08:03 AM
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#30096 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Originally Posted by Badhobz Way to wholesale Porsches. That’s just great for the brand image when all your buttfuck neighbours have one. At 1.8 that’s barely a 30 year old Vancouver special. | Minimum 2 or 3 br sky collection only for the Porsche, probably more like 3m. 1.8 just for starting 1br on the sky collection.
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Originally Posted by skyxx Sonick is a genius. I won't go into detail what's so great about his post. But it's damn good! | 2010 Toyota Rav4 Limited V6 - Wifey's Daily Driver
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02-08-2024, 08:32 AM
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#30097 | | Performance Moderator
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Originally Posted by Badhobz They better be giving away a turbo 911 Cab, otherwise thats blatant false advertising | In her TikTok, she said her whole spiel while standing in front of a red GT3
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02-08-2024, 08:59 AM
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#30098 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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anyone got 3 million bucks to troll with?
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02-08-2024, 09:24 AM
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Just pull one out of Manic's playbook and have 20 of your cousins sign up for a mortgage. Wait, that's for poor people 
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02-08-2024, 09:44 AM
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#30100 | | I subscribe to the Fight Club ONLY
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We've talked about this a quite a few pages ago when supafamous noticed work has resumed on the 2 buildings. Some questioned the structural integrity of the wood -- including the framing -- that has sat exposed to the elements for something like 3 years. From the colour of the wood, I suspect there will likely be some form of dry/wet rotting at certain places, and I would also not be surprised if there are mold / mildew. None of us want to touch those even if we could have gotten it for cheap lol~
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