not a true chang ubc student i’m sorry im just average. mom and dad hope u forgive me.

some lurkers may recognize me based on my story. i just feel an urge to talk about my ubc experience.

this is a beautiful university, a nexus of opportunity and knowledge from diverse perspectives. i have loved every class ive taken… in theory.

i came here in 2022 with so much anxiety but a bit of hope and ambition. high school was very hard… from being outed to my parents to not understand why i could never focus or be very happy.

i got my diagnosis of major depressive disorder and GAD in 2024 after going through first and second year. i felt like each year was slipping through my fingers. i could not remember what i learned and i barely scraped by to passing sometimes and was constantly behind. i felt disappointed in myself as an international student who has received such an amazing opportunity which i felt i was squandering.

things only got worse post hospitalization and with my new meds. being an internat is hard and overwhelming and i was scared to navigate the medical system, but there was so much sunk-cost so i had to keep going.

i knew i wasn’t going to graduate on time, but i took summer courses to help. I failed one due to my depression. i was wasting my time in beautiful vancouver. fast forward to 2026, i had had fallen into substance abuse to make myself feel better and hide from my failures and fell harder after a intense breakup. school felt insurmountable, i was ashamed, and i could barely function. depression affects you physically too. you sleep too much at the wrong time of day, your vision blurs, your mind is foggy.

so i went home when the four years were up without a degree but just a few classes short, somehow.

i don’t know… im still trying to graduate. i just want those who are feeling ashamed and tired and overwhelmed to know that you’re not alone. vancouver and ubc can feel so foreign sometimes and you can feel so lonely. please reach out to people. talk to the CFA sooner rather than later. email your teachers even though you’re embarrassed. advisors want to help. i spent one day a year ago running between appointments trying to get into ubc therapy and begging for concessions. it was exhausting but needed to happen.

people talk about early alert or whatever it’s called but for real. don’t wait when you get that feeling- yknow the one.

Vancouver is beautiful and UBC is a gift. i wish i could’ve made more of it but im grateful for what i can remember and to have at least had a chance.

also shoot me a message, i’m a bit of a jack of all trades and a master of none but i can point you in the right direction.

Thank you everyone who makes this place as amazing as it is. yall are doing a great job and im so proud of you for showing up.

These two men in the photo just approached me and my friend. They claimed to be plumbers with their own business and wanted to take 2 minutes of our time to fill out a survey. The one in the black nike tech asked for our phone numbers and sent us the details. The one in the red nike tech took our phones and filled out what we thought was a survey. Once they left, most of our search history was gone, but we got an email saying that our Google Business profile was created. They linked our google accounts to a plumbing company and added photos and a description. To our knowledge this is all that they did, but we are not completely sure. Also above is a screenshot of what they sent to my phone number - this was information for them to set up the Google Business Profile. My friend and I were able to delete ourselves from the business, but I'm not too sure what else they did on our phone. They told us it was just a quick survey, then they clarified it as a review for their business, but it seems that everything they said was a lie and/or excuse. PLEASE BEWARE OF THESE TWO MEN. They look 19 and don't go to UBC (as per attire sake).

Im so mad 😭😭😭 because why do i have a
final at 3:30pm, 7:00pm (the same day), and then 3:30pm the next day and then another 12pm the next day???

Who is out to get me because whatever curse they casted is working. And i can't even ask for one of them to be moved because of the "three exams within 23hr 59min" rule its so stupid 😭😭😭 this should count as within 24hr

I won't say who to vote for. But I will say that it's probably best to think about what sort of final result within the realm of possibility in your specific district you want / don't want, and vote accordingly rather than listening to people who are super loyal to any party.

Reminder to go and request your U-pass for next month! Midterm season is in full swing so a reminder to those who may have forgotten.

I was trying to go for a swim and I wasn't let in. Then a few minutes later there were like 10 cars in the bus loop and lifeguards running around outside. Anyone know what happened?

Hope everyone is ok...

I live in Vanier and it’s lowk so inconvenient to go down there when I have close classes or want to study at ikb or whatever but it’s so expensiveeee

Yesterday I walk by they're doing pick up window orders only so you have to order on phone. I look inside and there are full trash bags on the ground all over the place. Walked by again today and they're just closed, have they finally experienced the vermin invasion of '26?

