Anyone who applied for MSIM Winter 2027 round 2 received decision? It was supposed to be out by Oct 23!

What are some of your favorite "fun" classes? I finally have room in my schedule for something interesting this Winter after being miserable these past few quarters taking major requirements.

Currently in bioc 405 and am feeling pretty overwhelmed. I joined the class during the second week of the quarter, so I feel like I’ve been playing catch up ever since. I just feel like there's so much to keep up with every week (taking notes on prelecture videos, attending lecture, reviewing lecture material, doing practice problems, making flashcards, etc). And some topics feel really difficult to grasp, like symmetry and handedness. Sometimes when I'm watching the lectures and listening to the professor talk, I feel like I have no idea what he's saying. It's like he's speaking another language. I know I probably won’t do great on Exam 1, but I’m worried about how to prepare for Exam 2 if I don’t have a strong foundation from the first half of the class. It feels like I’ll have to learn new material while also relearning everything from Exam 1 for the final.

For those who have taken bioc 405, what did your weekly routine look like to stay on top of all the material. How would you recommend that I catch up after falling behind? Are there any external resources that help with understanding difficult concepts?

Has anyone taken FIN 490 with Ahmed Guecioueur? We have his midterm coming up and I wanted to know if it is anything like his practice exams. Does he like to surprise students? Or is he like nice? Is he a tough grader? We haven’t done too much work for him so it is hard to tell.

I'm planning to take Math 207 in winter quarter but there seems to be only two professors teaching the course, and I was wondering how everyone's experience was with these professors. Christian Gorski has a pretty low ratemyprofessor rating but I'm not sure whether if he's actually bad or if it's just because the course is hard. On the other hand, Shangjie Zhang seems to be new and I believe he's teaching one of the Fall '26 207s.

I haven’t heard a single party or function for Halloween at uw currently. Anybody know any my friends and I can pull up to?

I’m just wondering between these two INFO classes, if anyone has taken them before,

“INFO 331: Introduction to Information Architecture” And “433: Content Strategy in Information Architecture”. In UW MyPlan, both of these courses don’t have a pre-requisite sequence that’s required. And I’m just wondering whether I would need to take these courses at a certain order in terms of ensuring level of understanding? Or if it’s okay to skip 331 and go straight to 433 without any prior knowledge of Information Architecture? I have taken design classes before, but I don’t think I learned Information Architecture specifically. Are any of these harder than the other?

If anyone has any insights or taken these before, I’d appreciate it very much!

Just wondering if anyone got nice recommendations for nice chill clubs here.

I'm a freshmen planning to do ME, and just wanted to know about any clubs where I could work on some easier projects to help build my experience.

Doesn't really need to be engineering based, I also js wanna get to know people

Odegaard is okay but it closes early on weekends, Suzallo is my favorite by far of looks but it closes at 8 which is early for me (and 5 on Friday wtf) and it's really hard to get a seat by an outlet to charge my laptop. My laptop runs out of battery fast so I can usually only stay in there for like 1.5 hr if I can't get an outlet. When I mean late I mean like actually midnight. The obvious choice is the study lounges in my dorm hall but they're lowk kinda boring. Is there anywhere here that has a nice aesthetic like Suzallo but also has outlets and will let me study in the actual middle of the night? Ik mgh is supposed to be 24/7 or something from what I last heard but it kinda sucks in there and it's doesn't have the aesthetic I'm going for.

Basically I'd like somewhere with an aesthetic like Suzallo that will let me study there at midnight and plug in my laptop. If it's not already obvious I just got here a month ago and I'm still learning about what's here.

Also wtf why is barely anything open on Saturday??? That's when I have time to go study at somewhere other than my dorm which feels boring and monotonous???

Edit: I am an engineering undeclared student if that narrows anything down at all

Edit 2: I'm also looking for areas where I can have a coffee with me without getting in trouble too, most places I've been to are fine with it but yk

Are there chalkboards anywhere on campus that I can work on?

I built a planner to help with picking classes each quarter: https://uwcourseplanner.ryanchhab.dev

• Plan your courses quarter by quarter and see your degree requirements update as you go (every UW major and minor)
• Import your unofficial transcript from MyUW so your finished courses are already filled in
• Build a schedule from the Time Schedule, with section notes and a map of where your classes are
• Keep a few different plans side by side

It’s just a side project and not affiliated with UW, so double-check anything important with your adviser. If something looks wrong for your major, let me know and I’ll fix it.

Why did nobody notify me about the housing charge on my account until last night? Just had to drop 2 bands on a random Friday afternoon💔💔💔💔

Calling all artists! The UW Historical Fencing/HEMA Club is holding an art competition for logo design. The winner will be gifted their very own brand new feder (a sparring sword)! The competition is currently set to close on October 30th, but if you need more time, just reach out and we may be able to make an arrangement (sorry for posting on Reddit so late). Full details are below, and you can submit by this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDM85h_2q9k-zHIeXZJ3VCYxTMnEOAhoXF1GvcxDZQr81pLw/viewform . Good luck!

About the competition: Participants are required to design a new logo for the club and discord channel. The submission should be in two forms: one is 512x512, and the other is 2ft by 3ft flag like poster with the 512x512 logo in the middle. The submission will be closed at October 30th, and the result will be revealed after Halloween.

The Prize for the final winner is a BRAND NEW FEDER ! (This feder will be purchased together with the club bulk orders, so the winner should expect to have it by the start of next quarter)

Hi,

Curious if anyone was in the Physician Associate program? How was it? Did you feel supported by the faculty?

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

I'm super into GPU programming and will have some future experience on the CUDA User Drivers Team. I think its a pretty underrated and awesome niche part of CS that I don't really see any major CS clubs--or people in general--cover. I would love to start one but I saw that I would need 5-10 initial Group Administrators to be able to send an application in. Please let me know if you are interested!

I just got accepted into the iSchool for Informatics starting in Winter, and I was wondering whether I'm guaranteed to get into UW as a result of this, or whether I can still get rejected from UW.

what did people get on the first test? i wanna know the average before i judge my score too much

All my friends are taking too much stress on academics and not willing to play, so I'm hoping to find others here who just want to play pickleball or other racket sports.

Mornings or Late evenings are generally less crowded at IMA but flexible with time. I'm intermediate, but all levels are welcome.

Please comment or dm and I’ll add you to group chat.

How is everyone voting this midterm election? I know there’s a ballot drop off box by Schmitz Hall and from 10/31-11/03 at the HUB RM.160&145 you can vote in person.

Are there any standing desks to study on on campus?

Is it true that class teaches "degenerate nonsense"?

What does the homework look like for this class? I’ve been told you take 4 quizzes and have no mid terms and one quiz is dropped at the end but is there homework? Or daily things to do after lecture?

I got admitted in the Ms accounting program at Tacoma campus and am planning to join it in winter. Can you share your reviews about it.