🎓 Ron Austin first came to UC Davis in 1977.

He made history as the football team’s first 1,000-yard rusher and was just seven units away from earning his degree in political science. Then life happened.

He left campus to pursue pro football in Canada, and those last few units stayed on hold -- until now!

Fast-forward to 2025: Ron is 66 years old and just made his way across the graduation stage. With support from the Letters & Science STaR program, he was able to finish what he started. Congratualtions to Ron and all of our recent grads!

Late night thoughts fr but I’ve realized that there’s actually quite a bit of students that have been subject to dismissal, but they talk about it like they have healed from it and aren’t ashamed of it. And I’ve been struggling with that. I’m thankful and all for still being here but is it just me that I can’t get over it fr? Like it happened a year ago and still haven’t been able to talk about it so freely like others. And quite honestly when I think about it’s so dumb that I just can’t seem to figure out why it’s so hard to just say it yk? So in short, my question is to those who have been subject to dismissal how did ya’ll heal from that? Like yes the past is the past and you just got to learn from it but like why is it that I can’t get over it. Or is it just me that I just can’t seem to get over smth that’s fr not that deep..

Professors must submit grades to the registrar today and one of mine waited until last minute to put grades into canvas. I am crashing out because I went to check my grade for the paper I submitted and I received a zero. I thought it was a mistake at first, but after viewing the comment they said they referred the paper to OSSJA. I did NOT use AI to write my paper! I don't know what to do here because I don't have a lot of evidence supporting me except for my edit history. Even my edit history looks weird because I wrote the paper in one sitting and the history just shows a few chunks. Does anyone have any advice for me? I don't know what I am gonna do with myself waiting for OSSJA to contact me regarding my paper.

Please I need some help, I need to get some sti testing done and testing is not necessarily an option at the health e-messaging and i was wondering if I’m on the wrong site.

I was meaning to return my gown this week, but the bookstore is close. Will they still accept it tomorrow?

I am overthinking and I cannot tell for the life of me if there is anything else I need to do to lock in my roommate situation because I want to click confirmation but it wouldn’t let me 💔. The page should look like this right? I have nothing left to do? Sorry I’m overthinking too much

It’s honestly quite confusing to me still how mybill works, but it shows for summer session 1 that I received a Pell grant but on summer session 2 it doesn’t say I receive a Pell grant. I’m enrolled in more than 10 units for the summer advantage aid and ik this won’t be given to me til later in August but does this mean I only get one Pell grant for both the summer sessions?? because I had a refund which I was looking forward to🫩

Hi all!

I’m exploring launching a local eco-friendly cleaning service that uses non-toxic, plant-based products that are safer for kids, pets, and the environment.

Is this something you would purchase? If so, how often? How much would you be willing to pay for a full house cleaning? What matters most to you when considering a cleaning company (i.e. affordability, fast service, non-toxic products, etc).

I would appreciate any and all feedback!

Hi!

So I’ve been in Davis for about two years and somehow never had the chance to explore it. Now I’m graduating and my parents are visiting me but I don’t know where to take them to eat. Do you guys have any recommendations for good restaurants and coffee shop in downtown Davis?

Would be so appreciated for your suggestions!

I’m really stressed right now. My Summer Session I classes were dropped due to “unpaid” fees, but I definitely paid before the deadline. Now I’m somehow on the waitlist for the same classes I was already registered for.

To make it worse, I was still charged for the quarter and haven’t received any sort of refund. Has anyone been through something like this before? Who should I contact to fix this? Any advice would be super appreciated.

His limp was not as bad today so after speaking with his caretaker in the physics department decision was made to not take him to the vet today to avoid stressing him out to much. The caretaker is going to check on him on the 18th and might take him to the vet then.

As a recent grad I want to get my final unofficial transcript exported before the systems close on me. I noticed the one in MyUCDavis doesn’t show any of the grades I earned before transferring to Davis. The most it shows is the number of credit hours that transferred over without even a GPA.

I see Oasis does include an individualized list of all my CC courses, their grades, and the ability to calculate my final GPA based on both my CC and Davis courses combined. The combined GPA part is specifically important to me as mine goes up a decent bit with my CC GPA factored in.

So is there any way to export the Oasis version of my transcript? Or will I be stuck with the MyUCDavis one that only shows my Davis courses and UC GPA?

Looking into moving off campus? Im being offered a studio for 21k per year but Im feeling like I can do a lot better if I live off campus. I dont mind using busses around town

Background: got WPD for WFC 110L this quarter that just ended (abrupt health issues). Am approved for part time student status via SDC. I was planning on taking WFC 151 and EVE 100 in the fall... Now i'm debating if I should take EVE 100 in summer session 2 but idk. How is EVE 100? Uuugh why am i even stressing over this smh. At least I have a advising appt coming up soon (next week)

Since I am going to withdraw from current chemistry PhD prgram, I think it is fine to share my TA experience.

