General - talkSFU

Come out to Balding for Dollars tomorrow!

Desolate — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:09:42 +0000

10:30am - 4:30pm, Convo Mall

There'll be BBQ, a raffle, live entertainment from SFU Hip Hop, SFU Kung FU, SFU Chamber Orchestra, SFU Cheerleading and music from DJ EV.

We're trying to raise $10,000 for BC Children's Hospital to help support kids with cancer and blood disorders and their families.

I definitely think you all should come out. :tongue:

Question about PSYC 363.

Krooschev — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:12:20 +0000

The PSYC 363 Intergroup Relations class in the 2010 summer semester looks strange to me. It says that there is lecture from 8:30-11:30am on both Tuesdays and Thursdays, but it's not intersession and in fact the class goes all semester long.

That cannot be right can it? 6 hours of lecture a week for a 3 credit course doesn't seem right. Has anyone taken this course before and can they tell me if this is standard? Also if you have any information on Pui Lau the professor that would also be appreciated.

-thank you.

Biology/MBB vs. Business

Desolate — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:44:51 +0000

Eff as much as I thought I decided on doing business, I keep going back to being unsure which route I want to take. The debate I've had is whether to do a BBA or a BSc for months now. And now I just want to kind of make a decision and go for it. Ideally I'd like to go into pharmacy, but I know that may not be possible with how competitive it is to get in and whether or not I can maintain a high GPA while doing sciences.

I just wanted to know if people in either Biology, MBB, or Business had any advice. Why did you choose which one you did? Do you know what sort of job prospects there are for each field?

For science students, wow are the CHEM 121, 122, 126, 181, 182, 186 courses? I am doing CHEM 111 right now, and the labs bore the shit out of me, so hopefully they get more interesting and such as you go on taking more classes. Is it best to take the PHYS 101/102 path for either BISC or MBB? Is Math 154 around the same difficulty as MATH 151, or closer to MATH 157?

Right now my schedule for the summer is BUEC 232, MATH 157, ECON 105 and KIN 110 DE. But I was considering doing a split group of classes, with PHYS 100 and BISC 101 on the science side, and BUS 272 and one other course that fits my schedule on the Biology side. I honestly don't care if I lose my scholarship or not doing either, because I want to do what is going to make me happy, not what will get me the best grades (I'm looking at you FASS courses). Of course I'll try my best to maintain it, but I am not scared of the possibility of losing it.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for yet more indecisive shenanigans on my part.

Finally, a useful SFU website

soggybread — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:23:04 +0000

http://www.sfunow.info/

Looks better than the Road Conditions and Reports page :http://www.sfu.ca/security/sfuroadconditions/

physics 101

pinkcoke — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:12:14 +0000

physics 101
is Xiaoke Chen a good prof? how is the course...i took 100 and i got a B- so is this course even harder?

sorry about asking all these questions...its just i need to make sure i get my gpa up...and i dont really wanna take iat 100 since i dont like group projects...

Why can't we choose to join "I have a plan" or not?

echicken — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:11:29 +0000

It would be very nice if we don't have to pay the MSP and join the "i have a plan" thing. But now it becomes compulsory, which means that we have to pay extra for an useless thing (if you are rarely sick, or you don't play the MSP at all)

Sigh

SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS - March 19, 2010

SFU News — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:36:07 +0000

Published Fri, 19 Mar 10 07:00:00 UT

Click here to view the article...

best course?

pinkcoke — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:13:11 +0000

which two courses are best from this list:

kin142,iat100,phsyics 101, ling110, pscy 100

The Good Obscure Music Thread

Morro — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:23:33 +0000

I've been getting into some oldies lately, and there's some good shit out there. Once you get past the crappy sitar-stoner-"ohmygodIhavetowriteasongabouthisacidtripIjusthad" sixties songs. Stupid hippies. Damn, do I hate hippies.

Anyway, I figured I'd make a thread for people to post music they like, that nobody knows about. This can be old music that our generation hasn't been told about, music from bands nobody knows, or unknown tracks from well-known bands.

