Hello,

I applied for Master of Social Work (Degree Stream). It starts in spring and I don't know how much my tuition will be... lol

Based off this website, am I correct to assume it is $1,110.33 a term? And if so, how much does that mean total, including books?

https://calendar.ucalgary.ca/pages/8dcba8d997424a5994f8ff50034e8bbb

I'm receiving two scholarships for this academic year. One is the Jason Lang and I understand how that one works. However, the other scholarship is for 4 thousand and is split amongst the two academic terms. What I'm wondering is what happens to the 2 grand being paid for the fall term if I've already paid that tuition in full with my own money? Will it carry over to the winter term or will it be paid to me directly like the Jason Lang is?

Hello! I am applying for Werklund School of Education Bachelor of Education - Two-Year Consecutive Secondary Education - Fine Arts, and my second choice was for Fine Arts Elementary. My GPA from Emily Carr is 3.6. Do I have a shot at getting in?

I’m looking to get metal sheets (preferably cold-rolled steel, but I’m open to any affordable options).

I’ve tried purchasing them through the campus machine shop, but the available options require purchasing significantly more material than I need. Does anyone know of any scrap metal sheets or really small/cheap metal sheets near campus?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

The waitlist for this class has not moved at all since September and I am going to switch to Computer Science next fall so I need it. Any advice on how I can get in? Do a lot of people usually drop this class later? Is it available to do online for spring or summer from previous years usually? Thank you

Hey yall, I just got accepted into UofC, UofA, and UofL — all for computer science starting in September 2025. During these past few weeks I have gotten what you can say as “care packages” in the mail from UofA and UofL with a lanyard, stickers, etc etc. My question is, is UofC going to do the same or nah?

Hi, I'm finishing my second undergraduate degree - it's my first year currently. Should I apply with this GPA and strong ECs? First undergraduate degree 3.21 Second undergraduate (1st year) 3.8

Intro- I am an indian student living in the uae . currently in grade 12th. I want to migrate to canada for further studies,

Is this university well reputed for mechanical engg. How are the profs, students and career opportunities?

Hey everyone, I’m currently in grade 11 and I’m interested in applying to the Haskayne school of business. I’ve heard that uni is generally way harder than high school and that it’s super difficult which is making me nervous. To anyone in any faculty, what’s first year really like? What’s it like after? Any studying habits or tips/tricks that I should be aware of?

Thanks

Currently Im in highs school and im curious onto how scholarships work like what I have to do to get one or a good one, sorry if my question is basic or common sense. I just want to know how scholarships work and how I can get a good one for university of calgary

I will send all the videos that prepare you for the final instead of paying 120$ regularly I’ll just send you them for a way cheaper price send me a message if you are interested. As pre101 has saved me in math many times so far so its worth it!

Did anyone recently join the new physican assistant program at U of C?

Havent been to class in forever and know no one else in the class. Can anyone share if either prof shared what the final is going to be like(all written or mcqs etc) and if they will go over any past final. thank you

Hi all,

I'm an instructor here at UofC (not a prof, still finishing up my PhD at another uni). Checking out some of the other threads, where people get slammed for slight errors in citations, I thought I'd provide a helpful hint that will (a) provide consistent citations and (b) save you considerable time in the research and writing phases of a paper.

Get yourself a reference manager/citation library. I use an older version of Mendeley, but honestly, most of them do the same thing and any differences are mostly a matter of preference and style rather than function.

These are cloud-based services that allow you to save references to a library, which you are free to organize by keyword, subject matter, paper, method, etc. It includes space to include the authors, the DOI, journal, volume, issue, edition, whatever. Most of these come with web browser extensions that let you scrape most of this information anyways from a journal page, which speeds things up (I still recommend you take a quick look, as it's not perfect).

For things that aren't books or journal articles, I always recommend going to options under Tools, and adding in other identifiers for things like government reports, where institution or publisher is appropriate (IMO) for citing a government department or something.

Mendeley allows you to save PDFs to the a citation as well, and export any notes or highlights you make from within it. If you ever need to reformat a computer, or buy a new one, you can also just re-install Mendely and your library, complete with PDFs, will be there.

You can also, btw, make a team folder in many of these services for group projects. I've used it in Mendeley, and a similar one in Zotero when I worked on a team at Deloitte.

The best part? Most of these have Word plug-ins that let you cite as you go. You just click the plug-in, type some key words, click the journal article you need to cite, and it will drop it in there right away, whether as a footnote, author-date, or whatever style you need. You can also switch styles between all the common ones (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.). Once you get to the end of a paper, you can hit insert bibliography, or some equivalent, and it will auto-populate the citations in the correct format. You can even just do this right away, and the bibliography will update as you insert more citations throughout.

