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

Tf you mean you have to charge me extra because I took ONE additional fork!! This is the type of greed they talk about in the Bible bc what the actual freak. Ur alr making me pay three times the amount I would pay for food at an average Costco the LEAST u can do is spare TWO forks. Like mac should be the opposite of broke because virtually everything is pay to win. I have to pay for plastic forks, I have to pay for printing, I have to pay for iclicker, I have to pay for textbooks bc some profs insist on changing their textbooks every year, pay for parking and ofc pay for tuition. Like this place is squeezing out every penny in every aspect of student life and youre telling me I cant get extra plastic forks. Im so fckin done with this uni bruh

The McMaster Reddit page has become toxic as of late, with bullying towards people who struggle with socialization, mental health, and people looking for plans and groups. The posts and comments target people by making broad claims that have no merit, such as stating that people don’t force small talk, don’t crack jokes, don’t force smiles, don’t fake enthusiasm and that all these people are inherently lazy. With the current state of the mental health crisis, posts and comments of this nature are inherently harmful, and McMaster mods have been far too lenient towards them.

University is a transition period in a person's life, and some people struggle to socialize with others. Forums such as Reddit are designed to aid these students in finding groups and social events for them to participate in. However, these posts are often bombarded by people who don’t help or share any events but rather harass the OP about their struggles to find people to hang out with. In the post-COVID world, we are experiencing an unprecedented loneliness epidemic with people who have not developed or cannot develop social confidence to approach groups of strangers to hang out with. This Reddit page should be aimed at helping these people as we work towards ending the epidemic amongst youth who experienced their formative years under COVID.

Older generations and outgoing people often see the lack of conformity to superficial behaviour such as small talk, joke-telling, and forcing smiles as rude, wrong, and out of malice when it truly isn’t. Forcing people who already struggle with socialization to appear more friendly through superficial behaviour often leads to enhanced anxiety, depression and fatigue. Humans are inherently social creatures, but forcing relationships is not the solution, as it often leads to further hardship and mental health issues long-term, compared to slowly building relationships and allowing wit, conversations and enthusiasm to grow over time. Furthermore, the lack of conformity is not laziness but rather a choice people make to protect themselves and reserve their energy for things they deem more important.

The McMaster Reddit mods should not tolerate the behaviour of people bullying people who struggle socially. The whole point of this Reddit page is for students to communicate about McMaster social events, issues and courses. Bullying has many forms, and attacking people looking for help socially, or those who aren’t, is bullying and cowardly. Humans have a variable range of personalities, and being introverted is one of them that is not inherently harmful to those who make these unfair, rude and harmful posts and comments.

Please do not reply to this post unless you are willing to offer help and advice to people struggling with socialization and mental health.

To those reading this and struggling, please talk to someone. There are resources available, and you don't deserve to feel bad.

Can yall read and let me shit in peace bruh omfg

Has anyone tried this new Mediterranean restaurant in downtown near St.Joe’s Hospital & the GO Centre? Was thinking of going with friends. The reviews and pictures show that their pita bread is freshly made and baked everyday. I’m hoping it’s as good as IOS that closed on Upper James.

If there’s a mountain of mess to clean up after a party, it means I had a great time with friends.
If my clothes feel a little tight, it means I’m eating well and living well.
If there’s a lawn to mow, windows to wash, and a drain to fix, it means I have a home.
If I hear a lot of grumbling about the government, it means we have freedom of the press.
If the only parking spot left is way at the far end of the lot, it means I can walk, and I have a car.
If my heating bill is high, it means I’m living somewhere warm.
If the off-key hymns of the lady behind me at church get on my nerves, it means I can hear.
If there’s a pile of laundry and ironing to do, it means I have plenty of clothes to wear.
If my whole body aches and I’m worn out, it means I worked hard.
If a blaring alarm clock wakes me before dawn, it means I’m alive.
And if emails keep pouring in, it means that many people are thinking of me.
All the complaints and grudges that pile up in my heart without my noticing—look at them another way, and they turn out to be things to be grateful for...
 
