I've been questioning whether I have what it takes to get into medical school. It's not that I don't care about healthcare or haven't put in the effort. If anything, part of why this hurts so much is how hard I've been trying to make this future possible.

I've spent so much time building my extracurriculars, gaining research experience, volunteering, exploring healthcare environments, and taking on leadership opportunities. My experiences with research in a hospital and job shadowing were especially meaningful because they helped me realize that I enjoy helping people, that I'm capable of working with children, and that I can find places where I feel competent and like I belong.

But my grades haven't consistently reflected the effort I've put in. My recent biochemistry midterm result of 63% was particularly upsetting, and I'm worried about how my grades in biochemistry and sociology will affect my GPA and future applications. I'm also scared that my academic record could limit my options for graduate school, not just medicine.

Part of what makes this so painful is that I haven't just been casually pursuing this goal. I've turned down social events, hangouts, and opportunities to spend time with people because I wanted to focus on school. At times, I've neglected my own health, too. I thought these sacrifices would help me get the grades I needed. It's difficult to accept that working this hard doesn't guarantee the results I hoped for.

I'm also struggling with regret. I keep thinking that I should have taken biochemistry in the spring, like some of my peers did. At the time, I genuinely believed my course choices were the better plan. Looking back, though, I wonder whether taking biochemistry then would have made this semester more manageable and given me a better chance of doing well.

I realized that when I planned my current semester, I considered each course and commitment individually rather than looking at their combined workload. Now I'm angry with myself because I feel like I should have learned from my previous academic struggles. I'm afraid I've made another mistake that could affect my future.

Underneath all of this is a fear that I don't quite know how to express to other people. I'm scared that I might not achieve the future I've worked toward, that my extracurriculars and grades won't align, and that I might look back at everything I've sacrificed and feel that it was for nothing. I'm also questioning my own judgment and wondering whether I can trust myself to make the right decisions.

Please for the love of god have some common sense. No one wants to be filmed in the bathroom, and no one wants to see your tiktoks from grungy ass campus bathrooms.

Y’all look like clowns and it’s embarrassing all around

Civil liberties are being threatened everywhere. The Alberta government hands out huge public subsidies to their private company buddies keep cutting social services.

Nursing school should be free. There is a lot of shit we need to do and I know you guys are out there organizing and we need to find a way to connect to each other.

I answered mostly everything in hopes of partial marks (?). But basically everyone’s complaining about it so it makes me feel like less of a chud.

Kids, just because you’re good at high school math does not automatically make you an expert in uni math 💔

The lecture slides are probably made by plugging normal, human made slides into ai. The ai then bloats it, sometimes doubling the slide length, by inserting pointless infographics and ai slop images on every slide. The original slides can be found on canvas and are infinitely better.

The lab slides are made by insterting a prompt into gemini (the watermark is on the bottom right of half the slides). They don't even bother double checking in case the ai screws something up. One diagram had the spine of a dog where the esophagus is, and a picture of a brain had a fucking eye on it (holy bloodborne reference)

The prof shares extra notes with the class? Also made with ai. The images are clearly ai, and the text comes up as likely ai in detectors. Theres even "Points to emphasize when teaching" left over at the end.

$700 class

I have a math midterm tomorrow, and I just got home from university and realized that I can’t find my ONEcard or my other photo ID. I checked my phone wallet, but they weren’t there.
I’m really worried because I don’t know what to do, and my exam is tomorrow. Has anyone at the University of Alberta experienced something similar? Can I still write my midterm without my physical ID, and who should I contact?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Continuation of a post a while ago about an instructor mistreating me. I've been deadnamed, snapped at, publicly shamed, and criticized for my accommodations. I've gone to the accommodations office, science student services, department chair, ombuds, and my advisor. All of them point me to the Ombuds, but my instructor reprimanded me the last time I contacted them. This is the only course I have left to graduate, and I'm starting to see that it's going to be impossible for me to pass.

I'm not really sure what the point of this post is tbh. Maybe just a warning to future students that any issues you have with university staff are going to be yours to deal with and yours alone, no one is going to help you. Idk. Goodbye.

