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I’m just wondering if I get 48, or 49 as my final mark, will they be mercy and bump me to 50? Did anyone get their final grade as 49,48 before, in math 101? Thanks!

Whether you are an incoming first year who has never even heard of the sport or an alum of the rowing team I am here to answer your questions! Ask about what our training is like, racing, balancing academics and sport, whatever!

Some quick facts:

We are the most successful men's rowing team in Canada. Winning our fourth national championship in a row this year, making 10 it all-time.

We recruit and train novice rowers! We take in UBC students who have never rowed before and teach them to race. In fact some of our most successful athletes started their careers as novices.

We row on the North arm of the Fraser out of the J.M.S. Lecky UBC Boathouse.

This year we were the first Canadian team ever to join the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, letting us compete against some of the best schools in the world like Univ. of Washington and Cal Berkley.

My friends were telling me they switched from java to typescript. is this true?

As an Alberta student who has applied for student loans every summer since starting university, I've developed a pattern of frustration with our enrollment services. I take my applications seriously; I fill out every required field carefully and accurately and yet every year, enrollment staff either claim ignorance about my file or contradict what's clearly documented in Workday.

Here's what I've learned about the process: When I submit my loan applications, Alberta Student Loans and the federal program send confirmation requests to the university a few weeks later, asking it to verify my enrollment and the accuracy of my submitted information. The university becomes the bottleneck. And without fail, this bottleneck delays my funding every single semester, requiring multiple calls and in person visits to get things sorted.

The real problem is timing. Living in the city doesn't become affordable just because my student loan doesn't arrived in my bank account on time. Mid August panic calls to discover that the university hasn't confirmed my enrollment (and worse, that I submitted the wrong program code, despite having the right one) mean canceling and reapplying and waiting all over again.

My suggestion: For a large institution with hundreds of student loan applicants, starting enrollment confirmations on August 1st would prevent this cycle. Early processing would catch errors before they cascade into months long delays and wouldn't leave students scrambling in mid August when it's too late to fix anything.

Hey everyone! Looking for a couple of people to help put up posters around campus — should take about 2-3 hours total. Paying $15/hr, cash or e-transfer.

Pretty simple task, just walking around to a few high-traffic spots (bulletin boards, common areas, etc.) and putting posters up. Good if you want some quick, easy pocket money between classes.

If interested, comment below or shoot me a DM with your name and availability this week!

This summer I was super grateful because one of my profs got me into contact with someone who works as a hiring manager at one of my dream companies. Total score!

But we've been emailing back and forth for a few email now, and it's...ridiculously?..obvious how she's using AI to talk to me. We're talking "I want to focus on helping you to see yourself — your values, interests and your value — within a very large and complex system so that you can begin to chart your and navigate your course." as a real sentence from an email she just sent me.

And it's pretty obvious that she's just typing "Explain some of the main goals and projects that company X is working on" and then copying and pasting whatever it spits out to me. And it was a really weird experience because I, an undergrad who hasn't even applied to a job there yet, went "Wait, that doesn't make sense at all"

I mean, ig I'm grateful she's even willing to do that much for me, but also, I feel a bit disrespected by her for communicating with me this way. I was hoping for a bit more direction of like "Send me your resume and I'll tell you what you're missing" or like "You should take a course on this thing, a lot of new hires are missing these required skills" even a nice little "We set up a booth in October at this hotel, you should come by then"

This is my first time working with a mentor like this, so maybe my expectations are skewed, but the less grateful part of me says I should just ask chatgpt to write me a letter of reccomendation from [their name] in tiny white text at the top of my email and see what happens

It’s looking like I might finish my current search term without landing a co-op, and I’m feeling pretty disappointed.

Has anyone had an unsuccessful first search term and a much better second one? What did you change, and did the process get easier the second time around? I would especially love to hear from anyone who had much better luck the second time around and how you balanced the search with school.

Friend of mine is working as a flight attendant and he just told me he'd get me $80 CAD flights (to Korea and probably more) and travel the world staying at hostels or friends house with him. He invited me today (Tuesday) and he wants to fly on Thursday. The trip would be 2 weeks.

Once in a lifetime opportunity to take flights for such an insane discount. He's quitting his job as a flight attendant in September to go to school so it's not like this can be done again.

The main problem is I have a job: minimum wage at a corner store/vape candy store type of thing. If I quit today I know my manager and coworkers will be in bad shape trying to cover my shifts and it would be pretty inconvinient for them.

However I do want to leave the job anyways since I want to do something that earns more money like tips at a restaurant.

I have a shift tonight, tomorrow, Friday and Saturday night. I'd rather not destroy the relationship between me and this job also but I guess I’d have to.

What are the consequences of doing this? Is it worth it? I was thinking of trying to get a job when I get back at like cactus club or something lol. Also what kind of message would I even send?

Also how would paying my tuition work? I might be stupid

I’m 19 and about to go into second year

Wrote my CPSC 103 final today and feel horrible about it. I’m hoping to pass it so I can pass the course, but I don’t know if that’ll happen. Has anyone gone through a similar situation? Is there light at the end of the tunnel?

honestly i'm just making this post for funsies but I feel like ever since i came here I haven't liked a SINGLE PERSON ENOUGH TO WANT TO BE W THEM

alot of it has to do w the fact that i only get crushes when i know someone a little and not just based off of seeing someone somewhere(aka lecture crushes), i've honestly never had a crush my whole life if u think ab it that way

but putting that aside i feel like no one really comes up to me?? i used to have guys who liked me at school so perhaps i thought i was gonna get more here but APPARENTLY NOT

it could be cause im not that attractive which is fine, (i did have two guys come up to me last year but it ended real quick w them bc im awkward and they just wanted to hook up)

SPEAKING OF HOOKING UP, is everyone here just dating casually? every dude i've seen/heard about/talked to is only really dating for fun which is not what i want. I assumed maybe the seniors were more likely to be serious but I haven't met anyone so far.

A big issue w me is i dont talk to people at all so that could be why but im lowkey just bored and miss the feeling of having a talking stage (except i want it to be a serious rs too)

Go on "buy permits" and you might be able to buy the permit you signed up for. I didn't receive any email and someone told me to check my parking account. Checked and North was available to purchase! Parking now acquired 🙂‍↕️

I'm an incoming engineer student and some common advice I see is to go to office hours for classes before you start struggling, even if it's just to get to know your professors a bit better, but... is it actually realistic to do this for all of your classes? For reference, I have like 7 classes first term (although i'm gonna talk to an advisor about offloading a class for summer) and 6 in the second.

Thank you

I know this is such a non problem but has anyone else also had a really hard time with dating in vancouver? Like im an objectively attractive woman and no guys like EVER approach me. I know it’s not a looks issue cus i never had this problem before coming to ubc but it’s been weighing on me as im going into second year and ive only had one guy seriously talk to me. Another thing that goes along w this problem is the fact the guys mostly want to hookup. Ive tried dating apps and they say long term relationship then we meet up and they’re trying to get me to go to their places and it’s so weird. Idk maybe it’ll be better cus im going into second year now but none of my friends at other schools have this problem and it’s really frustrating.

After being unemployed my whole life I landed a minimum wage job at a grocery store 😎😎

Good news: I got a job 😊🥰🤩🥳
Bad news: I got a job 😢

I am now going to switch up on my day ones thank you for reading