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u/mrmuagi · 53 pointsr/UBC

I was in a similar situation in my first year, commuted 1.5h each way daily, didn't do so hot. You're actually actively trying to improve within the first month of your first year, that's better than me, which is impressive to say the least. And your post is not stupid! In your first year you end up taking a bunch of classes in different disciplines so you naturally will have a harder time. I also have a sneaking suspicion that professors try to make first year harder to weed out people, but it might just be my experience biasing things. Later on in your education you can sort of specialize into stuff you're good at. I improved most my second year, and did really well my third (even got $$$ from UBC for my grades :O). I settled in Computer Science so YMMV if you're in another science discipline, engineering, arts, etc.

If I would give advice to my former self, I'd say these things (sorry if this is a bit rambly, I will clean this up later) :

  • Don't be overwhelmed, try any of the following stuff in piecemeal and try to iterate on what works for you.

  • Do most of your studying/homework AT SCHOOL. Make time for that if possible, and treat it like a job. The library is your second home now. Actually the library is your home. Your other home is only for sleeping (7-8 hours), showering, relaxing, and potentially family stuff. After you're done commuting you should relax, or do light review. Never bring your stress home. There were only ~3 days where I was thinking of school at around 7+PM last year (excluding late evening exams, it was always traceable to something that would have been easier if I started earlier...).

  • Go to all classes, sit at the front, say hi to your neighbor, and then take ALL the notes. I never read notes before class (BAD high school habit), but when I started doing pre-readings or skimming through to get a sense of what the topic would be, the lectures were about refining knowledge instead of racing to grasp it. Also it helps immensely if you start reading through textbooks and doing the problems in them. I read all my textbooks for my courses now and make my own notes before class (a good litmus test is can you summarize what the paragraph(s) just said in a few sentences?). Though make sure you're learning the same material the professor is teaching (keener problems :P). You should also skim/re-read your notes and it should take you 5-10 minutes to read a set of notes, which helps fill in the gaps between lectures!

  • Simulate all your practice midterms/quizzes/exams in quiet places in the library, and time yourself. If you get a midterm/quiz back and you didn't do well, DO IT AGAIN on your own with the same time set as the original one. A bad grade is helpful in a weird masochistic way, it tells you EXACTLY what topics you need to do better in.

  • Learn how to take better notes. Use techniques like the Cornell method, paraphrasing, etc. Also, when the professor says something that isn't on the slides, make note of it, it might be on the exam.

  • Go to all labs, tutorials, etc and make an effort. Be attentive and alert in your work here. Don't be afraid to ask questions about stuff you don't know, you are wasting your tuition by not doing so - however - do prep though to figure out the gaps in your knowledge and aim your questions to bridge those gaps.

  • Track all deadlines/deliverable in your courses using Google Calendar/Keep (or equivalent). Technology is not your friend if you don't use it right, i.e. if you play games, facebook, etc, it's only going to hurt you. This involves using piazza, connect, canvas, and etc on your phone/laptop to find what's up in your courses.

  • Quit time sinks like gaming. I completely gave up gaming and my grades improved. I occasional can play games now, but in M O D E R A T I O N. Turns out if you stop playing games, you really just don't find them fun anymore. Removing stuff like gaming will cause time to just open up in your schedule.

  • Start your homework/assignments ASAP (make personal deadlines HALF of what the actual deadline is), and go to office hours to clarify on stuff you aren't making progress on. Depending on the professor or TA, they might multi-cast the explanations they give to other students to spread the learning to you, so it might be beneficial to go even if you don't have any direct questions, just general uneasiness.

  • Start a hobby. Reading, playing an instrument, a sport, etc. It helps relieve stress and ground you in reality that life is a lot more than just grades (seriously, think 60 years down the road).

  • There is light at the end of the tunnel, think of how in XYZ amount of years you'll look back and enjoy your many accomplishments, including finishing UBC first year. :)

  • Print out all your assignments (this is my best friend), homework and practice questions/midterms/quizzes/finals and do them in a quiet place. To give you an example, I print out my assignments, then whenever I work on them I manually make notes of how far I got, circling what questions I'm stuck on, what questions I can ask on piazza, office hours, etc.

