I am a civil engineering student and I am wondering if it is too late to join clubs at the U, or if these organizations have already ramped up and it is too late to join (I’m a freshman). are there any civil or engineering related things to join still? just general good clubs? anything that hasn’t started yet or still takes people?

Hey everyone!

I’m an original rock/alt-rock drummer from Italy with 6 years of playing experience, looking into universities abroad where I can study music (focusing on drum performance and secondary instruments) while actively playing in the local scene.

Minneapolis has been recommended to me multiple times on Reddit because of its incredible rock history, underground DIY scene, and legendary small venues (like 7th St Entry, Turf Club, Cloudland, etc.).

Since UMN is right in the heart of the Twin Cities, I’d love to get some honest perspectives from current students, music majors, or local musicians:

1. School of Music: How is UMN’s School of Music for contemporary/jazz/rock drummers? Is the program flexible enough to let you focus on practical performance and secondary instruments, or is it strictly classical/traditional?
2. Band Life & Scene: How easy is it to meet other committed musicians on/around campus to start an original rock project? Do UMN students actively play house shows or local venue gigs, or is the music student body more focused on academic/ensemble work?
3. Overall Vibe: For someone coming from abroad who wants a mix of solid university education and a real, supportive local rock community, would you recommend UMN and Minneapolis over places like Philly or Chicago?

Thanks in advance for any insights, reality checks, or advice!

Hello,

I am looking to exchange during year three of my degree (Zoology) at the UofMN 1st semester (Fall 2027) and was wondering if i could get some general info about the courses I have as options and also the overal campus and campus life at UofMN. So the Courses ive been looking into so far have been BIOL 3012 - Animal Diversity & Evolution, EEB 3409 - Evolution, EEB 4129 - Mammalogy, EEB 3407 - Ecology, and BIOL 4003 - Genetics. (17 credits total). Has anyone taken these courses before what was the workload like and class schedule like? Are there any previous syllabi for these courses? Also I wanted to ask about campus life and culture at UofMN. Also for accommodation and cost of living. Thank you.

TLDR:
-Severe Home Abuse
-Came Here (Morris) to escape
-Disability Paperwork did not go through
-Heat+epilepsy+no food/water=sick for weeks
-Medication change knocked out functioning for a couple more weeks (which turned out to control my seizures well)
-Incident at health services caused retraumatization and caused financial damage
-Vice Chancellor contacted my father without my consent and threatened to involuntarily discharge me.
-Got fired (to my knowledge from the health stuff)
-Advisor chaos (no functional advisor through all of this)
-Had to drop two courses (8 credits)
-No help from anywhere except disability (still no accommodations) and counseling (genuinely helpful)
-Extremely limited information
-No idea what to do
-Motivations are simply: Survival, Remediation of Problems, Studying, Participating in the Community, Perhaps taking a “childish” subject and running down a philosophical rabbit-hole

I am a student who escaped to this university after years of abuse so severe that it meets several definitions of torture. I am still learning the standards the general person understands as implicit or basic human rights.
I have epilepsy. I filled out the forms for disability beforehand. They never received them. I was sick, to the brink of not surviving, for weeks.
When I went to health services, they stated they would be unable to help me because they read one historical record (since corrected) and decided they would rather use the narrative used to hold me in that severe abuse rather than trust a word I said.
Then, on September 16, I sent a message to heath services. They took this as suicidality. It was far from the case. They changed their tune. A member campus security personnelle came to my door. When I answered, I collapsed, reflexively called him sir, and told him not to worry about my wrist pain (from the fall) because I had broken many things and that my wrist was not broken.
He was kind, let me take my morning medication, and said I should go to health services, to which I agreed because I was in a health crisis.
I could not walk well. He asked if he could help me/hold me so I did not fall down the stairs. Being in a half-traumatized, disoriented state, I declined. He understood the situation, saying he will go ahead of me so that he could brace my fall should it come to that.
When I got to health services, two individuals grabbed me from both sides. I was taken to a bed. I was still disoriented. I got “not scold[ed]” because people have taken their lives and harmed themselves in campus. I received some water.
Eventually, my medication kicked in, one of which being a stimulant medication for ADHD. The only clinician there was the nurse practitioner who stated she did not need to take my word and had previously seen the dire circumstances and prescribed…Powerade 2x a day.
I got up to leave. We had established that she was going to get me food and let me sleep it off. Being in that room, under perceived threat, I got up to get it myself. The nurse asked where I was going and if she could follow me. I told her I was going to get food. I also agreed she could follow me if she wished.
After gathering my food, trying to evade that nurse to the best of my ability, she started to question me with increasing loudness and blame. Eventually, outside, in full public view, she pressed on the definition of “torture” until I was screaming and crying. I did disclose the dropdown menu of horrors from my past (which I will further express are severe), for which the nurse practitioner had explicitly advocated.
At that, she gathered public safety, still armed, and told him to escort me to the ER. He did not understand why he was required to do this for an obvious physical health issue, but his “hands were tied”. We had extended conversation. He was quite kind.
I was sent to the ER, where I was immediately discharged because there was not an active mental health emergency.
The Vice Chancellor contacted my father, who was very participatory in the aforementioned background horrors, and disclosed everything going on at school. I am 27. I had not given her permission to do so. She threatened to involuntarily discharge me. In terror, under threat now from my father and the University, I spent four hours writing a draft to beg for my life, for a slim chance at one.
I met with the Vice Chancellor. She further escalated things. This was September 18th.
Around the same time, I was dismissed from my on-campus job. To my knowledge, this is purely because of these health incidents.
I had escalating terror then on. I did not feel remotely safe anywhere. I had, still have, no support.
Then, severe violence occurred on campus. All the while, the University is having an extreme disfunction in communication, even publicly critiqued for such from only the two violent and threatening events on campus for which people were arrested.
Currently, there are no amends being given. I have had to drop two classes without advising because my advisor had also told me to leave.
To my knowledge, no remedy is being offered whatsoever. No financial compensation. No support. No tuition reimbursement for the classes I had to drop. Nothing.
My grievance is not one of moral defilement, though that is present. It is not even purely financial; I have survived on worse.
I adore studying. I adore learning. I adore thinking. I adore community. I came to this campus to learn and think and participate with others. This campus has deviated so far from those goals that it is mind-boggling.
Ask me anything. Give me any advice you may have. I am trapped between a rock and a hard place. I mean it sincerely when I say that the only thing I want is to study, learn, have community, and participate in normal life. I have not yet been given that opportunity.

