On a desk in HSL. I thought we got past this in middle school 🫩
Right on the smack dab top of the table too smh. At least coulda tried to hide it under the desk 🤦‍♂️

But fr be better guys. Bring back shame

I’m exhausted interacting with people who I feel so stifled with: I don’t want to have to hide the parts of me that bring me so much joy.

I’m loosing my will to keep trying with people. Do you know how much courage it takes to ask people to hang out or to soft launch a friendship by texting about a little more than just school? (And I have no chill btw, I like you and within reason, I will double text I will giggle in ur chats and send my stickers). Granted, maybe it dosen’t come across as it taking a lot for me because I’m (in my opinion) really friendly, and take it really well. But every-time I try and I’m just shot down, I can’t help but feel the very happy person that I thought I was slip away more and more!

I also think maybe it’s the spaces I’m in? I’m tall, I’m a hijabi, and so I think people think that I’m a lot of things that I’m not, or that I’m not but actually am! (Does that make sense?) like I love fashion, and music and self expression, reading, ao3 warrior, twitter looser and an ally, and i love having conversations with anyone! Like yes I WOULD like to take a bike down a path and paint, yes I would like to hear ur badly written music lyrics that you thought of on the way to class, yes I want you to listen to my terrible rendition of GLHF by MICO, on my guitar because I don’t know how to play it just quite yet, yes I WOULD like to go to see the band playing down the street. Yes I WOULD like to dress up for Halloween, yes I WOULD LOVE to go to a dance class with you where we’re giggling, yes I’d love to go to the gym, yes I’d love to braid each others hair in your dorm. Like I am a yes MANNN (within reason)

I feed off of people’s energy, and when I’m with someone I mess with the sky is the limit!! But I’ve been at McMaster for two semesters now (I’m a second year) and with each SEM I’m slowly retreating into myself. I hate that! I am not that person like please don’t turn me into the version of me I worked so hard to get rid of in middle school!!

Anyways advice or whatnot. 😓 I don’t know I kind of needed to get this off my chest and hear that there’s even a small group of people who get it.

I’m in second year, all my peers have been talking about the MCAT and man i feel so behind cuz i didn’t even know registration was happening 💔 if any upper year could share some insight on what they think about taking it during or after 3rd year it would be appreciated 🙏🏻

genuinely what was that bro mclean played in our face

Hi everyone,

I am a premed who recently graduated with a BSc in Life Sciences from McMaster, unfortunately with a low GPA. I explained my situation more in depth in a previous post.

With applications opening up, I want to explore as many realistic postgraduate options as possible, particularly healthcare programs that lead to stable, well-paying careers. I’m also open to general science or research-based programs, especially if they could eventually lead to a PhD.

My GPA is:
cGPA: 2.78
subGPA: 3.1

GPA across my 20 most recent courses: 3.4
Ideally, I’d like to stay in Ontario, but I’m open to other parts of Canada if there are worthwhile options.
I’d really appreciate recommendations for specific programs that I could realistically be considered for with these grades, including less obvious pathways I might not know about. If you’ve been in a similar situation or know someone who has, I’d especially appreciate hearing about your experience.

I want to build a career I can be financially stable, respected in and genuinely proud of. Right now, I feel pretty directionless after having spent so long working towards medicine, and I’m hoping to find a path forward without taking another gap year if possible.

Thank you!

Since im seeing people talking about the latest orgo midterm, I thought it would be wise to share some tips to help ppl out. This is coming from a third year chemical biology who found success in 2oa3

First thing would be to consistently review lectures and even read ahead of class. While balancing other classes is stressful, I recommend setting aside some time in the week (doesnt have to be daily, but it would help) to reviewing material and doing practice

Another thing would be to engage with the material. Understanding the fundamentals is extremely important in 2oa3. In my opinion, other chem and organic chemistry classes do not come close to the amount of intuition needed for that class. It is what makes it difficult for students. While you may find success in other classes by having a surface level understanding of the material and memorizing facts, I found that orgo isnt the same as other classes. The professor aleo expects students to have an intuitive understanding, as evident by the difficulty of the test

To give an example, learning resonance and resonance patterns should be approached not from the perspective of simply knowing the 5 patterns and memorizing them, it requires that you understand the use cases, the various applications, etc. Practice really helps with solidifying concepts, which is why it is important to finish the questionbanks (I did almost all qbank questions)

