UoM General Chat

[charmanderp]

Just click the cog and you can hide them.

It's the principle of the matter though ):

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

Just got an email for an interview for the Open day guides! Just wondering if anyone has done it yet for this year and if so, what may they ask?

Thanks

[neatfeet]

Anyone here doing NEUR30004? I'm trying to sign up for a workshop but I can't choose the one I want because I have already been signed up for a different stream Is there any way to change this?

[Starlight]

Anyone here doing NEUR30004? I'm trying to sign up for a workshop but I can't choose the one I want because I have already been signed up for a different stream Is there any way to change this?

On the homepage it says contact the subject co-ordinator if you have any issues, hope it works out

[neatfeet]

On the homepage it says contact the subject co-ordinator if you have any issues, hope it works out

Thanks for that!

[NapoleonTriangle]

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone here has taken MUSI20168 Glee Singing and could write a review of it; what repertoire did you study and how was the assessment? Many thanks!

[spalvains]

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone here has taken MUSI20168 Glee Singing and could write a review of it; what repertoire did you study and how was the assessment? Many thanks!

I have a friend who did it and she told me that the teacher was quite strict and didn't like the idea of anyone taking the class 'for fun'. Plus the songs they did were mostly older, and not the modern pop songs she was expecting.

[Russ]

Just got an email for an interview for the Open day guides! Just wondering if anyone has done it yet for this year and if so, what may they ask?

Thanks

Unless they've changed it, it's a group interview and you really just do icebreakers whilst they watch you to make sure you're capable of guiding

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

Unless they've changed it, it's a group interview and you really just do icebreakers whilst they watch you to make sure you're capable of guiding

Thanks Russ! What do you mean by "icebreakers"?
And what would they ask about guiding (like how to get from the medical building to ERC for example)? Or would they ask something like how would we get from the biol21 instute to X etc.

Edit: i'm a noob at these colloquial terms..

[charmanderp]

Unless they've changed it, it's a group interview and you really just do icebreakers whilst they watch you to make sure you're capable of guiding

They need to cut half of the cohort (600 applicants for 300 spots, though a good proportion of those 600 probably aren't interested anymore) so it must be a bit more rigorous this year.

[emdiz]

And what would they ask about guiding (like how to get from the medical building to ERC for example)? Or would they ask something like how would we get from the biol21 instute to X etc.

Last year, they just asked you to locate a few buildings on a map and asked you a question that someone may ask you on the day. For example, my question was something like where you can get good coffee and food on campus.

I didn't get an email for an interview. Is this because I volunteered last year?

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

Last year, they just asked you to locate a few buildings on a map and asked you a question that someone may ask you on the day. For example, my question was something like where you can get good coffee and food on campus.

I didn't get an email for an interview. Is this because I volunteered last year?

Thanks dude.
Yes that is right (I assume you've been automatically taken in).

[cameronp]

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.

Could anyone shed some light on the maths major of Discrete Maths & Operations Research? I'm a commerce student (Eco & Fin) considering a concurrent maths diploma. Some browsing and looking at the subjects involved has this major appealing to me most. But having so far only taken Calc2, LinAlg & Pr for Stats, I don't feel like I have much of an idea of what it involves.

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.

[Inside Out]

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

[vox nihili]

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

If you search the book on their website you can see how many are in stock. At the moment though it looks as though they've got most there. They've got stacks of textbooks everywhere and most of the readers are starting to show up now.