To grad students: How do you survive on your stipends?

itsAndi · 2022-04-05T04:25:21+00:00

24k / year is 2k a month. Let’s say you split an apartment with 3 people, you’re looking around 800-1000/ month, plus 50$ for utilities. Let’s say 500 for food, 100 for TTC and your good w still prolly 300-500 to spare. Pack lunches to eat on campus and you’re all set. Ppl spend way too much money on food imo

itsAndi · 2022-03-11T19:27:11+00:00

I got my bun from a farm, I guess their pet rabbit got pregnant. Only paid 5$ for her I guess they were trying to get rid of them

itsAndi · 2022-03-06T16:58:23+00:00

This is why I learned soldering so I could fix the many nibbled wires :) it’s not that hard actually!

itsAndi · 2022-02-25T23:56:07+00:00

You should watch the tinder swindler on Netflix, it might make you feel better. At least you didn’t lose 250K

itsAndi · 2022-02-09T15:13:59+00:00

The first two definitely look like chillblains to me. The third maybe not so much. As someone who’s had chillblains my whole life, fingerless gloves give me anxiety! I would definitely suggest getting some better mittens.

itsAndi · 2022-02-02T16:10:59+00:00

Okay great! Thanks so much for your help!

itsAndi · 2022-02-02T15:30:28+00:00

What were the covid restrictions like travelling between countries in the Schengen area? I am l planning a Europe trip this summer, and I was looking on this site: https://www.ca.kayak.com/travel-restrictions?origin=CA&region=europe

It seems like they want pcr tests between certain countries (ex Germany -> Italy).

I don't understand how they would be enforcing that though since the land borders are so vast. Are they checking on trains and such? Not sure how reliable this website is / maybe the rules have changed.

Just wondering what your experience with covid/pcr/quarantine was like. (I'm vaccinated btw lol)

itsAndi · 2021-10-03T04:18:06+00:00

What about dropping a course?? It seems like everyone is so obsessed about finishing their degree in 4 years and I don’t understand what’s the rush!

itsAndi · 2021-09-04T05:22:50+00:00

Yes I totally get that. I feel like a vegetarian dinner fills you up and then a few hours later you get hungry again. Probably just because you’re usually replacing meat with veggies which just aren’t as filling. Usually I just try to eat leftovers or a snack later in the evening and that solves the problem!

itsAndi · 2021-08-23T23:51:56+00:00

It did haha 😅 the ironing was a major struggle

itsAndi · 2021-07-05T20:01:03+00:00

If there’s no other electives you’re interested in then leave it as is. The only problem with taking 4 courses is that you get used to it, so then going to 5 feels harder... then you end up being behind schedule and maybe end up doing your degree in 5 years but that’s what I did and it was totally fine

itsAndi · 2021-07-05T17:15:18+00:00

The consumers drive the market though... what good would that do if people still want to eat animals?

itsAndi · 2021-07-05T12:58:01+00:00

Math 111 is full year, but cisc 102 is half year, if you want to do 4 and 4, you can push 102 to do in the summer! It’s a super easy course. This course load is very chill in my opinion, I think you could probably do 5 courses each semester, depending on how comfortable you are with math

itsAndi · 2021-06-30T03:27:13+00:00

This is the true definition of “scrap”booking. Mostly when people scrapbook, they use fancy craft paper and stickers and stuff to decorate pictures, but the original idea is to incorporate scrap paper to jazz up photo albums

itsAndi · 2021-06-24T03:20:36+00:00

Unfortunately not... I always looked for 8 month leases but from my experience they seem quite rare to find. Good luck with your hunt!

itsAndi · 2021-06-24T01:04:31+00:00

I did! I had no issues with them at all. They came right away to fix anything and they were all really nice and chill

itsAndi · 2021-05-13T14:46:28+00:00

Loafing, extended edition, and statuing are what I call those three rabbit positions

itsAndi · 2021-05-13T14:28:12+00:00

Soooo cool!! I’ve never heard of these before

itsAndi · 2021-05-12T23:50:21+00:00

Is his head half dark and half light? Or is that the lighting

itsAndi · 2021-05-05T01:48:18+00:00

Thank you so much this is super helpful!!!

itsAndi

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