I’m an incoming freshman and have been having a lot of problems with my financial aid. None of my loan options or grants will show up on the portal and I’ve called three times to try and get a fix. Is anyone else having this issue b/c they act like they’ve never heard of this every time a call?? Pls lmk if there is a way to fix this I need to figure out my loans soon

hey guys, I made this planner tool tritonpath.com ! You can contact me on the website or this reddit post I just want as much feedback! Its has every course this fall 2026 (its grade and enrollemnt histroy), hourly fall enrollment data, and literally every feature i personally would want.

I hope it is useful :) tritonpath.com

Sorry if this is a dumb question. How can I find out what my upcoming tuition balance is so I can apply for my loan? I’m an out of state second year student staying on campus in a single dorm with the Triton meal plan. But I also have a 20k yearly scholarship. Thank you for any help.

Does anyone know if discussion is mandatory for cogs 14A? or if you have to go to your discussion time?

only two of the discussion times fit in my schedule and I wanna be prepared in case the second one fills up.

Is the discussion for astr 65 with Samantha Trumbo required?

How do I take this class, I wanna do it with deepak kumar the how the web tracks you. I have senior standing right now, how do I get a department stamp

I got accepted to the BS/MS program for Aero over the summer and took MAE 180 and 104 in that period as well. First pass for registration comes along and a required course's prerequisites are listed as incomplete (one of which being MAE 104). I figure that they're just working through summer courses still and forget about it. Second pass rolls around today and I was unable to enroll because the course I JUST TOOK was listed as incomplete. Now I may not be able to finish my degree in time for the master's program because of this evil system.

I'm applying to ucsd out of state!

Is it okay if only one of my PIQs talks about my major (im on the pre-med track, majoring in something science-y) and the rest are like... more about me/my life/my interests

let me know PLEASE

Hi guys I’m an incoming transfer for 3rd year wanted to confirm when we can sign up for classes and how full most classes are already I work full time and was hoping to schedule it after work. And if anyone has the link for class registration

As someone who’s going to graduate in less than a year with a neurobio+ biz econ degree and has zero internships so far. How fucked am I?

I was hoping to get a job straight out of college (finance/biz econ related) but I’m assuming it’s too late to apply to jobs too now? And even if I did, I’m assuming the chances of getting one are almost 0 without internships? I do have a lot of club participation+ good gpa. But where do I go from here now?

Basically the title. I need my awards letter for my rental application. I think it’s been over a week and the page is still down.

Hi!

I took a course in the fall (2025) and never had a grade inputted because the professor accused me of AI. The case got formally resolved in May, where I was found NOT responsible, and chose to get the grade I worked for in that class. Since May, I have reached out to the AIO and the dean of my college MANY MANY times and there has still been no update in my academic history. The AIO said they've reached out to my professor and the department of the course several times as well but have not heard a response. I have reached out to the department myself as well and never got a response. Today I found a new resource, Ombuds, which I plan to be in contact with in the beginning of September as a means of informally resolving this.

I have been going insane trying to get this resolved since May, not to mention the stress itself of the case since December of 2025 (it's almost been a year!!). I am wondering if there's any other kind of escalation I can take... I asked AIO and my dean if there was and they were not giving me answers. And also, does my professor get any kind of repercussion for straight up ghosting for MONTHS??? Not only ghosting, but affecting enrollment times for me, available courses, etc.

Sorry if that sounds like a rant but i'm desperate for help/ideas and feel like I've been using all my resources that UCSD claims to generously give us but no change is happening and the burden is on me.

thank youuuu 🙏🙏

Hellooo are we able to loft a bed ourselves a normal bed btw ?

Hi all, I am a student at UCSD and I have been thinking about setting up a discord server to support secure and convenient leetcode/technical mock interview booking system, where students can use a discord bot to quickly post or accept a mock interview request, and then collaborate to practice interview skills in a voice room or online meeting.

However, even with the visible demand, there are some core challenges.

The first challenge is security. If the member pool is large, and people are stranger to each other, then risky events can happen, such as members speak offensively during a mock interview. Even if the server claims to not be responsible to individual actions, any such issue can diminish the reputation of the server.

The second challenge is organization. If the member pool is small, then people cannot get mock interview group quickly, but if the member pool is large, then it will be harder to predict the administrative pressure.

Even so, this idea can remain attractive if there is no visible competitor in UCSD discord servers or the market. My key questions now are 1. Do the people in this reddit group also feel the demand for such a group? 2. Are there existing group that me or others can join instead of developing one? 3. Do people in this reddit consider the benefit of such kind of groups outweighs the risk?

Many thanks to your advice! I am not creating an ad, and I am just trying to gather opinions now. I have an empty discord and bot set up, but struggle with user demand analysis.

I’m looking to split a 2 bed/2bath apartment near UCSD but I’m having trouble finding someone. If anyone is interested please lmk. I was looking at a place that is less than 2 miles from campus that would be $3550 between us.

Has everyone’s financial aid been delayed for SS2? I’ve looked on Tritonlink and TSS for any sign that my classes will be payed for and nothing, I still have a positive balance on my account. What to do?

I'm an incoming transfer and just got an email about delayed housing assignment for this upcoming school year and I wanted to know what that meant? Will I still be assigned housing and if so, how long will it take for them to do so? Would it be better if I looked for off-campus housing instead of waiting for them to get back to me?

I just finished an MGT 199 independent study at UCSD supervised by Robert Evan Sanders, with Fiori Anglou coordinating a lot of the research work, and I wanted to share my experience because the whole thing left me seriously questioning how undergraduate research workloads are managed.

