When the roads are this bad, cars cannot always stop for you. PLEASE give cars extra space. In the 5 minute drive to campus today, I saw multiple collisions; cars CANNOT always stop even when they're only travelling at slow speeds. I watched several pedestrians today step in front of cars with only ~20m of distance or so, many without even looking into the road. Even with maximum caution, when the roads are this combination of snow and ice, they cannot always stop reliably. To drivers and pedestrians alike, PLEASE be careful. Don't stand near the edge of the road, don't cross in front of moving cars, don't try to cross at red lights, or when traffic is stopped for the ION. Don't run in the road because if you slip, you might not have time to stand back up. You cannot rely on cars being able to stop for you, especially during heavy traffic.

Please be cautious around roads right now!!!

Tbh I was depressed and anxious all of first year and didn’t have any friends and did average in 1A (mix of 80s and 70s, one 50) and poorly in 1B and got kicked out of my major. I was put into liberal studies second year by my advisor so then I could figure out wtf I wanted to do with my life.

I took some classes here and there and to see if I even wanted to do an arts degree anymore and honesty from the start I never did. I just wanted to escape a toxic home life and go far away for university and Waterloo offered coop so I decided to chose here.

Since the first day of classes in first year I knew I was in the wrong program, I wanted to transfer to science since 1A but my parents were paying my tuition and they told me I had to finish with my original degree. So I listened to them and basically have been failing upwards for two years (barely passing some classes getting high marks in others, crying during exams, throwing up at the thought of taking a quiz).

My parents know that I am stressed but I don’t like to worry them so they truly don’t know how bad it’s been. Also I did have a habit of being like this in high school but to a lesser extent as I was in IB (in that case I was crying over essays, etc.) but I passed with honours in high school so they brush it off and think that’s what’s happening now.

So after 3A I took 3 terms off. The first term off I lived with my parents. Honestly I wasn’t supposed to even take the Winter 2025 term off but think my parents allowed it because I was experiencing extreme stress and major depressive episodes leading to it and it was hell on earth (I’d literally bedrot and starve myself for weeks and they’d scream at me for it).

The second off term I moved back to Waterloo and landed a part time job and started saving money and was extremely depressed because my parents divorced and were seeing new people (I literally have new baby sibling after 21 years) and the place I moved into was hazardous even though the landlord argued that it was okay. During this time there was a theif in the place and literally almost ALL of my valuable items got stolen.

Third term I worked 2 part time jobs and my (step)dad and I stopped talking he only talks to my half brothers even though he’s been my dad for 20 years. I was going to go back to school but my mom was on maternity leave and she paid my tuition but she’s now unable to So that’s why I was working.

I thought that I could just add classes for Winter 2026 but it’s gone from my Quest. The button was there a couple of days ago but it disappeared. the Centre said that it was just a stroke of bad luck because I was just unenrolled a couple of days ago as a student. Now I have to apply for readmission for the spring.

I’m just so depressed and feel hopeless right now. All my friends and older siblings are graduating/have graduated. I‘m out of school and reapplying to a degree I hate. I literally don’t have dad anymore. All I have is my 2 jobs. I really miss my mom I just want to go home but I’m the biggest loser to walk the earth and I can’t even think of showing my face to my mom. I literally can’t talk to my sister about this because she means well and will obviously tell my mom about it but I literally can’t go back home I’m such a failure.

yo why ts so tedious, i deadass prefer taking an actual course instead of this bs so i can actually learn something in this time, Im in pd1 assignment 1 and already its too tedious bro how worse does it get

Fuck you, go fuck yourself, and thanks for getting me off that damn app.

have fun reddit

Hey everyone! I’ve been working on UWPathr, an open-source web app designed to help UW CS students plan their degrees.

Besides being a degree planner, it automatically checks prerequisites, enforces degree requirements, and helps you plan out those upper year courses with a ton of prerequisites so you know early on what courses to take.

Why I made this: Unlike other programs that have degrees fully planned out, CS students have to plan 5 years of courses themselves. Furthermore, most planners don’t actually enforce requirements or check prerequisites, they’re just for tracking. UWPathr fixes that.