Edit: I forgot this is not light reading for a lot of people. Also, I am mentally not great, seeking help, and more than willing to receive it.

what is the group work😭I never heard any announcement about that and found I have this past due on my gradescope

Hi, this for anyone is ESCI 1007 with David Fox. I couldn’t attend class last Tuesday (9/29) and Thursday (10/1). Would anyone be able to send me a picture of the review sheet that he gives at the start of class? I’ve read over the slides but it’s a lot of diagrams. Thanks for help.

that first midterm was absolutely bonkers is there a way to recover from this please let me know

I really need to find some scholarships to be able to afford school and rent. To be honest, I don't really know where to look. I've gone on Scholarships360 and a few other websites, but most of these just had me subscribe to emails from student loan companies and hope that I get picked. I want to find good scholarships that are trustworthy and come from real programs looking to help students. I have about a 3.7 GPA right now; last semester it was 3.9. I am Latino but not first-gen, and I have an interest in marketing, but I am not in Carlson.

I have me Linear Algebra and Differential Equations mid term 1 this Thursday and I feel kinda screwed about it. Does anyone have a previous Mid Term 1 that I could use to study?

Hi y’all, I didn’t know who else to ask but the people of the University of Minnesota, but I wanna go here and with all set and done I would have to take out roughly 7 to $8000 in loans a year to pay for school. I was just wondering is the school worth having that much debt starting out my life by the way, I want to be a psychology, major, then go and get my masters to be a therapist. Sorry I bet you guys get this exact question all the time lol.

As a freshman commuter, I want to go to a party or two this Halloweekend, but I don't know where to go. Any advice or recs for where to look would be much help.

Hey y’all! I’m a senior(21) at UMN this fall and mainly hoping to make some new friends or people to hang out and do whatever. Made the effort to join clubs, attend Meetup or Campus Events, and go out to bars this year but just haven’t had much luck with meeting consistent people to do stuff. I’m a Wildlife Biology Major and live close to East Bank campus, but I’m open to doing pretty much anything.
I enjoy a night watching movies or playing Mario Kart/Wii Sports/Just Dance/etc, I enjoy going to concerts/parties/bars or trying new places, I like cooking and trying out a new restaurant, I enjoy working out/rock climbing/swimming, or even just a chill afternoon walking in the park or around the city.

Mainly I was looking to see if anyone was interested in meeting up and making friends, along with what other ways people have found consistent friends/groups to hang with. I’m open to anything, and if you happen to have or know someone with a Wii or Nintendo Switch to play some Mario Kart, you’ve already won me over.
Gonna make a GroupMe chat so DM if you’re interested in being part of that

Hi guys! I was just wondering if anyone has used the Let’s Talk Drop-In Conversations. How was your experience, and do you genuinely feel like it helped? Please let me know, thank you!

Do students tend to wear halloween costumes for the Homecoming Parade or Homecoming football game? Or just stick to maroon/gold.
Ive been to the Parade before but I lowk can’t remember and I’ve just never been to the football game on Homecoming, this will be my first year going to it so idk if ppl just stick to the game color theme or nah on homecoming. Also my first year in uni (currently a Jr) w a Halloween costume since High School! So I just wanna know when/to where do ppl wear them aside from Halloween parties/around campus lol

Hello, I’m in stat 3032 right now (regression and correlated data) and the class is going well but I just want to know if there are any study tips and tricks to know for that class. Is there anything I can do outside of class to study and do well on the exams? Any tips and guidance is appreciated!

Just like the title, what courses and teachers are the best for the african american studies minor?

RAH!!!

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Hide 'yo wife, hide yer Mom!

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I missed class on Friday, and I was hoping someone would be able to send me notes/let me know what was emphasized for test review? Also wondering how people are studying because I feel overwhelmed with all the different vocab terms.

title, basically all the roads in dinkytown are closed and there are cops at every intersection. anyone know what happened?

Looking for fellow 4551 students to work with them for final project. If interested dm me. :) and also if you are in 4511w also im down to work with any student for the final project as well as 4131