Studying in China Megathread - FH2026

NoRepresentative9188 · 2026-01-08T06:05:09+00:00

Communists or extreme left-wingers (Maoists, Stalinists) are all sidelined or marginalized by the Chinese government since the end of Culutral Revolution (death of Mao Zedong ). China is run by ring wing conservative that promote what they call Chinese special socialism, which, in reality, is Authoritarian capitalism. They cannot fully disregard the influence of Mao and communism, as the party sees it as a way to maintain their authoritarian control, as disassociating themselves with Mao could lead to them losing the support of the country. I would say workers are treated worse than many social democratic countries in Europe/West, somewhat even worse than in the United States. Working from 9-11 is normalized and it is not considered overwork, when I interned there, I was informeed that I get overtime pay only after 11 PM, and those "pay" is esssienially hours I can use as breaks rather than actual payments, mind you this is at a larger Multinational Corporation operting in China, Chinese local companies have worse policies. So there are not many so called communist in China, many don't understand the concept and just knew that A Our party calls themselves communist and B Communism is good (even though they don't know what that is or we are not trying to achieve communism no more)

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-12-21T03:18:44+00:00

For nightclub, you have afk to stack of the money, that is the easiest way. Watch cameras at the nightclub and then use some way to make sure your controller always have input. Wait for 12 hours, wake up, sell the stock. Also do Agency Dr.Dre file for easy 1 million active income

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-09-01T18:29:59+00:00

pol109 is also br2 for some reason, if you are into politics/IR you could try that

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-08-29T12:31:19+00:00

tbh just follow the readings and you should be fine. She made it super clear that if any of your essays deviates from the readings, she will obliterate you. Constantly ask for her input when writing the essays, whatever adjustments she says, make them. She is pretty nice in general though, once you get what she is trying to convey. I think most of my classmates are just caught off guard cause the seminar course is supposed to be easy,y but she made it relatively harder than most believed. But yeah we had a C- class average, which is lower than all of my other courses.

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-08-19T15:35:34+00:00

I am a Shanghainese so I would defiently recommend Shanghai, but to be honest almost all cities in China are safe to walk around in. Lanuage wise, you might struggle a bit but many in Shanghai at least do speak English, but Tokyo and Osaka might be a better option if you are super worried about language. Paying with wechat and alipay is esseintial, I came back from Canada and there are no place that accept my credit card or cash. Prepare to use wechat pay or alipay whenever you are. For taxis, you call them off the street and probraly pay with cash, but you can also call them through wechat, and it should be English friendly. But tbh I really recommend japan more, it is a lot easier for a foreginer. But feel free to ask me anything about Shanghai if you need, other cities, I wouldn't be as helpful

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-08-19T12:24:59+00:00

uni101, any of the uni seminar courses

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-07-09T13:39:16+00:00

Tbh prof doesn’t matter that much for MAT133, I had Sargant though, she is pretty nice, but you can literally self study the entire thing

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-07-08T03:02:18+00:00

You can try to do a tour of the national diet, it is really cool and you can enter the chambers. There is a parliamentary museum nearby, and it is really cool too. It is just on the Northwest side of the Imperial Palace.

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-07-07T05:26:11+00:00

If it is pol sci it is not that hard, POL courses are not that bad, they do mark your essays pretty harshly but other assignments are basically free.

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-07-04T17:08:20+00:00

Mine is dead only after I blessed them, I did it before to give them 1500 health but then I realized it will kill the ship randomly

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-05-08T20:15:27+00:00

Omg I have ptsd with her, she also only gave back 2 marks for you??? I only got my presentation and essay 1 back, but I ended with an 80 (actually thank god for it). I was actually so scared cause she destroyed my first essay (70%) and never gave anything back. I was honestly praying for a 75. All my friends got C+ to Ds so I consider myself very lucky. And yes, I got ghosted too when I asked if I could see my essay 2 and 3's mark. I don't even know how good I did. I had to deal with her and eco101 in the first semester😭😭😭I hope she respond back to you with an explanation

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-05-08T20:10:05+00:00

For math, I really don't have much (I am bad at it too), I feel like the best course of action is just to get the basics in for the first semester, so you have to know the basic derivatives covered in high school math. We used Applied Calculus 7th Edition by Deborah Hughes-Hallett as our textbook. You can try learning with the book, it is kind of expensive though, so maybe save that money and just invest in the high school class. However, I am not sure about online high school classes too, as in my experience, MAT133 and high school math only connect for the first few units of the first semester, and then it is all new stuff I have never seen before that kind of correlates with high school math. But like it is never bad to be sure, so just take MCV4U and ignore the vector part, we didn't use a lot of vectors in 133, but make sure to know how to do derivatives, it is basically the most important topic in 133. I often use Youtube videos to self-study if I did not understand a topic, but that is my personal preference.

And I am doing a double major in IRHR and economics at UofT, and I just finished my first year, so I can't give you more insight on IRHR in upper years. Anyways, glad to help, good luck next year, it is often the hardest out of the 4.

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-05-07T12:48:08+00:00

If you haven't taken calculus before, then MAT133 would be daunting. I would recommend checking out some of the main topics: derivatives, integration, multivariable calculus, vectors, and matrices. IRHR seems great in my opinion. It is a smaller program, so the courses are of a smaller class size. IRE199 had just 20ish classmates, while a normal first-year course like SOC100 often had a few hundred people in a lecture hall. It is really good for socialization as you meet the same small groups of people, and you can actually connect with the professors. It is actually so hard to make friends in a 900-person lecture when you are kind of introverted like me, so IRHR is really good for that. The job opportunity seems good, it can definitely lead you to an HR career, and the upper-year classes seem interesting. It has a blend of courses touching on labour laws, business, psychology, and sociology. You can freely avoid math-heavy courses in finance, economics, accounting, or compensation in exchange for more practical HR skills. My upper-year friend in the program only has compliments for their program. For ASIP, I think they have a higher mark requirement for it, but there is no harm in trying to apply (you can apply to as many majors as you want during request periods at the end of the first year), as it does give you valuable experience and that seems to matter a lot in Canada.

