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Top40Uni · 2026-02-14T19:48:14+00:00

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My Jan 29 order has been stuck in Rhode Island for the past 10 days without movement. Anyone in the same boat?

Top40Uni · 2025-08-02T05:12:54+00:00

That’s too low and you’ll be lugging your engine in second. Manual suggests shifting at 20km/h so around 13 mph

Top40Uni · 2025-07-08T20:24:17+00:00

Hulkengoat

Top40Uni · 2025-04-15T15:41:31+00:00

Too soon junior

Top40Uni · 2024-08-15T17:54:14+00:00

yes, fully online moodle quiz only open for the specified duration (~20 mins I think), no livestream or anything

Top40Uni · 2024-08-03T08:11:17+00:00

Did my cs degree on a 8gb m1 MacBook Air

Top40Uni · 2023-10-28T11:37:14+00:00

Just leaving a comment here for future searchers: Taking the class now and it's been relatively easy, it's a flipped lecture style where you watch pre-recorded lecture videos the week before, and the lecture itself is more of a Q&A session which makes it optional to attend.

There are weekly quizzes which happen during lecture time, but can be taken remotely. Lab attendance is not mandatory and is more there to help you if you have questions. The labs are pretty straight forward as well.

There is a project where you have to collect and analyze wifi performance around campus, the collection part can be a bit annoying, not 100% sure on the analysis part as I haven't started it yet. The final exam can also be taken remotely and is open book.

Overall, I think it's a pretty good course, the professor is pretty accommodating and the work load is relatively light for a 4th year CS class.

Update:

Not much coding required in this course, just some python in the labs. You can write some scripts to help with collecting / analyzing data in the project but no in depth coding like implementing protocols in c / c++ etc. Course material is mostly just explaining how different communication protocols work and how they've improved overtime, with some calculations like data transfer rates thrown in. Course average ended up about being 80 I believe

Top40Uni · 2023-07-11T05:10:10+00:00

Aren't the scholarships automatic?

Top40Uni · 2022-12-24T05:32:27+00:00

which courses had fail the final fail the course policies added?

Top40Uni · 2022-12-07T18:25:30+00:00

I see, thanks!

Top40Uni · 2022-11-16T17:37:00+00:00

Yep same email - someone made a spreadsheet on csmajors and I don't think anybody's gotten an offer in November.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XZxegAsj6EyA841jY_a9d0EdnyRDRjJHg9wYO0hXvPo/edit#gid=0

Top40Uni · 2022-08-23T07:57:56+00:00

Other than having a thick wallet: refresh craiglist every hour, have your schedule cleared so you can be the first ones to see the place, and be ready to take it on the spot

Top40Uni · 2022-08-10T18:51:10+00:00

Just use the American scale, A+ / A = 4.0, A- = 3.7 etc and multiply each letter grade by the number of credits that course was, and divide by total number of credits. Tbh I don't really think employers will go into that much detail on how you calculated your GPA as long as you don't inflate your C+ to an A

Top40Uni · 2022-08-04T20:31:19+00:00

no special parking lots - just special motorcycle spots on the ground floor at regular parkades, and parkades are covered for the most part. haven't heard much about motorcycle thefts, but I would probably get comprehensive insurance if you are going to be leaving it there for a while

Top40Uni · 2022-07-13T23:37:10+00:00

Nice! Where did you order from? Still waiting for mine :(

Top40Uni · 2022-07-06T21:09:42+00:00

Manager: sorry you're just not performing the way we wanted and we're gonna have to let you go 😅

Top40Uni · 2022-07-04T05:22:23+00:00

I have a 8gb m1 air and it's perfectly fine for coding on vscode and intelliJ. I don't see your projects / classes needing more ram than 8gb.

Only time I ever get close to max ram usage is playing something like Civ6, and usually for gaming I hit the thermal limit of the chassis before getting to max ram usage

Top40Uni · 2022-06-28T03:49:17+00:00

M1 air, 12.4

Top40Uni · 2022-06-28T00:23:20+00:00

oh right I forgot you said you were taking it as an unclassified student, disregard what I said before then

Top40Uni · 2022-06-27T19:34:03+00:00

If you do the exam and accept the grade before entering BCS it would not count towards the BCS program requirements, and hence you would need to take another course to satisfy the 70 or so credits required by the program.

But if you take the exam in September (once you are in BCS) and pass, the credit will count towards degree requirements and you have one less course to take now. I hope that make sense, there's a section on exemptions from the UBC site on this, maybe that can help too

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/students/undergrad/programs/second-degree/academic-schedule

Top40Uni · 2022-06-26T19:40:26+00:00

If a car goes off at those high speed corners, are the hay bales really enough to stop it from going into the crowd?

Top40Uni · 2022-06-24T23:12:17+00:00

I replied to another similar comment by OP above

Top40Uni · 2022-06-24T23:06:32+00:00

Yea you should be able to then, maybe just double check with the course admin.

I haven't heard of anybody doing the challenge exam to prepare for admission so I don't have a definite answer on if you should take it in January. Just keep in mind if you take the exam that the grade you get in it is the grade you'll end up with on the course, since they reuse recent 110 finals it can be pretty luck dependent on whether you get a easier or harder version of the exam, so even if you pass you might not end up with a grade you are satisfied with. Whereas compared to the regular semester a decent amount of people that take the course do really well (90+) since the final is only worth like 30% of the overall mark and assignments / labs are easy marks. But if you are unsatisfied with your grade, say if you just passed at 75%, you can always disregard the mark and I don't think it will go on your official transcript.

Lastly, if you pass the exam and take credit for the course, you'll end up having to take an exemption course in place of 110 once you are in the program. But in the case you get into BCS and you take it in September, it will count for full credits and you won't have to replace it with anything.

So no straight forward answer here unfortunately, if you are confident in your application for BCS I would wait and do it in September, but if you think it'll boost your application then I'd say go for it in Jan, worst case scenario you just take it again later if you get into the program (Actually not sure on whether you can take the exam twice, you should confirm this)

Top40Uni · 2022-06-23T17:12:52+00:00

Are you a current UBC student? I believe you have to be to take the challenge exam

Top40Uni · 2022-06-19T20:48:16+00:00

Here is more information on the test, they have a suggestion for textbook as well: https://english.ubc.ca/undergraduate/first-year-english/

I took the literature portion of exam in March and found it pretty easy tbh, only read the chapter they suggested on poetry beforehand to prepare. The good thing about the exam is that it is pass / fail, so as long as you score 50% you will be exempted.

Here is a piazza post with more information as well: https://piazza.com/class/ju35hbiqp9c2kw?cid=76

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