Now, that said, it's not perfect. For example, sometimes I cite a government report that doesn't have a named author, and it will populate the in-text citation with some overly long 16-word title+year. I might just shorten this to the Department name or acronym (e.g., IRCC 2023). The auto-populate function will still work at the end, even with the manual edit to the in-text citation or footnote.

Now, I do suggest you go through both your citations and bibliography to make sure there aren't any errors due to PEBCAK, which is something I've messed up before. That said, it should save you loads of time and stress.

This leads me to two larger points:

1. Specialization - you are given a broad set of skills and theory throughout undergrad. It doesn't hurt, early on, to begin narrowing your focus to a specific (yet flexible) subject matter area or methodological approach. I'm not talking PhD level specialization. Rather, if you like education policy, healthcare administration, a specific type of engineering, or particular area of physics, try to write about those areas more and more over time. You will become very familiar with the literature in doing so, and become someone who is more sought after in your chosen field.

This is where a citation manager helps. It's a pain in the butt, but save relevant literature there as much as possible, because guess what? You can go back to it for multiple papers. As instructors and classes expose you to more literature, keep adding and going back to your library, and over time you'll begin to notice familiar authors, techniques, and theories there.

2. Get better at literature reviews. Most people, including academics, kinda sorta suck at these. Perhaps a more charitable way of stating this, is that most people don't get out of them what they could insofar as advancing their own knowledge and other people's knowledge in a particular area.

Most people treat literature reviews as a necessary check box you have to do before you get to your main argument section. In doing so, they typically summarize just the findings of others. "X author found this, which supports my argument. Meanwhile, X et al. found that."

To improve your literature review, don't just focus on what the authors found, focus on how they found it. What approaches did they use? Tell your reader about those approaches, and the trade-offs the authors themselves cited.

Note topics where authors disagree with each other, and areas where there's general consensus. Are disagreements over findings, or methods used to get those findings? Take a side in the argument, and test it in your own arguments. Good science, whether natural science or in the social sciences, isn't just about finding new stuff, but improving the ways we find it, replicating each other's work, and tearing down (i.e., falsifying) bad work.

I would love to see more students outline these friction points in literature, discuss the methods used in their subject fields, and talk about "gaps" in the literature that aren't just areas of silence, but areas where someone hasn't resolved a major point of contention or improved on an approach. So, pick a side, crush your academic enemies, see their theories driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their praxis. A citation manager will help you with that.

Anyways, I hope this is helpful. My thoughts are with you all at a very stressful time of year.

Good luck and good night.

I know that calculus is different, but 211 should be the same right? However, in engineering we had one midterm, and I believe everyone else had two. Are they on the same day and cover the exact same content?

Hi All, I am moving to the University of Calgary as a PhD student, I'm receiving a stipend of around 35k. Is this enough to live for a couple. Does anyone have any recommendations for apartments? Which areas to look in? City or suburbs? How much is the cost of living? Really appreciate any help

Hi everyone!!

I’m a future first year student at UofC and me being the go getter I am, I am already trying to plan my classes. What is Spanish like and should I take it? I have a pretty minimal understanding of Spanish- I can understand a fine amount but I struggle with speaking and forming proper sentences when interacting with others. I have a passion to learn Spanish so that I can interact with the hispanic side of my family as well as learning the beauty of Spanish in general.

I’d appreciate any comments, concerns, or advice. Thanks!! :-)

Hey guys, any tips for how/ what to focus on for the bio 371 final? The midterm was all multiple choice but the prof said that the final will have written questions, so Im not too sure how to study for it probably

Thank you!

FWD: (not mine)

Dear all,

We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the DTU PES Summer School 2025, which will be held at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, May 18-23, 2025: https://energy-markets-school.dk

The focus of this Summer School will be on advanced optimization, data sharing, and AI for electricity market design and power system operation. This marks the 8th edition of our annual Summer School, which has been held every year since 2016 (with the exception of two years due to COVID-19). Over the course of this five-day event, participants from academia and industry will have the chance to engage in educational sessions, networking opportunities, poster presentations, social activities, and, of course, plenty of fun!

