Nano
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
An extrememly tiny nano donkey that signed up for this class at the last minute!! Loves to shrink circuits down in size and can be seen reducing LUTs, DSPs, and BRAMs down to nano dimensions!
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: Mostly quiet but will not hesitate to chirp in if needed.
- Grades: Could be better.
- Workload & Difficulty: Not the worst at managing workload, but could definitely plan things better.
- Engagement & Helpfulness: Can vouch for attentiveness during lectures! Gears can be seen and heard spinning inside donkey’s brains!
- Donkey Quality: Quiet Intellectual.
Detective
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
If there’s a mystery to solve this is the donkey to hire! Donkey will find mysteries where none exist, and has now done it twice in 720t7 and 327! How he unearths these bugs that only he suffers from is a mystery to me :P
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: There’s a mystery to solve in every class artifact. Will battle test your ideas in a unique way to learn new knowledge even Prof Donkey doesn’t know.
- Grades: Could be better.
- Workload & Difficulty: Easy problems are made harder and new knowledge is invented from seemingly irrelevant details! Absolutely glorious discoveries!
- Engagement & Helpfulness: Great TA material! Can engage with content and stress test everything for you in all possibl angles!
- Donkey Quality: Hardware Sherlock Holmes!
Indian
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
Odd Donkey that accidentally entered the ECE327 class one day and decided to stay. Wildly excited about systolic arrays and enjoys masochistic fun.
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: If there something to learn, this donkey immediately shows up with his notebook and pencil.
- Grades: Could be better.
- Workload & Difficulty: Keeps things until it is too late and livestreams his development effort. It is a miracle that he manages to get things done.
- Engagement & Helpfulness: Donkey doesn’t sit in the front row phsically, but in his mind he’s always in the front row all the time!
- Donkey Quality: Future CEO of Intel
Swimmer
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
Donkey is a Desmos-loving swim champion who skips Friday lectures for swim meets.
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: Sits closest to the exit with one foot out, but seems to be paying attention all the time :P
- Grades: Couldn’t be any better.
- Workload & Difficulty: Everything is converted into a Desmos program! Writes Verilog in Desmos.
- Engagement & Helpfulness: Glued to the lectures! Will catch every mistake you make.
- Donkey Quality: Burlington’s Jim Carrey
Euro
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
Donkey is a teacher’s pet! Wise beyond his years and peers… always has measured, carefully crafted and thought-through responses. Asks great questions.
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: Incredibly inquizitive and will want to know how everything works.
- Grades: Could be better.
- Workload & Difficulty: Seems to be able to put different hats on with ease.
- Engagement & Helpfulness: Front-row seat indictes high engagement! Very insighful commentary.
- Donkey Quality: Destined for European aristocracy
Chef
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
Donkey loves cooking. Apparently has a favorite lentil + mayonnaise dish that is the talk of town. Also indulges in delicacies such as raw potato and boild eggs.
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: Mostly quiet but will get stuff done. Especially his URA work, no idea about 327 honestly.
- Grades: Could be better.
- Workload & Difficulty: Manages to do reasonably well in ECE327 as well as his URA! Will tackle difficult problem with ease and stumble on easy ones.
- Engagement & Helpfulness: Quiet donkey makes no noise. But will suddently ask crazy smart questions.
- Donkey Quality: Michelin Chef
China
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
Donkey will get to the bottom of all concepts and ideas and report bugs in lecture slide content that has gone unchallenged by years of donkey trainees who apparently didn’t care enough to report them.
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: Classic first-principles investigator. If you want to get to bottom of a mystery, this is the donkey you hire!
- Grades: Could be better
- Workload & Difficulty: Does’t complain too much about the massive 327 workload. But gets super excited about difficult labs :P
- Engagement & Helpfulness: Not the loudest donkey in class, but easily one of the more impactful… slides revisions, concept challenges, etc
- Donkey Quality: Detective in the making…
Lanka
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
Donkey apparently loves Quantum, and has the most inquisitive and spotaneously combustible brain chemistry known to donkeyland..
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: Cannot stop asking questions! There’s an endless supply of questions. Seems to help cement ideas in donkey’s brain.
