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As the term is closing, a reminder for next year:

If you are missing class, and you write your instructor to inform them, please do not ask, "Will you be covering anything important in lecture?"

How am I supposed to respond to this? I spend hours preparing my lectures, slides and classroom activities. What do you think I will write back?

"No, luckily today we are just going to watch the cult movie classic Weekend at Bernie's again."

WHAT HAPPENED TO QUIET STUDY SPACES? WHY ARE YOU TALKING AT FULL VOLUME IN A LIBRARY??? WHY ARE YOU ON FACETIME? WHY CAN I HEAR YOU THROUGH NOISE CANCELLATION???

Wanna hear your thoughts and vibe

Before I stepped into IRC2 (MATH152), I had a lingering feeling of despair. With 2 hours of sleep in the previous night, I had been awake for just 3 hours before my noon final (2hr30min). Swaying back and forth, I proceeded to down a monster before leaving my dorm, hoping that it would keep me awake and alert.

As I took my seat and saw the closed exam booklet, I became extremely nauseous. The monster was really hitting.

Throughout the first hour and a half, I was in my prime. I was slowly rehydrating myself with water as I was worked through questions. However, I was not working as fast as I hoped and realized that I would need to speed up in order to not run out of time. I could not afford a washroom break.

At around the 1hr40min mark, my stomach started to gurgle. I took a deep breath and tried to ignore the sensations bubbling down below. I was still behind and needed all the time there was.

It was at 1hr55min when it hit. In the span of a moment, I desperately needed to go. I frantically looked around for a TA and requested to go to the washroom. The answer was not one I wanted to hear. "There's someone in the washroom right now but you can go after".

Concerned, I pointed out the fact that the period for leaving the exam hall was almost over and I could NOT last until the end. Reassuringly, she said, "Don't worry, you'll go to the washroom". No hesitation. Nothing but pure confidence. It wasn't a "I'll take a look". It was a "You WILL go."

Relieved, I continued to work through the test as I noticed that other students left to go to the washroom--moving the line and pushing me towards the front of the queue. As each student went, my need to go increased exponentially.

At the 2hr10min mark, I was still waiting when I heard what I dreaded, the announcement that no students were to leave the room. I looked desperately for the TA for the hope that an exception could be made. She repeated what the instructor said.

I had put everything on the line and lost it all. She betrayed me.

By now, I had adopted the cross-legged position, adopting NURS180 breathing strategies to hold it in. Biting my spare pencil, I slowly worked through the remaining questions. However, my mind was somewhere else and my body desperately wished to follow.

I handed in the final with the last two questions blank and sprinted to the washroom.

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TL;DR The one person at the washroom at a time policy caused me to almost pee my pants

Alright, I’m graduating and I need to get this off my chest before I leave this institution: the UBC Pottery Club is either the most exclusive club on campus or a straight-up social experiment designed to break people.

I have applied EVERY. SINGLE. TERM. for FIVE YEARS. (I did co-op I’m not a degenerate)

Five years of “raffles.” Five years of “sorry, you were not selected.” Five years of me sitting there like an absolute clown thinking this is the time my name gets pulled.

This last round? I went feral. I had alarms. I had notifications. I had the page open. I was refreshing like my life depended on it. I HAD GOOGLE FORM AUTOFILL. The form drops at noon and I submit in under 8 seconds. EIGHT. SECONDS. I don’t even respond to texts that fast.

And yet… rejected. Again.

Every single term it’s the same thing: “raffle system” to get in. Sure. Totally random. Definitely not just a secret society where they let in the same 12 people and their roommates every semester.

So let’s stop pretending this is a raffle. There is NO WAY this is random. At this point I’m convinced it’s just a group chat where they go “lol let’s let in Becky again” or “XD let’s let my roommate in!” While the rest of us fight for scraps like it’s the Hunger Games but with clay.

At this point I’m convinced the “raffle” is just someone spinning a wheel that only has their friends’ names on it.

ALSO, serious question; has ANYONE actually met a member of this club? Not “my friend knows a guy,” not “I think my TA mentioned it once.” I mean a real, verified, in-the-flesh pottery club member. Because I haven’t. Not once. In FIVE YEARS. These people are more elusive than a decent matcha on campus.

What are they even doing in there? Throwing pots? Or just gatekeeping the one kiln like it’s a family heirloom?

Meanwhile I’m about to graduate with absolutely zero ceramics experience, zero mugs, and a deeply personal grudge vendetta against a spinning wheel I’ve never even touched.

AMS, please. I am begging. Expand this club. Give them more space, more funding, more wheels, more clay; whatever it takes to end whatever underground monopoly they’ve got going on.

And to the Pottery Club members: blink twice if you’re real. Post a mug. Drop a selfie with a kiln. Anything. I just need proof this isn’t an elaborate scam. (DM me and prove to me it’s real by letting me in for the Summer 😼)

Please pray for me.

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Dear everyone who is freaking out about the MATH 101 final,

Hi. I graduated a good while back but I still lurk in the sub.

As a direct result of almost a decade of the aforementioned lurking, I can say with complete confidence that every single year, there are pages and pages of posts about how the MATH 101 final was hugely different from prior years and no one was ready and everyone failed and the sky is falling and no one is going to get into their major.

Every year, for the overwhelming majority of people, including folks who thought they got completely obliterated, it's fine.

I promise you can take a breath and chill out. The marks will probably be out a bit later than you'd like, and even if they are out on the first day of trails, whatever portal you kids use to access marks (I will date myself by referencing the SSC) will crash on the first day they're released and then be extremely slow for days after.

But you're going to be okay. Take the time you're spending researching summer courses or alternate ways to get credit or running away to join the circus and take a big, deep breath instead. Go sit on the grass in the sun for ten minutes. This happens every year, and every year, it's fine.

With love,

A crusty alumni.

is anyone else getting their ass beat by this course rn 🥀 bioc 202 is forcing me to come to terms with the sheer level of stupidity i possess like i’m genuinely so cooked for the final on wednesday and i still haven’t started the last two problem sets ist es over für mich

Title. Do Sauder graduates find success after graduation?

I think its over...

i have 121 left, and I am already mentally checked out

no will power to do it

i want to just take that 50% and go, i need 50% on the final, becaue its one of thseo pass final pass course thing

bio155 final in 12 hours

last minute cram for 2 hours

doomscrolled for 2 weeks

i think i'm ready

do they curve it? lol i’m cooked

1. boring rehashing of political theory and some historical events blah blah blah

2. My worldview and belief system has been irreversibly changed I ways I do not fully comprehend yet. I have seen the light, the reality of the human condition and depravity of humankind. The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.

My exam was in a huge lecture hall and this guy just had to stand right next to me i get that they need to invigilate the exam but it lowkey stressed me out and i might have done worse on my exam cause of it😭

Yesterday I was writing my multiple choice final and I couldn’t even process the questions. It was like my brain wasn’t registering the words and I kept having to go back and read each question multiple times and even then I wasn’t fully processing it and then had to rush and guess. It sucks because I did study and the questions weren’t necessarily hard, because I understood them after the exam. I just feel like my brain is on constant autopilot.

Does anyone else experience this and got any tips? I have two more exams left and I’m really afraid this will happen again because I am putting in the effort but I’m just so numb at this point

Thank you, I really do appreciate any advice

I find it annoying af but do others enjoy it ?

GUYS I AM ACTUALLY GOING TO CRY WHY IS IT AT 8:30 AM AND I’VE BARELY STUDIED BECAUSE OF MY OTHER EXAMS I’M GOING TO LEAVE THIS WORLD LITERALLY