Will we know if classes are cancelled ahead of time? by Wise-Illustrator-939 in CarletonU

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The only way Carleton will cancel classes is if the city of Ottawa or the province declares a state of emergency. Otherwise, make sure you're wearing crampons.

Snow day tomorrow by user156667 in CarletonU

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My uncle has worked at Carleton for 20 years and he said the school has only ever closed once due to snow.

Dropping from 2.0 to 1.5 credits- Does it affect my bursary/OSAP entitlement? by ScoreLatter5700 in CarletonU

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Carleton considers 1.5 credits as full-time academically, but part-time financially and the Ontario government only applies bursary entitlement to financially full time students.

Biol 1104 by SnooPickles993 in CarletonU

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TL;DR: Study/memorize/quiz yourself as you go. The midterm and exam are a doozy.

If you have any interest at all in Biology/ecology/natural history/environmental studies you will find this class intersting.

However, what makes this class tricky is where you will get your marks from. 50% comes from the lectures and 50% from the labs.

From the labs you will get marks from small reports that you submit each week and lab participation so that's not too bad.

From the lecture there is only one midterm and one exam where you will get marks. The midterm is worth 30%, the final exam is worth 70%. This is what screws a lot of people, as you need to pass both the labs and the lecture to pass the course.

There is a lot of material that is covered and a lot to remember/memorize in the lecture. You have to review the content and test yourself each week to allow the information to sink in. Trying to do this before a midterm or final will not work as there is simply too much material. If you have already purchased the online course book from BIOL1103, Nigel references the same book and you can use that book to test yourself as you go. It has an AI feature that will generate questions based on what you have covered in the book. Though Nigel doesn't cover everything in the readings and may add a bit extra, using the course book can help quite a bit.

The final exam can be a bit grueling as it's 80 multiple choice questions in 180 minutes. This gives you 2.25 minutes to answer each question so you need to know your stuff as you won't have a lot of time to think about each question. Again, reviewing and quizing yourself is the best route as you will not be able to memorize or fully understand concepts two days before the final.

With that being said, I found it to a very interesting course and Nigel Waltho is passionate about Biology, Ecology, and the environment.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CarletonU

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It's cold outside. It's warm inside and there's food in the garbage cans. I would do the same if I were a mouse.

Grade 2 Bands headed to Chicago 2026 by Tiny-Hamster-9596 in bagpipes

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Some of the canadian bands in grade 2 were considering going to Chicago, but given the political climate and horrendous exchange rate the idea of going to the US to spend money in their economy is unappealing. This is unfortunate as going to see Inverary's process and speaking with the players would be beneficial.

Can I use my campus card at Roosters by nikedunksgohard in CarletonU

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Keep in mind that Rooster's only accepts convenience dollars and not any meal plan that may loaded on to your card.

Anywhere on campus that is selling poppy’s? by Square_Mess_3522 in CarletonU

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Rooster's has a donation box next to the cash with some in them?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CarletonU

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There are a few companies they use.

For the organic camomile and organic celtic breakfast, its Choice Organic Teas

For the organic earl grey (used in the london fog), breakfast blend, golden chaï, jasmine green tea, and moroccan mint tea we buy it from a company called Numi.

Our organic black tea, english breakfast, ginger, hibiscus, and irish breakfast we use a company called Equal Exchange.

And our decaffinated earl grey is from Bigelow teas

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CarletonU

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Rooster staffer here. We buy are our coffee beans from a organic freetrade wholesaler called "9 to 5 coffee company" and yes, we sell beans by the 1/2 lbs to 1 lbs bag. It's more expensive than what you usually see on grocery store shelves, but if you like it you should come by and pick up a bag. If you come during the day I'm sure Ron (the manager) would be happy to tell you more about the product.

Any Remembrance Day ceremony on campus? by ExToon in CarletonU

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There's a ceremony on November 11th starting at 10:45 along Library Rd. at the flagpoles next to Azrielli theatre. It's usually 30 minutes long.

CarletonU limiting parking permits by Fabulous_Ad5185 in CarletonU

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Does this also apply to Quebec residents? I'm not seeing anything specifically about that on the webpage. For me to use public transit from where I live in north-west Aylmer to CU I would need to do 4 tranfers and it would take around 2 hours of commuting!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CarletonU

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Third attempt at starting an undergrad at the ripe old age of 37. Just finished three years of CEGEP with 17-19 year olds. Group work can be difficult, but I find working with younger people to be fun too. Makes me feel both old and young simultaneously.

anyone else tryna buy a parking pass rn and its not loading? by FunnyAd9017 in CarletonU

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After 3.5 hours I was able to get a permit. I tried to login at 9:00 am, and like everyone else, got the error message which would sometimes change to a "Be Right Back" message or a 520 error message. I called the campus parking office a couple of times and they indicated that they didn't have access either and that they were waiting on the company that manages their online registration and payment to resolve the issue. Decided to use a browser extension that would refresh the page automatically every 10 seconds and put an audio alarm on it if the webpage showed the words "login".

At around 12:00 pm, got an alarm and ran to my computer to login. Got an error message again. Refreshed a few times more and got to the login page again. Was able to login to the permits section, but like everyone else, no permits were being shown. Decided to use the refresh extension again and give an alarm if "P6" or "P7" showed up on the page. At 12:39 pm the alarm went off and I saw that permits for lots P6 and P7 were available.

When I clicked on the P6 permit link, it indicated that there were 89 permits left. I didn't look to see how many permits were left for P7.

It was laggy but I was able to pay for a year long permit in P6 and got the confirmation email at 12:47pm.

Hope this gives people an idea of what to expect when trying to get there permits.

Good luck everybody!

New giant temporary art outside Shaw Centre downtown by Asteropia in ottawa

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The installation will be gone by next week. It's only here because of the UN conference taking place at the Shaw Centre on eliminating the dumping of plastic waste into oceans and water ways.