UoM General Chat

[slothpomba]

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

At Monash this is not allowed, i assume its the same at UoM. Otherwise everyone would be doing it and it'd really waste up resources (some subjects at UoM i believe already have an enrollment cap for instance),

[golden]

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

HSF is a subject that you need to get your head around as it requires you to (in my opinion) think differently.
Taking Microbes and Pharmacology would probably add the layer of memory work.
Therefore if you trust your memory, and also if you can figure out HSF as a subject then I would say you'd be able to take it. If not for either, then it may be hard.
Alternatively I guess you could give it a few weeks try and fallback on a breadth if it doesn't turn out to be what you envisioned.

I have no words.

Thanks for making me laugh out loud.

[Starlight]

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

I only got an overall score of 80 for CHEM10007 and somehow could go straight into Chem 2.

 

But if you skip Chemistry 1 you'll still be missing a huge amount of prerequisite knowledge learnt in Chemistry 1 for Chemistry 2 and you'd still have to spend your summer catching up (assuming the jump between Fundamentals of Chemistry to Chemistry 1 to Chemistry 2 is like Physics Fundamentals to Physics 1 to Physics 2)

Nah the content of Chem 1 and Fundamentals overlaps.
The only things that people who go straight into chem 2 have to learn themselves is chair conformations/newman projections.
If anything, the chem fundamentals students have a greater advantage because they will have learned many things that come up in Chem 2 that haven't been taught in Chem 1.

Also what do uni people usually do on holidays? Just shitloads of volunteering/work?

Tv. Sleep. Friends. Gym. Sun. Part-time work. Less than 7 days to go for meeeee

[Starlight]

^ Oh okay sick as, yeah you'll be fine Nicola!! If you got 75% on Semester 1 Calculus 2 last year then I don't think anything is impossible for you lol


Okay but I've been doing all of that throughout the uni semester anyway... Thought this was the "uni life" but turns out my grades are gonna be pretty crap because of this lol

No worries got another 4.5 years to try...

I think my brother failed a subject in his first year of engineering and received subject marks ranging in the 60s. However, he ended up with a H1 average for the end of his degree because the first year isn't considered with Eng. However, it's obviously important to understand the basics now so you can build up on those for subsequent years.

[jst]

So whilst I was throwing away some practice exam papers tonight I noticed that the instructions stated 'You must answer Section A on the paper itself and also enter your answers on the computer scan sheet provided'. I realised that I did not do this on the exam, I just marked my answers on the answer sheet (there may be a few where I circled possible correct answers and crossed out incorrect ones on the question itself whilst working it out). Will I be given a zero for this or is it a precaution/back-up in case they lose the scantron?

If I was worried about failing before, now I'm royally fucked. 

[Belgarion]

So whilst I was throwing away some practice exam papers tonight I noticed that the instructions stated 'You must answer Section A on the paper itself and also enter your answers on the computer scan sheet provided'. I realised that I did not do this on the exam, I just marked my answers on the answer sheet (there may be a few where I circled possible correct answers and crossed out incorrect ones on the question itself whilst working it out). Will I be given a zero for this or is it a precaution/back-up in case they lose the scantron?

If I was worried about failing before, now I'm royally fucked. 

you are screwed.... just kidding  Im pretty sure this is just a precaution. Like for example if you accidentally messed up a question resulting in all your mc answers being in the wrong spot, they could just check over the paper to correct it, etc. 

[Ballerina]

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

Soooooo good. I was trying to choose between a zoology class and a nutrition class for my last spot when I found Comparative Nutrition and Digestion, a combination of zoology + nutrition, and was like how does that even exist

I only went to first prac as well. Were you the only othere BSc student there at a computer near the door? She had blonde-brown hair, slender, pale, perhaps above average height, and said to the man adjacent to her, "omg I'm in science I have no idea what I'm doing"

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 

~makes mysterious statement~ ~no clarification~ WHY

Food For a Healthy Planet I looks way more fun; less economy, law, politics and food production based. Marine Botany sounds amazing!!!! And a strict quota indicates it has to be good aha. I love the sound of that and seaside villages...let's sail away in a boat~
 

[Ballerina]

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

Thank you!

...I may or may not have eaten a variety of things while reading nutrition lectures...

[daphaneng]

I tried to find two semester two breadths to complete over the next two years of my degree, and ended up with thirty subjects ;_;
I'm currently enrolled in The Secret Life of Language and Fire in the Australian Landscape, for some reason.

- 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

HOW DO PEOPLE MAKE LIFE CHOICES? I can't even look at science subjects any more, because I want to do all of them.

Social problems in Japan? lawl

I've heard that Forests in a Global Context is awesome! I would loved to do Forests, but it clashes with Field Biology

[simpak]

I forced LeviLamp to come to campus and watch my presentation and he's the best!!!! Everyone else be glad that I wasn't aware of your proximity to campus or you would have also been forced to attend my talk practice at PDI.

[HighLatency]

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Stares at reckless use of laptop as plate

Watches crumbs fall into laptop

Intense feelings of confusion, sadness, regret, denial and finally acceptance.

"Meh it's a Dell."

[Stick]

Thank you!

...I may or may not have eaten a variety of things while reading nutrition lectures...

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You actually landed the cake on your computer?!?!?! 

[Ballerina]

All the keys in my keyboard are stuck now ;w;

Social problems in Japan? lawl

I've heard that Forests in a Global Context is awesome! I would loved to do Forests, but it clashes with Field Biology

I signed up for it because of amazing reviews but then withdrew after realizing it was during the semester rather than before; is it worth it? The field trip sounds beautiful.

[Stick]

All the keys in my keyboard are stuck now ;w;

That wasn't really what I was referring to. :S

[meowww]

Soooooo good. I was trying to choose between a zoology class and a nutrition class for my last spot when I found Comparative Nutrition and Digestion, a combination of zoology + nutrition, and was like how does that even exist

I only went to first prac as well. Were you the only othere BSc student there at a computer near the door? She had blonde-brown hair, slender, pale, perhaps above average height, and said to the man adjacent to her, "omg I'm in science I have no idea what I'm doing"

Hahaha nope, wrong person
I'm below average height .. LOL
I think there were 2 prac classes? I went to the Friday late afternoonish one XD