  • Grab all PDFs/Doc files from your courses and organize them into Onedrive/Drive/Dropbox etc. using a hierarchy structure. For example for every term I have folders for each class (and folders for stuff like co-op, etc), and in each class folder I have folders for the lecture slides, assignments, syllabus (for future reference), solutions, and practice materials. If you want to scan your notes you can do that too (get an auto feed duplex scanner, not a manual one!), and shoebox your physical notes! You can also save web pages as PDFs (should be built-in for chrome), some courses or labs were just HTML pages and you can't download them easily.

  • Check out material from your courses from the internet, or other universities, or even online courses. For instance there was a concept in one of my classes that I didn't really get, I watched a few youtube videos and checked out some online lectures that shared topics and was able to understand.

  • Know how your brain learns materials! An online course called "Learning how to learn" is a useful investment, but you are already overloaded it seems like. If you have a lazy saturday, or some spare cycles, read this reddit summary and/or watch the videos on coursera.

    The following stuff is really situational (and you should talk to your department advisors instead of some random redditor over them)

  • Try spreading out your courses over summer - I took a few courses in the summer to stay ahead and have more breathing room.

  • You might want to take a year break for work (co-op or non-co-op) - I did co-op, my grades got better when returning from my job, but I think this was more because I was the one paying for my tuition, not my parents.

  • You may want to spread out your degree to 5 years - I'm doing this already because of co-op (16 month of work spread in between my terms), but you can just repeat a standing of a year (ie. be considered X year twice) if you don't meet promotion requirements.



    Specific to commuting:

  • Try coming to school earlier to avoid the traffic and get in some extra study time.

  • Listen to audiobooks or read a book (not a text book) while listening to music.

  • Practice Anki flash cards or do some light review. I wasn't able to effectively zone out the transit crowd well enough to actually study new things.

  • See if a family member can drop you off closer to a stop/sky train or pick you up. I skipped a bus transfer (and saved time in the commute) by just waking up earlier and hitching a ride with a family member to a Skytrain station.



    And on the health side of things:

  • Bring your home made lunch or eat healthy on the campus. As a commuter it might be tempting to eat junk food, but try eating healthy.

  • Drink lots of water, and if you can handle the weight, bring a refillable water bottle.
u/Talos_automoton · 4 pointsr/UBC

The US alone has just under 5,000 degree granting institutions, UBC is ranked in the top 50 internationally. This means you are in the top 0.01% of students fortunate enough to be attending one of the best higher education institutions in the world. Also you are an international student, and judging by the tone of your post, you are likely too young to be funding your stay here of your own volition. Honestly you sound very entitled, I think you should be a little more thankful for what you have.
>I have a black-and-white mindset which is hurting my progress in life.

The world is far too colourful, complex, and nuanced for a black-and-white mindset and you could benefit a lot from a change in your thinking. I'm not a religious or spiritual person, in fact I consider myself quite rational and skeptical, however I've found a lot of insight from this book - best twelve bucks I ever spent.
>...so technically my life is over because nobody will want to employ me cause I go to UBC!

Your life is not over, it has only just begun.

u/dissonantdame · 3 pointsr/UBC

Hey OP, I just went through this earlier in the year. I was also told never to buy a used mattress, so I scoured the web in search of the cheapest new mattress and bedframe that I could find. I managed to find this mattress + foundation combo for under $400. These are also both online, so you don't have to worry about delivery.

6in queen-size memory foam mattress from Wal-mart - $219

Queen size mattress foundation from Amazon - $134 + $5.54 shipping

I've been sleeping on this combination for the past couple months too, so I can vouch for their quality. I spent a lot of time online figuring this out and this is the best combination I found for myself. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have, I hope these suggestions are useful.

P.S. I also recommend buying a mattress protector (this is the one I bought) so that your new mattress as well as all your future queen-size mattresses will be protected from spills and guaranteed to last as long as possible.

u/williamthebastardd · 3 pointsr/UBC

I'd recommend the Shure SE215.

It's decent for the price, it stays on pretty well even when you do exercise and in my experience, the noise isolation is pretty good.

I actually have the special edition (blue one) and I hear that it has slightly stronger bass compared to the regular black or clear ones.

