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I am in my first year of a law program and the other day we had a beach volleyball tournment with all of the years. I left my phone, and wallet on my team's bench beside my shoes and sweatshirt and went out to play. When I came back my shoes and sweatshirt were there but my wallet and phone was gone. I didn't really think anyone stole it but I wanted to find it considering I had a significant amount of cash in my wallet. After finding my friend who has my find my iphone we tracked my phone down to a bag that was on the table beside where I initally left my stuff. We asked around to see whos bag it was, and someone told me that it was someone on my teams. Considering I know everyone on my team personally and we were using the sound feature on find my iphone to literally hear my phone in the bag I decided to open the bag and get my stuff back. Just as I opened it though a third year student and his friend approached me quite aggresively demanding why I was going through his bag. I explained that I thought my phone was in his bag which he quickly blew off. I asked if he could at least check, which the owner of the bag refused to do but luckily his friend did and pulled out my phone and wallet from his bag. The guy then made me take out my id and show him it was my wallet before continuing to harrass me for going through his stuff. I explained my side of the story to him which he seemed to not really care about. I appologized for going through his stuff and moved on, I didn't ask why he put my stuff in his bag and he didn't give me an explanation. I won't lie when I say I was a little rattled by the situtaiton especially being a new first year law student and having to deal with a third year student. I also play on a rec team with the friend of the guy and am worried that there will be some tension. What do people think?

I just wanted to make a post about the construction on campus and how poorly the city has handled it. I think there was already a lot of skepticism around the rapid transit system before they began construction on the bridge and College Drive at the start of summer, but the simple fact that the bridge is still closed and College Drive is completely ripped up 4 months later is shocking. As someone who lives in the community around campus and who has to commute to it for work, I can't help but think about how big of a cluster fuck all the construction is going to cause in September when students go back to school. For those who don't go near campus often, the main entrance to campus is from Wiggins. Not only has the city closed this entrance to cars, but they have also closed it to all pedestrians. If a student wants to get from Wiggins to, say, the health science building, they now either need to walk all the way around to Cumberland or down to the hospital and back. I think this is just completely unacceptable. As well, driving on campus and getting there is going to be hell. The detours are so poorly thought out that it's actually comical, and I just can't imagine how bad it is going to be in a few weeks. The streets in Varsity View around campus are always full of traffic now because the city did such a shit job at laying out detours, and the Cumberland and College intersection, where they plan to route all the traffic through, is literally going to be backed up with hundreds of cars, considering that during the summer there were already lines of up to 50 cars (I counted the one day because I was so mad). I also didn't include anything in here about access to RUH, which is a completely different and much larger issue that the city just seems to not care about. Idk, I just thought I would put this post up to see if other people are also upset about this. It feels like zero thought goes into any decision the city makes, and I think that come September, the mess the construction will cause will be almost unbearable.

UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who commented and provided places to get information on the construction. Here are some of the links I found useful that people shared.

https://www.saskatoon.ca/news-releases?combine=&field_release_type_value=All&items_per_page=10

https://www.saskatoon.ca/CollegeDriveRelatedProjects

https://saskatoontransit.ca/announcement/additional-college-drive-detours-start-may-8

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/7fe7e5c7229c400db5350f8c87a5e4bc

Hi everyone, I have a major decision coming up, and I wanted some random strangers' advice on it. I just finished my Bachelor's (Hons) in History from a Canadian university, and I have now been accepted into my Master's in History and into law school at the same institution. My goal throughout undergrad was to become a lawyer, but I decided to apply to a Master's in History as a backup if I didn't get in. I got accepted into my master's in February, but just yesterday I heard about law. Since accepting my master's, I sort of thought that's what I was going to do, especially because law took almost 10 months to get back to me (I applied in October). I am now really torn, though. Since getting into law, my mindset has sort of shifted back to wanting to go to law school, but because I have thought I was doing my master's for so long, it's hard to accept. I am extremely lucky that my supervisor understands my situation and has said I need to make the choice that is best for me and that there will be no hard feelings, but I still feel terrible about the idea of dropping out of my master's now. I should also clarify that I think I do want to be a lawyer, and I don't really have a desire to do a PhD; it's just a tough decision still because I am sure my master's would be fun but it would also just be a lot of headache to reject a law acceptance and then go through the process of applying again. I just want people's thoughts on my situation because I am a bit of a mental mess right now. Thank you, and please ask me anything!