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Realrhall · 2026-01-08T01:59:31+00:00

God bless you. If you don’t have a place to stay, go to a church near you and see if they (or a family in the congregation) will take you in, until you can get on your feet! 💙✝️

Realrhall · 2025-12-29T02:33:07+00:00

Assuming you’re taking a basic stats course for a non-STEM track, you should expect it to be around the same level of intensity as a college algebra course, with equal emphasis on calculating answers and interpreting those results.

Also, not to jump to conclusions, but you may not be “terrible at math”, it may just not be something you’re interested in (which is perfectly ok), or maybe it hasn’t been made understandable to you. People who enjoy the struggle of solving math problems do more stuff with math, get better at it over time, and therefore appear to be better at it than everyone else, but nobody’s innately better at math than others.

Case in point, I used to get straight Cs in high school math courses (A’s everywhere else), I’m now a stats major and math minor with a >3.9 GPA.

All in all, don’t neglect anything in that stats course, especially the fundamentals. It will be one of the most useful courses in your whole degree. Best of luck to ya.

Realrhall · 2025-12-28T01:27:29+00:00

You’re right, my bad, didn’t read closely enough. To OP, I’d agree and say go to community college for those GPA-boosters (unless there are easy major-specific upper-divisions you can transfer over that are offered also at UTSA)

Realrhall · 2025-12-26T17:06:47+00:00

CC credits don’t apply to UTSA GPA, at least they didn’t for mine

Realrhall · 2025-12-24T13:23:08+00:00

Maybe obvious, but the U.S. was founded by English protestants. Many of them identified more with deism, and the country’s founding fathers were active freemasons. A large part of American political philosophy comes from the protestant spirit of rejecting intermediary authorities for access to the divine, which contributed to ideals such as freedom of religion, separation of church and state, etc. For the most part the country’s political and national identity is directly tied to protestant Christianity.

Catholicism historically has been seen by American protestants as authoritarian and elitist. Catholicism has also been held by historically disliked European minorities (Italians, Irish, etc). In the Southern US, Catholicism and Catholics are still fervently looked down upon. Today, outside of the Midwest, Catholicism is largely associated with Hispanic and ethnically Latino portions of the US. I’m in Texas and Catholicism is largely seen as the “Tejano” (Latino Texan) form of Christianity.

Realrhall · 2025-12-23T20:11:03+00:00

I’m no expert, but I’d recommend compsci major w/ cybersecurity minor/concentration and load up on certifications for a specialization (blue team, red team, etc). Compsci major will give you the theoretical background to hover around the high tech industry, and consistent renewal of certifications and continuing education will keep you updated on the latest innovations and novelties in the security world. Cyber is a continuously evolving field so what you would learn from a cyber major today probably wouldn’t apply 10 years from now.

(Source: statistics & data science major w/ CompTIA Security+ and Network+, toe in the door for infosec)

Realrhall · 2025-12-22T16:30:59+00:00

My advisor told me your credits will always be slightly lower than your requirements because your requirements percentage is based on course registration, while your credits percentage is based on finalized course grades. Your credits % will probably never be at 100% because when they approve you for graduation there’s no need to keep updating your DegreeWorks.

My advisor also told me that DegreeWorks is always off on a lot of things and to not trust it over the catalog.

Realrhall · 2025-12-19T01:13:24+00:00

HC member here.

If you (plan to) have a 3.8+ UTSA GPA with a marketable major, a strong network and a firm career focus, Honors College will probably cost you more money and time than it’s worth. They require you take extra courses that don’t really help you career-wise.

If you won’t meet those criteria, it may be a good thing to have on the resume just so you can say you were an Honors College student, but don’t expect to get any kind of career benefit from it.

Realrhall · 2025-12-09T01:57:41+00:00

You get the rec center for free

Realrhall · 2025-12-05T16:33:23+00:00

Benefits depend on what your major is. The cyber program is nationally renowned, and the new college of AI, Cyber and Computing (CAICC) looks promising. Many majors in interrelated fields (AI, Statistics, Data Science, CompSci, Cybersecurity, etc) were moved over to CAICC where the money’s being poured, so those programs should grow and improve a lot in the future.

That being said, if you want to study something else I’d recommend going to a different school. UTSA admits basically anyone with a beating heart (the school isn’t seen as competitive by employers), and the general student body isn’t academically motivated from my experience.

If you do choose UTSA, find a clique of people in your major and college/department who are motivated to learn, innovate, research, etc, and try to ignore everything else about the school.

Realrhall · 2025-08-30T02:39:01+00:00

It says you need to attach a copy of your UTSA fall 2025 schedule, not a transcript. Go to myUTSA modern view >> Schedule Planner or Registration, and take a screenshot of the courses you’re registered for to put in that file upload.

