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Canadian Wants To Transfer

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Canadian here

I'm going into my second year of biomedical engineering at a Canadian University this fall and I'd like to transfer into engineering at either McMaster or Western. I'm also interested in Queen's but to my understanding it can be difficult to transfer there from another engineering program.

The problem is that I achieved a low average in first year. Around a 70%. This was largely a result of domestic and financial problems resulting from one of my parents becoming disabled. My average is a result of 7 courses as I ended up dropping the rest to focus on problems at home.

In high-school I took all the prerequisite courses for engineering and finished with a 95% average.

I intend to apply to transfer after fall semester this year.

I'm planning to take electives this year to improve my average by as much as I can. I also intend to fill out an extenuating circumstances form explaining my situation.

I'm thinking of filling out a supplementary application form as well but as of now I'd only be able to put several academic awards I won in high-school and some extracurriculars from my high-school days on it.

This summer I have a guaranteed engineering internship but I'd have obviously already submitted my transfer application by the time it starts.

I have already spoken to councilors and transfer coordinators about this matter. I have a good reason for transferring and I'm certain that I want to transfer.

Does anyone know if I'm going about transferring correctly? Does anyone know of anything else I can do to improve my chances of transferring?
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Any of you guys ever create/discover new math? I have been deriving basic theorems from axioms i conceived about basic abductive reasoning.
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/sfg/ Space Flight General

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Starship development and future edition.
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Is war dysgenic ?
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Actual Science from the Future Ridiculously Oversimplified

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-You only need rotating magnetic fields and neutrinos and a neutrino detector to talk to the past

-Fusion is achievable by pulling things together instead of pushing them together

-Cancer can be cured with fake sugar

-Migraines are caused by a neural form of endometriosis

-Ho-Hos are kind of like perpetual motion machines and vice versa
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https://www.energylivenews.com/2021/09/07/britain-fires-up-coal-power-plant-to-meet-electricity-demand/
>have a sizable proportion of your grid rely on wind energy
>wind doesn't blow
>forced to fire up coal plants to prevent shortages
So much for "green" energy
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Apparently this gamma ray burst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRB_080319B

was visible at around 5.2-2.5 magnitude to the naked eye in visible wavelengths despite being extrapolated to to 7.5 billion light years away through red shift measurements. That one star put out more like than a 1000 quasars or a 1000 trillion suns in its "afterglow" (for a minute) when it exploded?

Why this a star in particular and not some other stuff about a black hole colliding with an accretion disc. Spectra?
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is this true?
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Everyone always talks about going back in time.

How come so few people seem to really be interested in stopping or slowing (perhaps even significantly or even to the point where it looks like you "stopped" it) time?

That sounds more believable and less dangerous to me, at least as someone who only just began reading like the third page of chapter 1 on relativity in my physics book + some Nova doc on Einstein.

Travelling back in time seema impossible, arupid, and damgerous unless you somehow manage to create an entire parallel universe in the past following a bunch of complicated rules (which Im sure im not the forst to realize) like only people from the originating universe can travel through their own space-time portal things....

But slowing time down so you can get shit done seems at least believable by comparison, right?
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Math GRE Subject Test practice/help

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Hello /sci/. I don't usually post on 4chan so please excuse any faux pas, but no other website can come through in a pinch like this one can so I'm asking the anons for help.

I am taking the math GRE subject test in five days. I'll probably be taking the October test too, because I don't expect to do well on this one. I am very bad at calculus. When I started undergrad I already knew what I wanted to specialize in (algebraic topology) so I made a beeline for the upper-division courses and only did the minimum required part of the calc sequence (calc 2 & 3 since I took calc 1 in high school). Also that was all in my freshman year of undergrad (5 years ago) and I've forgotten most of it by now.

I took the GRE subject test once before, in fall 2019, and it fucking obliterated me. 33rd percentile. Garbage. I need to fucking do better this time around cause if I can't get into grad school this year I'll probably have to start looking for other career options.

So here's where I'm at: I have the basics of calc obviously, I can take a derivative or evaluate a basic integral. If there's a trig sub I'm probably screwed, if there's change of coordinates or a contour/path integral I'm probably screwed, if there's a complex integral I'm screwed. Div/grad/curl/vector fields is bad. I get the impression there are basic calc theorems I don't remember (shit like the IVT, except not that one because I remember it). Convergence tests for series and radius of convergence is bad.

Ok, here's the thing. Because my brain doesn't fucking work I'm really bad at the organizational side of studying. But if I have problems in front of me, I can work on them for hours no problem. So the ideal thing I need would be a big ass database of calc problems that I can search by topic/technique and just sit there and practice on like a madman through the rest of the month. Anything like that exist? Anything similar? Any other advice?