The amount of times I’ve gone to the gym and there’s just random weights lying around on the floor is ridiculous. If you are strong enough to lift the weight, you are strong enough to put them away. If not, you’re ego lifting and you’re a loser.

I unfortunately had to miss my midterm this week because I was so sick I could barely breathe (I have asthma so it always hits me harder than others). I emailed my prof that I would be missing a midterm that day and they replied that I would need a doctor’s note for the absence to be excused. My understanding of the UVic academic concession policy is that for unexpected illness-related absences, documentation is not required, but maybe profs can override this?? I’m just not sure what to do at this point. I do not have a doctor in the province so it would be pretty hard to obtain a note from one. I also unfortunately didn’t see the reply email sent by the prof until today (they sent it two days ago) and am now doing better and can breathe (yay!), so I am not even sure how I would go about getting a doctor’s note even if I had a doctor.

I already failed 2 midterms, including csc226. The majority of the class got at least 20% higher than me. I know this because every single exam I've taken has resulted in me having the lowest grades or one of the lower grades. I have failed multiple courses already, and do not want to fail more; I don't want to spend any more time and money that is necessary. Lecture slides are hard for me to grasp, so I have to turn to ai, but you know how that goes.

Also, for csc226, I heard that if you do bad on an exam, the grade will be dropped? So for my exam will it get dropped and I can pass the course.

With the Phys 110 midterm coming up could any upper years give some advice on the 1st midterm. How it went, what to study, etc?

Has anyone had jody bain before? specifically for this class? i am very worried for the exam, and honestly have zero clue how to study as theres not much notes to work with lmao

I was never 'great' at calculus in my own opinion... And this is much more of a math class than it is engineering. I got through calc relying heavily on MSAC but since this is an eng course I don't imagine they'd be able to help.

Michael is a nice enough guy and clearly is invested in teaching to some degree but his lectures just sound like static noise to me. I'm not sure it's actually worth the time to attend.

It's also hard to find extra resources since this isn't something like fundamental physics where every school in the world teaches essentially the same curriculum. I'm sure the material is still very universal in EE but it seems the way UVic goes about presenting it is unique and makes it (at least for me) a lot harder to find external resources.

How do you get through this class??

Fwiw I can see that it's useful knowledge and probably has very practical and important applications. However the way it's taught is just way too far removed from reality for it to be engaging for me. Like when Michael says that 'bibo unstable systems are how people die'... Like where tffff is that coming from? This is why I say it feels much more like a math course than an eng course

Does anyone else struggle to focus, learn and generally just exist in the chairs in Hickman and David Turpin?

I’m a 6’4 225lb dude so I can’t imagine they were made with people like me in mind but I need to spend 30mins on a foam roller and stretching the moment I get home or I wont be able to move properly for days. It feels like I did a road trip in the jump seat of an old work truck.

The back rests are unusable. They either creak so loud that it would be a disruption to the class to attempt to use the chair as intended or are so flimsy putting any weight into it would launch my head like a projectile directly into the row behind me slamming someone’s laptop shut on their fingers.

This means I have to do this weird balancing act where I use my legs to anchor myself and periodically attempt to rest my forearms on the table in front to try to take some pressure off but carefully as that also loudly fucking creaks when any kind of weight is put on it (Hickman 105)

This semester I’ve noticed a lot of people around my height and taller around campus and going in and out of these halls so genuinely how are you all surviving? Any tips on managing this?

Hi all, I'm applying to the CS PhD program for next fall and trying to figure out what deadline to give my referees.

CS grad FAQ says the completed application is due by the deadline, which I read as reference letters also need to be in by then. Other schools I'm applying to (UBC, for example) give referees a few extra weeks after the application deadline, so I wanted to check how it actually works here.

Also curious whether ECE works the same way.

Thanks!

I'm a former UVic student, I attended 2018-2019 before dropping out. I had a very traumatic time at UVic, and with time I realized UVic and the way the admin (especially in ECS) treated me was the exception, not the norm at academic universities in North America. Anyways I met with a psychiatrist for the first time yesterday, mostly to work through my UVic experience, and they told me they had not heard of a university being like this before. I was surprised by that reaction, but then I remembered how UVic handled things like the Bamfield crash survivors (which happened while I was attending) and how they completely dropped the ball. Or all the stuff with the overdose. Or other students coming forward about their hostile experiences where UVic admin were self contradictory and unsupportive or just fucking shit up for people who really need support? And the posts pinned in this very subreddit about the new AI academic policy and the admin's bungling of that.

Like, truly, the more I think about it, the more I'm confused and angry. What was/is going on at UVic? Why is the culture so hostile to students, especially to students who need support the most? And I'm not talking mental health support, I mean basic responsibility to students to act in their best interests, provide truthful and accurate information and assistance etc. It's depressing to see it's gotten worse in the years since I've left and that the rot has hurt other students similarly.