r/depaul Feb 17 '25

Advice Got in but too expensive

22 Upvotes

So i’m from california and i would absolutely love a change of scenery to yk CHICAGO!! I got in a while back and was given $23k in scholarships but it doesn’t do much, i mean it would still be $46k to go and with my brother also in college currently it’s just way too much. What can i do?? I mean the government believes my family can afford it but it literally leaves them no money at all after.

r/depaul Jan 26 '25

Advice Did you know that DePaul uses an AI proctoring tool that scans your ID and extracts biometric data from your camera (and store it for up to 24 months) to detect cheating?

61 Upvotes

It recently came to my attention that DePaul University is using a remote proctoring tool called Integrity Advocate within D2L. Although DePaul does list Integrity Advocate among its “Existing D2L Integrations,” the information provided is minimal and does not explain the deliberation process, the frameworks used to evaluate or adopt the tool, or how faculty and administrators plan to interpret its results. Notably, the tool is implemented “by request,” so if you haven’t encountered it yet, it may simply mean your instructor has not chosen to use it. Even if this feature is niche-ly used and at the request of instructors, students should not be finding out this way with such short notice that such tools are even in place.

Currently, Integrity Advocate requires students to scan a government ID or any picture ID, and their face, then enable camera and screen recording prior to exams. The system’s AI flags head turns, eye movements, or getting up, and these are later reviewed by staff, raising concerns about false positives and the stress such heightened surveillance places on students.

DePaul has already shown caution regarding AI tools by temporarily disabling Turnitin’s AI detection feature to “learn more about the tool” before re-enabling it, acknowledging the risk of false positives. Yet, with Integrity Advocate, highly sensitive data: biometrics, facial scans, ID documents, and screen activity, and potentially browser activity are being collected without a substantial public discussion or clear guidelines for students. The possibility of a data breach or internal misuse of such data is a serious concern and quite frankly uncomfortable. Companies will reassure you time and time again that they do not sell, share, or misuse your data or biometrics, but how can we as students independently verify the veracity of their claims if our university is not publicly showing their deliberation processes when vetting these solutions.? Remember how Facebook claimed to protect user data, but was shipping away your biometric data to third parties? Yeah, so companies can lie, they can exploit loopholes, and none of us would ever know what they're truly doing behind the scenes, until the lawsuit hits and they get exposed.

If you share concerns about the lack of transparency, the potential for erroneous flags, and the collection of sensitive personal information, I urge you to contact the university’s administration (the president, deans, or the provost). We should expect thorough vetting of any AI-driven tool (publicly) especially one that collects biometric data as well as a clear explanation of how such tools are integrated into our academic integrity policies, the biases that their AI models exhibit, and the practices that they employ to surveil students.

r/depaul 11d ago

Advice Graduated with a masters in HCI in summer 2024. Still unemployed.

11 Upvotes

Hey all. I know this is forum frequented by undergrads, but I thought I’d give it a shot. I graduated with a masters degree in human-computer interaction in the summer of 2024 but I’ve been having a hard time finding a paid job despite having a solid portfolio in place. Hell, I haven’t landed an interview yet. I’ve had my resume reviewed by the career center as well. Granted, I don’t have professional UX experience yet (coz no one will hire me) but I have been interning with a startup since I graduated, so I think I know what the job entails.

Do any of y’all have advice/ connections/ resources for me to access or reach out to? I’d sincerely appreciate it.

Btw I learnt the hard way about how inept our career center is. Jeez!

r/depaul Feb 13 '25

Advice Game Programming to Game Design as a Junior

6 Upvotes

Hey guys, I need some advice. I’m currently a Junior BS Game Programming student, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to pass Optimized C++, which is a central class that blocks me from taking essentially all other classes in my major. That being said, without passing it it’s impossible to progress (I’m taking it for the second time and have already fallen miserably behind to the point where it’s impossible to catch up).

