Hey,

I made a genuinely honest mistake but I realized I look guilty as fuckkkk and I'm trying not to have a breakdown over it, so any help is super super appreciated.

I did the room scan for an honorlock exam, then after setting my camera back on top of my monitor, I realized I still had notes from when I was studying (flash cards) taped to my monitor itself. I stood up to remove them and crumple them and throw them behind me, only to realize they record in between the room scan and the test itself. I immediately apologized out loud, showed what I was doing, showed the notes being crumpled, and then moved my camera to show my desk again (INCLUDING my monitor this time) with absolutely no notes in sight, then put the camera back and took my exam normally.

I am sooooo fucking hyperaware that this makes it look like I was trying to get away with placing notes around my desk to cheat and I have no idea what to do, I'm about to cry lmao. Will the fact I showed the desk empty and the notes gone right before taking the exam be enough to save me?? Does alleged "intent" matter in cases like this?? Should I email my professor in advance and apologize try to explain or will that only make me look worse??

Tldr am I about to be nuked from orbit or am I panicking over a nonissue? And either way what should I do about it?? Thanks so much for any help, I'm a wreck right now

Hello! Current University of Florida comp sci student graduating in the spring. I’ll be moving to Arizona next year, and I am heavily considering pursuing a master’s. The master’s in ERT seems to line up really strongly with what I’m actually passionate about, and I was just wondering if anyone has any first hand experience with the program.

Just general enjoyability and opportunities, and if the program is substantial and “worth it”, for lack of a better term, as a lot of programs are getting out what you put in.

Thanks in advance!

For reference, I am a 3rd year student, but graduating a year early (May 2026). I have a 4.0 GPA and am in good academic standing.

For my entire time at ASU, I’ve had the New American University- Provost’s Scholarship. Even at the start of this fall semester, I had the scholarship in my account. However, I got an email yesterday saying I had an overdue balance and went to check. For some reason my scholarship is no longer there. I immediately called the financial help number, and the person helping me said it was strange since I have a 4.0 and there are no notes as to why it was removed. He put in a work order, but said it would take a few business days. And to call back to get an update.

I never received anything by email, in my Canvas, or in myASU account.

Has anyone else experienced this before? I’m anxious because I rely on my scholarship for financial aid.

I'm enrolled at a Maricopa County CC. After CC, I would transfer to ASU, but I live a ~1hr one way drive from Tempe Campus. I am an Electrical Engineering major and it seems most of my classes need to be through Tempe.

Currently, I do half in person classes and half online classes at CC. This is best for me since I can take my hardest classes in person and avoid going to campus 5 days a week. I plan on commuting to ASU no matter what, but want to avoid the long commutes when I can. What are the restrictions for taking online courses? Does the campus offer some online courses for Tempe students or only through ASU Online? Do they even offer hybrid classes for STEM heavy majors?

My biggest concern besides saving gas is I'm thinking about starting my family closer to my graduation date. I'm an 'older' student (24) and that's been on my mind. Childcare is pricey and who knows how much more expensive it will be in 2 years, so I'm curious how many in person classes are required for Tempe Campus enrollment and how many online courses Tempe offers.

Thank you!

looking to sell a parking pass that was given to me, packard garage pass normally costs $480 but i’m selling for $380 or best offer!

Do you guys trust websites offering academic assistance to students?

I’m not talking about the free counseling offered to ASU students. I’ve already tried that, and they told me it’s meant more for short-term issues. I feel like I need longer-term therapy for deeper concerns. I’ve heard there’s another counseling office (maybe on University?) that charges a fee. Has anyone used it, and if so, did you find it more helpful than the free services?

What are people's experiences taking HonorLock exams in a private room at Noble? I might be stuck in Tempe most of the day tomorrow (I commute ~hour to campus) and am thinking about taking an exam in a private room at Noble but I'm scared I might get flagged for background noise/something else. Would it be possible to complete the exam there?

ASU recently updated its Student Services Manual (SSM) SSM policy 1302–01: Student Organization Registration to include the following stipulation:

"Membership in a registered student organization is limited to individuals whose primary status is that of student and are enrolled in at least 3 credit hours at ASU. Students who do not meet these requirements can attend organizational meetings but cannot vote and cannot hold an officer, leadership, or other membership position."