- Grades: Could be better
- Workload & Difficulty: Seems to handle any task thrown at him. No mountain is too hard for this donkey to climb.
- Engagement & Helpfulness: Asks only the most difficult questions! Makes connections to wildest other concepts and free-associates at will.
- Donkey Quality: Donkey is in a superposition of machine learning, digital hardware, and quantum computing.
Bangladesh
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
Donkey is the king of Bangladesh and loves basketball!
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: Sits quietly and digests infromation.
- Grades: Could be better
- Workload & Difficulty: Can tackle the most difficult challenge with the ferocity of a Chittagong tiger.
- Engagement & Helpfulness: Easiest donkey to handle. Does not ask any questions and provokes no computational tasks from the Prof.
- Donkey Quality: Tiger of Bangladesh! This is no donkey…
Middle Earth
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
Donkey has been carrying load all across Mordor! Has been struggling under the weight of lab1, lab2, lab3, lab4… they’re relentless. Donkey tired!
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: Quietly slips in from the right and will duck out for water.
- Grades: Could be better
- Workload & Difficulty: Sincere and hard working donkey. Will get the job done.
- Engagement & Helpfulness: Always ready with markers and accoutrements for learning (I think I am not mixing up faces :P).
- Donkey Quality: Mordor’s most evil
Vaughan
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
Donkey has been spotted sporadically in lectures trying to avoid the mericless glare of Sauron!
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: Absolutely plugged in! Will ask ridiculously talented questions despite not sitting in the front row.
- Grades: Could be better
- Workload & Difficulty: Seems to be doing well and creates no ruckus in class.
- Engagement & Helpfulness: Engagment level 100/100! Classes would be boring without the left half being active.
- Donkey Quality: Vaughn’s slimiest
Elite_donkey_2
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
Donkey is very quiet in class but vocal on EdStem! Will wrestly you for the 5 cents you owed him in grade 1.
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: Ninja learner, asks probing questions on Edstem.
- Grades: Could be better (not counting his 0.01% grade debt).
- Workload & Difficulty: Will fight for 0.01% of the grade! He has earned it fair and square..
- Engagement & Helpfulness: Attends every lecture (I think)
- Donkey Quality: Waterloo’s most active!
Elite_donkey_3
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
Donkey has the voice of an opera singer. Rallies troops together, natural leader.
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: Quiet most of the time but will assertively ask good questions.
- Grades: Could be better.
- Workload & Difficulty: Waits until it is too lte.
- Engagement & Helpfulness: The classroom would be a wild place without him
- Donkey Quality: Canada’s loudest
Elite_donkey_1
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
Donkey sits in the front row and always asks transcendental questions. Sometimes throughts feel like an unfiltered TikTok video stream.
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: Breaks down concepts into small tiktok style videos.
- Grades: Could be better.
- Workload & Difficulty: Seems to go above and beyond
- Engagement & Helpfulness: No lecture is complete without his questions.
- Donkey Quality: Cairo’s smartest
Elite_donkey_0
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
Donkey sits on the front row and always asks transcendental questions.
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: Very inquisitive, and seems to want to learn.
- Grades: Could be better
- Workload & Difficulty: Diligent and hard working
- Engagement & Helpfulness: Super engaged, and will ask tons of questions.
- Donkey Quality: Singapore’s best
ece327 w25
Number of donkeys: [~170]
Semester/Year: [Winter, 2025]
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5
Review Summary
Donkeys seem to want to haul their lab load only at the last minute.. mere days before the deadline! Some donkeys didn’t even wait until end of term before passing premature judgement on uwflow, why??!
Detailed Breakdown
- Learning Style: [Donkeys are usually asking confusing OR-style questions and expect non-digital answers?! What?]
- Grades: [Donkeys are doing well this year especially as the climb is uphill against constant Policy 71 threats. ]
- Workload & Difficulty: [They flood Edstem watering holes with lots of questions at the same time, sometimes asking the same question!]
- Engagement & Helpfulness: [There is a group of elite donkeys that listen to each lecture, but attendance this year has been abysmal!]
- Donkey Quality: [I fully believe these are Canada’s best donkeys!]
Final Thoughts
10/10 would teach them again.