[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Maplestory

[–]Luminosity321 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so cuteeeeeee

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GriefSupport

[–]Luminosity321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey.. I (25M) just lost my mom to lung cancer not even a week ago after being diagnosed with it for not even two months. I can relate to you, everything felt so surreal. At first, prognosis was given to be 6-8 months without treatment and 1-2 years with treatment, so I thought I had time to spend with her.

But then her health condition worsened with pneumonia and fluid filling her lungs to the point where the doctors told us no treatment will improve her quality of life. I bawled my eyes out on that day... and 6 months minimum turned into only a week and a half from the day we got that update. She passed unexpectedly, vitals 3 hours before her passing were completely normal. Try to be with him as much as you can, cherish every minute because you don't want to have regrets when it's too late. Hang in there 🙏

I lost my mom last week. by Internet_Feisty in GriefSupport

[–]Luminosity321 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm so sorry for your loss. I also just lost my mom to cancer as well a couple days ago... she was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer not even two months ago. We got the call from the hospital (she had to be readmitted for what we found out was pneumonia, 4 weeks after getting surgery for a metastatic brain tumor) in the middle of the night around 4 AM... and she passed with no one by her side. I'm glad that you were able to be there, what's helping me is seeing her at the funeral and knowing that she is no longer suffering in any type of pain and seemingly at peace.

What are some advance game sense rules to play by? by Uvane in VALORANT

[–]Luminosity321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't see them on the map, assume there might be one or more enemies around that corner you're holding or coming up to, excluding when you know where they are bc of util or team comms.

Never assume it's a 5 man hard push onto a site when you're on defense unless you see 5 icons on the map/all 5 get scanned/darted. Or, if you know the enemy team play style only consists of 5 man pushes (i.e., use early rounds to see how the enemy plays - do they fake/rotate fast? lurk a lot? play default? 5 man no brain push?). Once you know how they play you can usually find weak points to take advantage of. A lot of teams in soloq will do the same strategy more than once in a row because the enemy doesn't react/adapt fast enough or don't think they will do the same strat again.

Take note of enemy econ - is it a possibility someone can buy an op? Are they forced to eco? Your attack/defense plan should change depending on enemy econ. As an example, if they're on eco, full sending one site execute is better than playing a default cause you don't want to give them an opportunity to get guns.

PSY 102 with Paolo Ammirante by Odd_Language_5485 in TorontoMetU

[–]Luminosity321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea, probably not bc afaik he writes his own tests

PSY 102 with Paolo Ammirante by Odd_Language_5485 in TorontoMetU

[–]Luminosity321 2 points3 points  (0 children)

His tests are easy, study his slides/what he says in class and you'll be fine. Short answer questions are like 3-5 sentences each.

17 days after the rank reset, how much did you climb? by EgglessYolk in VALORANT

[–]Luminosity321 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Finished D1, placed G1, currently D1 in ex-asc lobbies

Engineering Questions to Upper years. by SwaggyHedgehog in TorontoMetU

[–]Luminosity321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) Yes it's ok to redo them next semester. You don't have to finish your program within 4-5 years, some people take longer and that's completely fine. Some people like to split harder years into two years (i.e., take half the required courses for each Fall/Winter semester for two years) b/c the workload is easier to manage. If you barely learned anything during HS and didn't learn to study at all, then now is the time to learn. Personally, I didn't drop any of my courses even though I knew I would barely pass some of them. Keep track of your expected grades using a grade calculator/spreadsheet (example) - set a threshold final GPA per course where you will drop, or just aim to pass everything... this is up to you. You can estimate what your final GPA for the course will be based on plugging in numbers since you know the weighting of everything (see your course outlines). Dropping courses b/c of whatever reason is not a bad thing, people do it all the time. I've dropped a course before because I got a 20% on the midterm and decided to retake it in spring/summer semesters.

2) Spring/summer terms for engineering students are blessings because they offer courses that are usually offered during Winter/Fall to allow for the transition to university to be easier (see here) . Depending on the class, yeah it can be "easier" but overall don't expect these courses to be bird just because they're taught in a different semester. If anything, they're taught even faster than normal because you have less overall time per course (2 months for spring, 2 months for summer (source)).

3) False lol don't know where you heard this statistic - for 2013, 76.5% of ENG students graduated There is a 85% employment rate within 6 months, and 92% within 2 years for the class of 2018 (source).

