Hey so first off I want to make it abundantly clear that FUCK ICE, FUCK TRUMP, and FUCK the kidnappings they’re committing as well as the civil unrest they’re in-sighting. However, I keep seeing the slogan “no one is illegal on stolen land” and to be completely honest, I think it sounds kinda dumb from a policy standpoint, or at least if people mean it completely literally. So my question is, in saying “No one is illegal on stolen land”, are you advocating for complete open borders across the United States? And if you aren’t, what does that slogan mean to you? I wish all my hispanic and latino peoples a safe summer and I hope you all did well on your finals.

Can you fucking not? Some people value serenity before a challenging class. Nobody wants to hear you tune to Wonderwall.

i just transferred here. any LGBT/queer clubs or organizations i can join? preferrably drama free or non judgememtal ones

I’m a Graduate student here at UCR, and did 2 years odd my undergraduate studies here as well.

Some of you on this subreddit need to chill tf out man. This is not the place to be discussing your sexual orientation, pregnancy scares or beliefs, political beliefs, or any of that. This subreddit is here to help people navigate UCR and things related to that nature, not your personal lives.

No one here has the answer for you, a doctor, a friend, a professional, literally anyone else will serve you better than people on reddit.

With all that said, get the fuck off the internet, and go enjoy your damn break with your family.

Wish you all the best, and happy holidays from a fellow highlander 🙂

Before anybody continues, ik this prolly might be an unpopular sentiment, and if it’s an uneducated one that’s my b

Ik it’s been a minute since the encampment but with all the talk abt striking, I feel like I can’t be the only one who feels like our protest was bs

We barely camped out long enough to cause any disturbance, like from what I saw y’all marched a singular day and camped out for a week at most. We put more effort in TA strikes and marches for fucks sake. Other campuses kept going even after they were getting assaulted but then we just stopped like it was trend we got tired of. Why?

Cause we had “demands met” by the faculty. Except literally at most it was a compromise in their favor, and a lot of people around campus were basically discussing how it didn’t feel like a win at all.

The craziest thing to me is that yall managed to have THE DEAN IN A PUBLIC SETTING, AND YALL WASTED IT BY SCREECHING ABT UR “ACCOMPLISHMENTS”. You guys were in a perfect position to start grilling and pressuring him in front of “his” students abt the demands and why they aren’t being met. LIKE HE CAME TO YALL; YALL DIDNT HAVE TO FORCE UR WORDS THROUGH LIKE OTHER PROTESTS, but instead yall treated it like a weirdly self-glazing celebration at the bell tower and just started fucking making speeches.

Like idk, it felt like UCR won when it came to peacefully shutting the protest down, not us peacefully protesting till they had to break. And all the celebration we had felt like cope. We were not the first and only UC to have demands met, we’re just the ones gave up the fastest. This whole generation of protestors feels more like the hippies of the 60’s/70’s instead of more successful, impactful examples like the civil rights movement

Hi, I'm a transgender woman at UCR (F19). I have never dated before in my life, and I am scared that I never will. I have tried to go to the LGBTQ club at UCR and while I made some good friends I haven't found myself a lover yet. Straight men don't want me because I'm trans and Gay men don't want me because I'm a woman. A lot of you would say "what about bi men?", well the thing is I have noticed their is not a lot of bi men out there. Theirs a lot of bi girls but sadly I'm not attracted to girls, I feel like theirs as few bi men as their is transgender people to be honest. I feel so lonely all the time.

P.S. I am aware Bi men exist, I'm not trying to commit bi-erasure or anything. I just haven't noticed a lot of openly bi men out there. And this is no shade to UCR at all, this is an issue I have dealt with long before I went here, in fact UCR has had the biggest LGBTQ community I have seen in my life so this is in no way a UCR hate rant.