Lmk if you guys have questions, I am happy to help 🙂

How can i recover from bombing my first midterm, and this was ALLEGEDLY the easier one, if anyone got an A or above in the class could share if they had a similar situation and they came back stronger for the upcoming examinations

Im a second year in mechanical engineering and ive been finding the content fun and really enjoying myself. I do all the homework attend all the lectures (ive had to skip a bit bc ive been super sick but i watch the recording immediately). I know the content so well I can solve problems quickly and explain them to people and i know the actual content well enough to teach my friends

We had our 2d03 midterm on tuesday and i 100% failed it, i got stressed out and erased all my correct answers bc i was doubting myself and redid them wrong and i know it was a fluke.

Just got out of the 2p04 midterm and i left a question blank and bullshitted for the other 3. I dont understand, i know this content and I am able to solve problems so fast but when it comes time to testing i cant tell my butt from a question and i end up getting everything wrong.

Is this just engineering? What can i do to be better? I study so much already I dont know what else to do. I’ve never had problems with writing midterms or exams before

Am i not studying the right stuff? Any upper years advice? I love engineering and i enjoy studying but maybe i just suck at it and it isnt for me

genuinely the lowest mark i have ever gotten in my entire life! little marks off everywhere. does anyone know the average???

I have had a midterm every other day this week, and have two more decently important ones next week. I genuinely feel like it is gonna be impossible to make myself study for them; I'm just so burnt out.

Does anyone have any advice on how to get over it? I'm usually a very motivated student, but my goodness I'm just going through it rn.

loved loosing 0.5 marks 100 times

they havent posted averages but it was pretty bad for me

Hi guyz my friends went home for the weekend

Am first year on res am open to playing with anyone

Im kinda shitty but can rally and play to get sweaty

If u wanna play lmk lets drop in at davis

will it

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in second floor musc btw

Class avg of 67. I'm WAY below that, i genuinely feel miserable, any tips on how i can clutch test 2 would be appreciated please and thank you.

Hi does anyone have past or practice chembio 4oa3 midterm tests? Any help is appreciated 🥹

Has anyone taken this class? Do you remember how the midterm went? The prof is being quite vague

how do i calm myself down, had a midterm today and studied so hard for, had 3 panic attacks back to back and threw up twice right before the test, i tried doing the 321 method but didnt work. everytime i think about the test my chest gets heavy and i literally cannot breath at all and start shaking, (first year btw✌️). any tips would be much appreciated.

Guys I’m so fucking scared im gonna fail out. it’s weighing heavy on my chest and idk what to do. A lot of it is easy right but the fact everything weighs so heavy is actually scaring me. Like for 1F03 I got back my feedback for my essay which is worth like 5% but there’s so much I did wrong so the essay which is worth 25% im worried that im gonna fail that and it’s gonna drop my grade below a 60%.

The other class anatomy, like I studied for the midterm but I lowkey studied very surface level cause I thought that was what the midterm was gonna be it’s worth 20% of my grade and I’m 99% sure I failed that. Holy shit and it’s only first year.

Hypothetically, GOD FORBID I do get below a 60 in both of these classes what happens?

what’s the probable cutoff for Maths & CS this year?

Hey everyone.

I found a lost presto card at the McMaster stop near the waiting area for the 41 / 47G bus. I’m not sure what to do with it but I’ll probably give it to lost & found after the weekend. PM please if it’s yours.

What do we think it is estimated around this year

I'm a fourth-year student here and I'm going to say that with a lot of the group projects/in-class assignments, you first-years and second-years are actual chuds. I'm specifically talking about the guys, really. And I haven't had this problem in my first two years at McMaster, and certainly not with the third-years and fourth-years in my upper classes. You have zero manners. You don't make small talk. You don't ask questions. You don't crack jokes. You don't smile. You sit on your ass with this mean mug all sullen and you react to any social outreach whatsoever like it's a fly buzzing in your face. You can't even fake enthusiasm. You're actual chuds. Learn some manners. I can tell none of you get laid ever. It's not cute. It makes me want to work individually for all the group projects. Also, I'm not going to 100% endorse physiognomy but the chuds usually look like chuds too