UoM General Chat

[cameronp]

Does anyone know when the co- op shop will start having the books for next semester?

If you know what books you'll need already, it's likely to be much cheaper to get them from Amazon or Book Depository or even another bookshop in Melbourne...

[Ballerina]

Hi Natalie,
You are invited to the following event:

OPEN DAY GUIDE INTERVIEWS
Event to be held at the following time, date and location:

Multiple Dates

University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3010
Australia

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lol I don't remember registering for this, but okay

What time slot did you pick, ChickenChow? Is anyone else doing it? <3

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

Hi Natalie,
You are invited to the following event:

OPEN DAY GUIDE INTERVIEWS
Event to be held at the following time, date and location:

Multiple Dates

University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3010
Australia

View Map


lol I don't remember registering for this, but okay

What time slot did you pick, ChickenChow? Is anyone else doing it? <3

I picked Monday 28th 1pm! (cause I live far from uni so I ceebs attending when uni hasn't started)
I'm pretty scared for it though cause I don't know where everything is! I only know the main buildings like Richard Berry, Ballieu Lib, The spot etc (not the obscure ones).

[Ballerina]

Oh I chose this Monday Cx

I knoww, I still call the Baldwin Spencer building the Alec Baldwin building and direct people the wrong way. To the magical Alec Baldwin building located in the magical rainbow campus in the opposite direction.

[abab]

Very late reply to a post from a week ago! Hopefully the original author sees it... it should probably have been posted in a separate thread really.

So the major is a bit odd in that Discrete Maths and OR are quite different areas of maths, and you have to do some of both. From what I've heard, the discrete subjects are quite theoretical and the OR ones are more industry-focussed. Discrete covers things like combinatorics (counting large numbers of things without having to count them) and graph theory (the ways things can be connected to other things). This ends up being relevant to computer science, and possibly other areas, but not so much to business. I don't know specifically what the 3rd year Discrete Maths subject is like but I've been told that Graph Theory is fun.

On the OR side of things, you're basically looking at optimising some system (usually linear equations) subject to constraints. Traditionally it gets applied to logistics problems but can include other things too. e.g.: timetabling; scheduling delivery trucks; planning manufacturing operations; optimising electricity distribution; allocating patients to hospitals. The maths behind this kind of thing has a very different "feel" to the calculus-y stuff you would have seen before. I'm not sure what the undergrad subjects cover but the masters subject Optimisation for Industry is surprisingly light on the maths and heavy on the techniques for modelling complex real-world problems (and using software packages to actually solve to the models).

There's also a 3rd year subject on game theory (called Decision Making) which looks at how to make decisions subject to uncertainty and other "players" (often other firms in the business world) who may be either cooperating or competing with you. This is relevant to economics, but also crops up in unexpected areas like ecology. I'm thinking of taking that subject next year.

Many thanks for this, much appreciated

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

Oh I chose this Monday Cx

I knoww, I still call the Baldwin Spencer building the Alec Baldwin building and direct people the wrong way. To the magical Alec Baldwin building located in the magical rainbow campus in the opposite direction.

Omgggg can you let me know how it goes?!
Good luck Ballerina! You seem to know a lot more about uni life than me (I rarely come to uni)

[Ballerina]

I can do that. But idk, I study in fire escapes.

[Ballerina]

ChickenCh0wM1en and I have no idea if that helps

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

I can do that. But idk, I study in fire escapes.

Does anyone know where Eakins Hall at Queen's College is? We're supposed to go there for orientation but I have no clue where to go!

Is it sad that I don't know where ANY of the residential colleges are? I only know the basics like Arts West, Physics building, Bio building, SMAC etc LOOOOL sad (

[vox nihili]

Is it sad that I don't know where ANY of the residential colleges are? I only know the basics like Arts West, Physics building, Bio building, SMAC etc LOOOOL sad (

I've been coming to UniMelb for four years now and today I was walking past the eng buildings right at the front of the Uni and was like "hmmmm, structural engineering, when did they put that building there? It looks really old..."

[Ballerina]

I know that if you meet a giant centaur who utters 'IF THEE HAS DESIRE TO PASS ME, FIRST THOU MUST ANSWER THESE RIDDLES THREE' you've probably headed in the wrong direction

[daphaneng]

Does anyone know where Eakins Hall at Queen's College is? We're supposed to go there for orientation but I have no clue where to go!

It's the main dining hall. There's a map of the college here: http://www.queens.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/

[Stick]

Does anyone know when the co- op shop will start having the books uni lecture notes for next semester?

I went yesterday and much of it was still in boxes... I wasn't able to get anything other than a Physics lab book.

[Bardia Saeedi]

If anyone has done Calculus 1, can you please tell me what this is:Hass, Weir, Thomas, University Calculus Early Transcendentals 2nd edition, packaged with a differential equations supplement from Hass, Weir, Thomas Calculus, Pearson, 2012..

Also, is it necessary?

And, how much did the book cost (it says $131 in Amazon, but I was wondering what the price @ Co-Op and the other book store near Uni, whose name I forgot)? Someone is going to sell me theirs for $85, and I didn't want to be ripped off.

[Hancock]

Lel don't buy any uni books. The lecture notes should be sufficient.