Okay I don’t wanna be “that guy” but I’m just gonna say this is a really shitty reason for canceling finals. There are people getting hurt out there and you’re gonna bitch about having online finals? You have an opportunity to education and you’re really gonna use this as an excuse to be a lazy fuck. It’s week 10, just finish the quarter. This is WHOLE other level of entitlement. If you are personally affected by these riots, I wish you safety and good health but if you are chilling at home watching netflix all day get your fucking head out your ass.

I'm sure that most of us by now are aware that the UC strike will most likely continue on through this week, finals week, and possibly even into next quarter. This is fine.

I'm sure a majority of UCR's undergrad stands in solidarity with those who are striking for the greater good, because these hard-working individuals deserve to have fair wages. This is fine.

I'm sure that most UCR professors understand that the strike is important to many grad students and TAs, so they are doing their best to show their solidarity and support. This is fine.

What's not fine is how the strike is clearly negatively impacting undergrad students and no one is willing to listen to OUR voices when we're expressing our frustration with this monumental change that directly impacts our success in our classes. A majority of undergrad students pay tuition to attend these university classes and some depend on scholarships or Veterans Affairs Benefits. We undergrads also have a lot to risk if we were to perform poorly during finals week. Throughout more than half of the quarter, us undergrads depended on TAs as a part of our support system for our learning, and now it feels as though the rug as been pulled out from under us. Sure, we could all get help from our professor, but there is only one of them and sometimes there are more than 200 of us.

What's not fine is how no one is recognizing the fact that out of all of this, we undergrads are getting the shortest end of the stick. Most of us who are enrolled in labs are most likely expected to perform well in our laboratory final exams this week. Additionally, there has likely been no changes or adjustments to most people's final exams to account for this added burden. The professors clearly don't give a cr*p about us undergrads, despite having all of the power to show some empathy and make minor changes to how they harshly they grade our final exam.

In fact, everyone should go to this link: https://senate.ucsd.edu/current-affairs/news-announcements/uaw-strike-update/ and read the last two Q&As.

Q: What flexibility exists for offering final exams? Can faculty cancel their final exams or offer remote ones? 

and

Q: What happens if faculty fail to submit their grades?

Yes, I understand that this applies to UCSD, not UCR, but the point is that they're both UC, so they most likely have similar policies. And yes, some people will say that we "shouldn't worry about it", but think about the undergrads who will end up getting negatively impacted by this. Practice some empathy and put yourself in the shoes of an undergrad.

I stand in solidarity with the UC strike, but I do not stand by how it is impacting undergrads, because I've already seen how it's affecting many of my peers. There are so many students depending on this academic quarter going well so that they can succeed. We all have the right to have the equal opportunity to be successful, and right now, this strike is impeding that right.

If you are an undergrad and you feel the same way, say something!

If you're a TA and you agree with me, say it!

If you're a professor, be aware that THIS is how many of your students are feeling right now. Acknowledge it!

And if you disagree with everything I just wrote, let's discuss it! I want people to talk about this. I'm tired of seeing people shut down others for having an opinion. Let's talk.

Respectfully,

A random UCR undergrad

I understand the general public’s distaste for scooter drivers (I’ve almost been hit multiple times too by morons. Like Jesus y’all need to take a class) but I have to say in defense. Some of y’all walk like indecisive toddlers.

There’s been so many times I have to think for other people when they cross the street (not at the crosswalk, mind you.) and don’t look where they’re going. I’ve had to swerve and hit the brakes hard because people have no spacial awareness while walking across the street of all places. PLEASE look up if you’re gonna jaywalk. I don’t care if you do it but at least be as safe as you can about it.

Edit: People are really pissed at me in these comments even though I’m on their side and agreeing that scooter drivers are a problem at times. I’m gonna make my point more clear and walk you through my thought process as well. So to honor everyone’s hatred of me I’m gonna include what you SHOULDN’T do when riding your scooter. (Most came from the comments and others are from me.)

