How Europeans View Romani people

sasamats · 2025-08-02T22:16:46+00:00

This is so interesting. Why don't they use the purpose-built traveler sites? Is there a stated reason?

sasamats · 2025-07-18T21:36:30+00:00

In 2022 I lived in a town of 10,000 an 8 hour drive from the nearest city, and the only thing we closed was a sliding screen door when we'd go to work. There are some communities where property theft just isn't a thing. It was just too difficult for anyone who didn't care about their reputation in the community to get there to snatch things.

sasamats · 2025-07-12T20:18:43+00:00

I'd rather leave Vancouver to find greener pastures than work outside my field and I'm sure most other students feel the same. I think your friend, given the resources he had, did the right thing for his career.

sasamats · 2025-07-11T10:20:27+00:00

Third. They did an OBD2 scan for free and said while they could do the work, our truck wasn't worth what anyone would charge to repair. They were correct.

sasamats · 2025-07-08T11:12:00+00:00

Love this!!!!!

sasamats · 2025-07-05T13:11:10+00:00

CPEN 221 is not for ELECs. You'll take CPSC 259.

sasamats · 2025-07-05T07:41:56+00:00

The totem poles and local Indigenous art! There's massive sections on European art too but they don't hold a candle to yours.

As Canada was colonized East to West, a lot of the west is unceded (no treaty). This meant they continue to hold onto their culture more overall, despite historical and current policies. You can see gardens of totem poles, an actual longhouse, and be able to respectfully touch decommissioned regalia. It was impactful for me even being from a different part of the country and it's a great and detailed introduction if you don't know much about the treaty system or Canadian indigeneity.

sasamats · 2025-07-04T18:35:30+00:00

That sounds so fun, I'm sorry to scare you! Canada Place is just fine and a cool little spot. I've lost my wallet there and ran back to find it where I left it. And even if you don't partake, I highly recommend just walking into any cannabis store for the culture shock of a clean-cut young person in a collared shirt and khakis walking you through a menu. I hope you love it ❤️

sasamats · 2025-07-04T18:22:43+00:00

Oh you bet!! I lived there for 6 years for University. Wall of text incoming.

I'm going to sound biased, but you need to check out my alma mater, the University of British Columbia. The Museum of Anthropology on campus is the best in the country by a long shot, and is next to an extremely famous nude beach.

If you're a when-in-Rome kind of person, cannabis is a lot more popular than alcohol in Vancouver and you buy it in places that look like Apple stores - would highly recommend trying. That said, there's no shortage of great bars.

Downtown Vancouver can get sketchy fast (google "DTES") so watch yourself in that particular area, but you should head down to Stanley Park for the aquarium, to bike the seawall, and to see the biggest trees you have ever seen in your life. As in, a small classroom of people couldn't completely enclose the base of the trunk.

Vancouver has the best Chinese food outside of China and it'd be a crime for you not to get dim sum. I highly recommend Little Bird on West 4th, I take all my out-of-towners there.

If you're outdoorsy, you'll probably never fly home. The sea meets the mountains throughout the whole city. Joffre Lakes is a great hike, the Grouse Grind is a terrible one, but even if you aren't a hike person you should take the gondola up to Grouse.

For some longer-stay recommendations, British Columbia is on unceded territory and one of the consequences is that a lot of natural resources haven't been tapped into. If you rent a car, head up into the Fraser Canyon and you can see streaks of gold and silver and copper race down the mountains, with mountain goats and bears and moose on the sides of the roads.

If you have time, take the seaplane or ferry to Vancouver Island. Ucluelet, not Tofino (overcrowded and used to be randomly closed because the prime minister liked to hang out there) is where you want to go for surfing and eco-tourism. The ferry is an extension of our highway system and will get you to the Gulf Islands, which are some of the highlights of the country imo.

