UoM General Chat

[LeviLamp]

Quote from a friend who took PBL this semester: "Do not do PBL! Do. Not. Ever."

[Shenz0r]

1st year Biomeds: The format of MCB Paper B has changed. Rather than huge essay-like questions, the exam has become much more structured and direct

THAT BEING SAID my hands were still cramping the whole time ow

[HighLatency]

MIIM20001 today 8:30am

MC: Was alright

Fill in the blanks: lots of free marks but time-consuming (for me anyway, bad comprehension skills ).

Short Answer: No comment

[LeviLamp]

I'm thinking of doing PBL next semester 

Check out my subject review of Making Movies 1, it is the bludgiest of bludges that ever bludged. Guaranteed H1 and you just get to watch clips of movies at VCA!

I can't believe 50% of assessment is 10 pictures. Like, what.

[golden]

For those deciding subjects for second year, second semester, Microbes, Infectious and Responses is a great subject in terms of the content, how it is taught, coordinated and assessed. It is like MCB.

https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2014/MIIM20002

[Ballerina]

My nutrition class and physio class overlap slightly in strange ways. In nutrition we have lots of content about alveoli, the basic milk producing unit in the mammary glands, and in physio we have 4 lectures on alveoli, the structures in lungs which are required for respiration. omg I've mixed up my practice exam papers and essentially written that the lungs contain alveoli which are lined with epithelial cells that secrete milk, and contracting the surrounding myoepithelial cells stimulate milk ejection from the lungs.

LeviLamp I really want us to have a mutual classsss! Food for a Healthy Planet was tempting because nutrition is amazing, but it has some bad reviews; can anyone shed light? I wanted to do Darwinism as well, but it has further bad reviews. Living Longer: A Global Diagnosis seemed like a good choice because El2012 and Russ highly recommend it, and there is no exam.

Completely expected 'School Experience as Breadth' to be a breadth subject which lectures about breadth subjects. Get out of here, Melbourne Model.

The cardiac cycle popped up on the exam last year with a whole lot of random extra bits just to spice things up. I cried.

The Wiggers diagram is oh my gosh. I finally understand it but don't remember it if it's taken away

Which indicates that I have high recognition but poor retrieval,ergo no damage in the medial temporal lobes and hippocampal pathways (responsible for long-term memory), but possibly frontal lobe damage (responsible for retrieval from the LTM).

 /biological psychology get out of my brain your exam is over I don't have any brain room for you anymore

/well I think your scientific field calls it 'neurons' but I'm fairly sure it's BRAIN ROOM.

[Shenz0r]

For those deciding subjects for second year, second semester, Microbes, Infectious and Responses is a great subject in terms of the content, how it is taught, coordinated and assessed. It is like MCB.

https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2014/MIIM20002

What do you think about a second semester of HSF, Microbes and Pharmacology? Is this too intensive?

[Starlight]

Which indicates that I have high recognition but poor retrieval,ergo no damage in the medial temporal lobes and hippocampal pathways (responsible for long-term memory), but possibly frontal lobe damage (responsible for retrieval from the LTM).

I swear, most of the content in neuroscience is going to be like revision for you- especially all the memory stuff.

I tried to find two semester two breadths to complete over the next two years of my degree, and ended up with thirty subjects ;_;
- The Secret Life of Language
- Food for a Healthy Planet II
- Introduction to Climate Change
- Fire in the Australian Landscape
- Forests in a Global Context
- Sex: Science and the Community
- Catastrophes as Turning Points
- Drugs That Shape Society
- Animals in Society I: Introduction
- Animals and Society II: Humans and Animals
- Finance 1
- Introductory Microeconomics
- School Experience as Breadth
- Egyptian and Near-Eastern Mythology
- Aboriginalities
- Darwinism: History of a Very Big Idea
- The History of Nature
- Hitler's Germany
- International Politics
- Modern Southeast Asia
- China Since Mao
- Human Rights in China and South-East Asia
- Literature, Ecology, Catastrophe
- Short Fiction
- Social Problems in Japan (wat)
- Communicating Science and Technology (looks really good, but the assessment is challenging)
- Pop Song Writing 2
- Going Places: Travelling Smarter
- Making Movies I
- Shakuhachi Ensemble 1 (but they make us buy our own bamboo flute )
- Musics of the World

LeviLamp I really want us to have a mutual classsss! Living Longer: A Global Diagnosis seemed like a good choice because El2012 and Russ highly recommend it, and there is no exam.

Yes LeviLamp we can help you make the decision for choosing a breadth subject easier by telling you to do none of those subjects you have listed and enrol in Living Longer: A Global Diagnosis instead. 

[LeviLamp]

I absolutely refuse to take that subject ~_~
Food For a Healthy Planet II looks okay, my friend took it last year as breadth and did well despite having (self-admitted) "no essay-writing ability". But look at all those other cool things We should do Pop Song Writing 2 together <3
Or you could take Marine Botany with me in November and study seaweed for a week at the Queenscliff Marine Consortium 

[vox nihili]

For those deciding subjects for second year, second semester, Microbes, Infectious and Responses is a great subject in terms of the content, how it is taught, coordinated and assessed. It is like MCB.

https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2014/MIIM20002

I have no words.

[spalvains]

I did Food for a Healthy Planet II last year, it's boring as hell but easy to pass (you're allowed a cheat sheet in the exam, wut). The first few weeks are on allergies and different facets of food (eg. fructose and why it's bad), but then you have too many weeks on food economy
I got glares once for eating a potato cake in a lecture about how people consume way too much salt haha

[meowww]

As Ballerina mentioned nutrition, the content is pretty interesting ! Although, I've maybe only been to 3 - 4 lectures.. 8:00am lectures are a bit too early for me..
A lot of the digestion stuff ties in with phys, so you can revise for both at once XD
Also, the prac classes I didn't really bother going to.. I went the first week, and we pretty much sat around doing nothing. lol
The pracs/assignments are really simple and straightforward. It's all computer stuff where you just input numbers and answer questions haha
But yeah, overall the subject isn't hard to learn by yourself if anyone is looking for a pretty chill subject

[hobbitle]

A 90% for CHEM10007 is feeling very out of reach right now... Looks like I might be doing summer school....

[neatfeet]

A 90% for CHEM10007 is feeling very out of reach right now... Looks like I might be doing summer school....

Just curious, are we allowed to retake a subject to get a better mark, even if we haven't failed?

[notveryasian]

A 90% for CHEM10007 is feeling very out of reach right now... Looks like I might be doing summer school....

Is that the mark required to skip chemistry 1 to go straight into chemistry 2?