To get a sense of what to expect, please take a look at the activities and video recordings from our 2024 event: https://energy-markets-school.dk/previous-events/summer-school-2024/

Speakers for DTU PES Summer School 2025:

• Paul Joskow (MIT): Hybrid Electricity Markets to Support Variable Renewable Energy and Storage
• Richard O'Neil (formerly with FERC and ARPA-e): Evolution and Future Needs of U.S. ISO Markets
• Natalia Fabra (UC3M): Designing Electricity Markets
• Bissan Gaddar (Ivey Business School and DTU): Strong Conic Relaxations for Applications in Energy Systems
• Azarakhsh Malekian (University of Toronto): Mechanism Design for Optimal and Differentially Private Data Acquisition
• Jochen Cremer (TU Delft): Power System Reliability with Deep Learning

DTU Workshop (Lesia Mitridati, Licio Romao, Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, and Jalal Kazempour): Learning and Optimization for Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Energy Systems: What Techniques for What Applications?

As in previous years, RTE France will be sponsoring this event.

Application Process:

1. We are accepting 60 applicants for the 2025 Summer School. As demand is typically higher than available spots, we encourage interested applicants to submit their applications via our website by January 17, 2025.
2. Applications will be evaluated based on the relevance of the applicant's background and research/work interests to the themes of the Summer School, rather than CVs. For reference, the acceptance rate for the 2024 PES Summer School was approximately 50%. Successful applicants will be notified by January 31, 2025, and must complete their registration and payment by February 14, 2025. Details on prices are available on our website.

Scholarships and Financial Support:

In line with our commitment to fostering diversity in research, we are pleased to offer up to two Excellence Scholarships for students who may otherwise face financial barriers to participation. Additionally, as part of our commitment to sustainability and reducing carbon emissions in research, we are offering a Green Scholarship, encouraging participants to reduce the carbon footprint of their travel to Copenhagen. For more information on these scholarships, please visit our website.

We look forward to welcoming you in beautiful Copenhagen in May 2025!

Best regards,

The Organizing Team: Lesia Mitridati, Licio Romao, Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, and Jalal Kazempour

Hello everybody!

Just a reminder that the Sweet Success Event that your SU Faculty of Arts Representatives are hosting is happening on Wednesday at 10 a.m, in the Science B hallway near the MacHall tunnel! We are giving away free sweet treats to students, so be sure to come on by to get some (and to satisfy your sweet tooth)😝

Follow our insta @ suartsrep for updates and for future events!!

I have also attached the poster for the event as well as my attempt at the "chill guy meme". I thought it was funny 🙈🤭

https://preview.redd.it/0paqu3chdi4e1.png?width=1294&format=png&auto=webp&s=00e6318bca89c6d13141e55037ff565a0422bce5

https://reddit.com/link/1h57au8/video/h7s5q9uidi4e1/player

As the title suggests, i’m trying to go to the gym when I come back home to calgary during winter break. Is there a way I could go in the gym as a nonstudent?

Is there a way to pay for certain days or can i just sneak in or if I can use my id from my university instead 😭

I just need a place in calgary where I can go to the gym with little to no cost 🙏

Is the grades for lab 3 out already or it’s just me without a grade on it?

Hey y’all so I’m writing my final next week and I know it’s going to be multiple choice… anyone that’s taken the course before… what dies the exam actually entail? Like is it questions on the coursework and if so how do they ask the questions?

Edit: my prof is David Sigler

i've been doing some review but for people who ended up getting an A on the final in previous years how did you study?

What are the worst and best profs you've had? Curious about individual classes too

Hi! I'm a first-year eng looking for some advice from upper-years who have taken this class. I heard that Engg 200 is a teamwork-heavy class. I had been arranging my schedule bc I have to take some different classes and I wanted to keep (most if not all of) my classes after 9 am as I have not been enjoying the 8 am ones so far. But if I were to do that, I will be in a different block for engg 200.

Is it important to connect well with my teammates? Is it better to take this course without my friends perchance? How hard is it to make friends in new blocks, especially if its not September? How demanding is engg 200, would it worth it to take it on Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 am?

Thank you so much!!

hi, im taking arch 201 as an option next semester, but i'm also getting a reconstructive surgery done on my dominant hand in the coming few weeks, and so it'll be immobilized for a month & will need some physical therapy afterwards

my understanding is that this course has a mix of drawing and written assignments, but idk how good i'll be at drawing by hand for the first while, i'll probably still be okay with drawing w/ digital software though if thats what the course entails

is there anyone here who's taken this course in recent semesters that can detail a bit more on what exactly the coursework involves? thank u for the help 🐸

If you left your AirPods in ITC102 between 10am and 11am, your prof has them in their possession.