As a 1st year living off campus, no one tells me anything about welcome week events
09-05-2013 at 06:06 PM
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As a 1st year living off campus, no one tells me anything about welcome week events
I just learned that there was Eng Fest today, which I obviously missed. Writing "second week of September" on handouts doesn't help jack.
Oh and most of the engineers just went off to Gulliver's Lake for "the best night all week." "Check online for details and bus pick-up locations," where was this information posted and where were the details?
Why is all the information so fragmented and incomplete? Should I get a refund for the MSU part of the supplementary fee?
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09-05-2013 at 06:16 PM
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First, there's no refund for the welcome week fee, whether you attend events or not. It's a mandatory fee.
Second, welcome to university. It's your responsibility to find things out on your own, whether or not you live in residence. There was a mail-out to all engineering students, and it's available online - I did a quick google search "engineers welcome week 2013 mcmaster" and found the schedule of events here. More information could also have been found by asking any redsuit on campus - those people are literally everywhere!
You living off-campus shouldn't have any effect on this, since the residence-oriented events are totally separate from faculty-oriented events.
Edit: googling "mcmaster gulliver lake 2013" gives me this, which is from the same website as the link I posted earlier. I believe it's the information you were looking for. |
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09-05-2013 at 06:19 PM
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No, what you should of done is listen to the leaders(?)/really loud noisy guys in red jumpsuits with more attention instead of texting the countless girls who have had their cherries popped by you. No one is spoon-feeding you anymore.
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09-05-2013 at 06:41 PM
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Should I get a refund for the MSU part of the supplementary fee?
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TL;DR of all responses you're going to get in this thread: You're a big boy now, learn to Google and figure things out for yourself, or ASK if you're unsure.
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09-05-2013 at 06:57 PM
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Right, I could edit the title so that it sounds less whiney, but I'm not going to do that. Either way, it does not change the fact that information is incomplete.
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No, what you should of done is listen to the leaders(?)/really loud noisy guys in red jumpsuits with more attention instead of texting the countless girls who have had their cherries popped by you. No one is spoon-feeding you anymore.
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I do not expect "spoon feeding". You, your ignorance, disrespectful attitude, arrogance, and cliches can all gtfo.
No one should have to ask anyone for basic information such as a meeting time or location. First years were greatly misinformed, for instance redsuits told most eng's to not attend labs/tutorials which contradicts Dr Fleisig. He explicitly said that the redsuits were wrong on that matter.
McMaster and MSU need to get their stuff organized better; they are worse than MUGSI. |
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09-05-2013 at 07:03 PM
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McMaster and MSU need to get their stuff organized better; they are worse than MUGSI.
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I completely agree with you. I mean, what the heck? The stupid fake math test has more notice than the events for Welcome Week.
Unfortunately, McMaster loves to bend you over and whisper sweet nothing in your ears, so there is no refund available. Get use to being abuse this way. I was completely outrage when I found out that the motion was passed to make it a mandatory fees. Pretty sure the voting was rig. Same thing with the way Marching Band was able to force a mandatory fees off our tuition.
You are getting a lot of flakes because these people have been completely brainwashed by the system. Eventually once you are abused enough, you end up loving your abuser. I'm on the other hand, is keeping it real. |
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09-05-2013 at 07:05 PM
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Right, I could edit the title so that it sounds less whiney, but I'm not going to do that. Either way, it does not change the fact that information is incomplete.
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No one should have to ask anyone for basic information such as a meeting time or location.
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I would describe your complaints as astonishingly entitled rather than whiny. Seriously, you're 17/18/19 years old. Is this really that much effort?
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09-05-2013 at 07:21 PM
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It was posted on MI and I am pretty sure if you asked a lot of people would tell you. Short of that, there isn't a whole lot of ways to get the word out. Did you get an email?
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09-05-2013 at 07:26 PM
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Disregarding the hatred posts,
Living off campus and on campus at least for the FACULTY events should have made no difference. If you went out and followed the schedules (which were also posted on MI) and you stuck along with your faculty you should have known because they always encourage/repeat the info. You could also have went up to any redsuit and asked when the next event was. You could have also asked any other first years in the same boat or if they knew they woulda shared
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09-05-2013 at 08:34 PM
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I did not receive any email with a detailed welcome week schedule. The only thing I received regarding welcoming week was in the mail, one heavy-paper page with graphics and a little paragraph summarizing the events at the very bottom.
The thing is that the welcome week leaders are probably spreading the information via word of mouth in the residences, or at least it seems that way to me. Unless there is a very detailed schedule somewhere with time location and date available somewhere that I don't know about, but everyone else does?
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09-05-2013 at 08:44 PM
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What's that? AvacadoLover disagrees with everyone again? Surely you jest!
@AvacadoLover:
Are you allowed to have avatar saying you are a moderator?
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09-05-2013 at 09:14 PM
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McMaster and MSU need to get their stuff organized better; they are worse than MUGSI.
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B*tch please, NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING is worse than MUGSI and SOLAR. |
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09-05-2013 at 09:24 PM
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No one should have to ask anyone for basic information such as a meeting time or location. First years were greatly misinformed, for instance redsuits told most eng's to not attend labs/tutorials which contradicts Dr Fleisig. He explicitly said that the redsuits were wrong on that matter..
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You sure you didn't mishear? Pretty sure labs/tutorials don't happen the first two weeks of school, unless mentioned otherwise.
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