I mean... I kind of couldn't have known this without having gone through some form of engineering first but I'd have likely done more with communications and control.

SYDE was just really miserable all around. Only 1 of my SYDE courses really ended up being lucrative but there was an ECE variant of that even. The department was just super miserable and sorta felt like they hated the students and I could never really figure out why. Being stuck with the same people for 3.5 terms actually sucks.

Courses were condensed versions of other courses and even though they were more difficult as a function of volume, they weren't more useful. The courses are also sort of funky versions of other courses so if you did decide you wanted to transfer somewhere else, I'm sure it would be an ordeal.

I might be bias because my life kind of took a bleak turn after UW but even a bit after graduation, nothing I did seems in any way meaningful and I lack so many fundamentals that MECH or ECE would have given me that I just am now learning them on my own through other methods. I've also just decided to cut my losses (entire) life and I'm just going to enroll in one of the Engineering Technology programs at one of the local Ontario colleges.

SYDE was my dream but nightmares are also dreams. See, if I was myself in High school, I wouldn't pay attention to what I've said. If you truly want to do it, nothing I say will matter anyway. It just ended up not being useful and nobody cares. Most of all, I don't care. After I'm done my Masters and get my P.Eng, I'll probably remove the degree from my resume.

The advice I was given by my Uncle which I didn't take was "get a degree you don't have to explain". Nobody really knows what it is outside of UW and even the department itself leaves the definition kind of nebulous.