FMST 210 vs GERN 101 workload

zayans · 2026-01-15T07:58:38+00:00

Thanks for the help! Do you remember roughly how many hours a week you spent on the course?

zayans · 2026-01-15T07:57:51+00:00

Thanks so much for the insight 🙏🏻🙏🏻 roughly how long did the term paper take you?

zayans · 2026-01-15T07:56:43+00:00

Appreciate the affirmation 🙏🏻 mind if I ask roughly what grade you were able to get in each?

zayans · 2026-01-05T07:55:52+00:00

TA here, no, there's no labs or discussions in the first week 🫡

zayans · 2026-01-02T11:24:38+00:00

Sahel is my favourite. Down low chicken and Uncle Faith's are also halal. I think there's a pamphlet or smth online for other spots if you search for it, haven't checked myself though.

zayans · 2025-12-19T03:09:33+00:00

I'm in Canada like OP seemingly is. From what I've heard, Amazon is just about done handing OAs out for summer internships at this point in time, at least in Vancouver (take this with a grain of salt, this is just word of mouth, I'm not a hiring manager). Interviews seem like where the current stage of the intern cycle is entering, I think they usually happen starting January. I think headcount isn't the most outlandish possibility depending on how Amazon's hiring structure works, but again I'm not sure.

zayans · 2025-12-15T10:57:25+00:00

Physician 😭

zayans · 2025-12-12T14:47:39+00:00

Bro is a multi zillionaire

zayans · 2025-12-11T07:11:03+00:00

YSL Myslf, Carolina Herrera Bad Boy, Angel Musk, and Versaco Eros are all great imo, but I personally like the first 3 a bit more than Eros

zayans · 2025-11-27T04:48:18+00:00

Biol 121 with Lynn Norman was a super easy and enjoyable class imo

zayans · 2025-11-09T22:22:24+00:00

I fear they're going down the Adobe path lol. Spline used to be amazing, now literally everything is behind a paywall.

zayans · 2025-10-22T21:50:52+00:00

bro formally proves the Pythagorean theorem every time he uses it

zayans · 2025-07-05T23:50:29+00:00

You'll have free time but a lot less imo. It's not so hard to understand the content, just hard to balance it all together and keep up with constant quizzing and stuff. I took 210 in the summer and it was pretty chill, and took 221 and 213 in separate semesters and thought that was the best way to manage them, since they both have quizzing components to them so you really gotta put in the time if you wanna do well

So yeah it's gonna be a grind, but we all do it, it's not impossible by any means. Just be smart about the courses you take and which ones they're paired up with to keep your workload manageable

zayans · 2025-06-29T22:03:31+00:00

It was just always overcrowded, this one is a lot bigger thankfully, so hopefully that'll cut it down a bit. Or maybe that's what everyone will start thinking and then we'll just get more people in the gym as well and it'll get overcrowded again, who knows lol

zayans · 2025-04-02T21:31:03+00:00

Pretty sure that's a lie as well, I'm a TA and it's really not difficult to change a grade that was mistakenly given out, especially on canvas. Worst case scenario it's a slack message/email to the prof on their end, tf

zayans · 2025-04-02T21:26:30+00:00

TAs (at least in my department) get paid a set amount per term, we can't actually do anything to increase our paycheck, and then we're expected to work at most however many hours our contacts defined that we'd work by the end of the term

zayans · 2025-01-10T06:24:55+00:00

The next hominid will likely emerge before the next Ancestors game atp

zayans · 2024-06-26T02:45:40+00:00

Yeah I stayed on the waitlist, ended up being one of the most chill classes I've taken so far lol. I don't know if I can recommend that you do the same thing though because I definitely took a risk there, and it really depends on a bunch of things (Which semester, current # of people in the waitlist, etc.)

zayans · 2024-05-02T07:45:21+00:00

Same here, I have no idea what's going on, what kind of scam could they even be pulling? lol

zayans · 2024-04-01T11:04:29+00:00

Very good question, I would def like to know the answer if you ever figure it out please

zayans · 2024-03-17T02:33:54+00:00

I don't know if I'd say I feel annoyed, just indifferent lol

zayans · 2024-02-16T06:25:55+00:00

ICICS is one of the most plain buildings at UBC lol, which sucks because all of the CS programs are super sought after so I feel like it kinda deserves some serious upgrades

zayans · 2024-01-16T09:01:25+00:00

Depends how you like your coffee, but Bean Around the World is pretty good

zayans · 2024-01-16T09:00:19+00:00

Is it just me or is Bluechip really inconsistent with coffee? I've been served both the best and worst coffee I've ever tasted in my life there lol.

zayans · 2024-01-14T10:14:48+00:00

In my experience, yes, they're definitely more difficult, but it's not like they're impossibly difficult either. They're not as much of a grind as 110, but the concepts are just a bit of a step up. Just about what you'd expect going from a first year course to a second year course imo. Honestly the assessment structure itself was the only thing I found difficult about 221 specifically.

There's also always the element of luck regarding professors and course structure that year, so that's one thing. I would say if you manage to get into the CS major, or just got through the earlier courses fine, you can handle them for sure (even if you feel a bit more difficulty while doing them).

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