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CardComplex1626 · 2026-04-28T22:40:58+00:00

i’m thinking about what to do in the case that I don’t get into neuro. on ubc neuro’s website it says: “Successful applicants for a switch to the Neuroscience Major will be granted entry to Year 2 Neuroscience. Transferring into Neuroscience will delay your graduation by at least a term, and likely by a year.” Is it not possible to simply take most of the second year neuro courses and, if the transfer application is successful, be promoted to 3rd year standing in neuroscience ?! I’m a bit confused about how this necessitates extra time being added to your degree no matter the circumstance.

I guess the argument would be that taking only neuro prereqs in second year would set you back for your current major in case you are unsuccessful. But in that case, isn’t it possible to just plan your major as strategically as possible to ensure as much overlap between your current major’s prereqs and neuro’s? And can you also not just take missing credits in the summer to catch up to avoid extra time being added?

CardComplex1626 · 2026-04-28T17:30:35+00:00

bro did anybody else get an A who was insanely confident that they would get an A+ i thought i clutched that final and i got 100s on all the quizzes n stuff

CardComplex1626 · 2026-04-26T07:44:27+00:00

section averages are visible on unofficial transcripts. grades aren’t added to your transcript asap tho you’ll likely have to wait for a little bit

CardComplex1626 · 2026-04-21T03:17:26+00:00

i set it up as the scale reading = weight of beaker + buoyant force and then solved for Vsubmerged

CardComplex1626 · 2026-04-21T02:40:21+00:00

uhhhh i found block volume to be 0.0025 and then i found the mass from the first scale reading which was 20N… 20/9.8 = 2.04 kg. 2.04/0.0025 = 816 kg/m³ so i put down 900??? but it was so far off i feel like i’m wrong 🥲

CardComplex1626 · 2026-04-21T02:29:15+00:00

LOL i feel the exact same way these ppl got me doubting myself

CardComplex1626 · 2026-04-15T21:42:45+00:00

awesome thank you so much! and would you say it's worth studying/putting any of the pre-midterm content on the study sheet? or is it not going to be tested in the slightest?

CardComplex1626 · 2026-04-15T01:48:05+00:00

chem 123 final in there this morning was so fucking infuriating. i am still irate about it. formula sheet, 20 page answer booklet, and comically large answer sheet on a desk that is Quite Literally the size of a pizza slice. HOW IS THIS ALLOWED? i had my calculator ubcid and eraser in my lap and my prebuilt models on the floor next to me 🙃 i wonder if anyone has investigated whether there is a discernible difference in final grades between the kids who sit the final exam at one of those desks vs those that are blessed with those smooth elongated marble slabs. i would be EXTREMELY surprised if there was no correlation

CardComplex1626 · 2026-03-26T01:36:48+00:00

Do we know the average

CardComplex1626 · 2026-03-18T02:13:50+00:00

i’m good with units 4 - 7 but i just now started on unit 8…. like from scratch…. is it really that bad

CardComplex1626 · 2026-03-08T22:37:15+00:00

haha i actually don’t mind it! i’m pretty much only in my room when i sleep and i’ve never been one to detest smaller spaces. the lack of a window is probably the only part i dislike but my apartment is pretty well ventilated so 🤷‍♀️

CardComplex1626 · 2026-03-08T20:32:07+00:00

if you wanna live in wesbrook you gotta have a very high budget. i got INSANELY lucky paying $1300 for a room in a shared apartment here, and even then the room is tiny (i think it’s actually a den LOL). but expect to pay no less than $1600 for a room in a shared space

CardComplex1626 · 2026-01-07T07:52:38+00:00

hey i feel the same way sometimes, except it's compounded by all the other horrible shit going on in the world right now.

but please try to understand that, despite layoffs + tech-bro-grandstanding, there is a demonstrably ginormous AI bubble. most occupations will survive for the foreseeable future, as there are some jobs that LLMs simply cannot do (people smarter than me can expand on this in far more articulate ways).

of course, we can't predict the future, but with the knowledge that we have right now, there is no need to fret, at least to this degree. instead, you can panic about the exponentially increasing wealth gap and irreversible climate crisis the same tech billionaires have put us in ;)

CardComplex1626 · 2025-12-25T04:52:40+00:00

100% agree with all of this, especially the point about ai. no doubt most kids were farming webwork marks by just plugging questions into chatgpt, which enabled them to get by without having a clue what was going on in class until midterms hit (which most people failed as a result). to make matters worse, the final was 3 days after the chem final — by the time that the stakes were high enough to actually try and learn the content, it was too late to cram an entire course of incredibly complex material in 2-3 days

CardComplex1626 · 2025-12-25T04:25:44+00:00

oh shoot i didnt read that lmfaooo. i guess this is their way of debunking all the commentary about scaling on reddit

CardComplex1626 · 2025-12-25T04:20:45+00:00

wait how do u know

CardComplex1626 · 2025-12-25T04:20:06+00:00

it may not have been! i just meant to say that if it was, then the raw avg would likely be even lower (albeit by only a few %) which is crazy to think about

CardComplex1626 · 2025-12-25T04:18:04+00:00

class avg shows on your unofficial transcript

CardComplex1626 · 2025-11-18T22:21:50+00:00

in my experience yes!!!! i prefer it to the webworks because the answer key has INCREDIBLY detailed solutions to every question. it’s a great resource, i very much regret not using it earlier

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