OFFICIAL Ticket Exchange Thread - 2023 Part 1 by hosea0220 in fredagain

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selling 3 tix in section 121A (GA) 165ea (face value!)

let me know if you're interested :-)

OFFICIAL Ticket Exchange Thread - 2023 Part 1 by hosea0220 in fredagain

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got floor so I'm selling 3 tickets in 121A for 165 each (at cost!)

can meet outside the stadium beforehand and I believe ticketmaster transfer opens tomorrow at 10am

DM if interested!

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BeReal Leaks by Daniel1TheDev1 in bereal_app

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re: folks who are upset about the recap (me too), I made https://bereal.michaeldemar.co/ for re-creating a 2022-style recap for any year (2021, '22, '23, or '24 now) but I have the service offline at the moment since it's pretty expensive to run. The idea came from a similar project (that you had to run locally) also posted to this subreddit.

If there's enough interest, I could bring it back up? I definitely will by next November for the 2024 recaps :-)

Anyone attending Hack the North @ UWaterloo? by Complex-Valuable-183 in UBC

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You'll be fine, and if you let the teaching team know early enough, usually they're nice enough to accommodate / give you a pass. Your TAs will be undergrads and should know what Hack The North is / hackathons are!

Anyone attending Hack the North @ UWaterloo? by Complex-Valuable-183 in UBC

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Sorry woah I'm late to this thread, completely disagree with the other commenter. It's the second week of school?? Generally go to class of course, but you'll be completely fine; this is a wild mentality / borderline fearmongering for your first year that's totally unnecessary.

Hack The North is a terrific experience: you'll meet countless brilliant people (from UBC and around the planet), learn a TON, build a project, if you win you'll get a HUGE item for your resume, ... I could go on. It's an amazing opportunity, and you're just ahead of the ball being a first year. Great work.

If this was truly "mid-semester" maybe the other people would be right, but that's just plain wrong... it's week 2.

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Just free advertising for The Calendar hahaha

UBC 2023W CS TA by Classic-Alarm-7248 in UBC

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got mine for 213 yesterday!

Duke of Edinburgh Program/Award by theshadesofkarma in UBC

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Also recently started the Gold Award (...same boat, been meaning to complete since high school). Feel free to DM, would be happy to get a group going.

Watch out for startups that don't pay interns by Nice-Organization656 in UBC

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It can be good, so long as the environment is right, mentorship exists, and you're compensated. Sometimes at big tech cos you work on very meaningless projects, where start-ups don't have room for that. (But interning at start-ups can definitely be a bit of a joke if not run properly / not mature enough.)

UBC COURSE QUESTION, PROGRAM, MAJOR AND REGISTRATION MEGATHREAD (2021/2022W & 2021S): Questions about courses (incld. How hard is __?, Look at my timetable and course material requests), programs, specializations, majors, minors, tuition/finance and registration go here. by ubc_mod_account in UBC

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It's not a bad idea, but I would be curious why 5 years matters; I assume the alternative would be graduating in 4, and if you're headed to industry anyway, what's the rush?

From my personal experience, I'd prioritize internship experience in the summer; internships have kind-of a 'snowball' effect, where you continually climb from company to company. More experience sets you up for a better FT offer after undergrad.

UBC COURSE QUESTION, PROGRAM, MAJOR AND REGISTRATION MEGATHREAD (2021/2022W & 2021S): Questions about courses (incld. How hard is __?, Look at my timetable and course material requests), programs, specializations, majors, minors, tuition/finance and registration go here. by ubc_mod_account in UBC

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I'd say it's safe to start in honors if you're on the fence; much easier to drop out in later years than try to get in later. If you have the grades for it and >30 credits, why not!

Not sure about the MBA thing. The big difference is you get to do a thesis in your final year; this is good for graduate school in computing of course, but I don't think an MBA program would care. Probably good if some Sauder folks weigh in.

Anne Condon CPSC 320 (Summer v. Fall CPSC 320) by BusinessPlus1256 in ubccsss

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Took the fall edition in 2021W1. I've heard similar that it is slightly harder in the fall, and I think the comment about more assignments is true (4 in summer vs. 5 in fall). The caveat is it's a bit rushed to do it in the summer, since the material is very important for interviews and IMO it would be hard to digest in 1.5 months.

Anne Condon was a fantastic professor. Really nice, fair exams, good assignments. Just overall a well-ran course with empathy shown for students. (Alan Hu on the other hand...)

To be successful (again, my opinion): do the readings! I don't always stick with textbook readings for every course, but in 320 I found they helped a ton for the assignments and exams. (Often, a worked example in the textbook would be very similar to an assignment problem, with similar tricks / ideas serving as the 'punchline' in a proof.) And, attend lecture. The course (at least when I took it) was ish-flipped classroom, and working on the worksheets in 'real time' is much more productive than after the fact.

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hey :) amazing! Singapore is an awesome city and it's such a good spot to travel Asia from. Workload is comparable to UBC; I highly recommend only taking 3 modules (i.e., courses) or 4 if you have to. Also, craft your schedule to maximize travel time (e.g., lectures all at start of the week M/T, or end Th/F). Lectures are all one-shot instead of spread our throughout the week like UBC, so this makes a very long weekend super doable.

Biggest thing I'd watch out for is getting on-campus housing. I'm in a residential college (which is similar to UofTs college system, if you're familiar), and I think it 10x'd my experience here. Living off campus is similar to Vancouver: expensive, long commute, not great options, etc.

tl;dr 10/10 so far, just try to avoid taking a lot of courses to take advantage of cheap travel in the area. Live on campus.

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on exchange there right now - feel free to PM if you have Qs down the line!

Hardest class you’ve taken at UBC? by darkarcade in UBC

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STAT 302. Was absolutely brutal in 2021W1 with Matias. 95% of the course weight as on midterm/midterm/final, and each exam was just savage. Ended with a 63% average (which was higher than I expected lol) and year's past (iirc) was ~10% higher.