SYDE '24 CLASS PROFILE
What courses did we find the most useful?
What are we doing after graduation?
Would we pick SYDE again?
Have we confessed a crush to a classmate?
What courses did we find the most useful?
What are we doing after graduation?
Would we pick SYDE again?
Have we confessed a crush to a classmate?
BACKGROUND
We have an equal proportion of males and females.
What gender do you identify with?
The ethnicities of our class is similar to the university.
However, we have no one who identifies as Middle Eastern (UW: 7%).
What ethnicity do you identify with?
We are less religious than the university.
Christianity is the most common religious affiliation for both groups, but to a lesser extent for our class. "No religious affiliation" includes 33.9% atheist and 23.7% agnostic.
Which of the following religions, if any, do you identify with?
SYDE 2024
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97% of us have at least one parent with a post-secondary degree.
What is the highest level of education attained by (either of) your parent(s)?
The sexual orientations of our class is similar to the university.
However, we have no one who identifies as gay or lesbian (UW: 3% gay, 2% lesbian).
What sexual identities do you identify with?
Our top songs of 2023
Top genres: pop, rap, pov: indie, EDM, art pop
Top artists: Taylor Swift, Peach Pit, Drake
ACADEMICS
Our grades were the highest in 4A, when we had the most choice over the courses we took.
As expected, our median grade inflated by 8% during COVID (1B-2B) and fell by 10% when we returned in-person.
We found Human Factors in Design (SYDE162) to be the best balance of easy and useful.
We found the programming courses, SYDE121 and SYDE223, more useful but more difficult. View our full course program.
How easy/useful did you find each core course for future courses (elective and mandatory), co-ops, OR general growth?
Lecture attendance has decreased by 23% since first term, from 74% to 51%.
Our lowest lecture attendance was 44% during 2A, our second fully-online term. Attendance did not have a significant effect on grades.
23 of us went on exchange.
We studied abroad in Eastern Europe and South-east Asia. The most popular universities were the National University of Singapore (6) and Charles III University of Madrid (4).
Songs that remind us of Waterloo
CO-OP
Median salary increased from $19/hr to $32/hr.
Salary differences within the class have widened, with the range between low and high salaries increasing from $7/hr to $26/hr.
The fully in-person working model has fallen from 85% to 32%.
The hybrid working model is now the most prevalent, at 48%.
SYDE
59% of us have five or more close friends in SYDE.
How many close friends do you have in SYDE?
67% of us would've chosen SYDE if we could start university again.
This marks the second consecutive year of 67%, a decline from the higher percentages seen between 2018 and 2021.
What program would you do if you could start again?
73% of us were not romantically involved with someone in SYDE.
However, 56% of us have had a crush on a classmate.
Have you committed SYDEcest? Any romantic involvement with someone in SYDE counts
Have you ever had a crush on someone in the cohort? If yes, have you ever confessed?
Our go-to party songs
LIFESTYLE
We have an even split of extroverts and introverts.
Our most common Myers-Briggs Personality Types were ENFJ (The Protagonist), ENTJ (The Commander), and INFJ (The Advocate).
What is your MBTI?
Our hype-up gym songs
60% of the class is currently in a relationship.
Of those in a relationship, 87% think it will last forever.
Are you currently in a relationship?
If yes, do you think you’ll be with them forever?
Most of us had 1 or 2 committed relationships in university.
How many committed relationships have you been in during university?
42% of us had sex for the first time in university.
73% of us have now had sex, a similar proportion to past cohorts.
When did you first have sex?
How many sexual partners did you have during university?
Our drugs of choice are alcohol, weed, and shrooms.
Our favourite songs to cry to
FUTURE
Most of us are planning to work full-time after graduation.
Of those planning on pursuing graduate studies, all are focused on engineering or computer science.
What do you plan on doing in the year after graduation?
Only 28% of us are planning on working in the US.
For those working full-time, where will you be located?
The median salary of those working in the US is 2.47 times higher than those working in Canada.
The median salary for jobs based in Canada is $110,000, while for those based in the US, it's $272,000.
For those working full-time, what is your estimated annual compensation?
Most of us want to get married, several in the next year.
Do you plan on getting married? If so, when?
Female
Male
Most of us want kids, but men want kids sooner.
Do you plan on having kids? If so, when?
Female
Male
THANK YOU
Authors' Note
This class profile was made to tell a story - a story about 94 brilliant, creative, ambitious humans who journeyed through university together. We hope that through this project, you were able to understand us better.
To our classmates: thank you all for an incredible five years. We will cherish the memories we've made together dearly. We wish you all the best and can't wait to see what you accomplish in the world!
Contact us
Data
- Daniel Raymond: dan@raymond.ch
- Emily Wang: wang.emily2000@gmail.com
- Keenan Burke: k3burke@uwaterloo.ca
Design
- Jayden Hsiao: jthsiao57@gmail.com
- Pam Wang: pywang9830@gmail.com
- Abby Chan: abigail.chan628@gmail.com
Web
- Jayden Hsiao: jthsiao57@gmail.com
- Daniel Raymond: dan@raymond.ch
