A horribly overrated, poorly located, atrociously designed school. It's only strength lies in it's engineering prowess, specifically the fields of electrical and computer engineering . Any student who attends this university for any reason other than engineering is blind to the fact that they are utterly wasting their time and money.Waterloo kids constantly remind anyone who will listen that the school enjoys a healthy relationship with microsoft as a "secret recruiting ground" because that ancient fact is essentially it's only claim to fame.Students of the school also enjoy making reference to a horribly overdrawn exaggeration in that the school is " The MIT of the North", possibly because they are really stupid enough to believe so, or because they have been shut off from the outside world because of the school's horrendously unfavourable location.In reality, among Canadian universities, the school sits comfortably in the middle of the pack.