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so against all odds i finished the exam (god bless ts was awful) and as i was walking out i noticed she was still writing the exam at the very last row. i waited for her outside since i noticed she was just looking over the exam. when she came out i asked if her name was ****** and she said yes and she said she recognized me from the first couple weeks and we lowkey bonded over the exam. i told her i dont have anything to do and offered to get lunch together (i paid for her) & since she wasn't doing anything she was down. i got her number and we've been texting, we even added each other on rivals and now we're duos with an actual date next week when finals are over.

i guess there really is always hope. never give up on the 10th time bc u never know if the 11th time will be the one you succeed. shot from the moon and it landed.

pic taken from her pov btw

I asked my co-op advisor a question very politely about getting information for my upcoming co-op term and their response was extremely rude, condescending, and they did not even answer my question.

I normally would shrug this off, but the response was so unwarranted that I would like to file a complaint, especially after all we pay and how little they do for us. I couldn't find anything online other than filing P70 which I believe is too far.

i felt like it was stupidly easy and i spent too much time studying for this, ended up leaving early

maybe mixed up a few of zeus affairs but its over at least

everyone who's writing the exam, good luck!! it's a lot of information and idk what im doing tbh but i hope we do amazing 🫂

tldr: i asked the lecturer whether we need to revise a certain topic, and he is denying we ever studied that topic

I am studying a medical physics course, but we had one lecture where the lecturer started going into detail about the hole in the ozone layer, and research he had completed about the reaction kinetics of ozone depletion - stuff that is completely unrelated to medical physics, and not at all what i signed up to study. I was so confused about why we were being taught this that i literally messaged my friend in another class about how confused i was that we had just spent the last 45 minutes learning about this completely random topic.

I forgot all about this, but now that I am revising for exams, I wanted to check with the professor about exactly what we need to memorize for the final. So I emailed him about this, and he responded saying "there was only ONE slide ... talking about the cosmic rays (ionizing radiation) and CFCs leading to the ozone hole, which was given as one of the three specific examples of ‘Respiratory burst’ ... To my understanding/judgement, this is not improper. " (emphasis is directly from the email).

He linked the lecture notes pdf for that lecture, but i swear it has been changed because in my handwritten notes i literally have 3 full pages of detail on the specific reaction pathways he covered. He even CC'd the department teaching chair in. Like, i made no insinuation that his teaching was improper, only that I couldn't understand the logic behind why he taught us this. And now i feel like i am going insane because what? I can't have imagined an entire lecture right??

That was such a hard final... if it was just me, that's even worse, but I did all the textbook problems assigned and reviewed the assignments, and I don't even know how I'd study if I were given more time because honestly, I did everything I could've. have the historically curved online PHYS 121 finals? Also... am I the only one that found it? hard?...

I usually used the reading week to LOCK IN studying 8-10 hours a day and ace my midterms and slack off before that. How did you guys manage your time during spring?

For context going into 2B CS with 5 core courses (MATH 239 + STAT 231 + CS 240 + CS 241 + CS 398)

the online course, I feel really bad about how I performed and I kinda need solace

Yall, im tryna plan for May… can someone tell me if the bus pass still works after this month into the summer? And if I can still access PAC until end of summer too or is that restricted?

As y’all seen countries may be preparing for a draft soon. Does that mean more shorties for me?

For those of you that took Econ 101 online and had the final yesterday, did you guys find it insanely cooked as well? Shit wasn’t nothing like in the modules and was so much more complicated and confusing. Mind you some questions had 6 options on a 5 opition scantron

Let’s join here whoever has accepted this program for Fall 2026 !! Are you already in Waterloo or planning to relocate?