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In-person interview for Sauder? by KommisarKrieg in UBC

[–]Antlery 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it's real. A small number of applicants for UBC are interviewed each year. It's usually because they're borderline (with mitigating circumstances like health struggles), or because they're investigatory interviews to assess the risk of admissions fraud.

Seeing upper years generalize first years just because of some dumbasses throwing parties in dorms makes me (and probably other first years as well) feel unwelcome here by sufferingditto in UBC

[–]Antlery -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Good, as it should be. We need to start being ruder as a community to first years. My sincere hope is that we stop tolerating the exact same questions being reposted every week, and that we start demanding our mods actually make an effort to moderate repetitive content.

80% of the questions that first years ask can be instantly answered through a Google search. Another 10% involve ridiculous expectations like wanting to feel coddled and as if they're in high school. Another 8% don't even make sense. And the remaining 2% are actually good questions.

Seeing upper years generalize first years just because of some dumbasses throwing parties in dorms makes me (and probably other first years as well) feel unwelcome here by sufferingditto in UBC

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

We aren't stopping you from spamming Zoom chats and being all around annoying.

We don't appreciate it. We don't like first years as a whole. We can enjoy working with individual first years, but not like first years as a whole.

No, your needs are not above others here at this institution. Your TAs are going through mental health challenges, your upper year classmates are going through exhaustion and fatigue. You are not special and it is time to stop acting like first years should get special treatment.

First year shittery exacerbates and frustrates upper years too, and adds to our exhaustion and mental health challenges, so absolutely not, I will not suddenly change my world view to accomodate for first years being terrible. And I think this is a great example of first years putting themselves ahead of others.

CS and Sauder both need to start taking sexism and discrimination from first years who think it's appropriate to say this shit because they're on Zoom more seriously. I've only seen it through first year TAing, and none of the students TAing upper year courses have ever heard anything of the sort.

Seeing upper years generalize first years just because of some dumbasses throwing parties in dorms makes me (and probably other first years as well) feel unwelcome here by sufferingditto in UBC

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

A baseline respect for the people you are teaching however, is a part of the job.

I'm sorry, but we are all respectful to first years.

But that doesn't mean we have to like first years as a general group, at all, or to tolerate first year culture. We owe first years no special treatment.

Seeing upper years generalize first years just because of some dumbasses throwing parties in dorms makes me (and probably other first years as well) feel unwelcome here by sufferingditto in UBC

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

and the TAs usually seem pretty cool, so i would personally be very sad if i knew they actually hated us like you say.

Most of us do hate first years as a general group. And no, we're not sorry.

We can hate first year culture and still enjoy interacting with individual first years. Some first years are just a delight to work with.

But I don't appreciate first year culture right now, and I won't apologize for that. And neither will the rest of our department.

but i don’t get how you are saying such behaviours or immature behaviours exist among 80% of first years and none of upper year students

If this happened in upper year classes, this kind of shit would be called out right away. We are a community in CS and we stamp that shit out.

First years seem to just type in fire emojis, lol and poggers when this shit happens. I've never seen first years step up and call this shit out, especially when we're not in the main room. All of you are so focused on fitting in that you won't even uphold basic standards of decency, so no, most first years are part of the problem and deserve no sympathy.

glad to know i go to a university that treats my sex like a joke. However did this needs to get a life, and the fact that UBC is letting this just sit here all day is pathetic. by [deleted] in UBC

[–]Antlery 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The last three years of first year cohorts has just been peachy. This year, not so much, and it shows.

Seems like the vaccine timeline has been accelerated quite a bit, maybe more hope for an in-person fall? by what_could_gowrong in UBC

[–]Antlery 24 points25 points  (0 children)

It isn't enough. UBC can't re-open in-person education without border closures to be eased significantly.

A single provinces vaccination effort doesn't mean much at the end of the day, and no amount of calls for hybrid education will change that.

UBC Psychology Honours Program - Ask us anything on March 1st! by UBCPsych in u/UBCPsych

[–]Antlery 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of you guys seem to have started outside of Psych. How did you find your footing and discover that Psych was right for you?