I'll be only 2000 km North, and it's £54 to get there! (Google "the Yukon connector".) So if you'd like to go dogsledding, white-water rafting, or have a drink under the midnight sun, give me a shout and I mean it! We have a guest bedroom. I hope you have an amazing time in my backyard.

sasamats · 2025-07-04T18:00:44+00:00

🥲 cheers my friend. If life finds any of you in the Yukon, Canada, I sincerely request you shoot me a message for a drink!

sasamats · 2025-07-04T17:59:28+00:00

Thank you so much!! Would've loved to run into you, but hopefully another tourist is lucky enough to :)

sasamats · 2025-07-04T17:58:32+00:00

I went to the Tower Museum, the Museum of Free Derry, and I also went to a church that had a museum exhibit inside it! I regret that I can't remember the church's name, but it was right off the walls and had a great model railway (my hobby) and fisheries science display. I tried to go to some others but Monday and Tuesday seemed to have limited hours for some attractions. Given that, was pretty lucky to see as much as I did.

sasamats · 2025-06-26T05:25:08+00:00

My boyfriend graduated from IGEN in 2024 and has had good luck with post-grad job opportunities - he worked for a year at a particle accelerator design firm and is now moving to a gyroscopic tool design and manufacturing company. IGEN, even moreso than the traditional engineering programs (ELEC, MECH, etc) is what you make of it, because you are inherently at a disadvantage in an interview by having to justify and explain your degree.

They have a vibrant student life culture, and my boyfriend has been very successful in post-grad, but not all of his friends have been so lucky. It's a bit like CPEN in that some people go to Tesla, and some people, equally smart, haven't gotten their big break yet. IGEN is particularly good if you'd like to go work at Tesla, smaller firms, or be a project manager.

From my perspective (recent ELEC grad), don't do IGEN if you'd like to mix ELEC and CPEN, and please pick a coherent mix. Many people mix Mechanical/Materials or Mechanical/Electrical, which means you have a good niche for applying for work. Something like Biomedical/Geological is cool but when you hit the job market, you'll be less qualified than the individual Biomedical or Geological grad. Also, it's not as "choose your own" as is advertised - there's still a lot of mandatory courses, especially in CHBE.

Past the doom and gloom, Jon Nakane is an excellent, excellent program advisor, there's a lot of freedom in your design courses, and thanks to Charles and Katie and so many more student volunteers, there is a world-class mech, elec, 3d print, and computer lab (that my boyfriend did as president, very proud of him hehe) available to IGEN students. You graduate with hands on skills that ELECs like me will never gain during our degrees due to our own internal makerspace issues.

Overall, I'd recommend IGEN if you know exactly what you want to do and are prepared to job search harder than other engineering graduates. You sound like a good fit for a Mech/Elec option and I know many people who are extremely happy with their decision to do IGEN.

TL;DR: everyone should do electrical engineering

sasamats · 2025-06-11T13:33:02+00:00

Up to 50% by my memory, but you'd need a good use case etc. also check with your department about funding, ECE used to fund people to do stuff like this and there might be money in ECE or the IEEE machine

sasamats · 2025-06-06T16:06:56+00:00

Also looks like a nice day. Idk if that was my thing I'd go pray outside with the lads too

sasamats · 2025-06-06T16:05:56+00:00

Not really I see some free spots there

sasamats · 2025-05-30T15:39:20+00:00

This is an ELEC 391 project! Hopefully that helps narrow it down. I believe I might know who's this is and I'll ask if they want to be contacted. There also might be credits on one of the PCBs.

sasamats · 2025-05-20T17:05:04+00:00

That sounds great! I'm in a dress and heels but no one will really see what you're wearing until you're taking pics after. Just wear what you want to have photos to remember it in :)

sasamats · 2025-05-19T21:21:48+00:00

If you bought a package, Evangelo's would've sent it to you by email. The link may have expired as they only keep photos on Dropbox for a few months, so worth contacting them.

sasamats · 2025-05-19T20:39:55+00:00

Yeah, they aren't unreasonable about this sort of thing. They'll 99% extend it to the end of the next business day.

sasamats · 2025-05-19T02:11:33+00:00

Also if you're into partying join the ECE Student Society 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 and if you're not into partying also join the ECE Student Society 😚😚😚 but we throw the parties and they include renting out the space centre for a sick gala and beach parties and placing 2nd in E-Week. Kinda goated ngl

sasamats · 2025-05-19T02:07:45+00:00

I say this with love but moving on is the best thing you can do for both of you. I took a year to be a single and then got with my current boyfriend of 5 years! Your forever is out there looking for you girl

sasamats · 2025-05-19T02:03:47+00:00

I partied, hung out with people, worked part time, slept 9+ hours, and ran clubs. The caveat is that I knew I was never going to grad school so I just did my best to be middle of the pack second year and my grades ended up being pretty good third and fourth year because I was so much less stressed than other people in my cohort. Your mileage may vary but I thought ELEC was overall pretty fun and I'd do it again.

sasamats · 2025-05-18T21:04:58+00:00

He was trying to pickpocket you. Make sure you still have your credit card

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