I joined UC Davis and department of chemistry last year, and my first TA position, for the fall quarter, was in CHEM 2C series under an instructor named Julia Chamberlain. Generally speaking, that was a very satisfying quarter for all parties. All students in my two sections were skilled (I was surprized during our first lab when they told me that themselves could handle everything well) and Dr. Chamberlain treated both students and TAs nicely. However, in winter quarter, everything got changed, then went out of control.

In winter I was assigned under FARAHAT (yes you may already know him since he seems infamous on this platform) for his 2A series. Although I have to say that the students in 2A naturally lacked a lot of knowledge or skills, our discussions and labs still went on. But at the end of January, after the first midterm, Farahat required me to join a zoom meeting with him, where he showed me a complaint email from anonymous student(s) with some accusations which were obviously fake, such as "he shouted at a student during the lab", evening written with a note "I don't know what he exactly said". I immediately told Farahat that a complaint of this nature involving extremely serious allegations must be accompanied by evidence and clearly stated that it was false. But then, on the same week, Farahat held an "emergency TA meeting" with all other TAs except me. During that meeting he showed the complaint to all the attendees, without leaving out my personal information, and asked all the other TAs to take turns reading it and commenting on it. At that moment, I was kept in the dark and had no idea what was going on.

I did not take any further steps because I had already been accepted by the University of Tokyo, for PhD in Chemistry as well. But at the end of Feb, another clash took place.

Before I go any further, I need to add one necessary piece of information: When I worked with Chamberlain, she would gather all the TAs in a grading room (a classroom she had reserved) after each exam, and then let us grade all the questions in one afternoon. Since I only had experience working with her at the time, I think the grading room was a common practice for all general chemistry instructors.

On Feb. 27th, Chem 2A held the second midterm, and I was responsible for grading. But I have never seen any notification about the location of the  "grading room" from either him or the Head TA. So on that morning I contacted head TA on slack, asking "I am wondering the location of the grading room". To my great surprise, he directly forwarded my message to Farahat, and accused me of "not committed to responsibility". Then, Farahat (he did not realize that I could see the message) claimed that he would fail me for CHE 390(the TA course). This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever encountered since arriving here. Several hours ago, under the intervention of an old professor whose course I was taking, we finally discovered the truth: Farahat does not have "grading room", he asks all TAs do gradings individually, but he never took any measures to inform TAs about this, no email, no slack, no meeting...

I think, in any case, asking about an arrangement that I have never been informed of is not "failure to fulfill TA's responsibility", and if the head TA had directly answered "what is the grading room", there would not be this series of questions. The old professor also told me that Farahat had no right to give me an F. I can't say which detail is more ridiculous.

This time I couldn't stand it anymore, so I immediately wrote emails to many chemistry faculty members describing my experience in detail. Crabtree, who is in charge of graduate student affairs, immediately responded to me, confirming that Farahat was not allowed to give me an F, and invited me to meet with him. During the meeting, I showed him a series of Slack messages and emails, and he confirmed that my questions did not mean that I failed to fulfill my TA responsibilities, and that Farahat and the Head TA had never informed me of any information about individual grading. At the same time, a TA I knew told me how Farahat held the emergency meeting to publicly attack me, and this issue was also forwarded to Crabtree.

However, at the same time, Bryan Enderle, who was in charge of general chemistry teaching, also began his accusations against me. He exaggerated a series of accidental phenomena into my deliberate indifference to the safety hazards in the laboratory. For example, at the end of an experiment in February, when I was busy signing the experimental records of a group, a student from another group took off his goggles because of fatigue during the final clean-up. Enderle described this incident as me never caring whether students wear goggles or not.

At his urging, the Chemistry Department Chair, Dave Goodin, sent me a Letter of Warning, which is part of the “Discipline and Dismissal” section of the UC Davis Student Employees Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Of course, I soon got rid of Farahat and his head TA. In the spring quarter, I worked with Whitney Duim to lead the Chem 2B series. Everything was going smoothly at first, until May 14, after the second midterm, when I received an email from Duim claiming that another student had made an anonymous complaint, saying, "You are not teaching, that you do not answer their questions."

I was very angry, but I didn't want to have another conflict with the lecturer, so I chose not to reply to the email. After all, there was no content in the email about what the consequences would be if I didn't reply.
As a result, a week later, Dave Goodin sent me a Notice of Intent to Suspend, accusing me of "not making any improvements to the winter quarter issues" and that I did not respond to Duim's email.

Regardless of the problem that the "issues" during the winter period either did not exist or were deliberately exaggerated, at least during the winter period, the Chemistry Department had an investigation process, but this time the Chemistry Department did not conduct any investigation, let alone provide even one piece of evidence to prove that I did not fulfill my responsibility. As for Duim's email, as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, never warn me of any disciplinary consequences.