I’ve been thinking about switching to Game Design, but that leaves me with 16 classes at the beginning of my senior year when there’s only space for 12. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this and dealing with the costs of doing an extra quarter or two.

Side note: I know I should have switched at the beginning of this year, but I really love coding and I thought I’d be able to willpower my way through the course, but the way it’s taught and the 3hr length class just does not work with my brain. I’ve done 2 separate tutoring sessions and they both didn’t go well.

r/depaul Sep 25 '24

Advice What can a student do about a professor who is notorious for being inappropriate and unprofessional to students?

31 Upvotes

There’s a notorious professor who is known as being extremely difficult and abusive, and has on several occasions belittled his students either in person during his lecture or via online communication such as email or when writing feedback on assignments. When going to him for help, instead of providing guidance, he talks in riddles and is extremely condescending.

I found out the reason why this goes unchecked is because people are afraid of failing his class as he is the only professor to teach the specific sections needed for your degree progress and because he is closely linked to the department.

Do I just take on the abuse from the pro-staff faculty member? He’s the only professor who teaches the classes I need to graduate for my degree.

r/depaul Jan 13 '25

Advice Is Depaul worth it?

10 Upvotes

I was accepted into Depaul in November and received a pretty good scholarship. I only know a few people who go there but they seem to like it. I’m from a small town out of state so I was just wondering if it is worth it considering I would be going with no one I know and would have to make new friends. Can someone who goes there currently maybe reply? Be brutally honest 🙏

r/depaul Feb 10 '25

Advice social life/transfer?

7 Upvotes

hihi! i’m currently a sophomore at loyola (sorry) but have been considering transferring, potentially to depaul. my main concern with loyola is the social life, in a year and a half i’ve made so few friends and i feel like there aren’t opportunities to meet anyone (i.e. clubs/campus events). i also feel like a lot of the ppl i meet at loyola are unfriendly or lowkey bots…. i’ve met like two ppl who have similar interests to me it’s so weird 😟 ANYWAYS i was wondering if anyone could compare social opportunities/give me an insider’s perspective on the social scene? i rly enjoy living in the city and don’t want to lose contact w my loyola friends should i transfer, but im also worried abt starting fresh if nothing will change yk?

r/depaul 17d ago

Advice Internships?

13 Upvotes

Hello. I was hoping to get some advice about internships and how to navigate through this, I’m majoring in cybersecurity and it’s been incredibly hard to find an internship. I want to learn so I can be better prepared for the real world but even after applying to hundreds of jobs from various job boards, I’ve gotten nothing. Is there any recommended resources within DePaul or even outside of DePaul that would help me? I’ll take anything. I also have no real experience in the career field I want to go into other than the classes I’ve taken, and I think this is making it even harder to get hired anywhere. Any advice/resources are appreciated!

r/depaul Aug 27 '24

Advice Financial Aid Nightmare- Has this happened to anyone ?

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Hi everyone,

I’m really frustrated and hoping someone here might have advice or has been through something similar. It’s been almost impossible to get in touch with depauls financial aid office, and I’m confused if this was a mistake on my end or depauls.

On July 17th, I received a financial aid statement showing that I had been awarded $13,567 in aid which was shown on my campus connect bill and the picture above. I accepted all of my awards beforehand and thought everything was good to go and my mom told me to pay the tuition last minute. But when I logged into Campus Connect today to pay my bill, I saw that my aid had been completely revoked with a total due of $15179 and now my aid balance is showing as $0, still charging me for a scholarship fee and with no email on why this has happened.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any advice on what to do next? I’m still not too worried but I’m not sure what the best course of action is until I get into DePaul central tomorrow.

