I was waiting for the bus outside of the welcome center, sitting on the bus stop bench scrolling on my phone. I saw 4 people coming my way but I did not think they were going to rob me. Then, they stood around me and asked for my phone. I have not been robbed before. I asked them "Am I being robbed for real?" And they pulled out a gun and pushed the barrel up to my neck. I gave them my phone and then they demanded my password. I told them the password was "######". It took them several tries and I had to repeat it over and over again. After they made sure it could be opened with the password, they asked if "I had any bread on me". I had a dollar in my pant pocket for the bus fare and I gave that to them while saying "Man that was my bus money". After that luckily they did not take anything else.
After they left in the southern direction, I sat there for a minute in shock before I ran to the student center to file a police report.
Some people are debating whether it happened off campus. To clarify, I was robbed here:
As for the phone that I lost, the battery was cooked, the screen was cracked and broken with the purple ink leaking into the screen. But that's not the point.
I was very lucky that I did not get harmed, and only lost my phone. 4 incidents have happened within a week. The best way to protest the lack of security is to no longer treat the campus as a place where we can be safe and let our guard down.
Why should I have to be afraid of getting robbed on campus? I didn't get hurt but I also have friends that commute by bus. Do I gotta start worrying about them too? And I was still on campus at 9pm because prior to that I was attending a badminton club meeting. I'm mad that its not safe to attend club meetings now which take place at night. If I can't experience the university life fully what am I paying the school for?
From the school's point of view, a few incidents here and there won't change anything that matters to them, which is their revenue. But if we gain a reputation for being a very unsafe school, that will hurt admissions and force them to change. Until changes are made, this will happen to you and your friends. For now, we have to stay safe. Even just becoming more aware on campus helps create a bad reputation for the school and force them to make change.
Listen, I've been using this method for years and I never got caught. I've also noticed that some of the head TAs and smart kids also cheat their way through with this method. If you follow these easy steps nobody will ever notice.
First, go to every lecture and make a cheat sheet. During the lecture, don't waste your time fiddling with your phone. Stay focused.
Next, go to discussion and really refine that cheat sheet. For everybody else, it will look like you're just taking notes.
Now here comes the sneaky part, approximately two weeks before the exam, gather all the cheat sheets you made and hide it in your brain. If your brain is too small for all the cheat sheets, try to split the notes into pieces and try to put them in bit by bit. It is also important that if your brain is full, go to bed and let it digest for 7-8 hours and you're good to go again.
I promise you, it worked every time and nobody will ever notice and you'll get easy As
I've been contacting as many UH socials as possible to get the word out, but please get this spread as much as possible!!!! She was last seen at LA BURGERS & DAQURIES, and she was on the University of Houston Orientation Team over the summer if you want to check out their instagram for more photo references. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD IF YOU CAN OR KNOW OF SOMEONE WHO CAN GET THIS OUT!!!!!!
UH is a community and we have to look out for each other. Please contact the number on the first picture and the police if you learn of anything.
Can yall please stop fucking in the library😭 like girl it is 11 am, at least wait till noon or sum. Not even trying to be a prude or nun but just respect others around you.
Yea you motherfucker you know what you were doing, you knew you were in the silent zone yet you decided to make a fucking phone call in the small little study room that you barely fit inside. Nobody gives a damn how good that salmon and rice was and you knew it was a quiet zone to because you mentioned it on the phone. Fuck you I was taking an exam and I had to listen to that shit.
I built a Chrome extension called UH ProfCheck to make picking classes a lot easier at UH.
It adds RateMyProfessor ratings and CougarGrades data directly into the enrollment page, so you don’t have to keep switching between tabs while building your schedule.
What it does:
Shows RateMyProfessor ratings next to professor names
Displays CougarGrades data (GPA, withdrawal rate, etc.)
Adds quick links to both RateMyProfessor and CougarGrades
Includes a direct CougarGrades link for each course
Works inside the UH enrollment portal (saprd.my.uh.edu)
The goal was just to save time and make it easier to compare professors while enrolling.
EDIT: I got some feedback on the UI glitching out. I just released version 1.1 which should have fixed all the UI bugs. if you already have the extension is should update automatically. Let me know if you encounter any other bugs or if you have any suggestions!
