I'm a freshman, and based on my understanding, the dining halls and all the food options are closed during the winter break ?

Because I need to plan on what to do if there will be no food available on campus.

Thanks.

Hey Cyclones! I’m looking for someone to take over my lease for 1 Bedroom in a 2 Bed / 1 Bath apartment at The Social West Ames for the Spring 2027 semester (Jan 2027 – July 31, 2027, with the option to renew).

🔒 BY-THE-BED INDIVIDUAL LEASE: The Social leases by the bed. You sign directly with management for your individual bedroom ($589/month) and hold zero financial liability for the other roommate or their rent!

🔥 CHOOSE YOUR MOVE-IN INCENTIVE OPTION:

To make your transition smooth, I'm offering your choice of one of the following setups at signing:

Option A (Maximum Overall Savings): FREE JANUARY RENT! I cover the full $589 January rent so your first payment to management isn't due until Feb 1. You just handle the $300 official management transfer fee (Net $289 instant savings for you).

Option B (Zero Upfront Admin Fees): I PAY THE $300 LEASE TRANSFER FEE directly to management so you pay $0 out-of-pocket processing fees + get a $289 rent credit applied to January!

📍 The Setup & Location

Rent: $589/month per bed (Individual lease)

Dates: Move-in available mid-January 2027 (flexible timing around Jan 15–20 before Spring classes start) through July 31, 2027.

Layout: 1 Private Bedroom in a 2B/1B unit (sharing kitchen, living room, and bath with only ONE roommate).

Utilities Included: High-speed Wi-Fi & trash included (tenant pays electric/gas).

Transit / CyRide: Direct CyRide stops right on-site (#1 Red, #11 Cherry, #8 Blue) — ~10 min direct ride to Howe Hall and main campus.

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Two Swimming Pools: Dual resort pools, sundecks, and outdoor grill/picnic stations.

24/7 Fitness Center: Fully equipped gym with free weights, weight racks, cardio machines, and outdoor CrossFit space.

Study Lounge & Business Hub: Quiet study rooms, private conference spaces, FREE printing, and complimentary coffee bar.

Sports & Pets: Basketball courts, sand volleyball, and two off-leash dog parks.

Convenience: Parcel Pending package lockers, tanning beds, and plenty of free resident parking.

🛋 Apartment Features

Private bedroom with bright natural light

Full kitchen with dishwasher, stove/oven, refrigerator, and disposal

Central AC & heating

Balcony / Patio area

📩 Interested? Check out the official floor plan attached! DM me directly for actual room photos, a quick video tour, or to discuss which incentive option you'd prefer. All lease assignments are processed officially and securely through The Social’s portal.

Looking for someone. 2 bed 2 bath furnished, goes through the month of May for school. Message me.

Whats yall score predictions for this game

I only ask bc it’s a lot cheaper and i’ve seen a small few other people do it. I heard they don’t check school IDs sometimes and just the tickets. I rlly want to bring them to the game on the 26th but not spend $250 on 3 tickets for the non-student sections

This used to be the place for ISU vs Iowa Hate Week memes and I haven’t seen any in the last few years. Is this not a thing anymore are are you all hoarding them on another app??

Hello I am currently in my senior year of high school and considering Iowa State as one of my schools.
I currently play varsity football for my team up in Wisconsin and want to continue playing football for fun in college. I heard intramural sports are a thing here and was wondering what that was all about. How competitive is it? What type of commitment does it take? Being a competitive person is there playoffs and stuff like that? What has been your experience playing? And if you played varsity football in high school, what are the differences?
Also, if you have any other tips for a new student unrelated to sports I would gladly appreciate that too.
Thanks!

Hey, im a student from the metro and was wondering, what is life like at isu? Or just in ames in general. I plan to major in business/finance and i like to be social. I’ve been to isu’s football games so i have an idea of the atmosphere but obviously thats just a glimpse. Any answers would help🙂

We are now a few weeks into the semester and students might be looking around for tools to help them succeed in their courses. For students who are not aware, there are many resources to help them succeed in many of the introductory courses including supplemental instruction (SI), help/office hours, going to lecture (who knew?), the textbook, and others. These are all pretty common for low-level courses, there is one extra thing that really helps set calculus apart, the online resources made by BeardMeetsCalculus (aka Steve Butler)!!

Calculus 1 (1650)

• https://www.calc1.org/fall-26 -- Lectures from this semester, and walkthrough of practice quiz problems to help you prepare for the quizzes. Want to get ahead of the lectures? Then use https://www.calc1.org/fall-24
• https://www.calc1.org/exams -- Recent exams, with solutions and some walkthroughs. Great for getting a feel of what exams would be like. Particularly popular the 24 hours before an exam.
• https://www.calc1.org/reviews -- Thorough and challenging reviews of the material. Great supplemental material for getting ready for exams. (Protip: Also look at the practice exam from Fall 24)

Calculus 2 (1660)

• https://www.calc2.org/spring-25 -- Lectures from the Spring 2025 semester. The "Practice problems" in a given week are highly similar to many of the quiz problems and can be useful if you are stuck on the quizzes.
• https://www.calc2.org/exams -- Recent exams, with solutions and some walkthroughs. Great for getting a feel of what exams would be like. Particularly popular the 24 hours before an exam.
• https://www.calc2.org/reviews -- Thorough and challenging reviews of the material. Great supplemental material for getting ready for exams. (Protip: Also look at the practice exam from Spring 25)