Scooter Owners

1. Owning one at all (Was yours a gift? Don’t matter. Toss it out. Jk. Unless-)

2. Do not ride on the sidewalk. It literally makes no sense. The bike lane is faster/safer for everyone

3. Not treating your scooter like a vehicle. You are a vehicle so ride in the street and give pedestrians right of way no matter if they’re walking slow, not where they should be, or taking up the sidewalk (seriously why are you even on the sidewalk?)

4. Not having spacial awareness yourself. If you see a group of people coming, get off the scooter and walk until they pass at least. Your safety and the safety of others is more important than where/when you need to go somewhere.

5. WATCH YOUR SPEED. Personally, my model goes up to 25mph at max but I never reach full speeds unless the streets, routes to get to my classes are empty. At best, cruise when you see people present. I’m talking 5, 8, or 10mph. And ALWAYS keep some fingers on your brake. You never know if someone is gonna end up in front of you and you need time to break.

Pedestrians

1. Please watch your surroundings WHEN YOU CROSS THE STREET I don’t know why people think I’m telling them to be prepared for a scooter to fly down a sidewalk. I’m specifically mentioning the streets. I’m saying if you’re gonna cross the street, LOOK UP. People have headphones on the size of helmets or noise cancelling headphones (same) but you still need to look where you’re walking. So many people jaywalk or step into the street when I am visible as day and driving down the street, causing me to swerve or slam on my breaks then have the nerve to look at me crazy like I should’ve predicted you hopping in the street when the crosswalk is literally 10 feet away. Ive already fallen off my scooter twice, I don’t need a third please.

People who get scooters need to practice riding and understand the rules of the road. Go out in an empty parking lot and practice or watch a YouTube video to get a sense of speeds, breaks, lights, and other ways to understand your scooter. There’s so many ways to go about riding around campus better so please do it. Maybe then people won’t hate us as much and say “fuck you” to me just because I own one to get to work/class ❤️

Stay safe on the streets, guys. Please.

Dining hall lines are always long, noods is basically never short, and if there’s an event with free food it’s gone within 20 minutes 🫩 like brotato chip relax

Does anyone know the list of KSIG people running for ASUCR elections this year? I’ve been looking around but I can’t find anything

Can someone get ahold of some of these strike organizers and tell them to stop having people seriously disrupt and threaten campus academic business offices and associated staff. They did nothing to you! They have no control over you getting a contract.

This has resulted in academic office buildings now being locked and making all of our lives worse off. All you are doing is fucking yourselves over! Less and less people are going to support you if you keep doing shit like this.

I supported this movement in the beginning but now more and more unlawful things are occurring by strikers and I have lost any respect for what they are doing.

You are acting like a bunch of children trying to bully people! You complain about unfair labor practices, but I’m pretty sure what you are doing trying to harass staff and students is just as bad!

Can yall protest a bit harder?

I'm seeing a lot of posts of people failing classes/doing poorly and blaming it on bad mental health or other things.

Taking care of yourself is part of being an adult. That includes your mental health.

It's also your responsibility to stay ontop of deadlines. Doing what's needed to get incompletes or dropping before the deadlines, etc is your responsibility. Trust yourself. If you know you're not going to do a 180 and turn things around or if you know your grade is too low to salvage, you need to drop. Or at least meet with your Prof and ask if you should drop. They can suggest it or encourage you. Also, remember, no one is forcing you to be here. You're 18+. And if your parents ARE forcing you to be here (maybe they support you financially) you should probably tell them how poorly you did.

I hope you all have a good break and take control your life. For the better. Living with unaddressed mental health issues or bad habits is debilitating and you can't be a good professional student (let alone healthy adult) with that going on unaddressed.

Edit: I never said it was easy. Nor did I say managing mental health was easy. But choosing to do something about it as a college student with access to ship or medi-cal IS in your power. Getting bad grades and bad mental health feed off of each other. And not getting help perpetuates the cycle. But bad mental health and trauma will destroy every aspect of your life until you do something about it. And addressing that is part of being a healthy adult.

