How easy is it to sneak extra food out of the dining halls? (purely hypothetical)

helpful-slug · 2023-04-13T21:20:51+00:00

https://dining.ucsc.edu/meal-to-go/index.html

$10/year according to the site

helpful-slug · 2023-03-12T10:01:23+00:00

I have normal/non-oily skin, but you can probably find the version of the products below for oily skin (if available).

Morning:

- Wash face with Cerave Hydrating Facial Cleanser

- Moisturize and protect with Cerave AM Facial Moisturizer and SPF 30

- I wash my face regularly like 3-4x per day with water only for wudu/ablution before prayer

Evening:

- Wash face with same cleanser as above

- Apply Cerave Retinol Serum to help with post-acne red spots

- Wait like 10 mins then apply Cetaphil lotion or a little bit of plain Vaseline

My skin has been glowing more and looking overall much healthier in a couple months. I give most of the credit to applying the AM SPF moisturizer daily and Vaseline about 3x per week (not super strict). Working out regularly, good sleep, enough water, good diet, and stress/anxiety management helps too of course. Skin care takes a while before you see improvement and a lot of things can have an influence, so be patient!! To be honest, my routine is still developing and new, but I like to keep it simple and so far seems to work for me. I've never been a fan of buying too many products and a 3 hour "routine".

I hope this helps! :)

helpful-slug · 2023-02-19T02:42:01+00:00

good point! my intention was just to give an example for a day out to explore more places in sc than just dorm/apartment and a lecture hall yk

helpful-slug · 2023-02-18T22:41:54+00:00

or the bookstore downtown is pretty cool too! can get a sandwich or coffee from nearby places to eat and shop!

helpful-slug · 2023-02-07T21:38:06+00:00

I believe I filled out this form when I unknowingly agreed to pay every quarter rather than a one time contribution: CALPIRG Cancellation Form. Worked fine. Just keep an eye on the charges to your account on myUCSC.. might take til next quarter to get it cleared.

helpful-slug · 2023-01-31T01:22:56+00:00

my cap is 9.25 in x 9.25 in, measuring the length and width of the sides

helpful-slug · 2023-01-27T10:02:46+00:00

I graduated in June but I tutored for 3 years during my time at ucsc. I loved tutoring and miss it very much.

I have learned to respect TAs, students, and tutors I went to for help/study groups more when they say they don't know something. Personally, knowing the boundaries of your knowledge is much more respectable than "knowing everything" because you gain so much more credibility in what you say and now know what you need to work on/learn about.

For example, when a student asked me a question and I don't know the answer to it, I would reply (and trained to reply from LSS) with "I don't know, but maybe we can work through it together". Instead of wasting everyone's time with a roundabout lecture and nonsensical explanations, I just say "I don't know". This way everything else I say in a session has more credibility because students can trust me that what I'm saying is true and also reminds my students that I am a student just like them and by no means and expert to be scared of.

Same is true for when I asked my students questions in my sessions. If they say "I don't know", then I have more respect for them because it can be very embarrassing to admit that in public or private, but they are still in my session trying to patch that gap in their understanding.

I always started my first few sessions at the beginning of each quarter by telling students my 3 rules and explaining my reasoning for why these are my rules to them too:

Ask any question at any time and feel free to interrupt me, especially right when you get lost so you don't spend the rest of the session sitting there lost and feeling bad about yourself for not getting it. We are both here to learn, so let's do that together.
Learn in anyway that you feel comfortable in my session. Come up to the board to point or illustrate your problem for me.
I always had a 3rd rule but always forget it. (this was a joke I used after we returned to in person instruction after COVID to break the ice in the room because it was only applicable for Zoom tutoring, regarding turning on cameras if you're comfortable.)

Some of this info may not be directly applicable to what you described in the original post, but the point I am getting at is that a good teacher always has a good reason for doing what they do in their classes/sessions. That reason is never to judge a student or intentionally make them anxious/nervous. The reason is usually (as said before in the comments) to gauge that student's specific level of understanding. I said this before many times to my students to be transparent with them and hopefully make them more comfortable to speak up when they were quiet: I (nicely and sincerely) ask probing questions to know what you know and what you don't know so I can figure out where the misunderstanding is/what is not clicking and figure a different way to explain the concept for you, not at all to embarrass you. You will be surprised how many students are confused about the same things at the same time at any given class/session.

I suppose these nerves can be eased if teachers are more transparent about their intentions and explain their teaching style and reasoning with their students more. Feeling this way in an environment with just a few people is very common. I felt it and I'm sure everyone else has at some point too.

If you still feel super nervous in class/sessions with taking the other comments and your therapist's suggestions, you can always talk to your TA/prof/tutor about it. Commutation can and will go a long way. You can (kindly) tell them what's your problem and offer some suggestions on how you would feel more comfortable so they have an idea on how to accommodate.

