r/udub

Genuinely asking because why is making plans in a group chat so painful 😭

Someone says "we should get food this weekend."

5 people say "down."

Someone asks when. 2 people respond.

Someone sends a restaurant.

Silence.

Then you see everyone on campus Monday like nothing happened lol.

This happened so much with my friends at UW that I ended up building a little app for us over the summer. It's kinda like Partiful, but for the plans that are too casual to make a whole Partiful for.

Like I'm not making an event page because 5 of us might get KBBQ on Friday lol. I just wanna know who's down and figure it out from there.

Friends don't need to download anything either, they can just respond from the link.

We've used it for like 60 plans now, which is kinda crazy because I originally just made it for us.

Is everyone's group chat like this or are my friends just impossible 😭

I am a first year out of state student coming to UW and have a lot of items I want to bring but cannot as I do not have enough space in my suitcase. Are there any events/programs at the start of the school year where students can grab items current students have donated to UW? Does UW even have a place where students can get place dorm items that are no longer in use?

I didn‘t need a dedicated gpu laptop for freshman year. But I am now thinking of getting a new laptop since I will be starting the core major classes in spring this upcoming year. How much heavy engineering do you actually end up doing in bioe? do you actually need all the specs listed on the college of engineering laptop requirements page? what laptop did you use?

any recs please 😄 i would like a comfortable one

Hi! I’m an incoming UW student and I’m renting an apartment near campus. The building’s standard move-in date is around mid-September, but I noticed that I’m still being charged the full monthly rent for September rather than a prorated amount.

I’ve seen a few other student apartments around UW that also have move-in dates in mid or late September, so I was wondering if this is pretty common for apartments in the U-District.

For those who have rented near UW, did you also pay the full September rent even though your lease/move-in date was in the middle of the month? Or was your first month prorated?

I’m joining a grad program this fall and I wanted to start taking boxing lessons or at least hit the bag somewhere near campus where lessons aren’t too expensive (cause I’m still a student) lmk if anyone knows a place where I can train!

I’m approved for the federal work study and made an account on the handshake app, but most jobs don’t seem like they are accepting yet, or only a couple are. When should I start applying?

do either of the district markets sell raw meat? i’m hoping they do so i can just spend my dining dollars there rather than going to the grocery store. thanks!

I was wondering if there was or is a population of students play Pokémon competively on campus? I dont think there is a club but I was curious if there was some interest.

I just started playing, so I was wondering if there was an active community.

Hi! It’s my first term this fall at UW transferring from a CC. I’m commuting to UW from Renton and I’m trying to keep my job part time. My schedule is kinda shit since there was barely anything left during my registration. I did register for 17 credits total however I’m debating dropping a class leaving me at 12 credits in order to have Tuesdays and Thursdays off to work. Is it normal for transfer students to take less credits their first term? I do plan on taking summer courses next summer for financial reasons anyways so I don’t think I would fall behind. I’m probably overthinking but it would be nice to hear what other transfer students first terms looked like?

My partner and I were driving on Montlake Blvd around 11:20pm and came across a student-aged guy so drunk he couldn't walk on his own. We stopped to offer help and he said he lived just a few minutes away, so we offered to drive him home. The address he kept giving us was all the way down near Beacon Hill, but when he gave directions as we drove, he led us to Ravenna. Eventually he got frustrated by us asking for directions and saying the address didn't make sense to us, so he hopped out and said he'd walk the rest of the way because it was only a couple minutes.

We realized afterwards we should've just asked to look at his phone to see if he had his address saved in Maps or if we could call someone, but hindsight is 20/20.

So - is this your friend? If so, do you know if he ever made it home? Based on what he said I think he thought we were an Uber (he said he'd tip us tomorrow 😂) but we are just two locals hoping he isn't passed out in a street somewhere!

Hey all. I spent the offseason building a full 2026 preseason preview for every FBS team, each with its own writeup. Here's the Washington one

https://www.sports.mainmarket.com/college-football-preview-2026-fbs/washington-huskies

It's got the returning production breakdown, the portal ins and outs, a projected two-deep, the schedule with model win probabilities, and a season projection.

Heads up, you might hit the paywall after the first page. Don't worry, I'm not charging reddit people for this, don't want to be an ass. Use the promo code LEECORSOROCKS and it opens up the entire thing.

So, what'd I get wrong? Washington went 9-4 and blew out Boise State in the bowl, and now returns 16% of its offensive production. Demond Williams Jr. is back off 3,065 yards and 25 touchdowns, but he did that behind a line that gave up 33 sacks, 114th in the country. My model has you at 7-5. Can Williams carry a rebuilt offense, or does the protection finally catch up?

I'll be in the comments.

Not worried about transporting either.

Is the rental option decent?

Or is purchasing better? Any brands to avoid?

Double dorm and definitely want both appliances.

I’m an out of state UW engineering student paying around $60k/year to attend, and I just got my placement result. ECE was the major I came here for and the field I’ve had my sights set on basically the entire time, but I didn’t get it. I got placed into Materials Science instead, which was an alternate choice and a major I genuinely have little to no interest in pursuing.

I feel like I seriously screwed up my first year. My UW GPA is around a 2.8, so I understand that probably hurt me badly in placement. What scares me is that one bad year now potentially determines what I study for the next three years, even though I’m almost certain I want my career to be somewhere within ECE(computer architecture, VLSI, hardware, electronics, etc)

The financial part makes this even harder. My family is spending a huge amount for me to attend UW from out of state, including tuition, housing, flights, everything. Spending $60k/year made sense to me when I thought I would be studying ECE. Spending that much to complete a degree I have almost no interest in makes much less sense.

I could potentially transfer back to an in state school for dramatically less money. I’m wondering whether I should try using that record plus my UW coursework to transfer into EE/ECE somewhere else, potentially back in my state.

I know I can apply to UW ECE again through the capacity-constrained application next spring, but with a 2.8 GPA I honestly don’t know how realistic that is even if I improve significantly this upcomnig year.

Has anyone here been in a similar situation? Missed your intended major, got placed into something you didn’t want, and either successfully switched later or transferred out?

Is there any realistic pathway where I can stay at UW and still end up in ECE, or would transferring to a cheaper school where I can actually study EE/ECE be the smarter move?

I’m not interested in transferring to UW Bothell just for the UW name. If I’m going to leave Seattle, I’d rather go back to my state, pay substantially less, and study something I actually want.

I’m genuinely pretty devastated right now and don’t know what the best move is.

I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through something similar or knows how realistic an ECE switch/transfer would be from here.