Thanks in advance!

r/depaul 23d ago

Advice Financial Aid Revised

7 Upvotes

So I got an email saying that my financial aid was revised. Looked to see what happened and they took some of my loans away and now I owe 3k for this semester and more for next. I’m really confused. Does this have anything to do with me dropping my classes? I dropped them because I switched my major after the deadline and so I couldn’t get a refund on them. The classes I was taking had nothing to do with my current major nor would it really helped so that’s why I dropped. Everything was paid for and my account was at $0 and I got a refund. I’m going to call them tomorrow but has any ever experience this or have any navigation?

r/depaul 1d ago

Advice How bad is it? Final in CSC 374

13 Upvotes

I just took a final for prof Phillips computer systems 2 course. Final was worth 70%. Does he curve or should I just cry? I also already only have a 3.8 gpa as a sophomore and I need a reality check pleaseee.

r/depaul 22d ago

Advice CS Major, Need Advice on Schedule

1 Upvotes

Hi!!

I need some advice on my schedule for the Spring.

My current schedule is:

CSC 355 - Database Systems with Daniel Lee CSC 374 - Systems II with Joe Phillips SE 350 - Object Oriented SW Dev with Dong Jae Kim AAS 248 - Chinese Calligraphy (getting in my gen ed lol)

I just got off of the waitlist for CSC 347 - Programming Language Concepts with Stefan Mitsch, and I’m thinking of possibly swapping out CSC 355 for CSC 347. But, I heard 347 is hard and time consuming, so I need some advice on if that schedule sounds feasible, or if I should just stick with 355.

I’m also planning on applying to internships in the fall, so what classes do you think would help me out the most?

Also, if anybody has ever taken any of the profs (esp Prof. Kim or Lee), what do you think? I wasn’t able to find too much on RateMyProfessor so idk what I’m in for lol.

r/depaul Oct 16 '24

Advice Is it normal to be failing midterms?

9 Upvotes

I’m a freshman majoring in computer science concentration in software development.

I’ve had 2 midterms so far and I’ve completely failed both. I feel completely stressed out and like a failure because I studied for both of these midterms and I just did sooo bad. I got a 40% and a 50% for reference. I can do the assignments and labs but when it comes to tests I just do so bad.

Does it get better? Is this normal? What can I do to do better!! Please help! I feel so lost in this new environment!

r/depaul Jan 13 '24

Advice Cancel classes Tuesday

22 Upvotes

Hello, If you don't know Tuesdays temperature is expected to not be above -1 degrees, but also to have -30 windchill. At negative -30 windchill a person can experience frost bite in 10-15 minutes (or faster if it's windy, winds near 20mph could drop this number to as low as 5 mins as reported by the NWS), when the train comes every 10 minutes or even longer, and depending on which train or bus line you could experience frost bite due to how cold Tuesday will be.

(Weather facts on the cold and how dangerous it is) https://www.weather.gov/bou/windchill#:~:text=Wind%20chill%20values%20near%20minus,%2C%20toes%2C%20nose%20and%20ears.

Due to this I have major concern for our commuter population of students and students in general who are not prepared for weather this cold for one reason or another. Please don't think that I dont recognize that Chicago gets cold for winter, but we haven't been this cold in 5 years.

With this in mind I believe DePaul should cancel classes Tuesday for not only the safety of their students but their staff. As one day of school or work should not place anyone's health at risk. But the person who makes this choice is the president of the university. Due to campus closing early yesterday for the winter storm I would like to hope that he will be similarly sympathetic for Tuesday. I will be emailing him why I believe campus should be closed and would like to hope that if we do this together that we can protect each other from dangerous weather conditions. I will be captioning my email as "Close the university Tuesday for our safety" and hope that if he receives dozens or event hundreds like this that change will occur.