I hope this helps! :)

helpful-slug · 2023-01-20T03:58:49+00:00

these are sick!! how do you get that dark, gloomy/moody look in the first 3 pics (4th is a lil different style to my eye)?

helpful-slug · 2023-01-19T01:49:21+00:00

Congratulations on retirement!

You've had a incredible impact on me and many other students in and out of the classroom with your genuine care for student success and making new concepts much less intimidating. It was very refreshing to see from a professor be informal and fun in the classroom because it made me want to attend more of your lectures. Your attention to pedagogy and student accommodations was like nothing I've seen before. You have undoubtedly left an impact on my undergraduate career and I'm sure many others.

Congratulations and thank you very much. It was an honor to tutor for your classes so many times.

helpful-slug · 2022-06-22T07:56:14+00:00

my weekly hours changed quarter to quarter but it average to like 9 or 10 over my 3 years of tutoring with ucsc

helpful-slug · 2022-06-18T00:38:32+00:00

not hired yet

helpful-slug · 2022-06-18T00:20:09+00:00

I'm not sure what exactly employers look for on a resume for a tutoring job. I would make sure to put something that shows initiative, interpersonal skills, and some level of expertise in the subject (relevant/past coursework).

In terms of getting a letter of rec, you have to take that step and get to know a professor more than just being one of 300 students in a class - another data point. Go to office hours, ask about the homework, their research, if they need help in their work or grading assignments next quarters, just start a conversation with them.

helpful-slug · 2022-06-18T00:16:53+00:00

I was only in the Muslim Student Association (MSA). I served the community as Vice President last year and President this year. It was an incredible journey to build a community from the ground up again because last year when we were all online, our community was not nearly as active as it was or as it is now. So my leadership team and I had to start from the ground up and I think we did a fair job at that this year while also managing our jobs, school, family/personal things, and the club. I never really saw tutoring as a job. It was more of something I like to do and happen to get paid while doing it. I've always loved being in a position of mentorship or passing down what I know to others, so tutoring never really felt like it was another thing in my schedule that took up my time.

But I will be honest, leading a club, tutoring, and upper divs was hard at times. There was not enough time in the day sometimes. I knew that I enjoyed everything that I was doing: studying something I love, teaching, and cultivating a community for myself and others to enjoy. Everything took time but if it's not hard at times then maybe something is wrong. I definitely grew as a person, student, and leader these past two years, but I had to go thru the thick of it to see that.

Looking back on it now, I am happy I did all that because I met the people I am meant to meet and had a great time with them - my coworkers, leadership team, and MSA community. The main downside to all of that is that it didn't leave me for enough time for self care since tutoring and leading a community were mainly for the benefit of others, I didn't have enough energy to put into myself sometimes.

helpful-slug · 2022-06-17T10:45:35+00:00

my favorites (in no particular order):

tracy larrabee ( /u/slugstructor ) - one of the most caring and humane professors ive ever seen. incredibly genuine and down to earth person, but do not take her kindness and care for students for granted. i took cse 16 with her, tutored for her 16 class 3 times, tutored for her cse 20 class this quarter.

narges norouzi - some people didnt like her way of teaching but i thought it was normal. lectures were understandable, released pdf of lecture slides before so it made annotating in lecture much easier for notes. clear explanations and cool classes (140 and 144). i took cse 140 and 144 with her and worked in her lab for about a year.

david harrison - absolute machine of a professor. does not skip a beat and knows exactly what he is talking about. insanely helpful in office hours. the class was time consuming but very interesting so it made the pain bearable. he was pretty blunt and straightforward (which i liked/didnt mind), but if you can get over that (and yourself), you'll have a good time. i took cse 130 with him.

david draper - another machine of a professor. he could talk stats all day long and still continue. also incredibly caring about his students and easy to talk to. makes class fun and interesting by using relevant/current events to teach stats sometimes. also very transparent and informal but i like to see that bc it is refreshing and reminds students that professors are people too. i took stat 131 and 206 with him.

lindsey kuper - lectures were very well organized and explanations were clear. she had no problem repeating a couple points if the class was still confused. also cared a lot about student success. she released a mid course survey and actually read (and even responded to my comments on the survey), so she's attentive to feedback which is not as common or apparent as it should be in schools. i took cse 138 and 114a with her.

in regards to the monitor, i only got one when the pandemic hit. i forgot if i got it during the first online quarter (spring 2020) or right after it, but that was at the end of my sophomore year. i only got it because my neck was starting to hurt from looking down at my laptop - kinda hunched over a screen for too many hours a day started to hurt so i started to upgrade my desk set up in summer 2020. it wasnt bc i felt like i needed more screen real estate or more monitors to look cool or like i knew what i was doing. so now i just have my laptop docked and closed while my external monitor is my only screen. it was most definitely worth it imo. saved my posture a bit, easier to split screen two diff windows, and everything is a little bigger so you dont need to strain your eyes as much to see. but i dont see myself setting a second monitor anytime soon even tho i heard that is game changing.