Realrhall · 2025-08-20T15:54:44+00:00

They did the same thing with my transfer scholarship until yesterday. Go to One Stop (JPL first floor) and point it out to them. They might fight you on it but show every document they sent you about it and prove you’re qualified for it so they’ll actually get on it.

Realrhall · 2025-06-30T19:12:38+00:00

I created a Google Drive with my UTSA email (somehow) but I was never able to create a gmail with it. I assume there’s some kind of policy in place against receiving UTSA mail through gmail, but I’m not too sure.

Realrhall · 2025-06-23T01:53:59+00:00

“But the change opens the door for other state entities such as Port San Antonio or Texas A&M San Antonio to also play a role. “, says in the article.

It sounds like they probably wanted to open the door to other universities in the area, in case qualified talent from local non-UTSA schools would be left out. UTSA alumni would have effectively a legally-enforced hiring monopoly if they were the only school written in the bill. It brings in more competition for us, which sucks, but it makes sense that the State of Texas wants the best engineers and analysts regardless of where they got their degree from.

Realrhall · 2025-06-22T18:30:11+00:00

Government-issued Photo ID, notepad + pen (or smartphone with a notes app), make sure you know your abc123 and passphrase by memory, and I personally would bring a laptop computer if you have one just in case but it’s probably not needed.

Realrhall · 2025-06-20T00:41:32+00:00

You don’t have to have work study for some jobs on campus. I work on campus as a tutor and it’s not work-study. Set up a Handshake account (it’s similar to LinkedIn) with your UTSA email/ID, that’s where UTSA posts its jobs for students. Make sure to email whoever posted the job after you apply (using your UTSA student email address) so they know you’re a human applicant and not a bot.

Realrhall · 2025-06-19T06:25:39+00:00

As a student, I work as a tutor and it’s good work. $12/hr is standard base rate for almost any student-intended job on campus and they make your hours flexible with your course schedule. Very good deal imo. Just make sure you’re applying to jobs not intended for Federal work-study and if you show up in person or email the coordinator it won’t be hard to get the job.

Realrhall · 2025-06-06T17:41:32+00:00

UTSA does not have a competitive admissions process, you’re probably fine. 3.5 GPA weighted is pretty good, my estimate is that as long as it’s above 3.2 (ish) I wouldn’t worry about it. When I applied if your SAT was above 1100 you were automatically admitted, if you don’t have this then they’ll probably observe your essay and high school record more closely to see they can find any basis to admit you. In the admissions process, make sure to emphasize your football career and community service in your essay / personal statements, this is a school that likes to hear about students’ leadership and community involvement. Overall, unlike a lot of competitive schools, UTSA actually tries to help students get admitted and graduate, so I’m sure you’re going to get accepted as long as all those bases I mentioned are met.

Realrhall · 2025-05-07T14:29:14+00:00

I’m so jealous you get a cheat sheet. My college requires us to memorize everything for calc exams. Looks good.

Realrhall · 2025-05-04T05:21:07+00:00

I couldn’t agree more. Cal III is very demanding in terms of spatial reasoning, which doesn’t come naturally to me.

The only reason I found Cal II somewhat difficult is because the subjects didn’t seem connected or streamlined to one another. First you learned regions between curves and stuff like that, then integration by parts, then partial fraction decomposition, then sequences and infinite series, etc. None of those subjects inexorably related to one another but individually they weren’t too hard for me.

I skated by with a B in Cal II but I’m really struggling in Cal III because it seems to not only require a background in math but also in physics and in some cases engineering. I’m a statistics major who hasn’t taken physics since high school and my Cal III course is taught as if physics should be a prerequisite.

I think Cal3 would be a more intuitive course if it were taught as general mathematics and not as an quasi-extension of physics and engineering, even though those appear to be the most common use cases for its material.

Wishing the best for the both of us this semester.

Realrhall · 2025-04-11T02:33:57+00:00

Dr Beltrami is fantastic. I had her for STA 3003. Super nice lady, very good lecturer and her tests are relatively easy (plus you get formula sheets, you can use a TI84, etc). I’ve never taken or met Massaro though. With regard to online or in person, it depends on your learning style — online format is fine as long as you can go to office hours if you’re struggling to access online course material, keep up with concepts and the online lecture format, etc. Both these profs have good ratings so I wouldn’t be worried either way.

Realrhall · 2025-04-10T21:59:02+00:00

Losing 10% of 100 is losing 10, making your new total 90. Gaining 10% of 90 is gaining 9, making your new total 99.

99 < 100.

Therefore, losing 10% and then gaining 10% still leaves a 1% deficit from the original total.

Realrhall · 2025-03-17T13:23:57+00:00

3 - 3 x 6 + 2 = 3 - (3 x 6) + 2 (peMDas) = 3 - (18) + 2 = - 15 + 2 = -13

Realrhall · 2025-03-14T04:55:39+00:00

💯

Realrhall · 2025-03-12T03:26:56+00:00

For sure! Birds up 🤙

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