EDIT: Woops, sorry, I misread the post and just realized that you were looking for headphones and not earbuds. I think in-ear earbuds are more suitable for travelling with because they're smaller and lighter, whereas headphones tend to be bulky and heavier to bring around. I'd save the headphones for home use and get a decent pair of in-ear earbuds for going to class. Headphones also tend to have a lot of sound 'leakage' when you play music, so that may be a disturbance to other people around you when you're studying in the library. In-ear earbuds have less 'leakage' when you play music, if that's something you want to consider.

u/tiethy · 11 pointsr/UBC

After looking at your post history, it seems you're a 2nd year majoring in stats? I would just continue on the path you're currently on- best case scenario, do as many 300 / 400 CPSC courses for your electives that you can. Worst case scenario, try the BCS program after you've graduated.

I completed a 5 year CS degree with 16 months of co-op experience and a ~90ish average in CS courses and have been working in the industry for about 3 years. Here is the breakdown of where I learned how to develop:

  1. 10% CS degree (and this is just me being very generous- admittedly I wasted class time by sleeping but I completed most assignments accurately and studied intensely for all of the exams)

  2. 5% co-op (got unlucky with my internships)

  3. 60% work experience

  4. 15% self learning (through textbooks, reading blogs, research)

    I totally understand how anxious people would feel after getting rejected from CS but it's honestly not the end of the world. If you're willing to put in the effort, there are so many free resources out there that will help you learn how to develop. I assume you're done with 110/121/210... here are some resources that really helped me out:

    Code complete 2 - one of the best coding textbooks I've ever read... released for free: http://aroma.vn/web/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/code-complete-2nd-edition-v413hav.pdf

    Practicing for interviews (not taught in school) - https://www.amazon.ca/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/0984782850

    Learn the fundamentals of javascript... then learn typescript / react / whatever flavour of JS you hear about becoming popular... here's some site I found after 2 minutes of looking but I'm sure there are much better ones: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/an-introduction-to-object-oriented-programming-in-javascript-8900124e316a

    If you're really worried that your stats degree might hold you back... fill out your resume with hack-a-thons and side projects and apply for CS internships. Email recruiters directly if you don't hear responses from normal application processes. When building your resume, start with the CS stuff and leave the major at the end... make sure that if a human ever reads your resume, they'll be reading about how much you've learned about development on your own rather than which major you happen to earn your degree in.

u/narwhalsies · 2 pointsr/UBC

A programmable coffee maker is one of the best purchases I've ever made. I now wake up to hot coffee so I can just grab it and go. I have this one that I bought when it was on sale and I love it but don't buy it for the price amazon has it now. Before I got the machine, I did pour over coffee with a Melitta cone. The cone is ~$6 at London Drugs, filters are ~$2 for 100 and you just need freshly boiled water. I have a food scale, so I weighed out coffee grounds (16 grams water to 1 gram coffee approximately) but you can also use a measuring spoon. It's 2 tbsp per 1 cup of water. When you add the water to the cone, pour about 1/4-1/3 of the water in to cover the grounds, wait about 30 seconds then slowly pour the rest of the water in. For the milk part, if you're fond of lattes, heat some milk up in the microwave/on the stove and use a frother (IKEA has them for ~$3) to make it all foamy and pour that into your coffee.

To get set up to make pour over coffee will cost less than $20 including whatever kind of coffee you buy. A bag of coffee will make you around 25 8-oz cups of coffee depending on how strongly you brew it. I prefer pour over to French press because French press coffee is always a little silty and I don't like that.

If you have questions, I'm happy to answer! I drink entirely too much coffee and went far down the coffee rabbit hole when I started drinking it.

u/tychenne · 1 pointr/UBC

Applying sprays/traps as people mentioned will help lower the numbers, but it doesn't remove the conditions that attract silverfish/bugs in general the first place. If you don't get rid of silverfish you might end up attracting house centipedes (ive heard) and i'd rather gtfo than deal with that lol. This is what I did to keep them out of my dorm:

- Number one thing is to keep your suite clean, especially for people renting in older homes off campus. Silverfish eat starchy carbs. Declutter your space: no piles of paper, cardboard, nor clothes, nor food crumbs on the ground. place things in plastic tubs and food in tight sealed containers if you have to. Vacuum biweekly, do laundry often (and this includes your bedsheets)

- Additionally silverfish love humid environments. And its gonna be humid a long time cuz of the rain october - april. I bought this dehumidifier from amazon a while back. A lot of bugs also dislike the smell of spices. I purchased cinnamon essential oil from amazon and just placed a tiny bit in vials around the room. With the combination of those two, I stopped seeing them completely within a couple days.

u/ubctm · 3 pointsr/UBC

Oh yeah. Let me do this while refreshing ssc. I'm very excited to endow my knowledge.

