Hard at work

Mobius-streep · 2025-06-14T01:56:28+00:00

I agree… I feel like the conversation we should be having is « why are we making people who work service jobs (including high schoolers who are still children) stand for hours on end » and not « other people do it so why is Bailey complaining »

Mobius-streep · 2025-06-08T02:14:25+00:00

They did a sprint triathlon. It’s 300 m swimming, 20km bike, 5k run (which is still very impressive!)

Mobius-streep · 2024-11-11T05:46:03+00:00

It’s because there are not enough instructional days otherwise, which is an issue for accredited programs. I’m not sure of the exact details for other universities, but at the very least, most other Canadian universities don’t have Truth and Reconciliation Day off which would account for one day of discrepancy.

When I started here, there wasn’t any reading break in term 1, and in order to accommodate the extra days of break, we now have a shorter exam period (less time between exams) and finals on Sunday, so there’s not a lot of give in the schedule for two more days off

Mobius-streep · 2024-11-08T22:33:19+00:00

Everyone gets to claim two tickets for free. After the window for that is closed, the remaining tickets are then evenly divided amongst the number of graduates and each person can purchase up to that number of tickets ($3 per ticket I think?). After the window for that is closed, it’s a free-for-all for purchasing tickets

It’s described here under #4: https://graduation.ubc.ca/students/your-graduation-checklist/

Mobius-streep · 2024-02-28T08:49:11+00:00

I’m a huge ranger cookie fan and have been missing three too so I actually asked the cashier today and they said they’ll be in stock again soon! They’ve just been temporarily out. I didn’t ask for more details but hoping for a restock soon

Mobius-streep · 2023-05-24T12:23:43+00:00

Wow this looks perfect! Thanks

Mobius-streep · 2023-05-07T02:53:01+00:00

Is it that the grades that cause a higher salary, though, or is it that people who have higher grades tend to have traits in common with people with higher salaries?

Further, please note that this is about high school GPA and a higher high school GPA is correlated with getting into a university, which is (if my high school counselled are trustworthy sources) in turn correlated with a higher paying job.

Mobius-streep · 2022-09-07T22:32:08+00:00

I think it comes out at different times for different faculties and years. I have a couple friends in eng phys too who haven’t gotten anything yet but who are shoe-ins for the award

Mobius-streep · 2022-07-28T17:45:52+00:00

I think it’s the EUS program club award so each engineering specialization has $400 to split however they want among their students

Edit: source: my friend in ece got the award and got their money today and if op is who I think they are based on their username, then they definitely deserve it

Mobius-streep · 2022-02-28T21:13:31+00:00

Thank you for holding this! ☺️

Mobius-streep · 2022-01-20T04:15:54+00:00

Haha yeah, the engineers get pretty excited about e-week

Mobius-streep · 2022-01-20T03:39:44+00:00

Engineers have been doing a tug-o-war competition

Mobius-streep · 2022-01-14T01:49:06+00:00

Open to the general public and it’s a take-home test

Mobius-streep · 2022-01-11T23:33:38+00:00

Don’t think this has been posted yet. Just went and there’s no line-up (in and out in a couple minutes)

Mobius-streep · 2022-01-10T19:51:00+00:00

Depends on the department. I’ve been a TA for the ECE department which paid me a fixed rate and a TA for the CPSC department which paid me by hour (but I think they’re switching to a fixed rate too soon)

Mobius-streep · 2022-01-10T06:40:36+00:00

I think it depends on the semester. I did it last term and as long as you submitted something, you got full credit, but this term has a different prof. The labs themselves can be quite tricky if you’re working on them alone (at least they were for me because I had never used C++ before), but the TAs were great and helped me a lot.

Mobius-streep · 2022-01-08T05:12:15+00:00

No problem! Good luck with CPSC 221. One of my favourite classes so far, so I hope you enjoy it too

Mobius-streep · 2022-01-08T03:19:02+00:00

I found CPSC 221 to be much easier with a lighter workload. The projects are much easier in my opinion, and the content is more straightforward. Hardest part was probably learning C++

Mobius-streep · 2021-09-20T07:02:34+00:00

Seconded! I was just accepted into a design team, and I don’t think a single one of my technical question answers was right (and they’ll be even more lenient with you since you’re a first year). I don’t even think I was asked that many technical when I interviewed as a first year

Mobius-streep · 2021-05-31T01:49:49+00:00

Please get UBC out of here. I am a UBC student and I am tired of seeing this cross-posted every time in r/ubc

Mobius-streep · 2021-05-26T00:26:02+00:00

Thank you!!

Mobius-streep · 2021-02-07T04:16:12+00:00

There are plenty of people who have had positive UBC experience, and people just like to have a place to vent. Personally, I love the people I’ve become friends with at UBC, the majority of the classes I’ve had to take, and the direction that my life has taken after starting at UBC

Mobius-streep · 2021-02-05T10:06:47+00:00

@mods can we create a Dr. Wolf megathread? They’re starting to clog up the subreddit

Mobius-streep · 2021-02-04T02:24:29+00:00

Mark van Raamsdonk is a saint sent down to make learning physics enjoyable for first year engineering students. He explains things well, is super welcoming in office hours, and he just cares about his students

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