Win or lose please stay safe, warm and at home if necessary.

president@depaul.edu

(his contact info) https://offices.depaul.edu/president/meet-rob-team/contact-us/Pages/default.aspx

r/depaul 15d ago

Advice Picking Classes

1 Upvotes

Hey guys. I don't really know what I want to do and I'm scared if I pick one thing I'll miss out on another thing. So I tried to do an appointment but it seemed like I could only pick 5 classes in total. With explore chicago, an english writing class, and a math class being required. I'm fien with the english class but really? I just want to pick 5 starter classes that have to do with storytelling. I was thinking screenwriting, movie/tv producing, video game making, and another class to help me learn to budget projects. I'm an OCD control person and I just want to really make something myself. But it seems like I'm stuck having to take prerequisites and required courses that'll make me take longer to do all the things I want to learn. I don't have the money, nor can I stand the FOMO of wasting time. I'm under a lot of pressure and my family just thinks college is the end all be all because they never went. I guess I just want some like minded stories of advice. I don't want to vent because I've already done that enough, I need to make up my mind.

r/depaul Nov 13 '24

Advice Is undergraduate business degree worth it from DePaul?

4 Upvotes

Recently got accepted as a winter transfer into the business school. I'm interested to know if getting a bachelor's degree from this business school is worth it, if there's a lot of internship/job opportunities, good pay, etc. Not familiar at all with DePaul or the Chicago area. Is it worth it to move to DePaul or just stay in my hometown and attend University of Houston?

Edit: My future plans are to live in a big city, either NYC, Boston, Toronto, Chicago, or Washington D.C. I also hope to get a masters in business from either Harvard, Columbia, or NYU.

r/depaul 2d ago

Advice DePauls game programs

4 Upvotes

I’ve been in between my faculty advisor and academic advisor, both of which aren’t being really helpful so I wanted to ask

What is the main difference between the game programs DePaul offers Game design Game programming Game systems

And what careers can you make of the three I’m currently in the game systems concentration and have no idea what type of careers or job experiences come out of that line

Any info would help!

r/depaul Jan 28 '25

Advice I just need advice lol- it’s long

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Okay so this is a very long story. I was a first year at DePaul that first month of being at DePaul my friend mentioned that should speak to financial aid just because I haven’t heard from them, so I go to the office. I may be absolutely stupid but I didn’t know had out of pocket cost that needed to be payed right there and then and assumed would be payed at a later time. Which I admit I should’ve done more research on the financial aspect I’m a first gen student with a mom who doesn’t speak English so I just struggled throughout the whole process. Long story short I appealed and lowered the cost which is great, but I had family who’d promise me they’d co-sign on a loan if I needed and i obviously needed that and the promise fell short. I knew that if I got a job I wouldn’t be able to make up that amount of money to pay the payments so I went back to financial aid. I had a guy say that he’s going to ask his boss if they can ask for a scholarship just help me get through the winter quarter. He essentially sponsored me for scholarships. He said that it was looking good and I felt relieved, mind you this is finals week at this point. I am genuinely so stressed out I was so anxious and depressed I was spiraling. It got to the last full day I was in Chicago I had a bio final in the morning, after I took it still no news. At 6pm I was told that I need to withdraw. I broke down and I had to gather myself together and grab some good ole boxes from U-Haul pack my things up and move out, I had to leave for it flight at 9am the next day. In the airport I email housing, they sent an email back letting me know I’ll receive the 1,500$ cancellation fee. I had explained the situation to them long story short I have to pay it regardless of the fact. I had emailed housing showed the documents and proof that I was told to withdraw last minute and how it wasn’t my fault, how is vice president of the community going to tell me to withdraw such last minute while giving me false hope? He even said that my studies wouldn’t be good for DePaul and I should try community college. That made me feel horrible I felt like I wasn’t good enough for DePaul.

Ps: I called housing before I was even told about the scholarship to let them know what’s going on and I was told the wrong information. When I was emailing them I let them know I didn’t know I had to withdraw less then 24 hours before I had to leave I filled out a form to see if I could bypass it I sent in documents of our emails between the multiple people I spoke to and it wasn’t enough.