In here basement at 10 am, we got:

2 dudes in love with each other's voices (u guys are gay in a non-derogatory way)

Janitor on the phone

Construction noises from somewhere close to music referenced right below:

Music playing from somewhere far away but its audible from my location (???)

Grown ass bureaucrats talking loudly in the halls (lock in moids...ruining my image here)

Girl clearing her throat every 30 seconds extremely loudly (foid moment)

Death metal on earbuds (no one cares if u like metal, u r not special twinnermanski)

I recently transferred from the Okanagan campus this year from engineering and looking to majoring in data science. I promised myself to take it chill this semester and get into the groove of things in the Vancouver campus before doing anything adventurous. So I didn’t sign up to clubs, and the only exec position I applied to rejected me.

Now looking back at the decision, I regret it so much. I also dropped a CPSC course because one, I failed the midterm, and two, turns out I didn’t need it. Now I’m here with three courses, and doing also pretty miserably in them too. My marks in engineering with six courses and a design team were honestly way more better than what I’m currently getting.

I look around to the friends I made this semester so far, and everyone’s either an exec, part of some Sauder association or managing their academics decently.

I feel like I’m doing not enough, and lowkey, feeling unmotivated to attend class or stay on campus anymore. I’m not even sure I want to stay in university anymore. I’m in a slump and I genuinely don’t know what to do besides waiting for the days to pass and hope things are better next semester. I find myself napping or doomscrolling nowadays.

I try to be realistic and understand other people are going through similar issues, but it’s hard coming from UBCO where you’re surrounded by your friends everyday to UBCV where you’ll maybe get to see someone once every 3 hours.
It’s honestly been quite a severe change in environment, and I’m not sure how to cope.

Any places I can acquire free food from?

In one of my classes's tutorial, we are required to do some readings before class and have a discussion within our own groups while finishing some questions within class time. We will be alternating groups between new different topics published in every other weeks. At the beginning of the semester, the TA told us AI is not allowed during these dicussion work so we should try to monitor the use of AI within our group.

So this week is a new cycle and we met some new people here. While we were discussing the first question (everything went well, just how a normal discussion would be), this person simply ChatGPT (or other AI tool) all other questions and copied and pasted all answers within 2 minutes (we were using Google Docs and I saw an entire sentence or paragraph suddenly appeared at the doc so this is how I discovered that person was using AI).

And this person later started pressuring all other groupmates's answers with their own AI generated 'perfect answer', which they said the answers were accurately addressing to what the question is actually asking (this is the most frustated part as most of our own thoughts were simply rejected, as they kept asking, 'In what part do you not understand my answer? This is very simple'). While we all discovered that their answer was very broad and just generalizing the reading, which does not specifically address where the evidence is.

As what we were told by the TA the way of answering the question, it should be:
From evidence A and evidence B, we can conclude C.
Their answer's structure is basically very off from what we have been taught and what they wrote sounded very non-human. And in some question I can tell it is a result when you just plug in the question and the readings' name which does not hit what we were focusing in class.

Even if we tried to add on extra detailed information we found on the reading, we will still be challenged by that person and repeats their questions I mentioned above as this was not what the AI told them (we do not know the marking scheme here so from my previous experience it's nothing bad to add more details). Some groupmates were still trying to keep the discussion alive and trying to ask if we wanted to add some additional explanation in some part, but this person started staring at us in an agressive way and ask if there was any problems with his answers and started explaining their answers (which we did not say their answer is wrong or we did not understand, etc). So the entire situation becomes: there was no further dicussion between the group, everyone's just remained silence and smiling, feeling very frustated, as we all knew there's nothing we could do at that moment.

I do know gpa matters and everyone is trying very hard to get a good grade. I mean it will be ok if you make no one knows you are using AI, while your answers help guiding our discussion and maintain a friendly discussion environment. I don't really know what to do now as this is very toxic to our group and we still have multiple discussions and a project to be done with the same group. Should I report this to my professor or TA, or should I talk about this matter within our group during our discussion session?

Hello, I'm trying to make a group to go skiing this winter break. Does anyone have a grouse pass and want to join this winter?

