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Howdy folks, turns out I have not made an entry for the new semester, and it's already week 5! So, now I will go over whats new and whats been happening
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As timetabling goes, I have again secured another day off, which is lovely, having a day off to work and get money and just to have a day to relax without transport really allows me to remain sane
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Other days are pretty full on, and well, I guess if you’re interested, go see for yourself
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The main event for me this semester is PHYS1241, and woah is it demanding. This subject is just usually very difficult (I’ve been told by the lecturer as one of the hardest first year courses out there) with the questions it throws at you, and it is very time consuming with the assessments it allocates, I’ve recently handed in an assessment that took roughly 40 hours to complete. It was six questions and worth 5%... And I’ll have to do it three more times. It also has assessments on lab write-ups where we have to write up every week's lab experiment(s) to hand in for marking, this one isn’t really as difficult, but more time-consuming and kinda difficult to gain the marks (I don’t know this yet, but the criteria does suggest this). Also, everyone is just so smart and fluent in this course; it really is intimidating.
Due to physics’s demands, it sucks up all my time, making me fall behind in other content-heavy courses such as MATH1231. Maths has weekly online tutorials, worth 1% each, and even without knowing any of the knowledge due to falling behind, I should struggle with the questions, but somehow don't. But once I do problems from the book, I go “WTF is this” I’m hoping to catch up in maths this week, as its a slightly more relaxed week in regards to physics.
My other two courses are a lot more relaxed and easier to go through without falling behind, I’ve almost done no study for BIOS1101, but I’m still very up to date with the content. The lectures are very simple, and the final exam is just a simple multiple choice exam. The labs are 3 hours long, but not that stressful and content heavy, it’s kinda fun and relaxing Today, we received our first assessment back, and I got 98% which I'm just over the moon about
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. The weird part is that the directors of the course say that it is very difficult and that it’ll be very timeconsuming difficult to understand in the content, and they keep stressing this, which I found as weird, but that may be because I’m comparing it to PHYS1241 :/
Lastly, the good ol’ EDST classes, they were a blast (sarcasm) last semester, and it's exhilarating to have it again! Honestly, though, EDST1101 is actually wayyy more enjoyable than the other 2 I had to do in Semester 1, the content is actually pretty interesting, and it is fun to read into. The assessments aren’t nearly as awful as the other ones, two tests, one essay and one presentation. We had the options to pick what week we wanted to present in, and I picked the earliest one (week 3) just to get it out of the way for physics. We went pretty well, I thought, but our tutor thought we did amazingly well, and we got 18/20
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I’m super stoked about that. I’m hoping this course stays the way that it is, and it’ll actually be a beautiful course.
This has already gone for a long time, so I’ll end it here, thanks for reading
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My 3 questions that popped into my head:Why does riding faster on a bike make it easier to balance?
Why does toasting bread make it fresher?
How is it possible that Earth can flip its magnetic poles?