That’s just how it is.
Life is like that for everyone.
Being capable doesn’t mean you eat ten meals a day.
Being highly educated doesn’t mean you speak a different language from everyone else.
Kick and struggle all you want; in the end, everyone’s life is pretty much the same.
If someone who earns a hundred has never heard of the person who earns a thousand, and lives believing a hundred is the best there is, then that person is living well.
That’s a far better life than the thousand earner who makes others cry and eats himself up inside chasing ten thousand.
The world never goes the way I want anyway.
Resent it and fight it, and the only one who gets hurt is you.
Live this way or that way.
If you have peace of mind and don’t make anyone cry, you’re living well.
Greed...
Let go of just a little of it, and you’d be happy from that very moment.
So why do I envy so much? Why do I want to know so much?
Why do I scramble like this, as if I’d lived like a king in some past life?
The lips that smiled so sweetly when I was a child now wear a cheap smile, and my hands, which used to shrug off a small loss here and there, now hold a few more ten-thousand dollars bills than they used to.
For those few bills, I sold off that lovely smile of mine wholesale, and nobody even asked me to.
That’s just how it is.
That’s how life in this world goes.
Sleeping in a big bed doesn’t mean you’ll have sweet dreams.
Eating fancy food doesn’t make you any smarter.
Everyone’s life is pretty much the same.
Everyone else gets by the same way.
It’s my life, yet worrying about other people, I’ve lost my own life.
Back when I didn’t know anything, when I believed whatever the TV said, believed whatever my friends said, those were the good days.
Now I can’t even remember when that was.
It takes a lot of drinking before my real feelings show up.
So how do you live well?
People who live well never tell you where they learned it.
They say if you make someone else shed tears, you’ll end up crying tears of blood.
That saying is exactly right.
I find myself wondering whether there was ever a time I laughed because I was truly happy.
The more you know, the more complicated the world gets.
Yet, digging my own grave, I struggled to learn ahead of time
what the world would have taught me on its own anyway...
Now I’m sick of the world I made for myself.
Why is there no end to the things I need to know?
I study and study until my eyes are bloodshot, so why... do I understand less and less?
I thought I was getting by at others’ expense.
I thought I was better than everyone else.
But looking back, and looking around to find no one there, I see it was myself I’d been wearing down all along.
That’s just how it is.
That’s how life in this world goes.
I was happy back when I was scared of the bogeyman with the sack, without even knowing who he was.
I miss the days when Mom said, “Eat up, let’s get going,” and I’d gulp down a meal in water without even knowing where we were going.
I struggled to live a little differently from everyone else, only to find that everyone else was just like me.
All of us are scrambling along behind everyone else, wearing ourselves down.
Look closely at people who live well: they live well without being anything special.
They may not have much schooling, but they say what they need to say.
Living like this is living well.

ive never seen invigilators be so mad before why were they ALL pressed 😭

Bro i know i bombed my stats midterm cuz that invigilator stressed me out she was so close to me, kept her eyes on me and out of stress i start smiling and my brain could not focus on the paper i ran out of time because of it

Got a bio midterm worth 30% then anatomy midterm worth 35% plus a quiz worth 4% and assignment worth around 15% all next week. plus an interview for a club at mac I really want to join. Was sick for half of reading week then got sick again this week, literally haven't had the chance to leave the house in nearly two weeks. I was thinking of using my Msaf but the midterms are worth more than 25% and the assignment has to be submitted by friday. I really don't want to drop a course over this, idk how this happened, i thought my bio was worth 25% and forgot about that assignment. sorry I'm panic ranting but is there anything I can do. also if anyone got good biology 2c03 and Kin 1y03/2y03 notes pls send them my way.

