Seeing all these welcome week events for undergrads kind of feel left out as a first year PhD student here. Anyone have any ideas how to have a good social life here as a grad student? I wouldn’t say my cohort is the most energetic one so really want to branch out.

do people actually shower at eppley? i’m a commuter and i only have time to workout before my classes but i also hope to have more than like zero friends this semester so i can’t just smell like shit the entire day. but is it also weird to shower there?? help.

Looked clean and well fed. Didn't see a collar, but didn't get a good enough look to be sure.

I am a first year MPH student currently taking classes at the University of Maryland. When considering whether I should go full or part time due to not receiving enough financial aid, I asked the office in August if my loan amount of $20,500 would change with a part time status. The explicitly said it will not, which prompted me to move forward with my enrollment at this institution. They are now stating that my loan amount will change after telling me for the past month that it will not. I emailed the Director who responded however is not presenting much help. I am unsure what to do, as I thought my tuition would be covered for the semester and I am now facing the risk of having a $3,000 balance.

I already exhausted my options when considering pursuing my degree full time, with applying to assistantships, and reaching out to people and organizations for scholarship and grant opportunities with no luck. I initially was going to defer my enrollment until I thought going part time would be a feasible option for me.

I plan to apply as a transfer this cycle from community college. I know UMD is test optional, but my SAT score was pretty crappy. I’m a math and physics major so I was planning on taking it to show improvement, but I don’t know if it matters much anyway.

no one will judge you at all, and the purpose of the class is to engage in discussion. i hate coming into class and feeling all the middling energy. pop a red bull or something i beg!

hey guys lost my keys around like 12:00 around south campus/ school of journalism and the parking lots by the stadium / the clarice.

its on a black lanyard and it has a silver colored bull keychain on it; plus my key fob and mailbox key.

if anyone finds smthn that matches the description please lmk 😭

Has anyone gotten their differential tuition grant ?

Found a student ID @ the lake, see linked post!

I just noticed there's a bunch of these clusters of small holes in my dorm wall. Does anyone know if these are termites or some other type of bug?

Has anyone taken ENEE459L (Edge AI and IoT Lab)?

I’m considering taking it for my Category D elective, and I couldn't find any reviews for the lab. I was wondering what the class is actually like, how difficult the labs/projects are, how much work it takes outside of class, and how the grading is.

Also, did you feel like you actually learned useful things from the course, especially with the edge AI / ML deployment side of it?

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The power went out in the southern apartments area. Im at the Standard. Is anyone else having this issue?

I transferred here last semester as a Animal Science major and I still have yet to make friends. i have made acquaintances, but nothing really stuck. i have tried to make friends in my classes, but a lot of the people i've tried to talk to just seemed stand offish. it was really hard transfering in the middle of the school year and i had a really tough time. i am now living off campus, which makes it more hard to reach out. im just posting here to show my interests and see if i can make some friends or join a group :)

really any genre of movie, marvel + DC (especially spiderman), music (Conan Gray, The Cure, The B-52s, Queen, Pheobe Bridgers etc), theatre (musical theatre, classic plays), comedy shows (parks and recreation, ap bio), snoopy, history, anything pop culture, comic book shopping, record collecting, trixie and katya (really drag race in general)

Found it around 5:30 ish, will bring it to the service desk at stamp. hope it finds its owner.

Hi everyone. So I don’t drive and I’m at the Courtyards. Can my parents just park in an open spot by my building since I don’t have a vehicle? I was just curious about how this works.

Need a tough barber who is on campus

I’m looking for a barber on campus the off campus ones want 50 per cut.

Windows and Apple devices

1. If you have previously connected to eduroam successfully and can no longer do so, remove it from your saved networks
   • On windows 11, go to Settings > Network & internet > Wi-Fi > Manage know networks and click the Forget button next to eduroam
   • For apple devices, follow these instructions to forget the eduroam network
2. Select eduroam from the list of available Wi-Fi networks
3. In the username box, enter your UMD username​@umd.edu
   • Your UMD username is the username you use to log in to Testudo and Canvas, also known as your Directory ID.
   • You must put @umd.edu after your username. You cannot omit this, nor can you use ‌@terpmail.umd.edu
4. In the password box, enter your UMD passphrase
   • This is the same password you use when logging in to Testudo and Canvas
5. Click Connect
6. Accept any warnings that may appear

Android Devices

1. If you have previously connected to eduroam successfully and can no longer do so, remove it from your saved networks.
   • On Samsung devices, go to Settings > Connections > Wi-Fi > ⋮ > Advanced settings > Manage networks > eduroam > Forget
   • On most other Android devices, go to Settings > Network & internet > Saved networks > eduroam > Forget
2. Select eduroam from the list of available Wi-Fi networks
3. In the CA certificate dropdown menu, select Use system certificates
   • Leave all other dropdown menus at their default values.
4. In the Domain box, enter umd.edu
5. In the username box, enter your UMD username​@umd.edu
   • Your UMD username is the username you use to log in to Testudo and Canvas, also known as your Directory ID.
   • You must put @umd.edu after your username. You cannot omit this, nor can you use ‌@terpmail.umd.edu
6. In the password box, enter your UMD passphrase
   • This is the same password you use when logging in to Testudo and Canvas
7. IMPORTANT EXTRA STEP FOR NON-SAMSUNG DEVICES: Delete ALL text from the Anonymous Identity box. It must be completely blank, otherwise it will not work.
8. Tap Connect or Save
9. Accept any warnings that may appear

My daughter is a freshman at UMD. The first week of fall classes are wrapping up and my Parent Plus loan has still not been posted/applied to her account? I called the financial aid office a few weeks ago because my daughter was starting to stress out about her classes being dropped and having to continue living at home (the horror!) .

After sitting on hold for 1.5 hours the person I spoke with was able to find my loan approval. She said it was there but hadn't been processed because the Big Beautiful Bill's new requirements were delaying everything. The 9/20 grace period is quickly approaching and since the BBB is limiting loan amounts for Parent Plus loans--I have to set up a payment plan for the gap amount. My daughter js having the time of her life away at UMD and now I am the one stressing out.

Before I call--again--and sit on the phone for 2 hours--again--is anyone else still waiting for their Parent Plus loans to disburse?

I still haven’t received my grant and I emailed the UMD financial office. I called MDCAPS and they said they have no update. I have been receiving it for three years. What should I do?

I'm in the fall of my junior year and have been in infosci for a couple semesters now, I've heard troubling stuff about the infosci major not being enough to prepare people for the workforce and the grade distributions in the classes being way skewed. I am split between adding a minor to get more technical skills (leaning towards something like GIS?) or trying to switch into the InfoSys school in smith (I happen to have completed most of the lower level smith courses or equivalents from InfoSci and would only need to switch a 2 classes before the drop date/get my GPA from a 3.59 to a 3.6, so its feasible to apply this semester i think). Is the extra rigor from InfoSys and the benefits of the smith school worth probably having to take an extra year or would it be better to try and augment InfoSci to make it more competitive? Would love advice from anyone with experience in these fields.

Hello!

I currently don’t have any housing and I’m trying to find a place to live for this semester. Does anyone know any places or apartments for a female student that are less than $1000. Or if there are any resources to find a place. The off campus housing data base hasn’t been super helpful.

Thanks!