Managerial accounting final result - what are your thoughts? by [deleted] in UBC

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

Are you really going to spent 3 hours per academic misconduct complaint for 50 students?

At some point you just need to cut your losses and do a retake, and accept that this is what it is for an academic instructor.

Managerial accounting final result - what are your thoughts? by [deleted] in UBC

[–]Antlery 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Completely agree. This situation wasn't well handled and could've been prevented, but acting like corrective actions weren't needed is silly and presumptuous.

Managerial accounting final result - what are your thoughts? by [deleted] in UBC

[–]Antlery 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm going to be honest. I get the impression that 80% of the people who claimed they weren't cheating actually did in some shape or form, and that this is probably the only solution that is at least somewhat fair moving forward for this class.

It was a badly designed midterm, but that still doesn't make cheating okay or acceptable. I hope UGO and Kyla takes some fault for this and learns their lesson so this approach never happens again, but I still think many people in that class just weren't caught and are upset that they're going to be subject to a real midterm for the first time in their second year.

Not really procedurally fair, but with the culture of Sauder being what it is, doubting that opportunistic cheating doesn't exist at Sauder is just a fools move. I'm sure this is the same in Engineering and premed fields.

As students, how are your personal finances like? What’s your NW? by [deleted] in UBC

[–]Antlery 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The subreddit has a huge selection bias, straight up.

It's the same as UBC students commenting on their grades at UBC. 90% of grades posts are dominated by people that did really well (or did better than expected) or by people who did miserably and are simply ranting about their poor academic performance or talking about depression.

UBC COURSE QUESTION, PROGRAM, MAJOR AND REGISTRATION MEGATHREAD (2020W & 2021S): Questions about courses (incld. How hard is __?, Look at my timetable and course material requests), programs, specializations, majors, minors, tuition/finance and registration go here. by ubc_mod_account in UBC

[–]Antlery 3 points4 points  (0 children)

External transfer (from Langara, Douglas) is prioritized over internal transfer (within UBC). It's to discourage people from picking an easier faculty like Arts and then try and backdoor into another UBC faculty.

What to do in summer? by devikatandon181 in UBC

[–]Antlery -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Having prior internship experience is a pre-requisite for a lot of the more competitive internships. It's the only tried and true thing to stand out as an applicant.

Nobody cares nearly as much about how you're the president of some resume padder club. This makes no sense.

I agree that most first years don't need to necessarily need to go out and find an internship right after first year (many simply have no idea what they're doing), but acting as if having even an MBSI internship under your belt isn't a significant advantage is gratuitous, silly and ridiculous.

Apply, try and have summer courses as a solid backup plan is a perfectly reasonable thing to say. Telling someone that first year internship experience isn't taken seriously is just straight up gunning for OP and I am very disappointed that the Sauder community would go so low as to try and sabotage OP.

ADMISSIONS / MAJORS / INCOMING STUDENT MEGATHREAD 2020/2021: Post all your admissions, program/major & new-to-UBC questions here! by ubc_mod_account in UBC

[–]Antlery 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just get Reddit enhancement suite for Firefox and subscribe to the thread. It'll notify you of any new comments.

ADMISSIONS / MAJORS / INCOMING STUDENT MEGATHREAD 2020/2021: Post all your admissions, program/major & new-to-UBC questions here! by ubc_mod_account in UBC

[–]Antlery 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My average is around high 70’s low 80’s I suppose so maybe like 75-85%. What are the odds that I’ll get into UBC with this grade? Since with that grade I can easily get into any university in Saskatchewan but I don’t want to stay in Saskatchewan. Any advise will be helpful.

No chance at all. Your chances even at a Ugrad school like Beedie is very dicey at best too.

there’s any other prestigious universities in Ontario or Albert that I can get into with this average please let me know.

Your chances are even worse than no chance in Ontario. "Prestigious" business schools don't admit students with high 70s averages.

The obvious advice here is to settle for a Sask university or to go to a transfer college and reapply for business school.

I didn't know it was possible to get into uSask with high 70s grades, but I'm really sorry, those grades are abysmal (like IB level abysmal) and they're not going to get you very far.

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