I recently tried out for Bengal Brass and made the first round but I’m not sure what to expect from the audition process. Is it a lot like the marching band or is it different. Or even how difficult is it to make the second round at all.

I'll get straight to it. 28M, international student, 2nd year STEM PhD at LSU, and I'm feeling completely burnt out. I have practically no social life right now, stuck in a work, lab, home loop, and I want to actually break out of it and meet people.

As an international student I'm mainly after a group that's likeminded and actually welcoming of a new face.

The activities aren't the hook, the company is. Some things I bring to the table or I'm open to: low key hangs over a drink or a bite, tabletop and card games, poker, board games, arcade runs, reading, and I've wanted to get into DnD for a while but never had a group to start with.

If you know a grad student heavy group, or you have a friend circle that wouldn't mind adopting a burnt out PhD student who just wants to be part of something, drop a comment or reach out. I'd be happy to just tag along and see where it goes.

It's so loud it rattles everything in my house. I've gotten the RA involved, but he just does not give a shit. Like I do not get how you can give so little of a fuck about those around you who have shit to do and have to sleep.

So I know we just finished week one. But the way my horticulture class is looking and I am a psych major. I really want to drop it. Would it be in my best interest to drop my class a pick up a different one that can apply to my degree. Horticulture does only since it is a 3000 level class. So should I or just stick through the difficult Hort class?

To all the freshmen having FOMO about tailgating/ the game:
I am a junior and still in bed with no plan on tailgating. Yes it is fun the first couple times but it’s hot, everyone’s drunk and obnoxious, drinking in the heat is SUPER uncomfortable, and just all the chaos in general is super overwhelming. I say go tailgate or to the game at least once in your LSU career and that’s really all you need. Yes it is fun and definitely a different experience but all those people you see out on the parade grounds will have either been throwing up since 9 am or will be throwing up over the side of their bed in a couple hours/tomorrow. Plus if you’re not a white girl/a part of Greek life/know someone with a lot of money who has a tailgate you aren’t missing out on anything.

He seems like a really good professor. I enjoy his class but he doesnt post his slides and goes through the slides REALLY fast. He goes into a lot of detail and specifics about individual species and stuff so I was wondering what his lecture exams are like....

Hey, is anyone selling any student tickets that I could get?

Hey! I’m a new transfer student here at LSU. Over the past week I’ve noticed how big of a deal sports are here and I wanted to take advantage of all festivities on campus. If anyone could fill me in on what may be going on from tomorrow morning through this weekend that would be great. Also, I heard something about college game day coming to campus, what time should I be on campus to at the front of the crowd??

First two weeks of the fall semester are the worst out of everything I ever imagined.
I had all of my classes scheduled on Tuesday and Thursday, and it starts as early as 10:30 and I leave at 4:20, so it’s a full day. I live quite far away, and every day I have to commute to school for about 30-40 minutes depending on the traffic. I always wake up 2 hours early before class to prepare and drive to school. At first, I arrived at 8:40 or 9 thinking optimistically that there would be parking spaces available. But no, heck no. Every freaking parking space available for commuters is freaking filled, and I SPENT 1H40 DRIVING AROUND THE CAMPUS, DRIVING TO EVERY SINGLE KNOWN COMMUTER PARKING LOT, AND IT WAS ALL FILLED, DROVE TO X SPOT, ZERO AVAILABLE. THE MORE I SPENT TO LOOKING FOR A PARKING LOT THE MORE SLOT HAD BEEN TAKEN BY OTHER PEOPLE.
I HAD NO CHOICE LEFT BUT TO SPEND FREAKING $20 JUST TO PARK AT A VISITOR SPOT AND GO TO MY CLASS. I ALREADY SPENT WAY OVER JUST TO GET MY PERMIT EVERY YEAR, IT HAD ME STRESSED OUT SO MUCH. NOW I HAVE TO WAKE UP AS EARLY AS 6 JUST TO GET MY CAR SECURELY PARKED…
Im not mad at other commuters… im mad at the school.

Not sure if this breaks the “no advertising or monetization” rule, but just posting because I saw those posts from students complaining about parking and commuting. We own a 2-BR/1-BA unit in a gated complex about 2 blocks from north entrance and you can literally walk to your classes.

