Hey everyone! I’m Pohling from Indonesia & China, a first-year PhD student at UMass. Just moved to Amherst two months ago and hoping to make some new friends around here!

I’m into jazz, good food, traveling, different cultures, and pretty much any excuse to get out of the house lol.

Would love to meet some easygoing people who are down for spontaneous coffee runs, grabbing a drink, checking out local events, or just hanging out and chatting about life (preferably not our research haha).

Grad students or anyone in Amherst/Northampton, feel free to reach out! Just looking to make some genuine friendships :)

New edition of The Maroon Standard, my weekly UMass sports newsletter. Here’s what’s in this one:

• Buffalo. Inagawa’s first start, a wild special-teams second quarter, and how a 53-yard Morris field goal still wasn’t enough after Buffalo drove for the tie and won in OT.
• “No one cares.” Harasymiak’s message on injuries, the two-minute defense, and short yardage.
• UConn preview. Watson is a game-time decision, and UConn is 13th nationally in 20+ yard plays and coming off a bye.
• Hockey. The Nestrašil–Galanek–Novotny line powered a 4-1 win over Northeastern, then eight penalties sank UMass in a 4-1 loss.
• Hoops. Three takeaways from the 81-68 exhibition win over URI.

Full write-up here: https://www.patreon.com/TheMaroonStandard/posts/nobody-cares-172903971?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

If Watson can’t go Friday, who do you want under center, Inagawa or McCarthy?

Last Friday, someone hit my car in lot 33, and didn't leave a note. I doubt this is an uncommon experience, but anyone have any suggestions? is it worth going to the police? Also, a plea that if you ever hit someone's car, do the right thing and leave your information. think about how you would want to be treated<3

also, any suggestions for auto body shops to bring to repair?

I lowkey wanna be in a band. Just one that does covers of songs and is chill. I’m an alto but can belt pretty decently. Lowkey just want something that can take up my free time

Are the hockey games any good? I went to the football games and there was like no energy in the crowd no shouting or anything

Does anybody know if there’s any like program/course or anything at all that I can sign up for now that will add 1 credit to my semester. I really want to drop one of my classes but by doing so I’d be at 10 credit which would be okay because I have disability accommodation for Reduced credit load but I just learned that I got accepted for a scholarship and they would prefer I stay full time. So now I don’t know what to do. The class is moving at a faster pace that I can keep up with and I just absolutely bombed the midterms.

Hi I’m going to be transferring to umass in spring 2027 and was hoping to come on Halloween to go out and meet some new people. I heard that there is a no guest policy for the night and was wondering if anyone had some advice on how to get around that. Unfortunately my friends there canceled on me but I would still like to go. Is there another place I could stay?

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I’m thinking about adopting a cat in the near future when I move off campus but not too sure where to look. I know PetSmart might have cats but the website is very confusing to navigate.

Anyone have any recommendations?

Hii, I am transferring in the spring and looking for housing and potential friends.

For potential friends at Umass Amherst-I am introverted, on the spectrum and queer. I love alternative rock, metal, and folk-like music. I am an artist and a writer. I love reading, specifically fantasy for the most part. Escapism lol. I love bugs, amphibians, reptiles and birds. Oh and I'm an English major. If our interests align perhaps we could set up or share discord/Instagram.

It's probably unrealistic, but I've been on the search for a single room in the general area of Amherst. I say unrealistic because my budget is 400-600 and I have a pet bird that needs to come with me and can't stay with the "parents". She would stay in my private room at all times unless I personally take her outside.

Why is it always ice cream in the dining halls???? We get popsicles at woo every now and then, and it's WAY better than the same old ice cream. Anybody know if the other halls do popsicles ever or is it just woo once in a blue moon? If I wanted ice cream I would either go to Frank for the good stuff or I would use the soft serve machine. Pissin me off, popsicle superiority!!!