UoM General Chat

[Starlight]

I have a question 

this formula for calculating GPA for unimelb :[ Yr 1 + (2 * Yr 2) +(3 * Yr 3) ]/ 6 if it is actually correct, can I know what would happen if I take 2 second year subjects in first year? should I multiple them to 2 or do nothing?

I think it's just year 2, so for example I took physics 1 ( a level 1 subject) this year in my second year and as a consequence it's more weighted than if I took it in first year. Someone correct me if i'm wrong.

[Ballerina]

Theresa is gorgeous, but I feel Donnelly causes impregnation in all women within a 5 km radius. Bio21 is brimming with good looking men (our cup runneth over!) but Donnelly is my favourite so far. Sometimes he strolls close enough to me I can count every long, individual eyelash.

[VivaTequila]

Theresa is gorgeous, but I feel Donnelly causes impregnation in all women within a 5 km radius. Bio21 is brimming with good looking men (our cup runneth over!) but Donnelly is my favourite so far. Sometimes he strolls close enough to me I can count every long, individual eyelash.

Donnelley is a pimp, best, clearest, and most well rounded chem lecturer there is.

Can't top my Russian lecturer though, we went out for beers after our first exam.

[LeviLamp]

Donnelly keeps spending too long on peripheral content and having to skim over 30 minutes of content in 2 minutes (electroplating explanation: if you want to you can put metal on silver spoons) but he is great, you're right. He's stopped to talk to me and my friend twice since we sit in the middle rows. I would go gay for him, definitely (but Theresa's voice zuh ;A;)

[abcdqdxD]

Will lectures in the afternoon still be on tomorrow?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/staff-at-the-university-of-melbourne-to-strike-over-pay-and-conditions/story-fni0fit3-1226726158349

[LeviLamp]

Staff seem to be divided on the matter 
I guess the safest bet is to attend morning stream classes if you can? (Sorry for being unhelpful D:)
Also, to those whom it may concern, Flora/Fauna results for the MST are out!

[simpak]

Omg guys I'm seriously having an end-of-degree crisis.  I emailed a total of two people from uom about honours and it turns out that both work in the same room/office and both want to meet at the same time.  Tomorrow.

I want to die.

[golden]

Omg guys I'm seriously having an end-of-degree crisis.  I emailed a total of two people from uom about honours and it turns out that both work in the same room/office and both want to meet at the same time.  Tomorrow.

I want to die.

Quite the dilemma. So, what's your plan? You don't want them to feel you are 'cheating' on them with the other lolol.

[Belgarion]

Omg guys I'm seriously having an end-of-degree crisis.  I emailed a total of two people from uom about honours and it turns out that both work in the same room/office and both want to meet at the same time.  Tomorrow.

I want to die.

Ask one of them to meet you for coffee, reschedule the other and do the same thing to the one you rescheduled so you don't have to meet them at the office, hence you won't run in to them at the same time =P

[Shenz0r]

Omg guys I'm seriously having an end-of-degree crisis.  I emailed a total of two people from uom about honours and it turns out that both work in the same room/office and both want to meet at the same time.  Tomorrow.

I want to die.

Seriously, that really sucks.

[simpak]

Haha nah, they requested to meet in their offices.  Aka there is no way out of this.  They are now...directly consecutive appointments.

[LeviLamp]

My UoM confession was ignored in favour of people asking about 'hot Asian girls' and complaining about the fashion sense of a Carte Crepes employee (he wore SNEAKERS with JEANS guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). 

More seriously, on a scale of 1 to HOLY FUCKING SHIT DO NOT DO IT IT'S WORSE THAN TRYING TO SOLICIT ANAL FROM TONY ABBOTT, how bad is overloading? I want to do Environmental Chemistry, Fundamentals of Cell Biology, Australian Wildlife Biology, Animal Structure and Function and German 3 in Semester 1 next year (decided to drop the full-on chem sequence ) so I can have the useful complementary knowledge BEFORE I do my third-year subjects, rather than after they're completed or in fourth year, but I'm not sure how deep in manure the choice could land me (I CAN HAVE A GOOD WORK ETHIC WHEN I TRY).

[charmanderp]

Does anyone here tutor Psychology? Really need a few more tutors for SWOT! It'd only be about two hours of work on Friday 4th of October, just tutoring a class of about 10 students (running through prepared questions, answering any questions, etc)!

There's more details here: http://muhi.org.au/programs/swot/

Message me if you're interested!

[simpak]

Why do you need to do so many at once Levi?  I'm just making sure you know this will remove other subjects you can do in your third year if you do go ahead with it and you'll end up with a semester in future with 3 subjects.  Doing a lot of second year subjects at once can be very challenging and it removes third year subjects because of the maximum of 300 points CSP rules.  I really would just try to narrow down what you want to do and remove something superfluous.  Trust me, I know it's difficult (lol I'm the most indecisive person and paranoid about narrowing my options down) but it's all part of the process of finding out what you want to do in your undergraduate degree and as somebody who tries super hard to prolong that process I'm here to suggest you shouldn't follow in my footsteps.

[LeviLamp]

I know it means I have fewer subjects later on (I also have a four year degree thanks to my diploma so my timetable will be fucked up no matter what), but all the subjects are directly relevant to subjects in my major in some way or another and so I'd rather have the knowledge from them before I take the third-year subjects. I can't bear to get rid of things though, it took me all of this entire year to cut out about fifteen majors and now I've cut down over thirty subjects to eight and I don't really want to sacrifice any more of them (I don't think I'm going to exceed my 300 point limit). If it's terrible I can always take Enviro Chem in third year and Analytical/Environmental immediately after that since I should have the space for that, going off what my plan looks like so far.
The subjects I was thinking of doing in second year were:
Fundamentals of Cell Biology
Australian Wildlife Biology -> v. recommended
Animal Structure and Function -> have to take
Environmental Chemistry
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology -> recommended
Ecology -> have to take
Comparative Animal Physiology -> have to take
Four of those are Semester One only, and I have to do a German subject for my diploma each semester (I'm taking a summer breadth and then I'll have openings for my other breadth in later years so fitting those in isn't a problem).

After typing all this I think I might do Enviro/Analytical + Enviro in third year together since the second subject follows on from the first and I'd probably forget it all over the course of an entire year.
But then there's a botany subject I want to do as well and there's just too much choice oh god D: Why can't I do a double degree in Science/Science ;_;

sorry for babbling incoherently