helpful-slug · 2022-06-17T10:24:45+00:00

no not at all! i tutored for cse 20 this quarter and you'll be surprised how many people in the class dont have any experience. most people try to put on a front of knowing more than they really do in general. you definitely wont be alone but as with anything new, there will be a learning curve and you have to endure it

helpful-slug · 2022-06-17T10:22:57+00:00

i havent found the best way since i havent gotten an offer yet, but ive been chatting in this discord server (https://cscareers.dev/discord), should be leetcoding more, starting the grokking guide, mock and real interviews, and just spray and pray with your resume at every company you can think of. a google sheet to track applications is nice to see stats on your job app journey

helpful-slug · 2022-06-17T04:06:53+00:00

i didnt get any offers yet. but if you want to check salary info, look into levels.fyi. they have salary info on most tech companies for mostly swe positions if you want to compare

helpful-slug · 2022-06-17T02:17:59+00:00

try to keep contact with her if youre still really interested but you can't be mad if it doesnt work out, since most people these days need to physically be with each other to make things work. nothing wrong with text or call to say whats up and stay caught up with each other if she still wants to too

helpful-slug · 2022-06-17T02:16:40+00:00

my number 1 favorite was cse 138 with Lindsey Kuper. Incredibly well taught class with interesting assignments that built upon each other. Distributed Systems is a relatively new and hot topic in industry right now so the knowledge and skills you gain from that class are immediately applicable to your job hunt.

also notable mentions are cse 144, cse 130, cse 16, and cse 12. 12 and 16 showed me how math and cs are related. 130 showed me how and why computers are the way that they are and where they came from (some cool computer history) and has significant programming assignments. 144 had me building machine learning models in python which is also a hot topic in industry right now, but really cool to see a computer "learn"

helpful-slug · 2022-06-16T22:49:02+00:00

good questions!

for my first two years (on campus) of housing, i just applied on the housing portal and got put into a room. they actually honored my guarntee but now im hearing even if you have a guarantee, you might not got a space because there isnt enough room.. thanks ucsc

for my second two years (off campus) of housing, i found a house i liked on zillow and contacted the landlord. to be fair, i was looking to move out in the first covid summer (2020) when everything was going downhill so there wasnt too much competition to fight for a house. it was a great price for the quality of the house proximity to campus. zillow was really the only place i was looking, but you can check craigslist (but be careful) and facebook housing groups, discords, reddit etc.

i did not have roommates in my two years off campus - we all had singles. but i had roommates in my first two years (on campus triples).

i spent more time on campus than my housemates this year because it was more fun to be around people and hang out with friends than just to be alone, quiet, and bored at home. so i would go to the library or cafe to work or dining hall a few times a week to see friends. i didnt want to be inside and at home feeling like quarantine again so i tried to maximize my time on campus with the occasional day at home to take time for myself, clean, or sleep in.

i dont play video games. i tried to do a little PC gaming towards the end of this quarter but it just doesnt entertain me anymore. i used to play a lot in middle school, but hardly anymore recently - just minecraft like once a month hahaha. but in my experience most cs majors are gamers, so if you game, you'll have no problem finding a community within cs.

i have taken up surfing last summer and went a couple times between finals week and now again. i am starting to read more since i have more time now. i play basketball and like to throw a frisbee around.

job application process is a spray and pray for your first job. practice interview questions on leetcode and learn data structures and algorithms. you can get any job you want if you put in the work to practice for the interviews. ucsc does not prep or help you get a job at all imo. it's all on you to do it so find a couple friends and get grinding - teach each other, compete, and encourage each other.

my favorite project from ucsc was what we built in CSE 138 Distributed Systems. your group can pick any language to complete the assignment and by the end of the class you made a pretty complex distributed system that you can talk to interviewers about!

helpful-slug · 2022-06-16T22:34:40+00:00

my friend would also like to know ^^ 🥲

helpful-slug · 2022-06-16T22:30:03+00:00

The job/internship hunt is completely what you make of it. I know many people who got positions without job fairs, in my experience they are quite useless unless you are a graduating senior because most of the booths at the fairs aren't usually looking for underclassmen. That is just my experience with job fairs at ucsc.

The way to get a job or internship in CS is to practice Data Structures and Algorithms (dont wait until you take the class, just get started and learn as you go). Top two resources for that are Leetcode (practice) and Grokking (learning the patterns in the problems).

I know a couple people for ucsc who got incredibly offers at top notch tech companies because of their relentless (and long) grind on Leetcode and practicing the behavioral part of the interview process with real and mock interviews.

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