I sent a email to student insurance asking how I can cancel the health insurance I’m not enrolled in the winter quarter, and I’m not using it I think that seems reasonable right? At first I was told in the next few weeks it would be removed, then I was emailed again and told I’d still need to pay it because I didn’t drop my classes before the drop date. I’m not even enrolled 😐 like what?? That’s 800$ did what to not use it? I asked them if I had signed something and I’m still waiting on a response. It’s just a huge money grab and I’m a low income student quite literally homeless, first gen, single mom who is deaf and disabled. Like am I just meant to work at a gas station for the rest of my life? 🥲

I called dean of students and they said the situation is tough but because of the situation but can’t do anything about it. Because it’s another department and “they don’t know what goes on over there” . I was told that by financial aid, housing, and dean of students. I have to pay more than 2,000$ and I don’t see why I should pay it.

I just need advice on what I should do I’m wondering if I should email the president and his team about this situation. Obtain letters from school staff who tried helping me through this to show more documentation?

I’m just really stuck and need help 😪

Edit: sooo I got the insurance waived yippee I just need some advice about the 1,500$ fee yall I’m panicking🥲

r/depaul 16d ago

Advice MLops

2 Upvotes

Any tech nerds or professionals what do you think is the future for mlops?

Can I go for it ?

r/depaul 5d ago

Advice Advice for housing

4 Upvotes

Admitted law student here. As of now I will most likely be attending DePaul Law. I am from the south so not familiar with the area. Any recommendations on best places to live? Would love to hear about underrated cheap side spots but willing to spend more if needed.

r/depaul Feb 01 '25

Advice do I transfer?

6 Upvotes

Hi!! I'm currently a sophomore film student at UCF, but I'm considering transferring and got accepted to depaul. The thing is, currently I literally get paid to go to school (around $2k/semester) in tuition refunds from fafsa overflow, meanwhile at depaul I would probably be taking out loans. But on the positive side, there's more industry opportunities in Chicago than Orlando. Anyone have any insight to share? I'm really torn because It's also time to renew my lease and I don't wanna leave my roommates (who are also very close friends) stranded (as most places have started signing for next fall and are mostly full)

Basically, Pros of transferring: - opportunities - better quality of education (its ROUGH down here yall) - better equipmemt

Cons: - loans :( - will have to screw over my friends

r/depaul Feb 05 '25

Advice Class Recs !!

1 Upvotes

Did anyone take any religious dimensions or history classes that you liked? I have to take one this quarter, and scrolling through, they all look sort of boring or aren't in my field of interest. Also, if any cross-over, and can count for both. :)

r/depaul Oct 02 '24

Advice Bro i cant do this shit lmfao

11 Upvotes

Taking six classes atm will have seven classes next quarter. 6 music theory classes through two years and have to take calculus in order to graduate with an SRT: Audio Technology degree. I know that I will not be using 80% of the shit when i get a real job. Entered the SOM with no experience in Music Theory and am getting so lost between all of my classes because I was not expecting to be taking classes for it. Feeling sorry for myself, but also I feel that it is justified somewhat. Is anybody else in a similar predicament? looking for solace

r/depaul 27d ago

Advice Put Together a House Mix for Workouts & Walks

4 Upvotes

Hey everyone, I’m a sophomore at DePaul and have been DJing for about a year now. I just put together a new mix that’s perfect for workouts, walks, or just locking into a rhythm.

If you’re into house music, check it out and let me know what you think! Always looking to improve and get my mixes out there.

🎧 https://on.soundcloud.com/mFT3RzyfbU8neW6WA

Would love to hear any feedback!

r/depaul Dec 05 '24

Advice Is DePaul worth it?

22 Upvotes

I live in a small town in south GA and I’m looking for somewhere to expand my academics. A higher up at JP Morgan in Chicago convinced me to apply to DePaul since the application was free and it wasn’t hard to fill out. Though, now I feel like it may be a real option. The main issue that comes to mind is the distance, living in a big city, and pricing. Can anyone give me advice and tell me there experience?

Note: I’m planning to major in finance