u/Any_Thought2675

I am an alumni from the mid-90s. Back in the day, the Mechanical Engineering building was on the north side 32nd Avenue, away from the main campus. While I was there, I remember they used to display graduating class composites photos along the wall on one of the floors.

I am trying to track down the composite from my graduating class. Are there any current students that can tell me if:

1. Mechanical Engineering is still located on the north side of 32nd Avenue.

2. If they recall graduating class composites and if so, where I would be able to find them?

I'm hoping to be able to take a photo of the composite.

Does anyone know if selections are for Fall only, or are they for both Fall and Winter? For example, Fall Block 6 is 8 AM start with most classes in the AM, but Winter Block 6 has most classes in the afternoon, so they are quite different.

I grew up in an abusive household. My father had a terrible temper and was quick to anger and often beat my mother. One of my first memories are of my mother sitting at the bottom of the stairs after a beating, crying as I handed her tissues while my father continued to berate her from the top of the stairs. I would have been about 3 years old at the time. Although my father never beat us children, he was verbally abusive towards everyone and this verbal abuse was something that ran rampant throughout in our family.

Despite my upbringing, I managed to break the cycle and have made a decent life for myself. I worked hard in school and put myself through university using student loans. I moved out of the family home as soon I could but remained ‘low contact’ with my family. We were never close and my parents eventually divorced when I was older.

Over the decades, there have been several instances where something has happened and my family feels the need to completely dump on me. They say the nastiest things to me, things that normal families would never say to each other. Whenever this happens, we usually enter a period of ‘no contact’, before eventually reconnecting. I'm not close to any of them, but they are still in my life purely due to guilt and I don't get any joy from my relationships with any of them.

My father recently passed away. As he got older, his relationship with me became more estranged, while his relationship with my sibling got stronger. He didn’t have much in terms of assets, but his home was his most valuable asset. While alive, he transferred ownership of that home to my sibling. This is not an issue for me, as my sibling is in a situation where this asset would be more beneficial to them.

Given that my father was close to my sibling, I was fully expecting my father to have updated his Will to make my sibling the executor. He did not. Instead, his Will is over 25 years old and still names me as the executor. I advised my sibling that I was going to renounce my role as executor as this makes more sense from a logistical standpoint.

This kicked off a shit storm of verbal abuse over text messages from both my sibling and my mother. My sibling called me an f-ing coward and said they never want to see me again. My mother told me she was no longer my mother, and to never contact her again. They both continued to berate me until I blocked them. Before blocking them, I calmly stated that I was also 'done' and fine with being disowned, while still ensuring they were given the information they need to proceed with managing my father’s estate without me.

It’s been about a week since this happened. I have not unblocked them, but the old feelings of guilt are starting to surface. Verbal abuse has been their ‘operating mode’ for decades, but we’ve always reconnected afterwards. But this time feels different for me and I think that I've finally had enough.

So AIO for going ‘no contact’ with my family? I get that a death in the family is an extremely stressful time, but this is not the first time they’ve displayed this toxic behavior and I’m tired of being their personal dumping ground and then letting them back into my life.