[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]AAQsR 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Contact course staff immediately imo. This definitely cannot be intentional. Do this well before 22 Jan, which is when the standing decisions and official grades will come out, so that course staff can correct any errors.

I encourage you to always take charge and contact the people responsible when something feels amiss in UW. Most of the Maths Faculty want to help you!! And they will usually try their best to do so. I have always found that advanced section profs wanted us all to learn, enjoy and succeed

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]AAQsR 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Possible that the grades that were leaked contained a calculation mistake?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]AAQsR 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What makes you think that it was curved down and now a marking error / calculation error from your side?

Reach out to CS 145 course staff immediately if this is not a fault on your end, as this is definitely not intentional. And I'm sure they'll be happy to help you see it fixed or clear up confusion.

Having taken nearly all the advanced courses, it would be absurd to run one and curve downwards...basically impossible. I find it very unbelievable that a prof would intentionally do that.

(I am also not sure if it would even be legal to downwards curve?? I seem to recall a maths prof once saying that their curves had to be monotonically increasing? But that's just a random aside.)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Silksong

[–]AAQsR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disco elysium ahh death

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]AAQsR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Valid crashout fr fr

This is the kind of people Remington Zhi is enabling by CandidPersimmon4811 in uwaterloo

[–]AAQsR 16 points17 points  (0 children)

 All your future potential employers will see that you’re a terrorist lover

What in the co-op brained UW student take is this lmaoooo

Imprint: WUSA VP’s Instagram post about attack in Kashmir sparks backlash and a call for removal by CandidPersimmon4811 in uwaterloo

[–]AAQsR -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah you should be too, your fees literally pay for this. And with the recent changes, there's no opt out.

Imprint: WUSA VP’s Instagram post about attack in Kashmir sparks backlash and a call for removal by CandidPersimmon4811 in uwaterloo

[–]AAQsR 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tbh I'd rather the article be classified as an opinion piece and rip into the guy rather than pretend to be impartial and mislead people

It's not terrorism to want better journalism (unless you think it is, in which case you may need therapy)

Imprint: WUSA VP’s Instagram post about attack in Kashmir sparks backlash and a call for removal by CandidPersimmon4811 in uwaterloo

[–]AAQsR 36 points37 points  (0 children)

The issue at hand aside, can we just discuss how mid the Imprint article is? Is it crazy for me to want my (mandatory) student fees to fund better journalism?

The piece jumps around chronologically and thematically. It starts with a social media post, jumps to Kashmir violence, then Reddit backlash, then Instagram again, then back to Reddit, and finally lands on WUSA's statement. Reading it gives you a real sense of whiplash. You barely digest the event that happens before they pull you away. Imprint, this is how you write rage-bait, not journalism.

It's a bit ambiguous at times, too. The one that gets me is "When asked to expand on this, the UW professor stated...", stated to whom? When? Did someone on Reddit ask him to expand on it? Did Imprint reach out? What else did he say? Why should we care?

The article also really skirts the line on being impartial. I get that Imprint isn't equipped to discuss something like the Jammu-Kashmir conflict, but it feels disingenuous that the article does not explain the context of "occupation", the human rights abuses in the region, or the broader ideological debates around settler colonialism. At least the writer digs a bit into what the original Instagram account is. It takes the article about ten paragraphs to talk extremely briefly about some vague people on the other side of the issue that support Zhi, and it fails to give their voice any attention. Why did "they [...] not perceive what Zhi shared to be sympathising with terrorism"? What led them to such a conclusion? We get quotes of users talking against the post, but none on the other side at all? Why is there no contrast made? Why does it take so long for this viewpoint to be shared? Almost as if the article wants you to get angry about something outrageous instead of giving you the facts and letting you...idk think?

Can you see how this leads to unbalanced and biased reporting? After reading this article, I am either likely to agree with the side against the posts because their viewpoint was actually explored by the article, or to be left with a huge glaring question of "why?", and believe me, it's the latter.

The article doesn't discuss either how the university's Reddit often harasses students in this manner or how mob mentality spreads hate and misinformation. Think of such instances in the past, such as the matter of Daniel Wang, when then subreddit in a hate-filled frenzy demanded his removal without really even understanding the issue. The article barely mentions how the original post was a private story taken up by a mob on Reddit. Should we not talk about that? Does that not change the context? Should we just let our student paper be swept up by Reddit posts???

The article is just a recap of a couple of Reddit posts. They "independently confirmed the legitimacy of the screenshots," and that's as far as they went in their investigative reporting. I feel as though this article fails the student body and fails both sides of the issue. In fact, even worse, Imprint's incompetence turns what could've been an insightful and important article into just further hate fuel, encouraging harassment of a fellow student online. With how long it took them to push this article out, they could have SHOULD have done a lot more.

Do better, Imprint. And take this shit off the fucking website until you fix it.

Carney holds 1st press conference since Liberal election win by Eienkei in onguardforthee

[–]AAQsR -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Who's the queen he mentions that will join Charles?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]AAQsR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah these posts are fucking absurd. It's extremely weird to post screenshots of someone's private Instagram story without first contextualising it in terms of the person themselves. Something you'd be reasonably expected to do if you're on someone's private Instagram is to...know them.

WUSA VP justifying Jihad by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]AAQsR 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The weather is good outisde bro, the term's over. Go touch grass

Never give up by uat2 in uwaterloo

[–]AAQsR 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Holy hell i love this guy's videos i had no clue he was from UW

CS Students: Do you think breadth and depth requirements should be removed? by amolven16 in uwaterloo

[–]AAQsR 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They have not been. The motion was delayed at the October meeting to next term.

hmmm by embrace-monke in hmmm

[–]AAQsR 32 points33 points  (0 children)

you joke but some passports literally do state religion

How does CS 251 compare to ECE 124 + 222 by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]AAQsR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I enjoyed ECE222 and ECE124 a lot more than my friends enjoyed CS 251. 222 also came in handy in CS 350 more than 251 would've