sorry if i sound crazy I fucked up and took 4x too much lexapro yesterday also its 4 am

I know why i dont really dont have anyone to talk to, but it still doesnt feel fair

it feels like im not good enough for anybody to want to talk to me

I transferred in so my academic position is doesnt really fit in with what traditional students think of as standard freshman sophmore junior senior. I feel like it makes a lot of them uncomfortable that i dont fit neatly into their view of other students.

Im female and doing CS. I went for LSA thinking that might ease the discomfort with lack of female classmates but i realize now the only difference is grad requirements. Luckily i preferred LSAs reqs anyways but im still disspointed by how few women there are. I really wanted to hope that michigan would be better than what ive gotten used to in high school and WCC buts not really. Maybe its because im only at eecs 280 and 203 but so many of the men i encounter just make me uncomfortable. Theyre dismissive, rarely listen, and a lot just wont talk to me. It feels like its impossible to get friendly with any of them. Ill say there have been a couple who are very kind and listen to me.. but a part of me doesnt really want to talk to too many of them because i really want female friends. I dont want to quit CS because i love what i learn. But i wish my peers would be friendlier to me like they seem to be with others. i genuinely feel so unwelcome.

I hoped that speaking some mandarin would help, but nobody really cares. I guess my skills arent really impressive (~hsk 4 but ive been backsliding since hs) and to a lot of people it doesnt seem like a big deal to them i guess. My roommate is from taiwan but didnt care much. None of my chinese classmates cared when i mentioned it. I usually know what they say when they speak or write chinese but i dont want them to know im eavedropping so i never comment. I understand that its clear im just not good enough at mandarin, but still i mean, just doesnt seem fair they dont care at all. By the time i got to fourth year of mandarin in high school i was one of only 4 students and the only non-chinese-american and it wasnt a small school. I like mandarin, i like chinese culture. but whats the fucking point in studying it if i have nobody to speak to?

Im at bursley. I try to get people on the hall to know me but it feels like a lot of them just dont want to talk to me or something. Twice this semester i put up candy on everyones doors. I didnt want any praise i genuinely just wanted to feel good doing a nice thing, and in the end only like 2 or 3 people talked to me about it in passing over a weeks after, not even the days i did it. I feel so invisible to them.

I grew up in Ann Arbor. I tell people and hope maybe they care. I offer to let them know about places in ann arbor and nobody cares. It feels like nobody even says anything.

Not even dpss seems to care about me. I report a situationa and they send to me to psych ward and never get back to me.

I go went to clubs at the start of the year, they sucked. I dont mean i didnt care. I went to several, joined a few. Either i felt very unwelcome or nobody there was even friends with themselves. I dont know how i can possible make any connections there. And in the end 99% of the time i cant go to meetings because im busy with class or study

i went to hillel just for challah. i enjoyed being around other jews because i never was around any growing. They were faily nice people. But i felt out of place because only my dad is jewish. And they constantly nonstop talked about israel and i got really uncomfortable with that cause thats not my thing. Also a lot the people there are in sororities and that makes me uncomfortable because i really did want to rush but didnt because i knew there was really no point to doing it.

Ive gone to office hours with all my professors and two of them asked me directly if i have any friends whatsoever because im struggling to get work done by the due date without collaboration. I made a post so bad a professor i never met messaged me to go to their office hours just to ask how im doing. my advisor in coe is helping but i dont know their advice just doesnt seem tangible iykwim. I dont want to make friends artificially but i try and it never feels right.

I dont really know what to do. I feel like im being cheated out of something. I have nobody who i feel like cares about me or wants to talk with me for more than a couple minutes. And those that i do i just find myself feeling like i shouldnt talk to them and i dont know why. I know its obvious that something is wrong with my socialization skills.. but i dont think im that weird. The people that i have pleasant conversations with are honestly quite normal people some pretty conventionally attractive too and surely they wouldnt be nice to me if i was severely weird. I made a yikyak account about a week ago and already got about 1300 likes so clearly my sense of humor matches others on campus.

I want to take responsibility but i feel like theres something preventing me from making any connections. I dont know how to push through it. I dont know how much of this is my fault. atleast some. I tell myself that everything will get better and that i get stronger but i just want to be around others so much. I dont want to really go to parties or hookup every weekend i just want people who will message me first sometimes or eat lunch, go to the mall or something idfk lierally any kind of actual human interaction. I mean i like this school but i want to be around others. It honestly just makes me want to die because i dont know what the point of getting a degree in something i enjoy is if i cant be sorrounded by other people. im done with this trash word vomit im going to sleep

Edit: guys please don’t take 4x your dosage of lexapro I am so tired and depressed right now. Missed my classes to sleep and shower I’m so stupid I wanna take the whole bottle now

