UoM General Chat

[charmanderp]

Hancock's (first) weekly advice about overloading: Finish everything the week it's given. Anything delayed is gonna bite you in the ass when mid-sems come around.

Noted!

[Hancock]

Oh and to any prospective engineering majors who have just finished ESD1, my subjects this semester: Electrical Device Modelling, Signals and Systems (both Electrical), and Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics (Mechanical) are the absolute tits. Stick it out, it gets so much better!

[vcestudent94]

Oh and to any prospective engineering majors who have just finished ESD1, my subjects this semester: Electrical Device Modelling, Signals and Systems (both Electrical), and Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics (Mechanical) are the absolute tits. Stick it out, it gets so much better!

What are you enjoying more, the electrical or mechanical subjects?

[Hancock]

I'm not too sure at the moment. This is really the last semester I want to allow myself to be a mix of them both. While I'd like to major in both, I can start doing specialization properly next year, so I want to make a decision.

I guess that I'm naturally better at Electrical subjects. It makes "sense" even when I don't study extensively for it. On the flip side, I have to read Mechanical subject material a little more to get to the same level of understanding. I originally wanted to do Mechanical for the Fluid Dynamics / Mechanics / Aeronautics side of things, so we'll have to see how much I like MCEN30018.

[pink0829]

Does anyone know for PATH20001 (exploring human disease):

-It says there are CAL/Tutorial worksheets put up the week before the scheduled workshop. I can't find these on the LMS, and my tutorial is on Monday. Does anyone know where I can find them?

Thanks!!

Neither can I. I reckon she'll put them up tomorrow when she puts up the lecture notes.

[jinny1]

I learnt my amino acids 2 days before my biochemistry exam. My friend and I booked a project room at Brownless. We looked at the lecture slides for 1 minute and we drew and wrote the name/letter of as many amino acids as we could on the whiteboards until we couldn't do it anymore. We then corrected each others work with the lecture slides. Each round a person would win or lose. We played until we both drew

So you don't really have to learn them until exams?? What about the MST/Quiz ??

[simpak]

You need to know them in the MST.

[Starlight]

So you don't really have to learn them until exams?? What about the MST/Quiz ??

You need to know them in the MST.

For the purpose of the MST you just have to recognize them and know about their properties e.g. hydrophilic/ phobic etc.
The exam will require you to draw them.

[simpak]

Well considering you get things like KQTWM this peptide has the following properties, I just found it easier to know them outright inc. knowing how to draw them.

[Starlight]

Well considering you get things like KQTWM this peptide has the following properties, I just found it easier to know them outright inc. knowing how to draw them.

Thats true, depends how you learn I guess. For those kind of ones in the MST I just used a mnemomic for all the groups of peptides and their properties (the cal for that one helped me out).

At the end of the day though you will still have to draw them out for exams so there's no harm in learning that part of it now anyway

[Deleted User]

I've noticed that a lot of people don't buy textbooks. Does that mean that the content that are covered in textbooks but not in the lectures aren't assessable in exams? Or does it depend on the subject?

[scribble]

with first year science at least im pretty sure that stuff outside of lectures (and ilts and whatnot) is unexaminable. not sure about commerce.
but yeah, just, textbooks are too expensive. Q_____Q *rolls away to be poor forever*

[vox nihili]

with first year science at least im pretty sure that stuff outside of lectures (and ilts and whatnot) is unexaminable. not sure about commerce.
but yeah, just, textbooks are too expensive. Q_____Q *rolls away to be poor forever*

Pracs and ILTs are both examinable!

[LeviLamp]

I find reading/notetaking the recommended sections of the textbooks makes concepts way clearer for lecturers who don't provide many of their own notes, but it depends on the subject. In Chem 2 apparently the quantum chemistry lecturer says "read the textbook" as his notes and then examines things related to the book, and in Biology of Australian Flora/Fauna we have these out-of-class readings to do that are all examinable but are otherwise not covered in the course.

[Starlight]

I find reading/notetaking the recommended sections of the textbooks makes concepts way clearer for lecturers who don't provide many of their own notes, but it depends on the subject. In Chem 2 apparently the quantum chemistry lecturer says "read the textbook" as his notes and then examines things related to the book, and in Biology of Australian Flora/Fauna we have these out-of-class readings to do that are all examinable but are otherwise not covered in the course.

The quantum guy's material in the exam was basically the kind of questions you can expect from the tute notes and past exams, but yeah the learning centre at the chem building will help for that. Lol I emphasise it so much but it seriously helped!

I've only started reading the textbooks for subjects this semester and I already think it's helping me compile my notes a whole lot better.