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Re: UNSW General Chat
« Reply #150 on: December 25, 2019, 12:26:15 pm »
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Any suggestions for my timetable? Also, any suggestions for general education courses for my first year?
Most first year engineering timetables are pretty far from ideal. Your's is pretty much what's to be expected.

But you may want to navigate around those 9 AM classes. (All of them if possible, but at least the lab I'd say.) It becomes a huge drain waking up and getting on time to your classes. Some people deal with one, but you have four.

Keep in mind that gen-eds don't have to be taken in first year. But first thing that comes to my mind is always ECON1101.

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Re: UNSW General Chat
« Reply #151 on: December 25, 2019, 01:17:31 pm »
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Most first year engineering timetables are pretty far from ideal. Your's is pretty much what's to be expected.

But you may want to navigate around those 9 AM classes. (All of them if possible, but at least the lab I'd say.) It becomes a huge drain waking up and getting on time to your classes. Some people deal with one, but you have four.

Keep in mind that gen-eds don't have to be taken in first year. But first thing that comes to my mind is always ECON1101.
Is ECON1101 really easy or something?
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Re: UNSW General Chat
« Reply #152 on: December 25, 2019, 01:38:27 pm »
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Any suggestions for my timetable? Also, any suggestions for general education courses for my first year?
Just like Rui said, first year timetables are the worst (mine was also as bad as yours and I took the same combination of subjects in T1). I will say, try to avoid putting long gaps in your timetable. In my T1 timetable, there was a 4 hour gap from my 9am lecture and my math tute and it was not fun. It's very exhausting. Personally, I'd recommend putting something in between the math lecture and your ENGG1000 lecture - maybe a math tute or something?

As for general education, it really depends on personal preference but I'd rather push general education towards the end of my degree. Because you need to do Industrial Training, I'd rather do my electives and gen ed courses when I'm doing IT so it's not too demanding from me and I get to do all the demanding courses out of the way as fast as possible. And when you choose your gen ed courses, think about what courses are you interested in and want a taste of it? Or you could find what gen ed courses don't have a final exam lol.

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Re: UNSW General Chat
« Reply #153 on: December 25, 2019, 03:04:21 pm »
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Re: UNSW General Chat
« Reply #154 on: December 25, 2019, 05:03:29 pm »
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Thank you guys, Merry Christmas!
And a very big Merry Christmas to you too.

Any suggestions for my timetable? Also, any suggestions for general education courses for my first year?
Might I just add this is a verry deadly combination of subjects. Not trying to scare you but I did this exact combo in T1 except ENG was replaced with COMP.

I was worked to exhaustion with the amount of work I had every week. It was the most stressful term I've ever had so make sure you're prepared for it because it's going to be REALLY hectic. Hopefully ENG doesn't give as much work as COMP!

Of course you might cope with it better than I did and all the best of luck to you =)

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Re: UNSW General Chat
« Reply #155 on: December 25, 2019, 05:16:20 pm »
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Might I just add this is a verry deadly combination of subjects. Not trying to scare you but I did this exact combo in T1 except ENG was replaced with COMP.

I was worked to exhaustion with the amount of work I had every week. It was the most stressful term I've ever had so make sure you're prepared for it because it's going to be REALLY hectic. Hopefully ENG doesn't give as much work as COMP!

Of course you might cope with it better than I did and all the best of luck to you =)
It's a significantly demanding combination but engineering students have relatively little choice. (Nor do I suspect you would have in your double degree either.)
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Recommendation might be to swap out either ENGG1000 OR PHYS1121, but not both, for something else. Ideally ENGG1000 I think, because I don't believe it's a prerequisite for anything. But I wouldn't full on push for it purely because I wouldn't know what to switch it out for.
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Re: UNSW General Chat
« Reply #156 on: December 25, 2019, 07:02:23 pm »
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Might I just add this is a verry deadly combination of subjects. Not trying to scare you but I did this exact combo in T1 except ENG was replaced with COMP.

I was worked to exhaustion with the amount of work I had every week. It was the most stressful term I've ever had so make sure you're prepared for it because it's going to be REALLY hectic. Hopefully ENG doesn't give as much work as COMP!

Of course you might cope with it better than I did and all the best of luck to you =)

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It's a significantly demanding combination but engineering students have relatively little choice. (Nor do I suspect you would have in your double degree either.)
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Recommendation might be to swap out either ENGG1000 OR PHYS1121, but not both, for something else. Ideally ENGG1000 I think, because I don't believe it's a prerequisite for anything. But I wouldn't full on push for it purely because I wouldn't know what to switch it out for.
Here's my input on taking the ENGG1000/PHYS1121/MATH1131 combination since I took these courses in T1. Is it gonna be hard? Hell yeah. But the reality is that is uni supposed to be smooth-sailing? In my opinion, not really, because if you're not challenged then you're not really learning and letting yourself grow. But is it going to be worth it? I would think so.

