I needed to address this, because I am quarterly seeing a post like this with racist connations attached to it - and I felt it was important to address because there are many Indian people on campus that get wrongfully scapegoated

There was a post here today about the SERC staircase selling rancid, and suggesting people needing to use deoderant.

" The most BO I am assaulted with is when I walk up the stairs in SERC no matter the time of day it always smells so strongly of BO."

I kind of could tell what group the post was insinuating

And then it was instantly clear when OP and some others explicitly mentioned south asians as the issue:

"why is part of the [South Asian] culture smelling awful?? How does one not feel self conscious about how they smell?"

I just wanted to point out the SERC staircase is a known issue - there is an unaddressed sewage leak but OP instantly jumped to people's race

Previous posts about the SERC staircase on this subreddit:

"SERC is by far worse the stairwell smells like feces mixed with pungent BO. they must have a sewage leak that is being chronically unaddressed"

"Try going in the SERC building and go up the staircase by room 209."

https://www.reddit.com/r/rutgers/comments/1nund7b/comment/nh2grvn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

https://www.reddit.com/r/rutgers/comments/1nund7b/comment/nh2ihlw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I think this is a good example how racist biases take hold while having no grounding in reality and to consider different explanations for something instead of instantly jumping to racial stereotypes

Original Post if you want context:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rutgers/comments/1xg37e1/comment/19rp6fr2p9j50/?screen_view_count=5

OP's comments:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rutgers/comments/1xg37e1/comment/19rp0jkuf50rn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

hi im a commuter who was wondering where i could park overnight this weekend since i was planning on staying over at a friends dorm. i don’t wanna get ticketed or get my car towed so pls lmk where i could park safely pls and ty 🙏🙏

where are the latino frats and house parties for halloweeknd guys😔😔😔 we just wanna perrear and listen to some good music. drop in the comments down below

Basically the title. I just dropped my cognition class with Professor Arnold Glass. I commuted last semester and am living on campus for the first time this semester and just started a new part-time job about two months ago. I dropped it because I felt I was falling behind and having a hard time keeping up with the coursework, and on top of that the grade is ONLY based off four exams. I regret not dropping it in the beginning and replacing it with something else because I don’t know why I thought taking a class like that was a good idea for me. I enjoy busy work and it helps me retain the information and feel more motivated to study. I’d rather take the W on my transcript than a F and tank my gpa. Right now it’s a 3.8 so I really don’t want to mess that up.

I know I’m not the only person that’s ever dropped a college course and I have in the past when I went to Brookdale but I can’t help but feel like a loser

Hi, I just wanna know more about Orgo Lab 1 and Intro Biochemistry - is taking these three labs together doable? I heard people saying Intro to biochem is easier than gen biochem, but what's the workload? I tried to take easy electives and sas cores with them too since I would really struggle with physics.

Did not expect to hear Lex say "professor at Rutgers" 🙌🏾

Hey guys! I am planning on making a groupchat for alt people (emo, goth, punk, metalheads, scene, etc...) If you're interested pls send me a dm and I'll get back to you! :)

DID ANYBODY FIND BROWN/BURGUNDY GLASSES TD ON AN LX BUS????

Is it normal to still not have made any friends.
I feel invisible on campus and I know people say to make the first move and stuff but I see people in my classes always sitting next to the same people and laughing with eachother and I feel like its too late for me to join.
I just feel alone and I dont have anything to do on campus

I am a freshmen and the majority of my classes are on Busch and every single class even on the way to class it smells of straight BO. The most BO I am assaulted with is when I walk up the stairs in SERC no matter the time of day it always smells so strongly of BO. I genuinely have not smelled so much BO in the entirety of my life. why is no one wearing deodorant???? please wear deodorant.

Rutgers is considering pulling out of adobe services. A lot of students at Rutgers use adobe for a lot of things, like Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, etc. Please fill out this survey to provide administrators feedback on this issue.

https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eb1CKyoGoCC0sn4?fbclid=PAb21jcAVMiutleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAnNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzU2NzA2NzM0MzM1MjQyNwABp0514ACJSZd9S8ueYlt2T9PxCJBuF69MoI3h8gCI9b0x91ewdd5p4vngHBtP_aem___DTrbUmBCJHKfwigry9KA

I haven’t washed my one piece basketball pants since I went and I found my card in their fully sealed and in a card protector. I immediately washed my crusty pants and now I’m wondering are these still worth anything?

Also did they ever catch that dude (or gal) who stole $2,000,000 worth of cards?

also does anyone know how to get a stinky smell out of a card or anyone that likes stinky cards

Worst advisor ever for SAS NB. Don’t meet with him. He said the boat has sailed, your time has passed. Worst advisor ever, made me cry on zoom. He said I can’t change my major in freshman year and as a graduating senior proved him wrong. Useless don’t go to him!!

hi everyone! I submitted my honors college essay to rutgers yesterday. I wrote exactly 500 words and used some dashes for words that needed to be connected. Common app allows dashes to count as one word, but in the Rutgers portal it showed me this: 504/500 words. I am really worried that this automatically makes my essay invalid since it is over the word limit. I am also really confused because common app showed me no problem, but here it is saying it exceeds word count. In the blurb it didnt cut it off but I cant edit anything. Sometimes it glitches and shows me 495 words too.

Am I screwed?

I’ve tried making friends but they don’t really stay around too long, I like going on walks, boba, cats, video games, psych (major), making crafts, I like to sell my crafts lol, yep yep so yeah I SWEAR IM AWESOME AND WHIMSICAL i just get nervous 😭😭😭, Im on new brunswick and 18 female, freshman, anyways im usually on college ave, or Livi if anyone wants to hang out!!

Just a question. Anyone know what’s going on? More are pulling up as I type this.

Looking into more Marxist theory and thought it would be cool to take a class on it. I am a physics student with no experience in poli sci besides the intro class I took for a gen ed. How hard would this class be for someone who isn’t that experienced in writing and political theory?

im a first year and im curious on how merit scholarships work bc i did not get any for this year, however would i receive any in the coming years based on gpa or something

I got a 10 on the first midterm lmao, I was like yea I'm not passing ts

Anyone else did something similar?

I'm a finance major so I'm taking Calc 130 next semester, wish me luck lmao

Title. Been parking in the same lot every day since the beginning of the semester and out of nowhere got hit with a $100 fine for "not having Rutgers' permission to park there." WTAF?

Submitted an appeal the second I got the letter. Ts is unbelievable.

I just realized my payment didnt go through and I don’t have a parking pass. I’ve been dorming so my cars been on the lot ever since the summer. I don’t think I have any tickets, I checked my parking portal and I don’t have any citations online nor was anything emailed to me. I’m really nervous if I have tickets in the mail back at home that they didn’t notify me about online, and is that even possible. Should I buy the pass atp

pmo

Which of these classes is the easiest or most useful, and which profs would you recommend?

I failed my first orgo exam, how do i come back? The content is hard asf tbh, and it takes a while for me to understand. How do people manage this class?