You need:

  1. A FULL tray of ice cube
  2. 16 quart pot or bigger
  3. 25 Yakult Probiotic Drink (total of 5 rows of 5 count Yakult if you buy legit Korean ones like I do)
  4. 1 bottle Jinro soju (no Chum Churum because brand loyalty)
  5. Single chopstick

    Procedure:

  6. Without disintegrating rows of 5-count Yakult, for each Yakult, poke on the top and make a big circle while maintaining the chopstick inside of the bottle
  7. Pour the Yakult into the pot
  8. Put item 1, 4 into the pot (only the content of them. not the containers)
  9. Smoke some pot

    Hope you enjoy! :D
u/amnesties_co · 2 pointsr/UBC

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V4INK toner cardtridge. high yield and great reviews. It's also less than $15 and I remembered incorrectly. Super great purchase!

u/PaperCloud10 · 2 pointsr/UBC

Could everyone add a quote from the book they're reading? A good quote could draw my interest. Helps me find new stuff to read!

As for myself, I'm currently on Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. Here are a couple of quotes from said book:

"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment no matter what."

"In this way, vagabonding is like a pilgrimage without a specific destination or goal— not a quest for answers so much as a celebration of the questions, an embrace of the ambiguous, and an openness to anything that comes your way."

u/jello24 · 2 pointsr/UBC

I only use one backpack brand for most of my educational and travel needs, and this is what I will recommend to you.

Dakine.

Specifically, I have a Dakine Duel, which is probably the best backpack I've used. I've had it for 5 years now, and it's still holding up really well. From throwing it under your desk, to riding with it down Whistler, to hiking up a mountain, it stands up to everything really well.

The backpack has a special compartment for at least a 15" laptop, enough room for binders and a lunch bag, and plenty of pockets for every little doodad you have. It even has a fleece-lined pocket for your shades, for those rare sunny days on campus. Plus, it has something that no Herschel backpack has, that is, it has TWO bottle holders, perfect for holding both water and coffee.

Granted, some Dakine packs don't have all those features, but if you want something roomy for everything you're carrying, I'd suggest getting something at least 26L-30L in carrying capacity.

u/BeastlyFerret · 10 pointsr/UBC

Not really "celebrity status" but Daniel Vickers in the history department had his book mentioned in the Good Will Hunting bar scene which is neat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azM6xSTT2I0 @ 3:00

https://www.amazon.ca/Farmers-Fishermen-Centuries-Massachusetts-1630-1830/dp/0807844586

http://www.history.ubc.ca/people/daniel-vickers Publications

u/nostalghia · 3 pointsr/UBC

I've been going back and forth between these books for a few weeks/months now:

u/polp4a · 2 pointsr/UBC

Both 215 and 220 need plenty of practice. So as long as you set time aside for that you should be well on your way.

For 220 I would review some basic proof techniques (contradiction, contra-positive, induction) but not worry too much about knowing the details. In general we were never ask to prove anything where we couldn't apply the basics from a proof we had already learned.

We used Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321797094), which was a very clear text with plenty of practice problems. If you have time I would recommend reading chapter 2 and 3.

u/yes_yesiam · 16 pointsr/UBC

You do not need to enrol in co-op to get a job this summer, or any time for that matter.

Take initiative and apply to jobs independently. Job fairs are a great way to get an interview, and both the CS career fair and the Engineering career fair (there'll be a mix of companies, but companies hiring for Software devs will be there) are coming up soon. There are also plenty of opportunities to apply online. Check out student services periodically for resources (like interview prep strategies and the like), similar to what you would get in co-op. Get CTCI and practice. Practice technical interviews with your friends. Talk through problems as you solve them. You got this.

If you don't have a job lined up by the time summer registration opens, register for summer courses, but keep trying to get a job. You can drop the courses if you get a job, or take the courses if you don't.