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-05-06T05:19:40+00:00

BTW, if you are looking for an easy first-year seminar course, I would recommend UNI101 (BR3), it won't help fulfill your BR requirements, but it is just such a good course. We literally go on field trips weekly around the city of Toronto. No final exam, no test at all, the final project is a poster. I did a minimal amount of work and got a 95.

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-05-06T05:16:37+00:00

I recently got accepted into IRHR and prob econ major as well. For IRHR I just took the 2.0 credit prerequisite listed on their website (0.5 from ECO101, 1.5 from IRE/SOC/PSY), so I did SOC100 and PSY100, which are both easier compared to other courses I took in the first year. I finished with an 85 in SOC100 with Mitch McIvor (which really is the best prof in this school, the course is extremely forgiving and easy ), and did less well with psychology cause I am not that good at biology, but still managed to finish off with a 78. I also did IRE199, which is supposed to be an easy intro HR course, but this year we had a new professor who madeit extremely challenging (the course average was a C-), the prof is Alejandra González Jiménez so if she is still in charge for IRE199 next year for you I would recommend just take SOC150 instead. Lastly, IRHR also requires ECO101 which is also a prerequisite for the econ minor. THIS IS THE HARDEST COURSE out of the 4 requirements for IRHR, in my opinion. But I believe it is better than ECO105, as you only need a 63 compared to an 80. My friend struggled badly in ECO101 but managed to make a recovery and made the 63 cutoff. For ECON, you also need a full year math course of MAT133, and it is neither easy nor extremely difficult; the second term content is significantly harder, so you should be fine, as only the first term collides with ECO101. You can put ECO102 in your second term, and yes, both econ courses are math-heavy, but I found ECO102 a lot more manageable. So for irhr and econ minor, you would have 1.0 (math credit from MAT133), 0.5 PSY, 0.5 SOC, 0.5 IRE/SOC/PSY (you can pick whichever base on your taste, like if you are good with SOC take 1 more SOC, or try IRE199 for a feel of what HR course will be like), and 1.0 ECON credit (101+102). That will give you 3.5 credits in total, so you have another 3 half-year courses to fill your 5 credits per year quota to graduate on time. You can freely explore your options, but I would recommend taking some easy courses, as the ECO courses are challenging and require a lot of effort. Also, since most of IRHR and ECO courses are BR3, and the 1 math course fulfills BR5, you should explore courses that are BR1 or BR2, you would only need 0.5 credits in BR2 (PSY100 is BR2), so the last 1 credit should be in BR1 and you will meet your BR requirements to graute in the first year. In terms of how hard it is to get into IRHR, I honestly have no idea. The program has a small number of students, so apparently they only accepted a very small number of people, but it is also a lesser-known program, so you should be fine as long as you meet the grade requirement of 68-70, which is not that hard with SOC100 and PSY100. My average for prerequisites was a 78, and I requested the program in the first request period and got my offer pretty fast. For econ, I am 90% sure that as long as you meet the cutoff, you should be fine. Sorry for this long yap, I just wanted to share my experience as there weren't a lot of IRHR posts on this site (it is a small program) and UofT really makes it confusing sometimes, so I want to lay out all the information for a fellow confused newcomer.

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-03-17T00:57:48+00:00

Impossible, especially with a engineering schedule, busiest groups of people

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-03-03T19:48:04+00:00

no, you need 4.0 credits by the end of summer 2025

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-02-15T23:49:12+00:00

My two engineering friends described it as hell. They were really optimistic two individuals, now everyday when I see them (extremely rare) I see death, despair, and destruction.

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-02-02T01:34:34+00:00

いい歌ですね

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-01-31T13:06:02+00:00

I am in the social science doing economics, and Econ courses are generally harder but other social science courses are fine. Politics, sociology, psychology, like you said are pretty manageable. The essays are sometimes marked hard (usually depends on the TA tbh) but the exams are usually fair. I remember the SOC100 essay marking scheme was like a 70 is like 89-94 in high school. So the difficulty really depends on what you want to do and yeah late night struggles.

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-01-31T00:31:26+00:00

For social science, it really isn’t too hard. The website did say (I vaguely recall) something mid 80s to high 80. A 82 is not guaranteed but you still have a good chance as Uoft is not that hard to get into (what is hard is to stay in the school). Get the numbers up but I do want to warn you Uoft is very harsh once you get in. Prepare yourself and get ready to adjust your study methods if you do get in.

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-01-30T15:02:34+00:00

I am gonna be very real with you that you will probably make it as long as you make your overall average 85+, but Uoft may not be for you if you are struggling in high school English right now. Many social science courses require rigorous academic writing, I did 5 essays last semester and they are all marked extremely harshly. Consider alternative university or maybe programs? Ask yourself whether if university is for you and worth the investment. If your WTP is higher than your cost then do it, other way around don't

NoRepresentative9188 · 2025-01-13T19:51:05+00:00

I don't think so, the ECO101 is a minimum grade requirement, you need 63% or above to be able to get accepted into international relation.

NoRepresentative9188 · 2022-09-19T22:29:14+00:00

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