I will say, ENGG1000 was a really good break from my other courses. ENGG1000 was essentially a group project with no exams - you submit logbooks, write 2 reports and build something. Plus, this was the subject I made a lot of friends (a lot of students view ENGG1000 as an opportunity to socialise lol). Personally, I would recommend taking it in T1 because, from what I heard, they're very generous in scaling your marks because they don't expect anyone's projects to work. It's also a really good introductory course to uni life in general because it's teaching you not to get too fixated on assessments if you don't perform your best in specific subjects. If you take it in T3, they tend to have higher standards with your project performance because by that time, a lot of students have refined their skills, an example being coding.

If you really wanna change your combination of subjects, it's hard for me to suggest which subject you could swap it with. Maybe ELEC1111? At the same time, I'd say ELEC1111 is very content-heavy - I'd argue it's a bit heavier than PHYS1121, in the sense that it ramps up in difficulty really fast, whereas there's a level of comfort with PHYS1121 in the sense that half of the topic is very reminiscent to HSC Physics, especially with mechanics, but looking at it in a mathematical perspective (at least, after completing the old syllabus).

Also, I just remembered that since you're doing Electrical Engineering, you are required to take PHYS1231 (Phys1B) and the requirements of taking PHYS1231 is either credit (I believe) in PHYS1121 or a pass in PHYS1131. This is something to keep in mind in, especially since they say it's a lot easier to pass PHYS1131 than credit in PHYS1121.

If you're struggling to plan out your subjects, here's a sample degree outline for electrical engineering and comp sci. Or you can go to Student Support Services to help plan out your degree (I've personally never went to them to help plan out my degree but my friends who do double degrees go to Student Support to get some help with planning).

Hope this helps!
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Re: UNSW General Chat
« Reply #157 on: December 25, 2019, 07:21:13 pm »
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It varies from person to person I'd say. But if this is true, this is a sellout for keeping it I imagine.
from what I heard, they're very generous in scaling your marks because they don't expect anyone's projects to work.
Of course that is, provided switching out PHYS1121 and consequently delaying PHYS1231 does not risk delaying too many other things.

For someone like me, I would've just gone for the content-heavy stuff. I'm absolutely rubbish when it comes to design and now dislike it greatly. That, and I heard way too many complaints about bad groups when I was in first year.
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« Reply #158 on: December 25, 2019, 11:33:48 pm »
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Thank you guys for your invaluable advice! :)
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Re: UNSW General Chat
« Reply #159 on: December 26, 2019, 09:25:22 pm »
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Hey, if I have to plan out my timetable for Term 1 2020, do I have to plan out Term 2 2020 and Term 3 2020 as well?
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« Reply #160 on: December 27, 2019, 02:42:26 pm »
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Hey, if I have to plan out my timetable for Term 1 2020, do I have to plan out Term 2 2020 and Term 3 2020 as well?

Nope! You can decide those as you go :-)
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« Reply #161 on: December 28, 2019, 12:01:56 pm »
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Hey, if I have to plan out my timetable for Term 1 2020, do I have to plan out Term 2 2020 and Term 3 2020 as well?
You're required to sort out class times for T1. But the class times for T2 and T3 aren't even out yet.

Although I'm not sure if it's up already for first years, what you can do is go myUNSW -> Student Profile -> Enrolment Appointments, to see when you'd register for the classes for those courses.

As for enrolling in the courses though, you probably should enrol in some now at the very least. This is just because courses can fill up later on and you might miss your spot. (Usually, some people drop out before the term starts, so you can change what you've enrolled in later on. But I don't advise counting on it.)

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Re: UNSW General Chat
« Reply #162 on: December 28, 2019, 09:51:35 pm »
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In terms of timetabling, is it a better idea to schedule classes back to back (as in one finishes at 11am and the next starts at 11am for example) or leave hour breaks between classes, in your opinion? I'm doing Adv. Science and with all the labs, tutes and lectures, it's getting pretty hard to schedule my timetable so that I'm not there everyday. Is it normal to be a uni 5 days a week? I totally understand if I have to be but my commute is around 40 mins each way so it'd be great to avoid :)

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« Reply #163 on: December 28, 2019, 10:06:29 pm »
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I totally understand if I have to be but my commute is around 40 mins each way so it'd be great to avoid :)

Not UNSW but a sidenote on commuting- if you're using PT- you could use time to study by reading lecture notes/doing flashcards for subjects/listening to lecture recordings. I know how painful a longer than 20 min commute is (for me it takes ~50 mins-1h 30 (depending on transport connections haha) to get to uni via PT). :)
If you're driving, you could also have a playlist of lecture recordings on audio that may help too! :)
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Re: UNSW General Chat
« Reply #164 on: December 28, 2019, 10:10:18 pm »
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Not UNSW but a sidenote on commuting- if you're using PT- you could use time to study by reading lecture notes/doing flashcards for subjects/listening to lecture recordings. I know how painful a longer than 20 min commute is (for me it takes ~50 mins-1h 30 (depending on transport connections haha) to get to uni via PT). :)
If you're driving, you could also have a playlist of lecture recordings on audio that may help too! :)


Yasss thank you! I definitely intend to do this - I'll be on the train for most of my commute so this is a great idea as to not waste time :)
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