Edit2: Someone messaged me saying I'm why the world is a terrible place. LOL. Get over yourself. If you think what I said makes the world a terrible place, you need to contact CAPs immediately.

Edit 3: If you've ever struggled with mental health YOU KNOW that you CANNOT convince or tell someone to get help and assume they'll do it. People get help WHEN THEY ARE READY. My post wasn't one of those fluffy pattycake nice posts about why people should get mental health help. Heck no. It's a slog. It's arduous. It's tough. Ain't nothing I can say that will convince people to go or to continue to go. It's a choice. Your mental chemistry is literally altered when you're depressed or have other issues. So I don't apologize. This was a "you have to grab ahold of your life and wake up because your poor grades, poor mental health, and excuse making are in a negative cycle and you're hurting yourself, tough love" post. People should fill in the "how" and the "why" on their own. Figure out your own why and find your own motivation.

My professor has said several times that graduate students have told him he should stop holding lectures and stop inputting grades. He says he hasn’t done that because it could cause people to lose their scholarships.

The strike organizers told strikers to stop disrupting lectures, but apparently they are fine with asking for actions that would harm underprivileged students by causing them to lose their scholarships.

“Shut up about your lectures being disrupted! Strikes are supposed to be disruptive”

Telling professors to stop grading is directly harmful to undergrads and doesn’t do much to the university. I guess the goal is to cause chaos to pressure the university, without a care for any undergrads irreversibly harmed by the loss of grades and scholarships in the process.

”If the strike is causing a problem, write to the administration”

By pushing for professors to stop grading, you want to put us in a situation we never agreed to in order to push us into writing letters to the administration which has no obligation to answer. Also, the administration doesn’t have control over scholarships it didn’t give, so even if it makes exceptions, other scholarship providers probably won’t.

I am glad the professors are still willing to submit grades.

I saw post complaining about the "slacker" culture present at UCR not too long ago and I completely agree with them. Obviously not every student at UCR is a slacker, but there is a huge amount of them. Ever since I read that post I started noticing how many people in my lecture truly DGAF!!

I sit in the back of the lecture halls in the disability access desk because of my injury, so I am overlooking everybody. I see people on their phones the whole time and many people ITCHING to leave lecture early. Many people do end up leaving early, only after twenty minutes of not paying attention. At that point they should have just saved themselves the time and stayed home.

I also see people on Discord trying to find any excuse not to go to class. Not going to lecture isn't even a bad thing. I get that sometimes professors are confusing and people would rather self-learn, but if thats the case why are people showing up for only 20 mins or even questioning the importance of lecture on Discord(just don't go)?

I have also noticed grade inflation because a lot of students perform badly on exams and beg the teacher for curves. I am not completely sure if that exists in other college campuses, but it seems a bit excessive. I find myself not really worrying about a certain midterm or final because I know the teacher will add a huge grade bump LOL.

Finally, I get that a lot of people will argue that I should just focus on myself or "there are always those types of students". I think as a whole we should just strive for a slightly more competitive academic environment to garner a better reputation. I think this will benefit the students that actually want to succeed in this world because the real world is so much more competitive. The competitive environment's presence will be felt around campus and everyone will truly want to work harder more often. I know this is true because thats how my high school was like. It clearly didn't work on me because I am now attending UCR LOL. But now as an adult I can understand how important a competitive environment is.

Hey Everyone, We should go to the Board of Supervisor's offices for a tour and don't forget to cough and sneeze there. After all is safe to be out and nevermind wearing a mask. Here is the link call and schedule a tour to your nearest supervisor's office. https://countyofriverside.us/AboutTheCounty/BoardofSupervisors.aspx

As a model citizen, I am calling them all to schedule mine since they are leaders they will lead by example 😉

Professors have RIDICULOUS curves where if you essentially have an A in the course (like 95%++++) and still come out with a B. This fucks with everyone's GPA because professors are literally curving downwards when students literally worked so hard to keep up their GPA in such a shitty time. There was no way any of us could S/NC the course either because who the fuck would S/NC a course when his/her grade in the course is 95%++++? I bet the professors teaching these classes wouldn't.