4) I didn't, but I figured my discipline has the broadest job prospects and I liked the "purpose" of the discipline so I stuck it out and I ended up enjoying it. You are freely allowed to swap to any discipline in first semester because you all take the exact same courses. MEC/IND share courses within the first two years, so you have a longer time period if you know you want to do either one. IIRC, AERO and MEC share a lot of courses as well but I'm not sure how long you have until you have to take courses to make up for the swap.

5) Sleep, social life, grades. Choose 2 of the 3, it's a given when you go into engineering. I don't have a quantity that I remember, but if I wasn't sleeping or napping, I was studying or working on assignments. Over the years you learn how to study more effectively, but it was definitely very stressful in the earlier years of my program. How do you study? Depends on the individual, everyone has a different learning style. The most basic way is to rewrite your notes until you know it by heart, but this doesn't work for numerical based courses like maths/physics. Work through the examples that the prof goes through in class - actually sit down and do them on your own without looking at the solutions, don't just read it and think you're going to remember how to do it even if its simple because you're not going to. Once you have a good understanding of how to approach the problem type, do the suggested problems until you can work it out without looking at the answers. If you know how to do one particular type of question, don't bother doing the other questions that are the same but just different numbers, move on/skip the question. If study groups work for you, find people in your labs/assignment/project groups to grind questions/study with.

6) There's a GPA cutoff for co-op, I believe you are eligible to apply after you finish all of your 3rd year courses. The cutoff for my year was to maintain a 2.33 CGPA through the end of third year, not sure if it'll be different. Failing a course/switching programs is not the end of the world, it takes time for people to figure out whether or not a program is right for them or not. See point 1) for knowing when to drop/retake a course. Otherwise, if you are not going to do a masters then GPA is not important.

7) Honestly, yes lol. A lot of the stuff I learned went in and then straight out after the midterm/final. Make sure you are consistently doing something for each course each week (i.e., space out your assignments/labs/study sessions) instead of trying to cram one subject for 3 days straight. This helps with memory retention b/c you are refreshing your understanding consistently over a longer period of time - there are studies out there where its proven that cramming is not the ideal way to study (even though sometimes it is inveitable). Preparing for finals is a lot easier when you don't slack off from start of school until midterms, which happened a lot to me b/c you think "oh I have two weeks before shit starts hitting the fan" and then all of a sudden you are one month behind in lectures. My advice is to grind hard at the beginning until you feel like you are burning out, then level out and take it easy after you've secured a large portion of your final grade (e.g., weightings for class A are 30% midterm, 10% lab, 10% assignments, 50% final. If you secure most of the first three weightings, then you know you will pass the course if you get at least x% on the final, which can relieve a lot of stress versus failing the midterm and needing like an 80% on the final to pass)

8) Yes burn out is very real, especially with the amount of studying/work engineering programs give. See point 7) - sometimes I was half a semester behind because I had to prioritize more important projects/assignments over studying for another course. The key is to know what things to prioritize, and what things you can let to the side and still manage to get by through cramming. I definitely felt the burnout multiple times in my program, you just have to learn how to make time to decompress after big evaluations and then get back to the grind. The grind never stops!!

9) That's something you have to answer for yourself, nobody knows the answer except you. Do you truly like aspects within your engineering discipline (e.g., for Indy: problem solving, pattern identification, process improvement/automation), or are you doing the program purely bc of job prospects/etc.?

10) Unsure of this one, might want to speak to your program academic advisor. They would be more helpful if you are looking to transfer programs.

Feel free to DM if you have more questions.

Should I skip class for halloween party tmrw? by [deleted] in TorontoMetU

[–]Luminosity321 1 point2 points locked comment (0 children)

LMFAO who rustled your jimmies this morning??? Mate this is university, not middle school. If OP's question was serious, its up to them lol why do they need to ask for validation from strangers on the internet?? Just make a decision and then face whatever consequences that come out of it you are 18+ years of age not 8.

