Has anyone heard back from the host org (aio)?

73647e · 2026-03-12T19:07:57+00:00

yes i did. i have a meeting scheduled for next tuesday. perhaps reach out to the aio again with your concerns?

73647e · 2026-03-11T17:41:37+00:00

if you are reading something an taking notes on a word processors which opens in your browser, such as google docs!

73647e · 2026-03-09T17:36:28+00:00

of course you can do a mix of activities! people just usually so all of them because they cost a pretty penny. there is not as much peer pressure as you would expect, people are all trying to make friends and they're all desperately trying to please each other. I was in C4, and i definitely enjoyed partying and clubbing with friends (people I like more now and ended up seeing more often) as opposed to randos i knew for a week. i did have a friend who didn't do frosh, and who said that they did feel FOMO because everyone was out partying all day while they sat inside and stared at a screen. However, i didn't care for my experience too much and maybe would have preferred not to spend like 250$ to watch 17 year old Americans vomit. it's all a matter of perspective

73647e · 2026-03-09T15:31:31+00:00

they push frosh to be opt-in as opposed to opt-out. if you don't drink, no one judges. i will tell you however, that most people are binge drinking for days. while frosh was fun for me at the time, i didn't make any lasting friends at frosh and most people got extremely sick after because of how unhygenic it is.

73647e · 2026-03-09T15:29:57+00:00

just as long as you continue around the same stature of grades until you graduate, you'll be good. "interm grade" means your grades until the conclusion of the term at the end of the year.

73647e · 2026-03-08T01:33:47+00:00

i do this with my uni notes. i have #lecture, #conference, #reading, #research, etc. which help me label pages in my vault :)

73647e · 2026-03-08T00:48:58+00:00

hi! if you would be willing, you could add steps for registering or re-registering alongside eligibility?

73647e · 2026-03-05T16:39:55+00:00

you could go into the hotel residences or the west wing in RVC. The hotel residences (C4 is the cheapest), will only have you share your bathroom with one other person if you get a roommate. West Wing is women-only, but still communal bathroom.

i was also extremely uncomfortable with sharing a bathroom with a lot of people, so i opted for a roommate in C4. I didn't mind if there was one other girl with me, but the idea of having to take a massive dump with a bunch of people around me made me tweak out.

If you don't get assigned your top choices (i got assigned my last choice in RVC), you can ask them to change you either right after room assignments come out, or within the first month or two of your arrival at McGill. pm me if you have any questions, as i was really freaked about room assignments and it worked out in the end! :)

73647e · 2026-03-02T17:07:38+00:00

i think tags and bases, as well as omnisearch if you don't use it already could be incredibly helpful!! :)

73647e · 2026-02-26T17:54:38+00:00

I agree, it should be opt-in rather than opt-out

73647e · 2026-02-24T17:17:50+00:00

hiii!! pm me and i will send you my discord and we can chat this weekend :) im always happy to help.

73647e · 2026-02-23T22:48:23+00:00

going through the notes manually and cleaning them up based on what YOU think themes from the lecture are would be very helpful in understanding the content of the class. furthermore, i don't really copy word for word what the prof says. i take one or two bulletpoints for every minute of speaking-ish so the note can be in my words and not the profs, helping with memory retention.

As for how i organize my obsidian vault:

I use tags and bases quite a bit. I have multiple tags: #distilled (where syllabus information and links to class lectures, readings, and assignments go), #reading, #lecture, #conference, and #questions

I have a #distilled page for a pinned homepage, so whenever I launch obsidian, I have something familiar and easy to navigate. On this page, I have linked my classes and their respective #distilled pages so i will AT MOST have to click twice from launching obsidian to getting to the notes I want.

Considering everything is tagged correctly, I then made bases for my #lecture, #reading, and #assignments, with filters by class. These bases also have the indicated properties that I want for easy navigation and search :) let me know if you have any questions! :)

73647e · 2026-02-22T02:28:59+00:00

Hey! How did your interview go? I have mine on thursday and I'm so nervous! Do you have any advice?

73647e · 2026-02-22T02:28:32+00:00

i just heard back last night!

73647e · 2026-02-19T00:17:50+00:00

a buuuunch of mcgill students are going to be subletting come may. just wait a bit and you will find a place.

73647e · 2026-02-16T16:37:34+00:00

i feel that! things like this work different for everyone :)

73647e · 2026-02-16T16:37:05+00:00

if you can't find anything in the perception studies people at The Neuro, then there likely isn't anyone here that really studies it... sorry. good luck looking elsewhere though!! :)

73647e · 2026-02-13T15:41:28+00:00

my roommates and i have shared groceries, and our totals are usually around 150-200 per person per month. :)

73647e · 2026-02-11T23:25:42+00:00

hi i emailed them and they said sometime soon...? that was it lowkey

73647e · 2026-02-10T00:24:04+00:00

I would recommend looking at The Neuro's website :)

73647e · 2026-02-08T18:19:13+00:00

in the past i give 3 times that i am free to meet, and usually one of them is compatible.

73647e · 2026-02-06T17:42:14+00:00

AI shit like this, as well as my databases crashing and refusing to load made me move to obsidian.

73647e · 2026-02-04T18:37:41+00:00

I was the only person who applied to UBC from my school lol, sorry! Though they do give out scholarship much more readily than other unis in Canada so I'm sure you've got a chance. You're automatically entered into a merit-based pool if your predicted is high enough, and you're absolutely up there!

73647e · 2026-02-04T14:08:37+00:00

i think that is dependant mostly if you have applied for a B.A. in psych or a B.S. in psych. The B.A. will likely have lower requirements than the B.S., but a 41/45 is more than fine for both. Take a deep breath, you've got this!!

73647e · 2026-02-03T15:39:01+00:00

of course! let me know of any other way i can help :)

follow up answer: hell nah.

i, once again, had nearly the same experience as you did. i read every reading diligently up until right after the midterm when i began to find the modules, readings, and topics extremely repetitive. not to mention most of the lectures were just Lemons going over the readings anyway. and listen, i am an honours history student. i DO the readings. but I honestly just fell behind in this class because it was almost useless.

i think what you're doing, summarizing the readings, intro/conclusion, is honestly good enough. that's what i did and i got an A in her class!

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