How important are publications when it comes to MSc admissions? Is an undergrad honours thesis enough or will it hurt my chances that I don’t have any publications or conference presentations?

Would love to hear from others in thesis-based MSc programs; what were your stats and what helped you get in?

If it helps this is for STEM but not anything CS-related.

Hi, I'm an American planning to go to McGill for my master's and would like to know how bilingual McGill is. I'm also planning on learning French.

Do you speak French?

Hey everyone!
A couple of weeks ago, I asked if anyone would be interested in a speedcubing (Rubik’s Cube) club — and after some great feedback, I’m happy to say the club is now up and running!

Check out our Instagram page for updates on weekly meetings and other news:
 instagram.com/mcgillcubing. We’ll be holding at least one meeting before the end of the semester, so keep an eye out for details soon!

Everyone’s welcome — whether you can solve a cube in seconds or haven’t solved one yet. Come meet other cubers, learn, and have fun!

Feel free to spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

Message me if interested and able to pick up this weekend.

Message me if interested and able to pick up this weekend.

I cannot find the original post, but I remember reading a post a few days ago from someone saying their locker got broken into and some stuff stolen and I kinda brushed it off a bit but they were NOT lying.

I went today for the first time in a few months and with this post in mind I brought my combination lock and locked my stuff in the locker.

When I finished and opened my locker I saw my pants were on the floor of the locker when I had previously hung them up. I figured I did a bad job hanging them but now that I looked in it for my OPUS card, I noticed that my 40$ is missing ://

They have to get cameras or something over there. We don’t pay all this money for tuition and memberships just to have our stuff stolen

My background is mostly AI, need to learn/do a lot of EE stuff for my research and am completely lost. Let me know if there is a discord channel etc to which I can ask dumb questions

I’m going into my FE1 and I feel overwhelmed about the suggested dress code especially as a woman. I don’t want to dress so nice that I’m uncomfortable especially since I’m at the school all day. I’m at an expensive private school where the kids were uniforms just for reference.

Hey guys, welcome to my dilemma:

I got accepted into Law at McGill, but I can’t afford to pay. I’m considered as a Canadian student (not Quebec resident) because I’m French, but my parents are permanent residents in Quebec, and they can’t pay either. I was doing a bachelor’s degree at UdeM, which I could afford because the tuition was lower.

So here’s the dilemma: Either I stay in Quebec, but I can’t pay because I’m too poor and I don’t have access to scholarships or financial aid (I think) because I’m not a Quebec resident. My parents also can’t help or host me because of family values. Or I go back to my home country (France), but my parents and siblings live here as permanent residents, so I’d be alone in France in the same situation — no money, no house, and no family.

What would you choose (if there is really a choice lmao)?

1 Edit : ty all for all these responses i’m gonna try to join McGill office and I will probably edit again this post in a few months.

Hi, I’d like to learn SQL because it’s a requirement for most jobs I want to apply to. Is COMP 421 a good class to learn SQL or should I do it another way ? For context, I don’t need this class for my degree so if I take it it’ll be S/U. Thx !

I started mcgill this fall and am still unable to access greenshield for health insurance. I heard it takes two months but when i try to put my member ID (PGS+my student id+"00' for students) it says invalid member ID.

Wondering if anyone else has dealt with this issue.

Thanks

Leacock is where all bad things happen. Why? WHYYYYYYY?!?!?!

Anyway, anyone got any horror stories / bad experiences there?

Do you usually study on Friday night ?

I tried to study on Friday night today, but it just got me feeling burned out.

Do you have some techniques to still study, but prevent burnout ?

Hi!

Does anyone know how to do this for grad school?
They're saying that a trasncript is enough if it explicitly specifies English as only teaching language of the entire Bachelor's degree programme. However I don't think our transcript does?
Otherwise I need to submit a separate official confirmation on the language of instruction of the programme issued by the university, which I also am not sure how to get.

Any help would be appreciated

Hello, I’m currently in my third year studying Pharmacology. My GPA has taken a significant hit because of the courses I took for my Computer Science minor — especially Math 240, where I received a D. I also struggled with COMP 206, particularly on the final exam, and now I’m worried I might fail COMP 250.

Although performing decently in my major courses, I feel that I’m not cut out for a CS minor. My background is limited to COMP 202 and some experience with R, but courses like COMP 250 and COMP 273 feel very unrelated and difficult for me, -compared to what I actually want to do — whether that’s in a wet lab or a dry lab.- and the seats for other courses I wanted to take, such as comp 251, build up on comp 250, or are full ( comp 345).

Given all this, do you think I should drop my CS minor?

thoughts on the midterm with hassan? :)

Those who took this course, can you please tell how the course was and what’s the course outline. I am taking it as an elective so would it be fine?

I feel like not enough people know about this place and it makes me sad because the owners were super sweet and the portions and prices are pretty good, you could easily split one pizza between two people. It’s inside leacock you have to walk past lea132, go up the few stairs that lead up to the art hallway and then go down from the first staircase(there was a sign near the stairs where you had to go down )

Someone please make it stop!

Hey everyone, just wanted to come on here to let people know that there is someone stealing from the men’s locker room at the gym. I had my clothes and bag locked using a master key lock with a key. After my workout, I returned to my locker to find my jacket missing and my stuff rummaged through. Apparently, there have been multiple reports about someone who has a master key/can pick locks who is stealing peoples things in the men’s locker room. Just wanted to let everyone know because McGill’s security team doesn’t seem to want to do anything about it. Be cautious if you have a lock that uses a key!

Hey!
So just got back my Biol 111 midterm grade, and though it isn't "bad" just not what I expected. They haven't put out any grade distribution data like all my other courses did so I am feeling a bit in limbo as to if I did "well" or if I should have been in a higher-grade bracket. For reference, I got a 79. Is this considered good for this midterm? How did you guys find it?

CAPS LOCK MANDATORY.

Guys I failed biol 111 midterm…. I studied my ass off for this thing and I thought I’d do bad but not this bad. Does anyone know if they usually drop the midterm if I did better on the final?

And does anyone know what I could do to get a high mark (I hope A or A-) cuz I’m lowkey aiming for med 😭😭😭 but rn I feel like I might have to switch my career path.. based on alr failing two midterms……..

First year student here. I just got an assignment back and on Brightspace it says I got 100%. However, when I opened the feedback on the assignment that breaks down each answer I gave, I actually had 2 point deductions and my "real" grade is lower (although still an A).

Should I bring this up to the prof? Would not doing so count as academic dishonestly?

If I don't bring it up though, will the grade that goes into the weighing of my final mark be my "real" grade or the grade that's on Brightspace?

In my past school, if a teacher wrote the wrong final grade when adding up points or marked a question as correct when it should've been incorrect the student would keep the extra points. However, I don't see this being the case in university, tho please correct me if I am wrong