Hi everyone,

I'm an undergraduate student at UAlberta, and I'd appreciate some insight from students familiar with university culture here.

I encountered a technical issue while using a university computer and reported it. I contacted the instructor because my TA had directed me to do so.

In response, the instructor wrote:

"I'm a little confused, because [an online homework platform] shows that you have paid for an account, so I don't understand why you were using a university computer rather than your own device to access the site."

I'm genuinely struggling to understand the logic behind this comment. What does having a paid account on an online platform have to do with reporting a technical issue with a university computer? And why should the device I happened to be using make a difference?

My understanding is that university computers are university property, and reporting technical problems with them is reasonable regardless of what I was using them for at the time. Reporting an issue could also help the university keep its equipment in good working condition.

I'm not trying to make assumptions about the instructor's intentions. I'm simply wondering whether there's a cultural expectation or an unwritten norm in Canadian universities that I'm unaware of.

From the perspective of students familiar with UAlberta or Canadian university culture, is there any logical connection here that I'm missing? I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts. Thanks!

my favourite professor. the only lecture getting me through the week. Paul if you’re seeing this please keep up the spectacular humour, never stop being you, your positive attitude and enthusiasm towards what you teach (or movies all the same) gets many of us through what otherwise might be a challenging course subject with few moments for creativity and entertainment.

Was just wondering if anyone has any insight on the MLIS online program? What are the courses like? How are the instructors? How difficult did you find it? Etc. Thanks!

The last midterm kicked the fish out of me. I find the questions being tooooo different from the WH what we get. And the lectures are also same as well.

IS THERE ANY SOURCE THAT GIVE ME A BUNCH OF PRACTICE QUESTIONS FROM ALL THE TOPICS FOR THE FINAL??????? I will be screwed for sure if I got a score below 70% of the total grade. So I would need to score at least above 85% in the final exam. Ewhhh...

Honestly, it would’ve been as hard as the other mech e midterms if it was 1hr 30mins, but 2.5h was plenty. It did seem a bit harder than the practice midterms, but not by much.

I have already finished lab 4 for CMPUT 174, but since I pulled an all nighter I decided to sleep from around 12pm until after the deadline passed 😭. Is there anything I could do to make up for this loss? Or do I only have one choice left, which is grinding for the midterm and final?

like damn do what you want at home but holding it down the whole time is not the play 😭😭 it sounds awful and i feel bad for everyone listening

hey! i applied to uofa nursing with a 3.5 gpa and got put on hold because my gpa wasn't competitive enough ☹️ i'm getting pretty nervous about whether i'll actually get in. i was wondering what gpa other people applied with and if they got accepted? especially if anyone was put on hold first and ended up getting in!

I can't feel my fingers

I just got my chem 101 and midterm and I did so bad on it (52%). I know it’s only worth 10% but do you guys think I can bounce back from this and hopefully get a B or higher???

I can’t describe how badly I was destroyed by this mid term. I didint really study so it’s on me. Think I got like a 30% 20%The stuff wasn’t bad at all. I just did not study.

I have a 90 in the lab section(15%) and 100 in the assignments section(5%).

If I lock in for the final exam worth 50 percent and get like a 90, is it possible to end with a grade above 2.7? So hopefully above a b- or a b-?

I understand this class isn’t curved/scaled like other classes. I heard to only expect a 1-3% scale if the scores are like really bad.

Just want some insight as a First year engg.

Help please!!

i’m in my last year so i’m trying to take easy-ish course but i’m taking SPH200 rn and i think i want to take 320 (substance use and health) if you’ve taken it what’d you think?

Pretty much the title. Is it possible to pass with under 50 ? And also fail over 50? Im a bit confused

does anyone know the avrg?? I missed the last 2 lecs so have no idea what it is or what's my standing rn. Also why the heck did it take so long to post??

I understand that this is majorly nuanced and not black and white, but I'm wondering if maybe I'll have a chance.

Is it something only reserved for those with international level competitions and transcendent level accomplishments, or can a solid regional/provincial level candidate have a chance?

I'm applying to Engineering and got in with the gold-standard entrance 2 days in, but I'm high key broke so 5000 feels like just a drop in the bucket.

Thank you tremendously for your insights.