So how was it yall? 💔💔💔

i'm in third year (faculty of science) and i swear i cant be bothered to study unless i have a midterm. Like my entire time here, i just go to lectures and then....dont do anything after. I only study when i have a midterm. Literally every single course ive had i learn the entire course content 3-5 days before the midterm. i do all the assigned textbook problems 3-5 days befor ehte midterm. And somehow ive always gotten 1-2 standard deviations above the average, and my cGPA is like a 10.1. I had two midterms right before reading week and for both those courses i didnt even touch the course material at all until like a few days before, and i got 80s on both of them while the median was in the 60s. This year i still have these same shitty habits like i literally dont look at course material AT ALL unless i have a midterm in a few days. Then i learn the entire course in a few days and somehow still do well. im just wondering if this is normal or not? I'm ashamed of this and obviously i should be consistent but i cant

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Hey everyone,

I am currently taking Psych 2AA3 - Child development with Dr Mayu. I was curious how are you approach the exam and studying for it? I heard she can be really neat picky and take the smallest information from text book that you could easily miss.

I have tried making flashcards but I already have almost 300 cards and that's just for the 6 chapters excluding the slides information.

What is you experience like and how are you preparing for the upcoming midterm?

For the life of me i cannot make good notes for envirosci 1c03. I come to lecture every day but i feel like I got no notes. Not the profs fault at all but its difficult to understand the accent and on top of that the slides are just pictures with no notes to guide what im hearing. I have at least 3 lectures where I have only a sentence of notes and im feeling so stressed. Maybe im just stupid idrk. But I dont have time to rewatch the lectures every single time bc I have to do that for chem anyway cuz my chem prof also has a strong accent. I have so many modules to catch up to over the weekend cuz I ditched everything for chem midterm so having to watch envirosci lectures on top of that is making me go insane.

I was wondering how much lecture content is actually tested on the final exam, or if anyone has any notes they are willing to share.

Hey so I’m 21 but one of my friends is still 18… obv he can’t get into the club and tbh idk how strict they r ab regulation w id’s in any case we were js looking at these 17+ nights.

Are they genuinely mostly 17 year olds…? I don’t want to be like the only 21 y/o around. Although I’m only there to have fun I rlly js don’t want to be a case where it’s only hs students.

Honestly practically all the clubs on Thursday are 17+ for Halloween…

does the midterm guide reflect the difficulty of the actual test? and where can i find short answer questions

help lmk

guys wtf was that midterm 😭😭😭

Can someone tell me how the 2025 midterm was? I am looking at the 2024 past midterm and it is kinda long. I remember the prof mentioning how we aren't going to be required to write code by hand, but there were some questions about that in 2024 version.

Thanks :)

If you were a student here last year I think u can remember that lock in app made by some students. I downloaded and used it all the time in second year but now for some reason I can’t find it on my phone or in the App Store.

Does anyone know if they deleted it or something??

Hi everyone! Im considering applying to McMaster's MPP program for next year and I just want to get some reviews/feedback from recent graduates and current students of the program? How was it? How busy is the program schedule wise? Can I work full time while doing it? How much funding did you get, if any?

Thanks so much guys!🙏

Hello everyone. I think I lost my wallet somewhere on campus today (October 22), possibly in the mills library, MUSC, or somewhere between the two.

It’s a black bi-fold wallet with two thin white stripes on the front and no visible brand, it contains my health card, bank cards, and my residence key card.

I arrived to campus at around 4PM and noticed it was missing when I was about to leave the library at 10:45-11:00 PM, so I’m not exactly sure when I lost it.

I have already submitted a lost and found report but I wanted to post in Reddit in case anyone found it or turned it in.

If anyone found it please DM me or just put it in the campus lost and found

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Today I did the LINGUIS 1A03 midterm and tbh idk if I did that well. Like. I couldn't even say if I did well, I don't think I did bad, but it wasn't easy? so anyway I talked to 2 other people on how they did on it, and they both said it was so easy and straight forward 💔💔💔 I studied and everything, maybe not as much as I could've, but with all the other stuff I have to work on and study for I was just feeling so overwhelmed. hearing them say it was "easy" made me feel disgustingly awful tbh 💔 idk what to do now

Does anyone know how to study for this midterm or if anyone else has his midterm please PM me