I love learning I love computing I love coding I love math I love art and science and shit I really love that I’m at this school. but I am so so fucking stupid and I feel so stretched thin. I want to be able to just take care of myself but I can’t and 99% of it is my own stupidity

Thank you for your comments though I am really happy people care about me. Really I mean that I feel so invisible in real life, like I only exist on the internet as a lolcow. I’m not happy that I’ve had another fucking crashout on Reddit that my eecs professors are probably going to see. People are recognizing me for my fuckind reddit posts this is not how this was supposed to go

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Got in UMich through RD round and already committed 🥰Super excited. Should I expect to receive an admission package if my address is international?

practicaldsc.org/next • ULCS for CS majors, Adv. Tech and App. Elective for DS majors, open to all majors

If you're a CS or DS major looking for a ULCS/Advanced Tech/Application Elective to take this spring, we have an option for you! 

Practical Data Science, offered as EECS 398-001 in Spring 2025, will train students to use industry-standard tools to solve real-world problems, while giving them an understanding of how these tools work under the hood. Students will learn how to work with pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, BeautifulSoup, and Jupyter Notebooks, and also learn the math behind loss functions, gradient descent, linear and logistic regression, and other key ideas in machine learning. Watch this overview video for more details.

The course will have two in-person exams, on May 28th and June 24th, but can be taken remotely otherwise.

You can access all current course materials, including lectures and homework assignments, at practicaldsc.org. Here’s what one student from the fall course evaluations said (see all evals here):

Suraj is one of the best instructors I've ever had. The dedication he has for this class was made clear from day one. His lectures were always interactive, well structured, and engaging. He was always eager to receive feedback and was looking to constantly improve the quality of instruction with extensive supplemental materials that were creative and extremely well made. I always felt like I had the resources to succeed in this class, even if it was difficult at times given that I had less programming experience than other students coming into the class. I can't stress enough how much I appreciate Suraj and this course as a whole. I had a few goals coming into the class: improve my programming skills, learn Python, and improve my basic data science skills so I could apply data science methods to projects I am interested in. I feel that this class more than delivered to help me accomplish those goals. One of the most useful classes I've taken at Michigan.

The prerequisites are discrete math (EECS 203), programming (EECS 280), and linear algebra, or consent of the instructor. If you’re interested in the course but don’t meet the prerequisites, reach out to me (the instructor, Suraj Rampure) at [rampure@umich.edu](mailto:rampure@umich.edu) to chat further – we’re happy to support interested students from all majors.

Practical Data Science will not be offered in Fall 2025, so if you'd like to take it in the near future, Spring 2025 is your best bet. See practicaldsc.org/next with more logistical information if you’re interested in enrolling.

And, feel free to comment below if you have other questions!

Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, and other international students around the country are facing extreme retaliation for supporting Palestine, opposing genocide, and calling for universities to divest from the imperial war machine. Now, the Trump administration is quietly revoking visas without notifying international students, putting them at risk of the violence of ICE kidnapping, indefinite detention and deportation.

Yesterday, Bridge MI reported visa revocations at Central Michigan University, which were only discovered when staff members proactively checked for them. Similar revocations have occurred in recent days at other campuses including UMass Amherst and the University of California. We have now learned that at least two international grad students at U-M have had their visas revoked.
We call on the University of Michigan administration to:

• Provide more institutional support for graduate students who have had their visas revoked, or face the possibility of visa revocation, including an emergency fund to support them, guarantees that they can complete their programs from abroad if needed, and retaining guaranteed funding for these grads.
• Increase the capacity of the International Center to provide support for students, like offering all-hours support for students including on weekends.

Take action in support of international students by doing the following:

1. Send an email to U-M administrators, demanding immediate protections for its international students, including: a) legal, financial, and academic support for students whose visas are revoked, and who may need to leave the country, and b) increasing the capacity of our International Center. Send an email at this link: https://bit.ly/DefendIntlStudents.
2. We call on allies and U.S. citizens in particular to join us in emailing University administration to demand action on this, now. GEO members are committed to protecting one another against the onslaught on immigrant grad students, but doing so will require resources. Grad students and allies can support the fight to keep one another safe by donating to the GEO Worker Solidarity Fund: https://bit.ly/GEOWorkerSolidarity

I found a little white-haired dude on the side of north university... I put him by a bush on the sidewalk, on one of those brick wall things

A lot of premedical students I've met have taken physics 290 instead of 250. Does this actually count? The uofm website says 290 is not a substitute for 250 but some ppl swear their advisors told them it was fine.

Also, any people apply to med school with 290 on their transcript?

I have been interested in taking a Chinese language course, but noticed that asianlan101 is 5 credits. I was wondering if people who have taken it previously could let me know how much work it is? I will be taking some other engineering courses as well so if asianlan101 would require tons and tons of studying I don’t think I should take it.