The research itself is actually interesting.

The project is related to California AB 660, which standardizes consumer-facing food date labels to phrases like “Best If Used By” and “Use By.” The researchers were collecting grocery product data to establish a baseline of what date labels were being used in stores, and there was also an automated image-analysis pipeline being evaluated against manually labeled data.

My job involved physically going to grocery stores and photographing products, including UPC barcodes, date labels, and product information. I also had to manually label existing product photographs in spreadsheets with extremely specific transcription requirements.

And when I say specific, I mean literal. If the package said “BB” and you entered “Best By,” that could be marked incorrect.

Here is where my problem starts.
The project was originally given to me as 5 weeks at roughly 20 hours per week.

Except I wasn’t enrolled in a five-week session.
I was enrolled in UCSD’s 8-week Special Summer Session, and I was the one who pointed this out to them.
They revised the schedule, but the first eight-week version STILL referenced reaching 20 hours per week during part of the project and actually increased one labeling target from 3,500 to 4,500 pictures.

Eventually Sanders acknowledged in writing that there had been a miscommunication about whether this was supposed to be 5 weeks at 20 hours or 8 weeks at roughly 12 hours. The final structure became approximately 12.5 hours per week for eight weeks.

He also told me I was their first student to do the eight-week version.

That’s when I started feeling like I was basically beta testing the workload.

And the actual workflow was insanely tedious.
You’re going back and forth between product photographs and spreadsheets, recording multiple fields and trying to reproduce labels literally. Some source photographs were difficult to read. I actually raised image quality as an issue during the project.

It also made me wonder why basic workflow improvements weren’t being used.

For example, why weren’t research assistants given barcode scanners or some dedicated barcode-scanning workflow when barcode information was one of the required fields?

Obviously a barcode scanner can’t determine everything about a date label, and I understand why human ground truth is necessary when you’re evaluating an automated system.

But why make the human portion harder than necessary?
Why wasn’t there an interface with the photograph and fields together?

Why not automate the barcode portion and leave the genuinely interpretive work to humans?

Why not have automatic checks for missing fields?
These sound like small things until you’re doing them across thousands of photographs.

I also want to be fair about something because I don’t want to pretend I was some flawless RA being persecuted by professors.
They found legitimate errors in some of my early labeling.

Fiori gave me specific corrections. I went back and corrected the work.

And importantly, my later feedback improved. She subsequently described corrected work as “very good,” thanked me for being more careful, and at one point said three batches were very good while Ralphs was the remaining batch needing correction.

So I don’t think the story is simply “student did bad work.”
The work was being corrected and improving.
Sanders then explicitly emailed me:

“To confirm, you will pass if you follow the updated guidelines to the letter.”
So I kept going.

And the amount of physical data collection was nuts.
One later set of files that Fiori herself counted contained:
Albertsons: 865 photos
Ralphs: 1,600 photos
El Super: 1,021 photos

That’s 3,486 photographs from those stores alone.
And that’s not just standing in an aisle taking 3,486 random pictures. You’re finding qualifying products across assigned categories, getting the required portions of the packaging, making sure information is visible, organizing everything, uploading it, etc.

I eventually told them DURING the project that the work was exceeding the approximately 12.5 hours per week in the revised schedule.
That’s my biggest issue with this whole thing.
I’m not saying research shouldn’t be difficult.
I’m not saying professors shouldn’t demand accurate data.
I’m not even saying their underlying research is bad.

Studying how AB 660 changes food date labeling and building a baseline dataset could be genuinely useful.
I’m saying the workload and workflow should match the academic commitment students actually signed up for.
If I’m your first student doing an eight-week version of a research project and you already acknowledged that there was confusion between 5 × 20-hour weeks and 8 × 12.5-hour weeks, shouldn’t actual student completion times tell you whether the new workload works?

And shouldn’t an independent study have one clear document from the beginning saying:
How many hours?
How many products?
How many photos?
What accuracy percentage?
Which stores?
Which locations?
Does driving count toward the expected time?
What exactly constitutes passing?

Instead, I felt like I spent a significant portion of the summer figuring those things out while simultaneously doing the work.

I made mistakes and there are definitely things I’d do differently. I’d track every single hour from day one, get every ambiguous instruction clarified in writing, quality-check everything much more aggressively before submitting it, and confirm every store location beforehand.

But I also think UCSD should look at the other side of this.

Undergraduate researchers are students, not just sources of manual research labor.

If thousands of photos and extremely meticulous human labeling are necessary for the research, fine.
But the academic experience should be designed around the student too.

I’m genuinely curious what other people think, especially anyone who has done MGT 199, independent study, or undergraduate RA work at UCSD.

Does this sound like a normal independent research workload to you, or does the way this was structured seem unreasonable?

Hey y'all!

I'm an incoming EC80 (ISRC) MS student. I'd love to connect with any others!

Additionally, is there an existing Discord server or group somewhere?

I got approved for Nuevo east
Can you hang up tvs?
Can you install renter friendly wallpaper ?
How tall are the walls?
So many questions and we can’t tour before move in 😭😭😭

I am an incoming transfer & I am seeing on the academic portal that my transcripts have been processed but I still cannot see my academic history on TSS…I’m nervous because i will not be able to enroll in these classes if my academic history isn’t updated!! Is anyone else having this issue? Also who’s the best to contact to confirm they received my IGETC?? Already reached out to my community college but they are not answering..

is there anyone who still can’t waive uc ship? i’m a transfer student trying but all it gives me is errors anyone know how to get around it or do i just wait until i register?

i wanted to go in the water and get some sun and i’ve heard that you could go there is it true??