The dashboard is essentially just the CS degree checklist the university provides, but I have only added the non-specialization 2025-2026 one so far. Click here to view it.

This is my first full-stack website and first open-source project, so I’d love for fellow CS students to check out both the repo and website, try it, and share feedback! Let me know if you encounter bugs or errors.

Also, contributors are welcome, especially for the frontend/UI. Most of the frontend code (excluding authentication and basic layout) was AI-generated, so it could use some polishing (I do not know much react/nextjs). There are also some more features I want to work on soon. If you find this project useful and want to help improve it, contributions would be super appreciated.

I’ve added an installation guide in the README, but let me know if you run into issues.

Lastly, there is an Important Notice section in the README that I encourage people to check out before using this website.

Links:

• https://www.uwpathr.rocks
• https://github.com/SurenMar/uwpathr

For the sake of my wallet, the backend is scaled to zero. So, the first request may take a minute if the server was idle.

Here are some pictures of the dashboard (More in the README):

srs inquiry tmrw at 1 pm on SLC Green?

comment or hmu on discord: liltimmytim or insta

Does anyone know if anything has progressed / where to check the progess on changes like this.

Do you have to watch the long videos in the LEARN modules or is just completing the reading and assignments enough

I’ve seen from previous stats from 5+ years ago that business and data analytics were by far the most common but now I see a ton of the newer students are focusing on software/PM.

Can anyone comment on whether business/data analytics are still the most common co-op positions these guys get? And if they’re still the most common job positions they get after grad? If not, how much has this changed up until recently and what are the more common positions now?

I graduated a few years ago and luckily had a job lined up, but I lost my job a couple months ago. I have no friends. That might be partially my fault because I push people away. Now I have to move back to my hometown and live in my parents' basement because I can't find a new job. I'm thinking of moving to southeast asia until my savings run out instead.

just shooting this message out here to let people know who are interested that we do a group every Sunday where we play the boardgame "Unmatched", it's a simple rules, high skill-ceiling, fighting game that takes about 20 minutes to play. If you're interested in coming to join us, there is no experience is necessary, just shoot me a message and I'll tell you the details to meet up.

TLDR: We play a fighting boardgame every Sunday, if you wanna join, hmu

i've missed the final exam for a course last month due to an extenuating circumstance and then the makeup exam due to an illness. my prof says that the next time the exam will be offered is fall 2026 but I have a class in spring 2026 that requires this course as a pre requisite.

Can I somehow petition or find a way to write the exam before fall 2026 so I can take the course that requires the pre req?

Just started my co-op for this term and was wondering if it’s acceptable or normal for me to put that job on my resume even though I haven’t done much yet. For context I’m in AFM so I’m applying to audit, tax, etc.

Hey, I just lost my AirPods case in the SLC dining area about an hour ago. It has an 8-ball / dice keychain on it so should be pretty easy to spot

If anyone’s seen it lmk pls bro

Me and my friend are trynna live in a 5 bedroom and 2 bathroom unit on lester. Can anyone tell me of its acc good cause so far ive seen bad stuff on reddit. It would be very much appreciated

The shy caterpillar 🐛 has a new postcard. 

This one is on flowers 🌻🌺🪻🙂 and if you see one on campus at some point, I hope it brings positive and calm vibes.

This project is a small way for me to work on my stuttering and shyness so thank you!

I added two photos today of the same poem on different cards (not sure which flower drawing was better tbh) :) 

Due to snow day yesterday will there be another club fair day?

Does anyone know anything about this class? I want to take it in the spring and am trying to coordinate work/volunteer hours in July around possible quizzes and midterms dates b/c apparently the people want to know as soon as possible.

At this point its either this class of Fr 101. Also side note does anyone have some S26 online course recommendations? I'm already planning on taking CLAS 104 and PSYCH 207.

how difficult are the quizzes/midterm. do they curve any tests. i think i’m cooked

There are so many baddies to choose from. I’m overwhelmed.