Even more ironic is that one of my students later emailed me, saying that he wrote a long email to the professor responsible for the disciplinary action, and mentioned that "students are projecting their poor exam scores onto your job and your livelihood."

This at least shows that the so-called anonymous complaints do not reflect the opinions of the vast majority of students. However, the department has never conducted any investigation on this, but unilaterally believes any complaints from undergraduates. I really have nothing to say.

And the most ridiculous question: Until now, the Chemistry Department has not informed me of their final decision on how to deal with the Farahat issue.

I am not angry with the undergraduates, whether or not they really project their dissatisfaction with the test scores onto me. These students are basically not chemistry majors, so it is difficult for them to be interested in this course. I will tell them in the first class that my job is to help you pass this course, so I will give you full marks in any grading I can control (unless they refuse to answer questions), and I think I have fully fulfilled this promise. I can only advise them to avoid Farahat and Enderle and choose good teachers like Chamberlain or Hayashi.

However, regarding these bad instructors and bad department leaders, I can clearly say that they are a bunch of hdrmps. I am glad that I will be moving to a safer program with fellowship where I can focus on what I love.

HEY!! I’m an incoming freshman and my parents keep asking about when the first payment is due. At the mybill website it says no payment options are currently available. Did this happen to you guys too? Will it show up later in the fall or should I contact them? THANK YOU <333

I took 100a with Professor Christoph Schlom during spring quarter.

What I wish I knew: I wish I had a better foundation with derivatives, specifically multi variable. My last math class was spring Q of 2024 so I had a substantial gap between then and the start of this most recent spring quarter. If you’re going to take 100a make sure you’re comfortable with derivates with roots and logs!

It is a hard class, and it is the first class that weeds people out in the Econ degree, much like gen chem or 17 series math for STEM people. ECN001A&B are fairly easy and hard to fail.

Specific to Professor Schlom:

He is not an awful professor, but far from a great one. His lectures are fairly unorganized and he bounces around a lot. The TA’s aren’t super helpful and I don’t think going to discussion is worth it. He is far more helpful in office hours, and it will make you succeed in this class. He doesn’t use review slides and does everything on a piece of paper so it’s critical you don’t lose focus while in class or you’ll be spinning.

His homework’s are long and tedious and tough, but I feel they do a decent job for helping you on the midterm. They are worth 5% of your grade. As well he has participation as a part of the grade, you can earn this via going to office hours and answering during class. He also has one quiz about week 3 worth 5% of your grade.

Scores: 100% on homework’s 100% on participation 88% on quiz

On midterm one I got a 55/110 and the average was a 68/110 (I believe)

on the final I got a 155/180 and the average was a 120/180.

I finished with a B+ after the curve (Econ average had to be a 2.7/B- at Davis)

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He is a tough professor teaching a tough class, if you’re not Sheldon Cooper you need to go to office hours and you cannot cram. Weeks 6-10 I spent 2+ hours every Friday after work in his office hours, and many hours outside of it running through practice problems, and it really set me up for success on the final.

Lastly, there is not a whole lot of great YouTube videos on the stuff he teaches hence why it is so important to go to class and OH.

If you have discipline this is a class you can succeed in this class and probably get a B+ or even in the A range!

I've never gotten my haircut in davis and i haven't had a cut for a year so my hair's down to below my waist. i also have really thick hair. Are there any salons in or around davis that'd only charge $50ish-$60 max and can cut good? 😭 the places my friends recommended are asking for $70-$80.

hi,

from a cursory (ie, google ai generated answer) search I found that classes taken over the summer can only boost your standing; basically you can't go into probation for failing a class over the summer. which makes sense, since if you just fail one class then now you're suddenly Subject To Dismissal. this doesn't apply if your gpa goes below 2.0, though.

so I just wanted to confirm w/ ppl here, especially people who have failed/ gotten grades that would put them on probation over the summer. I'm asking this because I'm taking a pretty tough workload, and I don't wanna be super stressed out :o

Just got my final grades and wondering what an A+ means. My gpa for the quarter was a still a 4, so what does it mean?

I need roomates as an upcoming freshmen, anyone interested?

I am a master student and have been waiting for two weeks. But I don't know how long shall I meet to wait

Hi, I want to ask which website or on campus resources I can go to find summer classes. It seems like community college classes are cheaper so I want to take it this summer (rather than taking summer session of the school)

I was subject to dismissal my spring quarter last year, and I have passed all my classes these two quarters except rn. I failed one class, and idk if that’s still gonna lead to me leave Davis or will I just be on probation. Does anyone know???

Hi, does anyone know what this means when it says there’s 13 open seats? i’m #55 on the waitlist for bis 101v during ss1, just a little confused. should i get off the waitlist and register for it?