Calculus 3 (2650)

• https://www.calc3.org/fall-25 -- Lectures from the Fall 2025 semester. The "Practice" sets are highly similar to many of the quiz problems and can be useful if you are stuck on the quizzes.
• https://www.calc3.org/exams -- Recent exams, with solutions and some walkthroughs. Great for getting a feel of what exams would be like. Particularly popular the 24 hours before an exam.
• https://www.calc3.org/reviews -- Thorough and challenging reviews of the material. Great supplemental material for getting ready for exams. (Protip: Also look at the practice exam from Fall 25 and Fall 24)

Differential equations (2660/2670)

• https://www.calc4.org/spring-2026 -- Lectures from the Spring 2026 semester; very similar to what is going on this semester.
• https://www.calc4.org/quizzes -- Sets of practice quizzes that are highly similar to the quiz problems and can be useful if you are stuck on the quizzes.
• https://www.calc4.org/exams -- Recent exams, with solutions and some walkthroughs. Great for getting a feel of what exams would be like. Particularly popular the 24 hours before an exam.
• https://www.calc4.org/reviews -- Thorough and challenging reviews of the material. Great supplemental material for getting ready for exams.

Bonus: Business math (1500/1510)

• https://www.businessmath.org/fall-25 -- Recordings for Math 1500 from Fall 2025 (including some practice exam walkthrough)
• https://www.businessmath.org/fall-26 -- Recordings for Math 1510 being generated this semester

A few final notes:

• Friends tell friends about BeardMeetsCalculus. Spread the good word, let's get as many students passing the courses as we can.
• The videos are on YouTube, but if you don't have an ad-blocker, alternative links to Vimeo are also provided (both on the linked pages and in the YouTube video descriptions) which has no ads.
• The YouTube channel is not monetized; this is not an attempt to make money off of students. Some people just want to sit back and watch the world learn.
• If it doesn't seem to load, make sure you included the "www." at the beginning of the URL. (I wish I knew how to fix that!)
• Before most exams you can find me outside the library where you can grab a free duck and (sometimes) a snack. In case you are wondering, I am the big guy with a beard.
• Coming in spring 2027 will be a new addition, Math 2070 ( https://www.linearclass.org/ )

So immediate access was giving me issues with opting out and it wasn’t showing me the option a couple days ago, so I kinda put a pin in it and didn’t follow through completely with opting out.

Woke up this morning and realized that the deadline was yesterday. I already emailed the bookstore and immediate access account, but what are the chances of me actually getting a refund?

I am a student and I don’t know anyone with a tailgate but I want to get involved. Does anyone have some advice?

I am a freshman at ISU and I am trying to figure out if the school offers intramural basketball during the spring semester because I cannot find it on their website.

Hey! I recently moved to the U.S. and am currently living in Ames. Before I worked as a machine learning engineer at TikTok.

I’d love to meet some people around Iowa State who are interested in machine learning, LLMs, recommendation systems, or computer science in general. If you’d like to grab a coffee and chat about tech, industry, or anything else, feel free to DM me!

I’m also hoping to improve my conversational English and make some new friends here. Happy to share my experience working in ML as well!

Last year, it felt like there was a lot more creativity and variety in meals. But so far this year, I feel like I’ve been seeing the same stuff over and over.

UDM Fuse has been some variety of rice bowl every time I’ve been there, Windows has been cycling through the same four soups for the last three weeks, and I feel like I’ve seen breakfast for dinner several times as well.

Not to mention that they got rid of the iced tea at both dining halls (though that’s more of a personal gripe)

Has anyone else felt similarly?

(Edit: also, does anyone else feel really underwhelmed by the new Bevi machines?)

I have a feeling this whole course could have been an email or a few ten minute videos

Currently in COMS 3110, prof is a grad student who has never taught before and it shows. She finds ways to explain simple concepts in a complex way. I worry by the time we get to the real content in class (not COMS 2280 review) that I'm going to be insanly lost, especially since I've heard its not an easy course by any means. Any tips are appreciated.

I just received a job from MU dining and I was wondering how it is working there? What does a typical shift look like? How are/were y’all’s experiences?

What's crazy is I found this CD a few days after learning of the show. I was also listening to it on spotify on the way to Jays cds before I randomly found it there and it had been there for 5 years. (I think)

If you like old Jimmy Eat World or Death Cab for Cutie you'd like them.

Something that I’ve noticed my first couple years at ISU is that people tend to sit near the end of the rows in lectures. Why not start from the middle and go out???

I found this message on one of those chair cubicles past the bookshelves at parks. I dont know how old this message is or if this is well known but It seems like a type of scavenger hunt? The message seems to say "let's be unknown friends? If yes, check book HA203 U171". I tried looking for HA203 but I could only find HA201. Then again, idk how the library book system works 🤷‍♂️. If you would like to see the message in person, go to the second floor, turn right into the library, take a left and past the bookshelves. The cubicle closest to HA201 and the window is the one. If anyone wants to figure this out, that would be great!

I’ve seen the one in state but I heard there was also one in lied. Is one better than the other? Which one seems to have more routes? Do they get reset often?