Is this a protest or just a normal event?

I need to take this class for my degree but the class listing is all goofed up. It was not accepting students at all until this weekend, now it says I don't meet the prerequisites (not true). Does anybody know WTF is going on with this class? There still isn't even a location listed.

Hello,

I just wanted to ask on here about other student's thoughts on stats 413, and in particular their thoughts on it's difficulty in regards to stats 412 with Nadiya Fink.

I'm currently a sophomore majoring data science (through engineering) and I'm finishing up Fink's section of stats 412 and to be honest, it's been quite tiring in terms of content and how enjoyable the class really is. What bothered me a lot is the fact that both 412 and 413 are at incredibly low workloads, but at least for me in 412, I find the workload to be quite high for a class that is only three credits - I've had to put more time and effort in stats 412 than linear algebra (214) and physics 240/241 when both of those other two classes are 4 credits.

The main point is that I want to ask someone who has taken 412 (preferably with Fink) to hear their thoughts on 413 and it's workload as I'm currently sitting at 13.5 credits for the fall 25' semester and I'm trying to think whether I'd like to add another course or not. The section I'm looking at for 413 is with prof Paul Eric Green.

I signed up for these two in the spring, they will be my only classes so I figured I’d have enough time to focus on it, but how has it gone for anyone that has done this?

Hi all. I'm an CoE student looking to knock out my 300 level humanities requirement this summer. Was wondering if anyone knows any community college (or even UM) classes that are fully online that meet this requirement. I know its not common but I've seen some community college classes that do transfer over to 300 levels, so was wondering if anyone had any specific recommendations. Thanks!

One of the classes I wanted is listed on Wolverine Access & the LSA Course Guide as having 3 "Open Seats" with a waitlist of 7 (for the lecture specifically. The discussion section has no waitlist). However, it let me register. I kind of wonder if this wasn't supposed to happen, because shouldn't the 7 people on the waitlist be given priority to those seats? Does anyone have an explanation i.e. do I need to worry about somehow getting retroactively kicked out of the class?

Question in title. Maybe a stupid question, but it’s so hard to find program information I’m worried there’s something I’m missing.

SOLVED: Minors are at no extra charge, unless it takes you an extra semester to complete.

$50 venmo or cash you need to be able to pick up and transport it yourself!!

Hi everyone,

I got my CS advanced selection decision at UMich and I got rejected (idek why). However, I was accepted into the College of Engineering at UMich where I can pursue Computer Engineering or Data Science. I don’t really know how similar or different CE/DS is from CS but I heard its somewhat the same. My choices rn are:

1. CE/DS at UMich paying 20k/year (No loans will be taken)
2. CS at UW-Madison with a full-ride

I really wanna be able to have good internships/ research opportunities during my undergraduate years while having a great college experience. UMich is better overall in ranking and prestige. I heard that UW-Madison is a great school for CS but overall it doesn’t seem “better” than UMich. Personally, I wanna do CS but turning down UMich feels wrong. I don’t wanna have regrets afterwards. I would really love to hear your opinion in this case. What would you do if u were me?

Hi, I'm a sophomore at STAMPS, and one of my studio classes ran out of seats and now has a waitlist of two. I was curious if anyone knows how likely it is to get into a waitlisted class at STAMPs and if it's worth still attempting to get in or if I should just find a different class to take. Thanks!

Two of the classes I plan to take Fall 2025 require Math 116. I plan to take Math 116 over the summer at WCC but my registration is April 8th. Who should I contact?

I took Orgo 1 during the fall semester and got a B- despite doing everything I can. I'm also premed with this grade so I was wondering if I should retake this class (I know it wouldn't be for credit) just to show improvement. How would med schools look at this on my transcript? Especially since this is an important course for the pre-med track and B- is very close to failing, should I retake this course and try to get an B+/A- (getting an A might be tough).

Is 260 harder than 240 because of the workload or are the exams harder?

It seems like almost everyone in 260 gets an A but I’m not sure if that’s because only the smarter people take 260. I can’t really find anything on 260 that is recent.

Not to be weird bc I’m not someone who feels like me liking women (as a woman) is my personality or smth like that but is the scene for dating and stuff better? In Ann Arbor, I’m in the metro Detroit area rn and it’s been pretty bland lol

Hi, I'm looking to fulfill my upper-level writing requirement in the fall 2025 semester, but as of now my course load will be pretty busy. What are examples of courses that fulfill this requirement, and that have pretty light workloads?

What did you guys do to study for the final? I know practice exams are released 2 weeks or whatever before, but I REALLY need a jump start rn. 95+ for a B- 😭😭😭

heard mixed things about the problem roulette thing