ATAR Notes: Forum
Uni Stuff => General University Discussion and Queries => Topic started by: acinod on January 06, 2012, 08:54:38 pm
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What do I need for uni?
I find that my pencil case gets smaller and smaller throughout my high school journey. In my final year of high school, I used a pacer, rubber, black/red/blue pen and ruler. Now that I'm in uni, I assume I'll use even less stationary?
What are must-haves if I intend to do Commerce at Melbourne (majoring in actuarial studies)?
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Firstly, you'd want some stationery instead ;)
edit: regardless of what course I'd do, I'd probably use a highlighter, pacer, eraser and notebook. that should do it
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You've already got pretty much everything you need. If you're one of those highlighting people, then a higlighter perhaps.
And a scientific calculator for your exams.
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From what I heard, its good to have
a graphics calc for most commerce majors.
It'll make some assignments easier to do.
But hey, that's what someone told me, might
be different.
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From what I heard, its good to have
a graphics calc for most commerce majors.
It'll make some assignments easier to do.
But hey, that's what someone told me, might
be different.
For the more mathematically inclines students, a graphics calculator is "weak". MATLAB or something equivalent is the way to go from uni onwards, especially if you're going into a job which requires knowledge of programming and the like.
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you should ask Kennybhoy about this - I recall him surviving his first year of actuarial on just one blue pen.
then I bought him a 4 color pen and he called it a surplus and lost it in a week
(and found it again then lost it again)
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^@ Gloam, MATLAB huh...
I'll probably still use my graphics
unless I really need MATLAB,
defs not keen on maths / programming.
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A pen should do it.
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Guess I wont have as much fun stationery shopping then :(
Do we need a ruler? I can't remember why I used a ruler for high school but I recall needing one. Oh wait drawing graphs thats right. Do we need to draw graphs?
And considering whether I should stay with my usual black/blue/red pen or just use one fancy pen for everything. Because in high school when I had notes, I had red for the main heading, black for subheadings and graphs and finally blue for all the notes and writing. But I guess in uni you won't be doing all this? Or is it pretty much this type of notetaking?
Also I presume a scientific calculator is all I will need?
Also notebooks! Do I need one for each subject? Or can I just use a big one? Like one of those 4 in one books. Since I only have 4 subjects/semester pretty much.
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Maybe if you want to draw nice graphs... but it's just for your own note taking usually. A calculator will probably be needed if you are doing commerce subjects, just for arithmetic. Notebooks: do whatever you want. Again, it's for your own note-taking. Not sure about tute work though...
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you should ask Kennybhoy about this - I recall him surviving his first year of actuarial on just one blue pen.
then I bought him a 4 color pen and he called it a surplus and lost it in a week
(and found it again then lost it again)
Fuck off. Dev borrowed it from me from me during a Hargz sesh and then he kept it for a few weeks before I went to his house to take it back. On a side note, I have no idea where it is now but it's somewhere in the house :D.
Oh and here's my stationary advice. Don't do what I did and just take a blue pen. Sometimes you'll need a pencil too. I tried to do an accounting exam in pen and shit goes down when you muck up a few numbers. Oh fuck. (only for exam though)
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No...I didn't and that was a regret :(.
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I went into so many multi-choice question exams without a rubber... the ones where you shade in the ovals.
edit: without a pencil too in fact, kept forgetting to change my pen.
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Throughout Y11-12 I've always carried with me, a single blue pen, well it's a Waterman so :P nerrr! :) but I switched to a fountain pen nearer to the end of the year ;) - it looks so nice! :P
But yeah, that was all I needed, I didn't even have exercise books, I just carried around loose leaf tucked into the back cover of my textbook and hmm, I guess I've ran into people that call me extremely unorganised, because I have no systematic way of organisation, and then there's people who say I'm reasonably organised because I can always seem to find everything :D so meh :)
I guess for Uni I'll just carry around my iPad with a Bluetooth Keyboard and Stylus. That's an exercise book (which I can write with my stylus), all my textbooks (PDFs :D ), Notes (Keyboard!), Calculator, Facebook...etc. All I need ;D
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Am I the only guy here who borrowed pens throughout Year 12? I would borrow them off my friend and then she went out and bought me a packet. They are my favourite pens.
University, well, I own a laptop, pens and can buy some notebooks. Why are people over-thinking this? :o
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MATLAB for calculations, it's so good it's stupid - once you learn MATLAB perfectly it's nice to put on a resume, I guess - I use MATLAB at work. Pencil, pen or two, rubber, a highlighter and a pencil case? Scientific calculator for exams... really doesn't seem like you need too much.
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Apparently you can get a lot of free stationary during O Week but nevertheless here's what I intend to have in my pencil case so far:
- Swarovski Black Pen
- Pentel P205 Mechanical Pencil
- Pentel 0.5mm Spare Lead (in that small long plastic box with a black top)
- Staedtler PVC-Free Eraser
- Pilot BPS-GP Blue and Red Pen
Hmm doesn't seem like I need much. Anyone know a good pencil case that can fit just that? Don't want a giant one LOL! Or maybe might not use a pencil case...maybe something else? :P
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I'm curious as to why you have/will have/want a Swarovski pen lol. Pick up a cray-Z anime pencil case.
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I'm curious as to why you have/will have/want a Swarovski pen lol. Pick up a cray-Z anime pencil case.
It's from Duty Free, got it at the airport :P