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Originally Posted by GlassCity
People here do stuff like that too, but the general goal is to get through school as fast as possible, move out and start a career.
It's all about club rugby anyway
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Whoa there. Of course very few students want to drag things out when its not necessary, but both UBC and SFU are big universities with big complex cultures.
I went to Grad school at UBC, I have taught a bit there, I have two sons studying there, and I know a whole crowd of people who either teach or study at either UBC or SFU. Like all big universities, you cannot generalize about anything about them. There are lots of driven students who race through with career goals in hand. One of my sons has just finished his Masters in 5 years and change. But I know many others who are on all sorts of paths, leading to degrees over a varied number of years. For example, my son has flown through, but last year he came very close to accepting two extra years so that he could continue to run his lab and get teaching experience. He flipped that decision on a dime when he got an offer from a UK university that pursues his specialization. I know people who took 5 years to get a Bachelors, and one who tricked the system and got a BSc in 3.5 years. Its all over the place. A school like UBC is just too varied to talk about the way you are.
I also have experience with UofT, York, Carleton, McGill and Concordia. They are all big enough to share the same complex and varied culture. There are differences, but depending on the individual, these are, more often than not, unnoticeable. The Ontario schools especially are an aweful lot like UBC. The Montreal schools are a bit different, but like the Toronto ones, the differences are better attributed to their locations and cities, than to the schools themselves.
Also, rents for equal accomodation are cheeper in Burnaby/Coquitlam, etc., than East Van. Burnaby has also developed lots of student housing to satisfy the demand from BCIT, which itself has between 20,000 upwards of 45,000 students depending on how they are counted. And, transit to SFU is probably a bit better from Burnaby, than further east, but that's just an unsubstantiated estimate.