Our son lived there for 3 yrs and we rented it out last year to a couple students he knew. Btw, the post asking about recent grads: he graduated last May and the engineering company he interned with hired him FT—-so yall don’t fall asleep on those internships!!

It’s currently vacant so it’s ready to move in (either on your own or bring your favorite roommate). We were just planning on using it to go check out games or whenever we visit Baton Rouge, but man, after seeing some posts, figured we may make someone’s life a little easier!

My wife and I have a few things in there that you can definitely keep using: a couch….lamp…table…a couple of bar stools…some wall decor…one tv (not smart)…queen sized bed frame…washer and dryer…and a fridge. We’ll pay for utilities but you pay for your own internet.

It’s mixed tenants so not everyone is a student and it lends itself to being a quiet, decent, and safe place. Message me if you’re interested and we discuss more details and I can meet you there next week.

To the rest of you: good luck this semester and Geaux Tigers!!

How bad is dipping out of campus to go toward laf gonna be tomorrow. Is there a time to be out of campus by with the football game?

I just got tickets yesterday from a season ticket holder and am clueless on where to park. Especially since I won’t be able to get there until around 4pm Saturday. Does anyone have ideas or suggestions on where we could park? We know at this point and with us getting there so late that it will probably be a hike to get there, but we just need to know that we will be able to park somewhere. Please help and TIA

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Listen, I know it's early but I'm curious.

Does anyone dress up for Halloween??

There's construction going around it and today I walked by and it looked like they put up a wall in front of the main entrance. I live at the ion its not possible to go to the 459 for lunch and dinner everyday... Where the hell am I supposed to use my meal swipes?!

Hi! I'm an LSU alum, and I was in the WARS club my entire stint at LSU, and I remember a lot of people interested but unable to play consistently or at all because it's locked in on Fridays. So I'm hoping that a game every other Sunday night might interest some people! I live in Denham, but I'm moving back to BR in January. I haven't decided on a campaign yet, but I'm deciding between a homebrew, Curse of Strahd, or Wild beyond Witchlight. It would be a woman and queer friendly table as well!

For the mods: i'm posting on here because I want to have a game that's available towards younger adults and people around my age, instead of playing with 30+ year olds (nothing wrong with them, it's just hard to find queer friendly DnD players older than that sometimes)

If ur interested, DM me or leave a comment so i can get your discord

Basically just the title of this. There's a queer fashion class that I'm extremely interested in, but it's only web-based. I have been told by many people that it's not worth it, that web-based classes are awful, that if you don't have to take the class then it's not worth it, etc. And I'd still be doing most of my classes in person, it's just this one class that's super interesting to me but I guess I just wanted to ask if anyone else here has taken a web-based class in the past and if it was awful/fine/good/etc?

Thanks :)

I’m a Construction Management major at LSU and I’m taking ISDS right now. I know Business Calculus uses Cengage, and I believe Trigonometry and ECON also use Pearson.

Since the textbooks/homework access codes are so expensive, would it be worth buying Cengage Unlimited and Pearson+ now so I can use them for future classes? Or is it better to just buy the access for each class when I take it?

Also, I got a 68 on ALEKS, so I believe I can take Business Calculus. If I take Business Calculus, does that automatically give me credit for Trigonometry, or would I still have to take Trig separately?

Just trying to figure this out before I spend money on these subscriptions lol. Any CM majors who have taken these classes, let me know!

I’m a senior this year and I need to meet with an advisor to talk about graduation, but I don’t see any appointment availability. Does anyone know how to get into contact with one? I don’t have one listed in my Navigate portal.

UPDATE: I see on the website that the appointments don’t open up till September 3rd. Thank y’all for the suggestions!

I just got my interview invitation to LSUHSC School of Nursing. It’s a video interview where they display a question to you and you only have a certain amount of time to answer it, so I am nervous on how I should prepare for it. Can anyone tell me how theirs went? Thank you!!

Is anyone else still waiting for their refund? I had to pay the full amount out-of-pocket for this semester because they still had to verify my FAFSA and whatnot. It got verified shortly after. So I should get the entire reward refunded to my account, yes?

Got three separate emails on 8/19 from LSU notifying me that the funds were posted to my account. I checked and it is visible on workday. Has been for over a week, but I still haven't received it.

Has anyone taken her for ACCT 3025? I’m debating on switching sections but her rate my professor reviews aren’t the best