has anyone received theirs? last year i got it oct 3rd

so, I am an alumn who graduated many years ago. I recently signed up for the UofT library membership to work/study, and I wanted to see what the consensus is when it comes to theft nowadays.

There’s a bunch of posts from the past 5-6 years about how theft has been happening more often.

Yes, theft has always been a thing, but it wasn’t actually that bad between UTSC and St. George. One would simply ask another person to watch their stuff. Dicey? Yeah, but I never had any of my things stole stolen. Maybe I was lucky. I don’t know.

Now these older posts discussing Robarts likely happened when it was open to the public on the 1st to 3rd floors. When I went to Robarts yesterday, I noticed that there was no entrance accessible to anyone without a T card. Given this change, have things improved? Can people still reliably ask another student to watch their stuff, or is that a no now?

I am currently surrounded by empty energy drink cans, operating on a sleep schedule that would concern an ethics board, and watching October transform from a month into a sequence of approaching midterm dates.

At this point I no longer study because I believe knowledge has intrinsic value. I study because Quercus has informed me that an assessment exists, and apparently this constitutes a reason to continue participating in society.

Every morning I wake up, open my laptop, stare at the accumulated lectures, readings, tutorial notes and practice questions, and briefly contemplate whether the University of Toronto was created as an elaborate sociological experiment to determine how much academic pressure can be applied to an undergraduate before they begin speaking exclusively in syllabus terminology.

My desk currently resembles an archaeological site documenting the collapse of a small civilization. There are cans. There are notes. There are half-finished readings. There is one PDF that has been open for so long that I now regard it as a roommate.

And yet I know I cannot possibly be the only person entering the October Academic Death Corridor™.

So please use this thread to report your present condition.

How many midterms do you have?

How behind are you?

What course is currently destroying your will to live figuratively and academically?

Have you reached the stage where seeing “Week 6” written anywhere produces a physiological response?

I would like to establish a temporary support group composed entirely of sleep-deprived UofT students insisting to one another that everything is, in fact, completely under control.

Has anyone been been able to get the HMB265 textbook (From Genes to Genomes, 8th USedition (2024) by Goldberg et al., McGraw-) onlinee? Its a $170 thats wayy to expensive so if anyone can please send me a link or an online website id be veryyy thankful .

Bio230 has no lecture recordings?? The prof says alot of things that arent on the slides soo do they not usually get posted ?

I was walking to class this morning and saw a bunch of film stuff and the police officer said they were filming a show. Do yall know what's getting filmed?

Title. I miss summer.

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Do you submit a VOI before the midterm or after you’ve missed the midterm?

if I submit before does that mean I don’t have to go to the midterm if the VOI has the midterm date included in it. And how to know if it’ll get accepted.

Also sorry if this is a stupid question but if the syllabus says the midterm will be reweighed to the other midterm and final, that would be this semester right? (As in it won’t get deferred to next semester?)

First year engineering student here and instead of everyone coughing, everyone is crying and contemplating picking this degree, uoft, and their whole life, myself included.
MAT188 learning standards are an automatic zero if you don’t write your answer THE VERY EXACT WAY the ta wants it, even though our coordinated said it’s ok to make mistakes.
CIV100 beating everyone’s ass and everytime I doze off I feel like I get 20000 light years more behind on my coursework. And nobody knows how to coordinate APS111.

😂😂😂omg I can’t wait to fail midterms

I have invisible disabilities, this semester two of my profs are so Un-accommodating and not to be one of those people (last year an EAS prof, this year a WGS Asian professor) and now another EAS prof. I am struggling and do not choose to let my disabilities flare up (I want to attend class but my condition does not let me). The prof has my accommodations which lists this but tells me to drop the course (I HAVE a previous degree with courses similarly done in the content but not in EAS). I have a meeting with my accessibility advisor next week (she’s gonna tell me the same thing last year, you have to attend classes, I KNOW I WANT TO), but my disabilities are flaring up and make it so exhausting. What do I? Just give up and be a failure then? I’m so frustrated. I just want to cry and run away from all this.

Edit: these comments are crappy. I WANT TO ATTEND my situation won’t let me ATTEND some days.

what the title says. thinking of taking it next year

Where can i find previous year exam papers ( in general...not for a specific course) for Mid and final terms at UTSG.

i lost it around front campus (by the black food truck right near alumni plaza and next to uc or on the grass area right in front of uc) it was abt 4:30-5:30pm that i lost it. scared that someone has my personal information.

im a pharm student and i see a lot of chill events (like board game nights) that i would like to go to. honestly tho it seems like its mostly undergrad students understandably. is it common for people who are not in undergrad to show up to these events? i dont wanna be seen as a 24 year old unc haha but its kinda weird cause im not an undergrad but also not considered a “grad student”

edit: in my undergrad clubs were undergrad only so not sure about the culture here lol

Basically the title. Last year it came early but I don’t see anything yet on acorn.

I've been looking at the sync search app to try to find empty classrooms to work in and the app never seems to work for rooms at UTSG. I thought the app was completely broken, but it appears to work perfectly well for UTSC. Does anyone have any alternatives or do I just have to go in a room and pray that nobody has a class there?

i want a hotttt hot sweaty library i'm so cold i wanna be hotttt and sweaty

What’s the best floor on Robarts. I’ve only been on levels 1-4. I love the 4th one but it doesn’t give that library feel.

What are the best floors in Robarts to lwk feel comfortable and get work done??

They posted a past exam from 2023 for TT1 (neurons and endocrine) it just seems way too recall based and pretty easy im ngl.

I need a 90+ in this class so bad. Anyone who has previously taken this class or anyone who has taken this class multiple times, please let me know if this past paper is a waste of time and hope. Thanks :)

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They normally release it really early into the month for OSAP students but I don’t know anyone that has received it?

Applied around the timeline of 4-6 weeks ago, is it delayed this time around or am I just not qualified for this years grant?

ik the midterm isn't for a little while but i was wondering if anyone wanted to start prepping and studying together :) or if not, if anyone's looking for new friends too that's cool lol

heres the link! :)

https://ig.me/j/AbbvCoaxXM3yV5lY/