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I am accepted to both and accepted my uvic offer and I paid and everything. But I was debating going to uofa heavily and losing the money to uvic. What school will be better overall, I know uofa is ranked higher for eng? And I was considering EE or maybe Chem E if I went to uofa.

are there any instagram, whatsapp or any groups that exist for incoming first year students??
if there are, please send the link or lemme know.

quick question ,what number is going on in the residence lottery for first year right now???
i’m 430 when do i expect it.

OH MY GOD I have to write it again. So does anyone have ANY niceeeeee pics or videos from those buildings like the outside view or anything else? Maybe some night views or even the building view from the outside or something. uvic’s worst part is that its community Isn’t active on contenting and it’s really difficult to see a good content like you can get for any other university.

Transferring to uvic and wanna know best spots to set up and their pros/cons

Money not really an issue

It's all very well to institute measures to prevent or punish plagiarism in the age of AI. That's all great. Those measures can and will be implemented.

But do departments, faculties and the university as a whole think about how they can continue to keep education in their specific subjects relevant in the age of AI?

Are they thinking of measures to help students keep up with the transformation that's going on?

To help students adapt and upskill/reskill? Enabling students to build resilience to being made obsolete? How can students deal with the job market impacts of AI that we're seeing?

I think academia and academic policy makers and administrators, with all their collective expertise, knowledge, and abilities, should come together to rethink education, so that it serves students in this age of AI. Can there be initiatives by the University that bring together academia and industry, so that students are well-prepared for surviving in this job market?

This should be a community-wide, collective conversation and effort. I wonder whether there's anything to this effect happening anywhere?

*Access to someone can write computer scripts is required

This script will check available seats on linked courses (by CRN), and if there are any spots left, outputs the CRN for the courses with available spots.

To use (instructions for Linux):
find the CRN you are interested in, and modify the CRN value in the script below (this example is for CSC 110 labs for this September). I haven't tested it for other terms, but it should work. My guess is put the YYYYMM of the beginning of the term in TERM in the script:

#!/bin/bash

TERM="202609"
CRN="10712"

URL="https://banner.uvic.ca/StudentRegistrationSsb/ssb/searchResults/fetchLinkedSections?term=${TERM}&courseReferenceNumber=${CRN}"

curl -qsSL "$URL"  > /tmp/uvic.json  2>/dev/null
</tmp/uvic.json jq '.linkedData[][] | select(.seatsAvailable> 0) | .courseReferenceNumber'
rm /tmp/uvic.json

Save this as $HOME/bin/check-uvic, and make sure it can be executed:

chmod +x $HOME/bin/check-uvic

You will need curl and jq installed, they are easily available on all Linux distributions.

Add a crontab job: run and add the following line at the bottom, to run once an hour

0 * * * * $HOME/bin/check-uvic

If your system is set up properly for email, you will receive an email once there are available spots in this course.

I had a question regarding a deferral. Essentially I received a deferral for my Econ 346 exam in spring, and had 3 options to either take it April 30th, July 3rd or August 28th. I couldn't do the one in April because I was out of the country, so I told my professor that July 3rd works (tmr). Unfortunately I have had a medical complication come up this week after taking a blood test and I am required for further testing tomorrow in Vancouver, and I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to basically change my date with my prof from July 3rd to end of August.

This is probably a bit of a weird one, and I am going to email my prof, but I am just wondering if anyone has had any sort of experience with this before? Will my prof even allow this ?

I have an open book exam next week, and we are allowed to bring as many non-digital materials as we want.

I decided that I would like to print my slides and my notes out. I know I can print at the library, but in my life, I have never used a printer outside home, which I am quite confused on how it works.

Do I just load everything into an usb and bring it over? Or I am sing the computers there to print.

Thanks.

in the past week please return them, they're club property and we'd really like them back

Hi y’all! I’m going into Yr2 SEng in September and looking to replace my broken laptop. I use iPad for note taking and have somewhat an Apple ecosystem at home (until my cat broke my MacBook Air..)

I’m debating if I should go with a windows laptop over a MacBook Air M5 due to compatibility? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I'm 7th on the waitlist for CSC 110 lecture but I just found a spot in one of the labs. I saw in a comment on another post here of someone in the opposite situation saying that people who are in the labs but not in the lecture will be kicked out of the labs to ensure everyone in the lecture gets a spot. I just wanted to ask if that's true and if it happens sooner than when classes actually start, since I'm pretty close on the waitlist to getting in (right..?)

I just saw they sent out an update saying they extended offers up to # 200, Anyone now or in previous years know how likely it is that someone in the 460s will get an offer before the school year starts? I really do not want to do off-campus housing my first year in Victoria ( I am a year 2 transfer not a first year student ).

I am a second year standing electrical engineering student (although I am going into my third year at UVic). Like a lot of people, I had no study habits in 1st year and really did not try at all. I relied much on AI to teach me course material and did not go to class nearly as much as I should have. Due to this I have failed something like five courses, and there are a lot of Cs on my transcript. Long story short, I did very poorly in first year, to the point where I had filled out the engineering withdrawal form. I am glad, though, I never went through and submitted it. I just finished the spring semester of my 2nd year, tried much harder and achieved all my grades above the class mean (A-/81%, A-/81%, B+/78%, B-/72%, B-/71%). Being honest, this has given me much more confidence in my ability and I truly feel like I can succeed in engineering (even though these still aren't amazing marks). Still, I have a very low cumulative GPA and my transcript is riddled with Cs, which is really worrying me for getting a co-op position.

I am currently on my first co-op work term which I coordinated with a mineral exploration company I had worked at last summer. It is not exactly engineering (and certainly not EE), but it is still a technical position. I believe I have a decent amount of work experience, having two seasonal positions doing mineral exploration (at least in comparison to many students prior to their first co-op job), but am really worried that my GPA and poor transcript will ruin any employer's outlook on me as a candidate.

I'm wondering if anyone has any advice or any opinions that may be helpful. Thanks :)

(P.S. this is my first real reddit post, sorry if its a super long)

I was curious as to why many of the required courses for the physics program aren’t being
Offered in either semester this year? Such as 217.
It’s giving me a bit of a hard time with registration.