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Hey everyone! I am just here for some advice as I’ve heard a lot of criticism about uottawa.

I choose uottawa for political science and communications, I want to go to ottawas law school after graduation too. I will be staying in Stanton next year.

However, I’ve heard a lot of horror stories about the university. One major story being that the staff and other faculty are not at all helpful and it’s better to figure things out yourself. Another story being that if you cannot speak french, your opportunities are extremely limited (student jobs, placements, etc.)

I have also gotten into McMaster for Law and philosophy but chose uottawa because of their co op placements.

Did I make the wrong decision?

I've tried everything for the past 2 years, CVs in store, online, all kinds of other jobs.... nothing man. I'm guessing the fact that I have no experience is not helping my case, but seriously? How am I supposed to get any experience this way. I literally don't know what to do anymore. When I hand in my CV in store, they literally tell me they're hiring, that I'm a good candidate, and that they'll call me soon, then poof... absolutely nothing.

My CV has been checked by many people and it seems to be good enough.

I feel like a joke, at this rate I'll probably stay jobless for a good while, and idk what I'm gonna do with that.

Anyways, I guess I just wanted to vent somewhere, I hope you're all doing good

Edit: thank you all so much for your suggestions and ideas, they help alot!!

Wondering if profs frequently lurk in these areas…

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I hate when people say I shouldn't let a degree define my life when it literally does define my life. I came to this country at 14 for this degree; I had to fucking endured harsh winters for this degree; I started working a job I despise to this day at 15 to help pay for my living expenses so that my dad will focus on paying my tuition only for this degree because that shits so expensive for an international student; I'm literally on antidepressants because of this degree, my future quite literally depends on this degree; I can't get a well paying job without this degree; I studied 4 years for this degree, 4 fucking years of my life. I'm not doing this for fun, we are talking about time and money wtf. So yeah my life is literally defined by it. Like telling me I have to change program in my 4th year isn't really just that easy or welcomed because wtf. I'm genuinely not okay wtf. I'm not. If there’s a God out there, you ain't shit I'm sorry.

Edit: I thought this was a university sub where students could come and vent. Guess I was wrong.

For the people asking for more context: I just finished my 4th year in my program, but I failed a mandatory chemistry course twice and had to retake it a third time. That third attempt involved ongoing administrative and grading issues, which is why my enrollment and graduation were paused instead of me being immediately withdrawn from the faculty. I’m currently still waiting for answers from the professor and faculty about what will happen next.

And for the people telling me I’m privileged because my parents pay my tuition: duh, I know. That’s literally part of why I’m freaking out. This whole degree cost my dad a lot of money, so obviously I don’t want to disappoint him or feel like all that sacrifice went to waste. I genuinely don’t understand why some of you act like having parents help financially suddenly means I’m not allowed to struggle, stress, complain, or feel overwhelmed. And I never said I have the hardest life on earth. I was venting about My situation. Some of you are clearly projecting whatever resentment or issues you have onto me. This isn’t a struggle Olympics.

And to the people who somehow turned this into a racist/immigrant issue, to the point of DMing me telling me to “go back to my country”: trust me, I’m planning to after getting this degree (Nothing wrong with Canada, I just can't do winter long-term. I'm adding that because I know some of you will jump on that to get mad too). I came here at 14 because my family made that choice for my future, not because I woke up one day dreaming of Canadian winters. And yes, the winters here are harsh. Even Canadians complain about them, so I don’t know why some of you got personally offended by that statement. I’m from a tropical country. Obviously the adjustment was difficult for me.

Anyways, I just wanted to add context since some people immediately jumped to calling me lazy, spoiled, dramatic, or not hardworking enough without knowing anything about the actual situation.

And thank you to the few people who were actually kind and understanding.