Some I can think of:
Cunning Lynguists - War
The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend
The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
The Hold Steady - How a Ressurection Really Feels
The Hold Steady - The Cattle and the Creeping Things
The Hold Steady - Banging Camp
The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
The Smiths - I Am the Sun, I Am the Air
Jurassic 5 - Work it Out
Aesop Rock - Daylight
Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
Blue Oyster Cult - Ballroom Blitz
Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy
The Bastard Fairies - We're All Going to Hell
The Bastard Fairies - Habitual Inmate
Danzig - Mother
Frank Zappa - Bobby Brown
The Ides of March - Vehicle <--AWESOME kareoke song
Jack Johnson - Traffic in the Sky
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Live On
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - In 2 Deep
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Was
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Wild Love
Muse - Apocalypse Please
Monster Magnet - Kick Out the Jams
Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang
Queen - Princes of the Universe
The Refreshments - Mexico
The Refreshments - Banditos
The Refreshments - Down Together
The Peacemakers - Jack vs Jose
The Peacemakers - Buffalo
Cake - Let Me Go
Big Wreck - The Oaf
The Tragically Hip - Cordelia
Belle and Sebastian - I Don't Love Anyone
The Decemberists - July, July!
The Trews - Cry
Zero 7 - In the Waiting Line
Wilson Pickett - Land Of 1000 Dances

Some of those might be well known in general, but I'm always surprised at the people who've never heard of the Deceberists. :o

easy courses offical thread/sfu fucked up my course choices >.

pinkcoke — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:55:38 +0000

okay im soo pissed cause i was gonna take hsci 160 and now i find out they took it and replaced it with 120...wtf is up with that...now i dont even know what to take....considering im coming back from RTW...i need easy courses...which can boost my gpa...now its totally fucked up.....so any suggestion for guaranteed A/B courses?

thanks

lets make this our offical easy course/gpa booster thread!

i guess i'll recommend hsci 120, 130 (which i already took) those course are easy

Psyc100!!

pinkcoke — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:42:57 +0000

hi there, tell me ur experiences about that class also is Arthur Alder/A. George Alder a easy prof? please share ur experiences...about md, finals, assignements, etc thanks

Lets Election

FlatTax — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:32:21 +0000

Question 1: Fee for Sustainable SFU

Are you in favour of a new fee of $2 per full time student per semester and $1 per part time student per semester to be levied for the benefit of sustainability-related initiatives on campus through Sustainable SFU? (Sustainable SFU past projects include a Sustainability Festival, the SFU Local Food project, and the Sustainable Advisory Committee.) (Yes / No)

Question 2: Exception to Terms of Space Expansion Fund

Whereas the SFSS has a mandate to provide services and support for its members;
Whereas the new SFU Woodward’s campus has no student controlled space;
Whereas the SFSS has an opportunity to acquire student space in W2 at Woodward’s;
Whereas the SFSS space expansion fund is limited to use for SFU-owned property;
Do you support an exception to the terms of the Space Expansion Fund to allow the acquisition and maintenance of Student Society space in the W2 Community Media Arts Society space at the Woodwards development in Vancouver? (Yes / No)

By-Law Change 1: Polling Hours

Whereas By-Law 14.18(b) states that “Polling for all positions shall occur between the hours of 9:30am and 7:30pm”, the introduction of online voting makes it unnecessary to impose such time limits. It is likely that an increased number of voting hours will lead to a higher voter turnout since students can vote on their own time at any place with internet access.
Do you agree to amend by-law 14.18(b) to read “Polling for all positions shall occur at least between the hours of 9:30am and 7:30pm”? (Yes / No)

By-Law Change 2: Ombuds office

Whereas this bylaw is now redundant because the SFSS jointly funds the university Ombuds office with the GSS and SFU;
Do you support the removal of By-Law 19 "Ombuds Office”? (Yes / No)

Getting divorced

Thanatos — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:22:56 +0000

Has anyone here been?
I seriously doubt it. I'm a 2nd year undergrad and about to get divorced. It's a month before finals. I don't even know how I'm going to face going back to lectures or labs or studying or doing anything. I feel totally devastated.

This guy is EPIC!

vonnie — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:09:45 +0000

[youtube]32vpgNiAH60[/youtube]

Health sciences -- Cari Miller

xxk1nky — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:46:37 +0000

Hey, is anyone in the Health Science program? I'm contemplating taking this course with Cari Miller but I can't find her on RMP or anything. Any experiences? Let me know!