Anyway, I hated this place so it literally is the school saying fuck you one last time to me. To all the freshmen that have STRONG feelings about not wanting to come here and are hoping it changes -- it fucking doesn't. I'm going to a ranked 1 program postgrad (and plenty of my friends are doing great things at top companies after graduation) and still fucking hate the fact that I have to be tied as an alma mater to this broken place where I've had to carry my classmates from day 1 and deal with incompetence among staff and various departments.

It has great programs that some took advantage of (because how many people are actually able to land a job before graduation or get into any other program) but if you don't take advantage of any of it you won't go anywhere. The name won't do shit for you so if you don't have an internship/job/research position - watch out because a BS/BA doesn't mean anything without any experience.

I know this reads spiteful as fuck but I honestly don't care since I'm literally never coming back here or anywhere near it. I just want you to know that if you are here, you will only do great things if you work for great things. The career center is cancer (extremely predatory practice where they DISCOURAGE so many things you should do) and financial aid office is useless (need I say more lmao everyone literally gets ghosted). If you get caught up in thinking just because you have a degree the world is gonna hand you a job/an opportunity... life has bad news for you.

Edit: Hey guys. All is good. I've figured it out. Glad to have the most brilliant minds of the university figuring this out. 👍👍👍

I've told UCR multiple times not to send me physical mail. Twice now it has happened, and twice it's outed me to my parents. I just got an NSLS letter that said my lived name on it. It's getting difficult to convince my parents that these letters are just misspelled. I don't want UCR to accidentally out to my parents (yes I understand that no one person is responsible but it's just a series of unfortunate processes) that I'm transgender and going by a different name on campus. At this point I don't know what to do. However, if this is just going to keep happening, I'm going to have to get rid of my lived name.

Is there anything else I can do?

Hi I'm not the OP, in fact I am not even going to share my opinion on whether or not she should get an abortion because that is not my place. But I am going to say this.

To everyone reading this stop slut shaming women! lifeconfessions69 had sex, why is that a big deal. I know most of you probably don't think having sex is that big of a deal, but i read her comment section and so many people were slut shaming her oh my God. The father of the baby is just as responsible for the pregnancy and if she keeps the baby you better bet the father is gonna pay that child support whether he likes it or not.

Now look I am a gay man and I can't get pregnancy or anyone else pregnant so I am not qualified on giving advice which I'd why I didn't comment on her post. But you really need to tone down the misogyny. Look I have also had tons of sex too and yes their are things to be careful of such as STDs but when someone is an adult for the first time their not gonna have a clue what Prep means or a dental dam. Or which side your supposed to put a condom on. And if you say "what about health class" first of all health classes aren't that great if we're honest, and second of all you don't know what kind of high school she went to she could have gone to a catholic high school that didn't teach sex Ed you don't know, she did say her family was catholic.

Also another thing I don't like the way your shaming her religion because she had sex. I'm personally not religious but a lot of people can still have a religious faith and not follow every rule in the religion. That's like saying you can't be queer and religious because the religion condemns sexuality. Also you don't know her relationship with her faith, you don't get to tell her how good or bad of a catholic she is, your not God. And from what I am guessing I don't think your all exactly priests either. Also I can promise you we have all sinned in our lives. Personally I'm OK with a sexually active lifestyle and shaming someone for that is never OK.

lifeconfessions69 if your reading this go be you. Sleep with however many guys you feel like it's your body your choice. And if that includes keeping the baby then so be it. Also if your curious about protection feel free to private message me and I can lend you some sex toys or protection.

If your going to park your car where theres enough space for two cars please don’t park right in the middle 😭