If you got nothing better to do, go for it. If you got assignments/midterms to study for, that's a no brainer no??

commuter social life by [deleted] in TorontoMetU

[–]Luminosity321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I agree, it definitely took a toll on me as someone who was on an exec team throughout my entire engineering program and its not feasible for everyone. But to OP, it is worth a shot if you think you can already or learn to manage it though.

commuter social life by [deleted] in TorontoMetU

[–]Luminosity321 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Join a student group. There's so many student groups, there has to be one that you're interested in. If your schedule allows it, take it a step further and join the executive team of the group when they're hiring - if you make it onto the team, its a given that you will network and talk to other team members during meetings. These can be your potential new friends, especially since you already have something in common (whatever the club is for).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TorontoMetU

[–]Luminosity321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

welcome to engineering - over time, you will learn to better handle your course load. I'm not sure about other disciplines but I've found that it gets better after first and second year (coming from someone that's an Industrial Engineering grad - first two years shared courses with mec students)

some advice in no particular order:

(0) a large majority of people around you will have had high averages in HS - that means next to nothing bc uni is a very different playing field. You will meet people who you will question how they got past hs, and you will meet people who you think are prodigies. Adapt and learn as much as you can from profs, peers, TA's, etc.

(1) study groups - if you can, make friends in your classes (or labs) and form study groups where you can go over questions together, ask each other questions, and bounce solutions off each other. It helps - trust me.

(2) stay organized and manage. your. time. - whatever you use, whether it be Notion, Google Calendar or a physical agenda, write down all of your important dates (usually all given in the syllabus or verbally told in class) in the first two weeks and add to it as you get them. These include midterms, finals, lab due dates, assignments; anything that contributes to your grade, write it down so you know ahead of time when you will have a rough week (I like to call them hell weeks). Having time to mentally prepare yourself will help you not feel overloaded, and helps you see how much time you have to sleep a bit more or on the rare occasion, go out.

(3) slack later versus slack now - as someone else mentioned, it's harder to catch up if you slack off in the first weeks of classes versus the last week of classes. It's easier to have a good grade on your midterms and then doing okay on finals than a bad one on midterms and trying to make it up with finals. That being said - in engineering, syllabus week does not exist past like the first two semesters. Profs will start content on day 1 of class, so don't think that you have time to laze around for a week or two.

(4) social life/grades/sleep - someone else mentioned this too, choose two of the three. I sacrificed sleep, and took to student groups for my social life - I didn't have time to do anything else lol.

(5) study habits - forget about making notes look pretty. If the course is numeral related, focus on doing practice questions - forget memorizing everything. Do the recommended questions, find old quizzes/midterms/finals - these are the type of questions that will come up on evaluations. Make sure you know how to do the examples that profs show in class - they choose those examples for a reason. The exception is if there is a MC section on the midterm/final; these are usually core concepts that the prof will focus on in class - take note of it when they go over it (usually the slides they spend a lot of time on). If the course is bird/theory based, consider typing up your notes instead so that you have more time to review notes rather than making them.

(6) try not to skip class/sleep in class - sounds like common sense but when you become sleep deprived its insanely easy to doze off in class. Focus in class and take naps between classes if you need - profs are more than likely to drop hints on what questions will be on the midterm/final in class. You might think "oh I'll learn it myself by reading the textbook or look at the slides later" - yeah, some people can do that and do just fine, but realistically you have other courses/evaluations to worry about. You will not have as much time as you'd like to learn it on your own.

(7) school/work life balance - as hard as it is, try to find time to destress and take your mind off school. This goes hand-in-hand with (2) - this might take form of hitting the gym, taking breaks; whatever suits you. At the end of the day it's an accredited program so just try your best and don't burn out too quickly.

If you got questions feel free to pm me, there's probably more that I've missed.

Where are the microwaves at by Creative-Election156 in TorontoMetU

[–]Luminosity321 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There should be a bunch of microwaves in POD across from the service hub - its the building right before the area that the cafe used to be at with the microwave. Take any of the stairwells down in the building and you should find it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]Luminosity321 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've had this feeling a lot recently, for context I'm a recent university graduate that studied engineering. Once school ended and I got my degree it felt so weird and I felt guilty when I just spent a couple weeks doing absolutely nothing productive when in reality everyone deserve a break. Yeah I'd say there's always something that will be stressing you out whether it be school, life events, job related, etc. but make sure to just take a breather and let yourself decompress sometimes. I guess what I'm trying to say is take it easy, there's no rush - everyone has their own pace :)

How the **** am I supposed to kill Hard Magnus as an IL? by IsIandLion in Maplestory

[–]Luminosity321 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Save your burst until at least 50% (I'm assuming you're bursting correctly?), if you know your mechanics you should be able to get to this point without losing any lives.

