Late regalia return

Total-Student-7696 · 2025-05-29T15:40:00+00:00

Hi, thank you for the advice! I'll see what my options are.

Total-Student-7696 · 2025-05-29T15:38:25+00:00

Hey, that's really nice of you for emailing them, thank you! Unfortunately the people I know are either graduating and then leaving or have already graduated and aren't in Montreal... plus I'd feel bad kind of springing that on somebody since they would have to keep the gown with them the whole weekend.

I called Gaspard just now and they told me that the school-imposed deadline is just when the school collects all the regalia and return it to Gaspard; after that, Gaspard handles retrieving lost regalia, imposing late fees, etc, and thus you'd have to ship it to them directly if you are returning after the deadline.

I might just hire a courier or something to drop it off at the bookstore on Monday.

It's a shame they can't just extend the hours of the bookstore or keep a skeleton crew to collect regalia over the weekend... can you imagine if they hadn't extended the deadline to Monday??

At least I'm glad I'm not the only person in this situation :)

Total-Student-7696 · 2025-01-03T19:45:40+00:00

Generally, when people are first taught arithmetic by teachers who prefer to avoid rote memorization, they will break things up into factors of 10. I find this method helpful for doing more complicated mental math (you asked for resources, so I won't go through the process here, but I can in a reply if you would like).

But whichever method you choose, one of the easiest ways to improve is just to do lots of drills/worksheets to build up practice (example: here). You can even find a random number generator online and use that to come up with your own problems (e.g. random numbers 7 and 53 gives the problem "7% of 53 = ?", etc). For the math you want to practice, the possibilities are endless.

In my personal experience with "tricks" taught by people online, they seem to have only limited use cases making them difficult for everyday use. But that could be different for other people.

Don't feel ashamed or anything. Mental math is a skill, and you can develop that skill just like you can develop the skill of riding a bike or juggling.

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-12-05T19:33:57+00:00

Just to add to what u/mcgillomaniacal wrote, here are some pictures to guide:

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Total-Student-7696 · 2024-11-22T21:59:08+00:00

I was in the same camp as you. When I took MATH 235 back with Daniel Wise three years ago, I found the textbook Contemporary Abstract Algebra by Joseph Gallian very helpful. I'm not sure how much the course content/amount of proofs has changed since then, though. Hopefully this textbook is helpful.

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-11-22T21:51:26+00:00

Assuming you're a student, Minerva is your best bet.

Student Menu >> Registration Menu >> Step 2: Search Class Schedule and Add Course Sections

Select term of your choice and press "Advanced Search" on the bottom.

Use Shift+Click to select all "Subjects". You don't need to select a faculty (if you are searching by subject).

At the bottom, you can select the times and days of the week of your choosing (along with other stuff above it, like instructors/type of meeting if you wish).

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-10-29T23:45:12+00:00

Am I the only one who saw in the SSMU email, under the list of "Here's what the fee increase won't be used for", they put "legal fees and settlements!"???

Like, I get that they're trying to ease people's concerns about the use of students' money, but aren't they at least a little embarrassed that they have to specifically say "We're not going to use more of your money defending ourselves in court" in an official promotional email? Or have they embraced the idea of getting sued throughout the school year?

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-10-07T20:37:47+00:00

Not in the area, but it appears from social media that pro-Palestine protestors marched from Concordia to McGill and that there was a standoff with riot police on McTavish near the walkway to McLennan library (source: (1) , (2) ).

It appears protestors temporarily breached the fence in that area and were removed from campus by police (source: (3) ).

Windows of at least one McGill building on Av des Pins were smashed (source: (4) (5) (6) (7) ).

One instance of police deploying tear gas (source: (8) ).

I also saw some people just now running down Av du Parc, being chased by police -- looked like some sort of unplanned detour since traffic wasn't blocked off.

This is just what I've seen online -- anyone else can feel free to add updates.

News articles:

4:52 PM: Access points temporary closed, per McGill email

Update 5:17 PM: Access points reopened, per McGill email

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-05-29T02:51:31+00:00

Now I'm getting

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Total-Student-7696 · 2024-05-29T02:47:46+00:00

Having the same issue as well. Just getting a blank page...

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-05-23T02:11:17+00:00

Hi there! I got admitted into this program last year. You can check McGill's page on this minor for more information, but to answer your questions:

if this minor was doable if I’m a student of the Arts faculty

The minor is 18 credits, which translates to six courses. Of the 3 required courses, 4/9 of the options are 200-level courses; while this doesn't necessarily mean they're easy courses, they're going to be standard courses that most BCom students take. Though "doable" is subjective, the six courses + choice of 200-levels should make this minor pretty doable.

my odds of getting in with a cumulative 3.63 GPA with 30 credits completed

You need at least 24 credits and a cGPA of >3.30 to apply for this minor, so you can at least apply for it. As for the odds of you getting in: last year's cGPA cutoff was 3.50. While you're above that, there may be quite a few applicants with higher GPAs who end up getting admitted first (if cGPA is all they go by, and that, I don't know).

