So many posts in the past few years, and especially this year, are lowkey just talks about how isolated and unwelcomed and depressed people feel. It's really quite awful.

I think it's become overwhelming to the point basically every comment section underneath is ChatGPT tier summaries of mental health advice and, as someone who used to struggle a lot with it but has since felt better, I would say less than empathetic responses (which is often what the posts are really about anyway). But I can't really blame folks, like we don't know each other, and the sheer volume of these kinds of posts is getting to be overwhelming.

I don't dwell in other universities spaces often so I don't know how this compares but it seems uniquely bad? I will say as an out of stater I have noticed that folks here are pretty brazen about giving people the cold shoulder, with a pretty strong generational difference between open and friendly middle aged and older adults and often unfriendly university aged students. But again I could be totally off base- maybe it's worse at other universities.

I am so depressed here. For the last week, I have had tiny snacks in my room. I hardly leave. My roommate was gone for the weekend, and I didn't leave once. I am always exhausted and sad. It's lonely here; I miss everything about home. I don't feel like doing anything but sleeping. I had to leave and go to class today (obviously), and I feel so sick and tired. Just miserable.

Who's ready for a sweep tonight ????

I have a friend who went to the badger football game on Saturday. On her walk to the field she lost her late mothers sweat shirt. Once she noticed the immediately retraced her steps and could not find it. She noticed before they even made it to the game. So someone more than likely picked it up and kept it for them selves. Since this is her late mother's sweatshirt it has a lot of sentimental meaning, shes pretty upset she's lost it. They were on the lakeshore path when it was lost. It is a red quarter zip with a small "W" on the left side. If you left Saturday night with more sweatshirts you came with can you please check if any of them meet that description. No consequences of taking the sweatshirt. She just wants it back since it was her mom's.

Thank you!!

Getting only 9-hole options when looking at tee times.

Hello,

I am considering dropping a class in my major that isn't necessarily required for my degree, but doing so would make me a part-time student(9 credits). Other than the fact that I won't get money refunded, are there drawbacks that I am missing? I am in the college of engineering and will still graduate on time averaging 13 credits for the last 3 semesters of my degree if I drop this class.

Thanks for the help!

Has anyone taken any of these classes? Which one is easy, any info about it?

JOURN 350, JOURN 450, MARKETING 410

Hello! I am doing a project for class and I also a news reporter for a local station. I was looking to interview alumni or current students about their experierence in the Merit dorm since the Board of Regents just approved to tear it down. Any people who would want to be in this reach out on the subreddit. I am looking to interview people over the next couple days.

As title states, I have the option as a Sophomore to take either option in my Spring semester.

Can anyone who's taken these courses describe the workload of each option? I wanted to do Math 234, Physics 202, InterEgr 397, and I SY E 210 together, or I could alternatively do Math 234, EMA 303, 307, and 202 with InterEgr 397.

Any advice for the courses listed would be helpful!

I won’t be able to take it because I’m in prerequisite hell. :( name your price plz

thanks

How was the management and cleanliness? I have spoke on the phone with management and they were quick to respond.

The title. We should bring back the big state street Halloween party. After COVID it completely died out, and I know there were issues, but Mifflin is the same way. It’d be so fun and easy if everyone just agreed the way they do for Mifflin. Look up pictures, it was insane. I think we should all plan on doing it.

I have seen in the past that Chem 103 is a generously curved course, and students who get an 85 and up often earn an A. However, in my professor's (Zelewski) Canvas announcements for exams, she states that the exam and course are not curved. I have around a 78 right now because I just bombed the last test and was really hoping that the curve at the end would carry me through. Have they changed the course and will not be giving a curve this year or do they just say this every year?

Does anyone have an idea if UW Madison receives a lot of applications from students applying as first-year students for the spring semester? …and if many are admitted considering high numbers they admit in Fall and dorm space? They do allow for spring admissions but don’t publish those numbers and there isn’t much discussion from prospective students online.

I thrifted a REALLY NICE leather jacket at Ragstock for $39 and spent a week restoring it to PRISTINE condition. I left it in the basement of my dorm (Kronshage) to dry because my room was HOT and i didn't want it to PEEL and told everyone NOT to TOUCH it and to watch OUT and make sure no one STEALS IT. Everything was going well until the FIFTH day where i forgot to check on it in the morning and i came back in the afternoon (to my dismay) to find my precious child GONE. I would caress this jacket every morning as i left for class, and every morning when i wake up and see it GONE from my closet i feel a pain in my heart. I've looked in lost in found, I've talked to my RA, I've even called the POLICE and I'm starting to lose hope... the withdrawals are getting to me. If anyone can help me out/give me any advice PLEASE i miss my jacket please ☹️ (P.S. it was made in Korea 😖)

If you can identify it, I will make sure to get it back to you.

Let's make it a Wisconsin three-peat weekend !!!!!

Does anyone have an idea if UW Madison receives a lot of applications from students applying as first-year students for the spring semester? …and if many are admitted considering high numbers they admit in Fall and dorm space? They do allow for spring admissions but don’t publish those numbers and there isn’t much discussion from prospective students online.

I looked to try to make a financial aid appointment but there’s no appointments for the next four months?? Is this a glitch or something or is there actually not a single appointment? I swear I checked like two weeks ago and there were plenty of appointments so I’m confused. Thanks!

I’m a CS student currently in my second year. Recently my midterm scores…are not looking good. I go to most of my lectures and I study, but I feel like I’m behind on a lot of concepts because I zone out a lot or get distracted mid lecture. I’m also behind on like a million readings that I was supposed to get done BEFORE lectures. I remember my first year felt like a struggle too, and I thought it was a normal part of being a freshman? But apparently not. It’s possible I might have potentially undiagnosed ADHD or attention issues, but I don’t think I can get an evaluation anytime soon. What can I do besides going to office hours?

I’ve literally never previously experienced fomo in my life, I’m a decently introverted person and enjoy doing things by myself but I’ve recently been experiencing it constantly. I have a friend group I go out with most nights thurs-sunday but on nights I choose not to or if nothing in happening within that one friend group I start feeling so much dread about missing out and just feeling absolutely horrible. Even when I don’t want to go out I still feel terrible about it. I think there may be some underlying issues because I’ve lost all interest in the things I used to love within the past few weeks but I’m not sure. Also finding everything so ugly at the moment, the scenery, the buildings, the weather. It’s all just so ugly to me and I’m not sure what to do about it.

To the people who genuinely like it here that aren’t incredibly extroverted, how do you not get sucked into the whole feeling of needing to go out every single night? Also, non-going out related, what do you like about this school?

Lost my wallet last night hoping someone may have picked it up / found it??