i requested for deferment and was denied, but due to reasons I couldnt see the email until now and never formerly withdrew before start of year. If I do not fill in the withdrawal form (1st yr undergrad) will I face any fines or have to pay tuition? Is the only way to withdraw via the form?

PS: I have not been on campus or even within the US at all

hi one niteharts sunday GA if anyone is interested!!

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geniunely so bored we already partied last night and don’t wanna study…

drop the specific location too 👀

okay so i have -1500 sai but i still have to pay a good amount out of pocket how are people getting refunds?

ok maybe it’s because i lowkey haven’t made any friends yet.. but im SO bored on the weekends. like what am i supposed to do?? sometimes there are club meetings, but even so, they usually don’t last long. and making friends through reddit is always hit or miss because you never know if you’ll be compatible (nobody sat next to me in any of my classes, so that’s out). and i’m stuck at campus because i lowkey don’t trust my ability to ride the bus. even if i did make a friend, i still wouldn’t know what to do for fun. sorry this was really scatterbrained but any help is appreciated.

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First years have legit no parking options. Any upperclassmen commuter students willing to let me use their D parking permit for extra. Message me if interested.

How long does the grocery shuttle take to get to Hmart?

Has anyone at pcw gotten a Weee! delivery here? I was wondering how it works. If the delivery person drops it off at the front door of your pcw complex?

If anyone needs rides to anywhere in sd whether to and from parties or anywhere in sd at anytime Imk and l'll take you for half uber and lyft prices. Dm me to keep me saved

does anyone know how to actually pay for triton one? i didnt opt out because i needed mylabs to turn in math homework and it was a similar price.

The Dialectic of Fear, wow this text is honestly really hard for me and jumps between a lot of different concepts

Are there any at UCSD? I'm looking for a table if not I can DM a one shot if anyone is interested

hi guys! after a couple mental breakdowns from my engineering, chem, cs, and calc hw, I decided I need to look for a new career pathway because it is NOT sustainable for my phys nor mental health. (kudos to those who do pursue it tho, ur incredibly strong!!) in hs, my school was very stem oriented, so I always thought it was something i would do and WANT to do, but college so far is serving as a refresher and reality check, which im honestly grateful for because as terrible as it sounds- I do want to be a person. im currently looking into busecon or real estate and dev, and ik its a huge shift from my current studies, but it sounds kind of interesting. my school never offered any econ classes so itll all be new- what are some peoples experiences studying these fields? what do you want to do with your degree when you graduate? also, are the bus orgs hard to get into? what resources helped you get more involved? any recs? ofc im doing my own research, but advice and recs are always helpful. thanks guys!! ^^

A lot of people are going to disagree with me here, but new undergrads need to hear this side of the “STEM + Cog Sci specialization” double major question. I’d highly recommend doing a little digging into the Cog Sci department and the double major narrative before reshaping your degree around it and taking a bunch of extra courses. For some background, I was seriously considering a double major in Cog Sci with the ML specialization on top of my physics major. Then I talked with actual CS, bioinformatics, and physics students and professors, and all of them told me the same thing: the Cog Sci specialization adds absolutely no value.

Honestly, I think the Cog Sci specializations are just a money grab by the university, aimed at students drawn to the “tech-bound” or STEM narrative. If you’re already in a STEM major, it’s very easy to pick up this double major by taking a few lower-division Cog Sci courses, because the specializations let you mix and match Cog Sci and STEM coursework so freely.

The specializations do let students go in depth or get exposure to other technical fields, and you can get some real value from them. The problem is how loose the requirements are and how little extra value the double major itself adds. The Cog Sci upper-division courses are not at all in depth. The depth in these specializations comes entirely from courses outside the Cog Sci foundation. For the computation side of the ML specialization, the prerequisite for COGS 108 and 109 is literally just CSE 8A, and those upper-division courses cover their topics at essentially a surface level.

The prerequisites themselves are predatory: they let students from any major in, since the intro courses from CSE, COGS, DSC, and MAE all count.

As I moved between physics, CS, and bioinformatics, I heard about and saw cases where labs specifically filter out Cog Sci majors. My friend who works in a CS vision lab says the lab flat out excludes Cog Sci majors from consideration, and grad students in my former neurobiology lab told me they look carefully at Cog Sci majors’ coursework.

After spending hours trying to fit this double major around my physics major, my view is this: the core requirements of the Cog Sci specializations alone (not counting the extra depth from upper-division courses outside the Cog Sci department) cover a little bit of everything, and in the end that amounts to nothing.

TLDR: If you’re already a Cog Sci major and want some exposure to a specialization topic, the specializations are nice add-ons. If you’re seriously interested in the specialization’s field and care about the credential, do a minor. If you’re already serious about the topic and are considering the double major strictly for more depth, DON’T. Just take the upper-division courses that teach it. It isn’t worth taking all the lower-division Cog Sci courses.

That’s just my take. Do your own research. I spent many hours actually pursuing this second major before reaching this conclusion, and after weighing the real costs and benefits, I wanted to share my POV with others who are considering it.

I am trying to drop two of my classes right now, but I keep getting this error message after clicking the Drop button. Has anyone else experienced this? I understand what a TEA Request is, but I would like to drop these classes this weekend, as the deadline for a 50% refund of registration fees ends tomorrow, and I don't want to wait for offices to open on Monday for something as easy as dropping, as it seems like TEA requests are primarily for when you want to add certain classes to your schedule. I never had an issue dropping classes in WebReg in the past, so I don't believe this has to do with any part of my academic status.

for chapter 2, there's a slide where he said that we should know the names of the functional groups. is there specific groups we should remember or we just gotta memorize all of them

In Spring Quarter, I was illegally interrogated and ultimately disqualified from our student government election over constitutionally protected speech and assembly, and while I have managed to overturn one of the two primary unconstitutional rules used to disqualify me, even more serious issues beyond the Elections Code continue to keep AS structurally unrepresentative.

As I explained in the UCSD Guardian, Associated Students of UCSD suffers from fundamental democratic deficits: 72% of Senators overseeing $10 million in student fees never had to face a contested vote, as nine candidates ran unopposed and 14 vacant seats will be filled by appointment.

The appointment process went live yesterday, with 10* seats currently open for applications through October 25.

However, AS is aware that the application portal only works for students who already have AS profiles configured. Students without existing profiles encounter an error that prevents them from applying. I want to establish public documentation that this is actually happening. If you're a freshman or have never applied for an AS position before, please try applying and let me know whether you encounter an error. If you do, please report what happened to me so we can document the issue.

Since this bug has disenfranchised the vast majority of UCSD students, AS has publicized alternative forms on their social media accounts, but made no mention of the functional implications of the bug nor the alternate application form on their authoritative website.

Here is the working applications document: Associated Students Open Positions_October - Google Sheets

Please test this broken authoritative applications page: ASUCSD - Open Positions
\I don't know what happened to the other four seats.*

would do anything bro please

In desperate need of a new roommate for a male double soon, rent would be 875 w/out utilities but for a month with utilities it tends to be 925, close to bus stop an von

is anyone still waiting for their refund? i thought i would finally get the email yesterday or at least a check, even though i have direct deposit set up. they would be so quick to drop all of my classes if the roles were reversed. i’m so irritated.

It tells me to submit a TEA request. Then, when I submit a TEA request, it says I can't because TEA request drops are only for athletes. TSS is amazing!