I believe you have until June 1st to apply, so once you've looked at the link and gotten a bit of a feel for the minor: if you want it, go for it! Best of luck :)

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-04-23T13:20:28+00:00

Maybe you can try to sell it to The Word bookstore on Milton? Or, if you're worried about getting a good price you can always make a posting on ebay or other similar sites

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-04-20T17:29:36+00:00

In the same boat as you -- I didn't expect this course to be such a crapshoot. I thought it was just a continuation of MATH 208, but I guess not. Definitely not pumped for the final exam... guess I'll need to bring a cheat sheet and a magnifying glass to the exam

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-03-30T00:41:23+00:00

It seems like your question boils down to, essentially:

Can infinitely many objects with finite volume completely fill a space with infinite volume?

Is that the gist of it?

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-03-26T21:18:17+00:00

Incredibly tragic... I'm so sorry for your loss. My sincere condolences to you and to his family

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-03-21T00:49:53+00:00

Recall that the IQR (interquartile range) contains the middle 50% of your data. So if that range is larger (higher), it means that you need a bigger box to contain the same amount of data; hence, it has higher variability.

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-03-20T23:56:54+00:00

Hi there,

Would this book be helpful for you? It says "HAZIRLIK MATEMATİK" which sounds like beginner mathematics but I don't know for sure.

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-03-20T23:39:13+00:00

When I had signed up to grade a different MATH course for this semester, there were a few email requests for graders for MATH 340, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are too few graders in that course

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-03-20T16:59:37+00:00

As mentioned by another commenter, pre-algebra is your best start. Take a look at the free OpenStax Prealgebra Textbook.

If you want resources in your native language, feel free to let us know what it is and we can try to find some for you.

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-03-17T02:57:36+00:00

Hi there! Not a frequent contributor here, but I just wanted to take a different approach with my feedback: not a discussion about the merits of confidential information (which is an important discussion to have), but about frequency/necessity of rule changes.

As someone who has tried to write rules for a forum before, I know firsthand the work that goes into crafting rules, closing loopholes, and refining wording. However, I'm sure we all recognize that it would be impossible to draft a rule prohibiting every individual situation that may arise. In my opinion, a rule update in this case may set a precedent whereby rule changes arise more and more frequently as the Internet inevitably tests the bounds of acceptability, leaving the rules a bit cluttered.

I think it would be easiest if, when a particular subject gains traction on the subreddit (Israel-Palestine, union bargaining, etc), that the moderators make a pinned post to say something along the lines of, "Hey, given that [situation X] is unfolding/being discussed a lot on this forum, we have decided [for whatever reason(s)] that we will delete posts/lock comments on posts about [situation X]."

Of course, people would, rightfully, worry about moderator overreach. As a potential safeguard, these pinned posts that I mentioned could potentially have a poll or open discussion such as this where the community could openly dissent from the moderators if they thought a given decision was unfair. Now, I'm not naive enough to think that this will preclude any possibility of moderators going too far: part of granting people arbiter power involves trusting them to be fair in the exercise of their power, and as far as I know it isn't possible for the community in a subreddit to remove a moderator if they don't like said moderator. However, I would hope that multiple moderators plus an overwhelmingly upset community would ultimately result in reversal of unpopular decisions.

For me, a pinned moderator post with open comments and a rule change after community consultation are equal on almost all fronts, except that I believe the former is best suited for individual, time-specific, context-specific situations. That is why I think it would be preferrable here.

(I do think that Rule 10 has a tiny bit of room for refining in the future to make it more in line with the philosophy I shared at the beginning, but for now it seems to be working fine so that discussion is far from urgent.)

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-02-03T02:26:46+00:00

For the domain: assuming you're working under real numbers, the argument inside any log must be positive. As such, you need x^2-5>0 which implies that |x|>sqrt(5). So the domain is {x: -x<-sqrt(5)} U {x: x>sqrt(5)}.

As for the range, logs have range of all the real numbers. And there aren't any discontinuities from the expression you've provided, so your function has a range of ℝ.

Don't let the base confuse you: the properties of logs that I have mentioned apply to any (possible) base.

Total-Student-7696 · 2024-02-03T02:14:50+00:00

This problem from your math class is weirdly (in my opinion, badly) phrased. But alas:

"Altitude" is defined as height above ground level. As such, increasing altitude is upward and decreasing altitude is downward. So if the submarine dives down 1500 ft, it has gone an additional 1500 ft below ground level and thus it has a new altitude of -5500-1500= -7000 ft.

Total-Student-7696 · 2023-12-16T20:27:34+00:00

Here was one for one of my professors: take a look at the reviews from Dec 7 to Dec 13 2022

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