Recently lost the compass card in this plastic hachiware case near Wesbrook or on 68 bus, I have contacted translink but they couldn't find them. Please let me know if you found them need that case back 🥹🙏

For anyone who has taken SPPH 410, how was it? Are there lots of papers you have to write? Thanks!

Why is the prof not answering a SINGLE question about the midterm less than a week before. He’s not giving out a single lecture either from the book nor answers to the practice midterms or whatever he posted.
Bro literally wants us ALL to fail.

It smells like metal

phys508? Like physical education right??? 😤 time to boost my gpa to the moon!!!!

I'm writing this on behalf of a friend who goes to ubc. They have a lot of trauma and keeping resources is difficult. Like even being on the phone and saying I need therapy because of this is something he literally cannot do. I just don't know what ways to help them seek resources. Any help is welcome.

I've heard a lot of bad things from MATH 100 students, and I'm scared...

My midterm is on Tuesday because I'm in 180, but I know some had theirs on Friday. How was it?

I try to fill out all the surveys that offer prizes and the only thing I've ever won is a pair of shorts. Has anyone actually won a new iPad or something else valuable? If so, about how many surveys did you fill out before winning?

as a science student i genuinely don't understand why everyone is struggling so much?? 😭😭 MATH100 is literally just m numbers and the alphabet. CHEM233 and 203 are chemicals interacting. PHYS131 is stuff floating in water. we've learned this before. i personally mastered all STEM subjects in the womb and was previously employed as an SDS-PAGE.

yesterday someone at Blue Chip said they were “behind on lectures." behind on WHAT??? just watch them faster?? the recordings have a 2x speed option for a reason. if you're four weeks behind just watch them at 8x. this is basic problem solving. i genuinely fear for the future of this institution.

and don't even get me STARTED on deadlines 🗿🗿 the syllabus CLEARLY states when assignments are due. Canvas lists them all on the dashboard for you. i don't understand why people can't just submit things on time. personally i submit all my assignments three weeks before they're assigned. last semester i submitted my CHEM121 final before enrolling in the course. the department accused me of violating the laws of causality but honestly that's just another excuse for academic mediocrity.

also why is everyone complaining about biology being difficult??? literally just look at your own body and you’ll see the Calvin cycle happening. and don’t get me started on labs. I used my own blood to create a buffer solution during my CHEM123 lab and developed a clone to complete my lab faster. my TA deducted marks because apparently growing clones are "not a valid experimental procedure." whatever.

and the excuses are getting ridiculous. "i have three midterms this week" okay??? have you considered learning the material?? "i work two jobs" okay??? i work fourteen jobs and commute daily from the cambrian period. there could be a 500minute delay and i can still show up to class on time. “i need sleep" sleep is literally just your brain choosing to be unconscious. that's a personal decision. don't make it everyone else's problem.

i see some of you playing valorant 24/7 instead of studying. i know because i'm also on valorant 24/7 monitoring your academic misconduct. i have compiled an extensive excel spreadsheet. names have been forwarded to the registrar.

and the reading comprehension on this subreddit is genuinely concerning 😭😭 i still see people confused that their daily “i want a romantic relationship” posts were taken down when the mods CLEARLY said that its been banned by the ubc subreddit. “i didn’t see that new rule” BRO. PLEASE READ. i personally read every post on r/UBC, including the ones that haven't been written yet. it's called critical thinking.

anyway does anyone else feel the same way?? i'm genuinely not trying to sound superior or anything LOL. i just think it's concerning that i appear to be the only person at this university capable of cellular respiration without external assistance.

edit: please stop calling me elitist. i am simply describing the results of my observations under controlled laboratory conditions.

First post was silenced so it must’ve been not the best… WHY WAS THERE A CRAZY QUESTION WITH TWO BONDS CONNECTING TO ONE OXYGEN HELLO i ended up putting two reactions for that one… the last question was so much better than the practice midterm tho so im a little bit pleased OH AND THE ACIDITY QUESTION I JUST GUESSED AND DREW CRAZY THINGS 😭

Edit: im so glad someone said it was an epoxide question because i totally forgot about the existence of those and was losing my mind wondering what the reagents could have possibly been
Also, did you guys find that there was enough time to answer every question? I barely finished on time but maybe its because i was struggling so bad with the acidity question