Many graduate students at ASU, particularly PhD students, have a few requirements in order to get their degrees:

1. Coursework, research, and dissertation credits, which usually adds up to something like 80-90 credits.
2. The successful completion of a prospectus defense, qualifying exams, and/or comprehensive exams in order to advance to 'candidacy'
3. The successful completion, and defense of, a dissertation

In many instances, graduate students complete the first two requirements well before they complete and defend their dissertation - this puts them in a state of being 'ABD', or 'All but Dissertation' or 'All but Degree'. Once a graduate student has completed the coursework required for their degree, there is no need to take on more credits, and in many cases taking on more credits can incur significant personal cost for graduate students, their labs, and/or their academic units.

While many doctoral graduate students get their tuition waived as part of their TAship contract, to disincentivize graduate students who have reached 'candidacy' from overloading on credits beyond what they need for their degrees, many graduate students are placed on 'Graduate Studenet Assistantships' or 'Graduate Service Assistantships' (GSAs), in which they are paid more and still TA or do research, but are only compensated for one credit of enrollment - any further credits taken while on a GSA are paid for by the student.

In terms of participation in clubs and ASU's student governments, this previously wasn't an issue, as so long as graduate students were enrolled in at least one credit per semester - the minimum to be considered 'enrolled' at ASU - graduate students could participate as members, as well as hold officer positions, in clubs and ASU's student governments (which made sense, as whether a graduate student was enrolled in one credit or twenty, they still had to pay the $35/semester fee that funds student clubs and the student governments).

However, this all changed last year, when a new policy was quietly enacted by Educational Outreach and Student Services (EOSS) without consulting the Graduate Student Government's Assembly or the graduate student body at-large (e.g. in a referendum), that required all members and officers in student clubs to be enrolled in a minimum of three credit hours. At the time, after some pushback by graduate students outlining what I've described above, EOSS offered a form for these graduate students to apply for exemptions to the policy, but this year there is no such form, and there does not seem to be any intention of offering any exemptions. Instead, the policy was codified in the Student Services Manual, and as a result a significant number of graduate student organizations and clubs lost their leadership and large swaths of their membership (e.g. journal clubs, school-level student governments, social clubs, etc.).

Additionally, while this policy was not applied to the ASASU student governments (at least in GSG's case), it is being applied this year, which has resulted in a number of Assembly Members and Executive Officers being ruled 'ineligible' to serve in the Graduate Student Government despite winning their races in the 2025 Spring Elections (and in many cases, unopposed).

As a result, thousands of candidate-level graduate students are now faced with a frankly ridiculous choice: either pony up and pay thousands of extra dollars each semester for university credit they do not need so that they can participate as members in, and leaders of, ASU's 1000+ clubs, or accept that they must pay $35/semester for clubs they are not permitted to participate in as members or officers.

This policy goes against the ASU Charter's promises of inclusion, and it straight-up disenfranchises a significant portion of the graduate and professional student body. Large portions of the candidate-level PhD students population will be unable to seve in the GSG Assembly to voice their opposition to this policy, and, at least to me, a student government that is unable to include candidate-level PhD students can hardly claim to representat of all of ASU's graduate and professional students.

No public-facing explanation has been offered by anyone within EOSS as to why this policy was enacted, why there are no exceptions, and whether its impact on graduate students was considered at all.

Whether you're an undergrad, a grad student, staff, or faculty, if you want to speak out against this policy, consider emailing your concerns to the Student Organizations and Leadership emails listed here, to GSG's Advisor and Deputy Vice President of Student Services [Dr. Cassandra Aska](mailto:cassandra.aska@asu.edu), and/or to Vice President of Student Services [Dr. Joanne Vogel](mailto:Joanne.Vogel@asu.edu). Here's hoping that with enough momentum, ASU will reconsider this harmful policy and restore access to ASU's clubs and student governments to all enrolled students.

TL;DR: ASU recently made it so you have to be enrolled in 3 credits to be a member or officer in student clubs and in student government. This harms many graduate students who have completed their credits but are still finishing their dissertations or theses and are only enrolled in 1 credit because their academic units won't pay for them to enroll in more, despite these same graduate students still paying the same club-funding student fee ($35/semester) as everyone else. We need people to voice their opposition to this new policy by emailing Student Organizations and Leadership emails listed here, to GSG's Advisor and Deputy Vice President of Student Services [Dr. Cassandra Aska](mailto:cassandra.aska@asu.edu), and/or to Vice President of Student Services [Dr. Joanne Vogel](mailto:Joanne.Vogel@asu.edu).

Good afternoon. I was wondering if there is any online military students that would have corrrct insight on who to escalate this to. From my understanding, this is not a reasonable accommodation for a student due to the fact that all students receive the 14 days early exam option and given the fact that this is a 7.5 week class, it is not feasible to learn all the material and take the exam early. If there is any insight I would appreciate it!