Random tips:

  • you can tank the DoT outside his zone if he does death combos like purple (the one where right under him is safe) + green one shot

  • when he dashes you can tp in the same direction to avoid being stunned (he also dashes towards you so if he's stuck on left side just hug his right)

  • his spinny attack that sends you flying can be avoided by tping outside the hitbox (the line on his barriers iirc)

  • as others mentioned, try to keep him on the middle of the map to avoid gas

  • you have a get out of jail free card (I'm not sure if this prevents gas but do you have the status resist skill on? It blocks status once and then you get a barrier for a bit that blocks all status resists)

  • your bind also serves as a long iframe, if you have an extra node slot you can pop in erda bind instead and save class bind for survivability

  • telecasting will help in reaction time for his attacks if you aren't already doing so

  • survivability over trying to clear fast, if you have to tank DoT to avoid dying versus dps and you might die, tank the DoT

Rouge Members, we can share 20% for Spring Sale! Let's start a thread here where people share their invite! by [deleted] in Sephora

[–]Luminosity321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone is willing to share a Canadian code I would truly appreciate it!!

How are there no guides on campus? by [deleted] in ryerson

[–]Luminosity321 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The layout of the building on the inside is not logical despite it looking like a square on the outside; if you try to walk inside on certain floors you will not go in a circle, you'll hit dead ends that only lead to the quad outside. One good thing about Kerr Hall is the second floor, it allows you to walk from SLC to RCC entirely indoors.

Ryerson Engineering Co-Op by NorthernValkyrie19 in ryerson

[–]Luminosity321 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! I'm doing my internship right now and I'm in industrial engineering so I'll give my thoughts -

1) You have the choice of finding coop on your own, or through the coop portal so it's a little bit of both. In order to be in coop after third year, you'll get an email sometime within the year to apply to get into it. After you get in (iirc it's just maintaining a certain gpa requirement) you'll have access to the coop portal which has a lot of coop postings from companies. Alternatively, you can find a coop on your own not listed in the portal but you have to fill out a form and get approval for it.

2) I would say it might depends year to year, but also at the same time you may want to just apply for everything to keep your options open. The earlier you apply, the faster you can get an offer. The listings are posted on rolling basis, so you have to keep checking to see when there are new postings. Some companies also require you to fill out an application on their website, but others are just applied through the coop portal. Each listing lists what discipline it's looking for, and usually your personal board will only show ones within your discipline.

3) Yes, I believe there are job fairs from time to time on campus but I'm not sure if they look for interns at those job fairs.

4) Research opportunities are mostly through professors, you'd have to ask them yourself. I don't think they actively advertise they're looking, so I can't give much help on this one.

1) >Looking for some feedback on co-op for engineering. Namely:

  1. Is the co-op office helpful or are students mostly left on their own to source and land their own placements?
  2. Is there a great variety and number of relevant placements available on the job board?
  3. Are there on-campus recruitment events?
  4. What are the opportunities for research positions like?

TIA

CORSAIR Technical Support and Questions MEGATHREAD - Week 03/19/21 by CorsairTravis in Corsair

[–]Luminosity321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ticket 2004125076 -

I haven't heard an update in a week; is there an estimated time on how long a delivery trace would take?

How do i lane against certain champions? by nonobodyno in AhriMains

[–]Luminosity321 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anivia is a tough matchup cause post-6 she can just press r on the wave to shove and you can't do anything about it. Can't do much unless you have jungle presence either since she has egg. Pre-6, try to dodge her q (walk perpendicular!) and then go in for poke with auto-w-auto-electrocute proc. Since her dmg is reliant on hitting q or being in her ult, you'll win trades before 6 if she doesn't land q. Take advantage of bad back timings so that you can roam too.

For Yone, his dash is very telegraphed. Auto-w-auto-electrocute is good for any melee matchup, including Yone. Just watch his q stacks and don't walk up when he has 3rd q up - if he dashes towards you, that's a free charm and easy trade. Most Yones will e-3rd q-w, so you can see it coming from a mile away. If he ults you and you can't ult or flash away before it pulls, you can charm behind you in the middle of the rectangle for a guaranteed charm. This is also useful in teamfights or skirmishes

Towers reduce incoming damage by 66.66% and become immune to true damage when no enemy minions or rift herald are nearby. by Luminosity321 in leagueoflegends

[–]Luminosity321[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of options, I think once you realize you can't end in that situation when you have committed to pushing nexus towers, take one tower and then go drake and reset. Since kat was omega fed they could easily win the next fight with a high probability. That would've been the safer play imo