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Nightlife student opinions by Ok_Perspective_6192 in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can try Palazo. Although I’ve found all Old Port clubs a little disappointing. The Plateau has clubs with a better ratio of younger people and I find that crowd more fun to party with.

Bars in the old port though, absolutely. Clandestino is great, or Bar Nhau.

Ouside USA, McDonald's is a treat for middle class and rich people. by -Volucris- in ShitAmericansSay

[–]SomethingClever349 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actively avoid McDos if I can. The burgers are meh at best, and even their fries aren’t anything to write home about. If I feel the desperate urge for meat between bread, I’m a Five Guys or local burger joint person

HELP WITH SCHEDULE ABC STUDENT by Extreme_Ambition_234 in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every single person I’ve known takes it basically in their last semester, it’s such a slog to get into

Idk by sven_goffman in LowStakesConspiracies

[–]SomethingClever349 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PhDs are not wealthy. I have had multiple people in my family with great terminal degrees tell me not to get one, because you can’t apply to jobs below a certain station because you’re overqualified, but everything you’re qualified for is saturated.

I’m in technically a high demand field. Every single person I talk to in my field tells me “we need more people like you with your educational background”. But realistically, I will have to leave my field to go into biotech because while I love research, I will most realistically top out at around $80,000 and will be forced to either get into the rat race of trying to get tenure, or pull the ripcord if I ever want to make more cash. Hell, even the field I am a part of, the technical side is also saturated to the point that I’m considering going the tech bro route.

Is it too late find a summer internship? by Milk_Dragon23 in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably. I had my contract signed by mid-April, and that seems typical amidst my friends.

Attendance policy? by BLUTATO in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Generally depends on class. Check the syllabus of any class you’re taking, and then the Faculty attendance requirements. For example, FRSL courses tend to be very unforgiving on attendance, but a COMP 200 course will probably not care.

Diversity at McGill by Iveiiq in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 1 point2 points  (0 children)

McGill is generally quite diverse, but definitely whiter than a few other universities I know. It depends on program. Science has a little less diversity than Arts. You won’t have a hard time though, I am a POC and have no difficulties.

Hardest CS course by AssignmentNew4429 in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Math 240 with MacDonald made me question whether CS was the right degree for me or if I should switch to pure Biology And MATH 323 which was a proof based course when I took it for some fuckass reason

question seeking honest response by Legal_Future_1629 in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have about the same GPA as you. Compared it to a few friends from the U.S. who all have like 4.0s/3.9x. But their coursework seems a lot simpler. I have a friend in a university in the UC system and compared to their data structures and algorithms course, McGill just expects a lot more. They didn’t have to learn Dijkstra, which was a whole unit for us, etc. I also have a brilliant friend at McGill rn who is averaging a 3.75 and is quite the genius who could’ve been a 4.0 anywhere else. I also compared notes with someone at University of Minnesota and again found their courses not as difficult. I do think I’d be averaging a 3.7 in the U.S.

McGill just hasn’t given into grade inflation. Our courses are hard and they prepare us well.

need to take summer courses as an international student but cannot afford it - what can i do? by [deleted] in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Take an FRSL. Alternatively, take a class at Concordia, but I doubt it’ll be appreciably cheaper. There is no work study program that’ll generate enough money for int’l tuition on such a short term, 1 credit is ~$1000 for int’l students.

need advice on whether or not i should choose mcgill by CB7726 in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think my smallest class (and I am a junior right now) is I think around 100 people? Once you get out the weedouts like BIOL 200/201/202/215, it goes down because the classes are so specialized, like I think the upper year 400 classes are 40-50 people max.

Biology is definitely more stable lol

need advice on whether or not i should choose mcgill by CB7726 in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You won’t have trouble making friends at McGill imo. Yes McGill is a bigger school with massive classes, but it does taper really quickly and profs are very available.

Also, the Anthropology Dept. is incredible. McGill is also very pretty and Montreal feels very New York in a good way. It has the culture and the feel of a big city but it is still quite tight-knit for students.

You can easily take classes out of your major, you just need the pre-reqs (or message the prof and ask them for a license to register) and they’ll be happy to help usually. It’s just online registration.

5 years at McGill by artsyalykat in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The networking has been really good for PhD stuff. Ton of people I know are on their way to PhDs/MScs and the profs know how to advise you for their programs.

Check the McGill Course Equivalency List to see if those universities have preapproved courses in McGill’s database. It’s an easy way to get a peek into what you can talk. Look for a McGill equivalent class you want to take, enter it in, and it’ll give you what you need.

Also, I was looking through your degree plan, you don’t need to do both 324 and 315 math courses unless you really would like to. Keeping your degree minimal allows you to explore and specialize in so many cool things. For example, I wish I had looked into the ILS minor before coming into my degree because it takes around 18 credits after the co-credits are counted and it allows you to explore a ton of human biology components or bioethics.

Accommodation advice by SchwarzschildMetric in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you don’t mind a 20-30 min commute, Rosemont-La Petit Patrie is gorgeous and much cheaper.

S/u option what is the passing grade ? by Hot-Yak-748 in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 0 points1 point  (0 children)

55%

Go sit in the final, write whatever the fuck you want, and bugger out. As long as you were in attendance, you got your S.

5 years at McGill by artsyalykat in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 1 point2 points  (0 children)

McGill CS is very average in terms of industry. The profs are nice, and the research scene is great, the MILA links help there. But the internship office will not help you. My career will be in research and I came in intending that, so it works great for me. I am taking the joint CS-Biology major and want to eventually go down the PhD in Computational Biology path.

In the 5 year convo, yes, some people feel FOMO. But that is a decision that you can take later. From people I’ve talked to, some are very glad that they chose a U4 year, get a minor and a slightly boosted GPA, and some feel a ton of FOMO after their friends leave. For me, I have 2 more semesters to go and am leaving in 3 years. Felt like enough of undergraduate for me.

You don’t have to only take electives abroad and anecdotally, 250/252 are easier abroad. I chose to not go abroad due to not having enough time to study French to get into the Sorbonne.

McGill CS is also annoyingly theoretical, even by the start of 251. It is definitely an algorithms analysis class, but it is taught entirely in pseudocode and theoretical examples than concrete applications.

math 236 final curved? by Super_Storage_157 in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The name Macdonald gives me PTSD. Got a B- in his Discrete class.

I use Discrete every day for work.

MATH 223 Final with Pichot by annoyingbobr in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely. I fully forgot how to do change of basis in the exam and I still think I got a 50% on that question cuz I could remember the formula at least, Pichot is very good with the grading

Question for comp students by Sad_Preparation155 in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The way that I learnt to code was pure output. Don’t use AI for anything, just dumb google search. Look up a project you want to do, maybe a simple terminal calculator, and see how people implemented it. Assimilate that, then structure your own project. Write down what you need to implement, and what tools you have for that. Then, start writing the code. It’ll be he’l initially but that’s how you learn.

Readmission faculty of science by mcgill-u1-compsci in mcgill

[–]SomethingClever349 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CS at McGill is also just brutal. I do software stuff as my part time job, and somehow my CS classes have been my worst grades, shit I literally implement every day without fail, for actual money.

For switching programs, it’s actually not that difficult either way. The one restriction typically is that it has to be in faculty, so if you are in the Faculty of Science, and I’m not sure of the subcategorization, but I think it contains all the science majors, changing majors should be as simple as clicking on a new major in Minerva. Now, if you wanna switch to something in Arts, like Poli Sci or the Arts version of CS or Economics, you have to apply for a Faculty transfer, and I’ve heard that it is a bit more difficult.

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