I finished the class with a 79.09 and I asked my professor if she would consider boosting it and/ or if I could have a chance to review my grade with her and she responded with “On my end, u should be fine. Don’t worry about it too much”

This made me think that she was going to boost my grade to an 80 but I just checked my grades and it’s at a B+… is there a chance she forgot to boost it? Should I email her again to ask? I don’t want to be annoying but by her message back I genuinely can’t tell if she meant like “you’ll be fine if you don’t get an A” or “you’ll be fine on my end I’ll add the point” it was bit of a cryptic message so I’m not sure how to interpret it.

Do you guys think her message meant she was going to boost it? Or do you think she was basically telling me to forget abt it.

Edit: Okay update! She said that she rounded all the grades for the assignments and said that people who were “ just on the edge” were able to be rounded up so I guess I was just short a couple points to be able to get it fully rounded up to an A-. Honestly she was really nice about clarifying it with me so that made me feel better even if I didn’t get the outcome I wanted.

so i’m currently a first year and ended with a 7.6 gpa and was wondering how realistic is it to raise is significantly in only one year since for my dual program i have to maintain a certain gpa otherwise i’d get kicked out into the single program 😭 if anyone has any tips i’d appreciate it!

I passed biochem 🤩

Has anyone received responses from Dr Yamb after the final exam scores were posted? He’d initially responded about a round up request but it hasnt reflected anywhere and I haven’t heard from him even after following up and I’m really nervous 😭😭

Tell me why my prof spent over an hour of our first lecture yapping about how anti racist, pro DEI, pro lgbtq, pro feminist, pro indigenous they are, you name it. Deadass started apologizing to us for having white ancestors. And like i’m not against any of those things but it gets to a point. It’s always the white professors too in my experience and as a gay woman of color myself, I’m actually so tired of it. Like you don’t need to prove yourself to us, we get it, you’re woke. I’m woke too but it gets to a point where it feels extremely performative and white savior-ish. Like please stfu and teach us what you were hired to teach.

So I just got rejected this morning. I’m a CEGEP student who never finished their program, and they told me I’d need to improve my academic average before reapplying. They suggested either continuing studies at CEGEP (I would never do that it’s hell) or improving my record through university studies first.

I applied to TESL and FSL, but I wasn’t in a good place mentally during CEGEP and it really affected my grades. My average is around 61%, and even the declaration of personal experience didn’t help unfortunately lol.

Do you know what types of university programs are usually non-competitive or easier to get into, but could still help me raise my average and eventually transfer into education later?

I’m really leaning towards Annex right now. Is that a good residence for first year? I was considering Hyman but then i saw someone say that residence usually doesn’t fill up and isn’t good for socializing, and i do want to meet more people and end up in a res where no one socializes and there aren’t ANY first years at all

I found PHI2396 (bioethics) with Gervais Yamb, which is known to be an easy class, to be much harder than CHM2120 (organic chemistry II) with Claudia El Nachef.

In fact, I find the “easy” courses to be somewhat harder than the objectively difficult courses.

Why am I weird this way? Not trying to toot my own horn but I’m pretty decent at language/arts too.

I got a 0 on a heavy group assignment because I personally didn’t submit it on Brightspace, even though my group submitted the assignment and I contributed to the work. In the contributions my group submitted, my name is in it and it lists the tasks I completed. There was a miscommunication within the group because we genuinely thought only one person needed to submit for everyone, so two of us didn't submit while the other two did.

I have drafts/documents proving I participated, but the 0 dropped my final grade to a C and it's gonna cause me to lose my admission scholarship since it pushes my CGPA down to a 8.3.

I already emailed my professor, but is there anything else I can do in this situation?

Hi! I need some advice or wisdom before I choose the Chem program at uottawa!!!!

Is the Honours BSc Chemistry difficult or not?

In comparison to other programs, excluding engineering and whatnot since it’s obviously difficult.

What electives do you recommend?

Does the biochem or calculus aspect overwhelm the chemistry in the first year?

Just in general how was it, what’s your opinion.