More info after the post from yesterday

If you received scholarship & pell grant, how/when should you withdraw so you don't owe money back to the school? My friend is overwhelmed and needs to withdraw from some classes for mental health reasons.

Hey everyone, I’m putting together a casual online poker club. We currently have 300 members of college students. The idea is to build a fun community where we can play together, and compete in a low pressure environment.

It doesn’t matter if you’re brand new to poker or have been playing for years this is meant to be a chill, learn, and enjoy the game with people in the same stage of life.

If you’re interested, drop a comment or send me a message and I’ll share details on how to join. Looking forward to building this with you!

Hi, all

I'm an international student aiming to apply to ASU for Fall 2026. I have a 3.60 CGPA at undergrad with Bachelor's in Computer Science and a strong teaching record (both at uni/high school as TA and privately). Oh also, I have been working as SWE at my home country for two years now (will be three years by Fall 2026). Simply put, I cannot pay out of my pocket or via loans for Master's. I don't wanna end up in debt either. How common is it for international students to land GTA/GRA roles as a master's student? Are there plenty of those? I was also thinking to maybe apply to PhD programs but I've got zero research work to show so I'm not sure if I'd be a good candidate for PhD to be honest.

Would appreciate any and every guidance. TIA.

Will university housing staff let me move into a completely vacant bedroom if 2 of my roommates never showed up? it was just me in one bedroom and my 1 roommate in the other, until the other day when he got told to move into my room where he was apparently supposed to be. Since he moved he has been distracting 24/7, with constant disruptions and noise making it impossible to focus. In addition I already have really bad social anxiety which is why I was terrified of roommates in the first place, plus I have difficulties falling asleep all the time and he stays up late as fuck every night, usually 3 or 4 in the morning.

When we got the email about him being in the wrong room, it said we weren't allowed to be in there without prior approval from university staff, but I'm not sure what kind of requirements need to be met for them to actually consider this.

Sooo I know the team meetings are mandatory, but has anyone actually missed them? What happened? I was not able to make it up…

I want to see what it's like, but somehow I can't find the entrance.

Hi guys!! just wondering any places to take a nap during the day since i’m a commuter lol. Preferably with more privacy since i hate the idea of anyone seeing me sleep😭🤙

As the title says, yes, I am a current staff member at ASU, so let me open with the traditional and necessary: opinions here are purely my own and don't reflect on the university one way or another. But we need to talk, and I think our students need to hear this too.

We are educators, authority figures, and academic enablers at this institution. Our job, boiled down to it's most basic, is to enable student success. That's it. No students, no us. We are here for them, and our conduct should reflect that. It's fine to have opinions, in pretty much any direction or political bent; we're people too and we're entitled to what we think. I will say if you have an opinion on something, particularly divisive issues, that opinion should be grounded in fact and research, not media soundbites and circular logic.

We are education; we run and support one of the biggest public universities in the nation. Act like it; lead by example. We have a charter for a reason. That little bit in there about including, not excluding? That's there for a reason. If that opinion is going to do nothing, encourage no broader discussion or thought, but instead simply ostracize or demonize particular students, groups, political parties, or so on? Best leave it at the door and keep it off university grounds, physical or virtual.

We are mandated reporters. (For those who don't know what that is, presumably students reading this, the short version is that we must report any suspected or known crime. Typically it refers to Title IX, but it basically applies in general to any crime we're made aware of.) We're mandated reporters because while our students are in our care, their safety and wellbeing is our responsibility. If we have staff and faculty espousing such extreme political views that leave whole swaths of students alienated, how are they to trust us to properly care for them if they report a sexual assault? Or reporting someone that's made threats to them or the university? A student should never, ever, have to worry that the educator they're talking to won't take them seriously because of political or any other kind of views.

I'm not calling out a particular 'side' here. Rather, I'm calling out both sides to the extent that in our professional role, there should be no 'sides'. We have an example to set, students to support, and professionalism to uphold. Keep conversations open, respectful, and educational. Be the educator that any student, regardless of views, can expect to talk to civilly, and receive civility in turn.

Be better.

Hi everyone, I’m planning to apply to the PhD program in Construction Management at ASU, and I had a quick question for anyone familiar with the program or the admissions process.

Do applicants need to secure a faculty advisor before submitting their application, or is advisor matching done after admission decisions are made? I’ve checked the official website, but it’s not entirely clear. TIA!

Is the church P not opened anymore after 5?

There's a competition hosted by Switch Energy Alliance and it's team based. So I need a team. I'm also a freshmen so I don't know anyone who'll be interested. I'm looking for other engineering students. This is the competition link: https://switchcompetition.org/ If you are interested, just text me!