UoM General Chat

[hobbitle]

how did your urop interviews go?

Very good thankyou, the interviewers were very positive. Did you have one?

[MelonBar]

Good to hear, I didn't apply this round but I will for the next intake 

[Stick]

I don't think Biomed people do the protist/fungi/botany content, I always thought they started the semester with parasites?

It was a slightly bigger focus this year (BIOL10003 is basically BIOL10005 with the two main topics switched over).

[Stick]

If you want to get a look ahead at the content that you haven't covered so you can do the damn assignment, here are my notes for BIOL10003 from last year. I'm not going to pretend they're perfect or anything—I'm sure they'll be some mistakes—but I think they're ok. In fact, I remember spending a freaky amount of time doing my notes on three point crosses last year, so hopefully that'll be pretty good (you need to know them for the assignment too incidentally).

Thanks so much!

Woah, I don't think we're even close to covering everything for the assignment. This has me concerned.

[simpak]

Hey guys!

If anyone is considering doing Hons next year you should come and consider doing Hons in the best department ever - MY DEPARTMENT - on Friday at PDI, I will be there (incentive) and pizza will also apparently be there (the real incentive). Even if you didn't do a MIIM major OR you come from another place entirely (eg a diff uni) you can consider doing Hons with our dept - and who wouldn't want to, because we are the best department ever, publish the most in high impact journals ever AND we have a beautiful new building named after an impeccable man that will be on Q&A tonight - so be sure to tune into that too!  Even if you know you don't want to do Hons in MIIM, the questions you can ask will be relevant to other departments too - it's meant to just be like a general session afaik.

Anyway, shameless promotion...

Spoiler

http://i.imgur.com/ARG7x2D.jpg

OH, and if you want EVEN MORE INCENTIVE than my presence and pizza to come and learn about doing Honours at the Doherty institute you can watch this ridiculous video aired at the recent opening that explains how great we are with obscure and illogical framing and in which Sharon Lewin looks/sounds strangely hungover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Xkbi_NQ8s

Glad to hear your interview went well hobbitle, and I hope yours did too scribble! I think both of you would be great urop candidates! Good luck to everyone else that applied too (I'm sure you would also be good candidates, I've probably just forgotten who you are at this moment).  Let us know how you fare!

[MelonBar]

Hey guys!

If anyone is considering doing Hons next year you should come and consider doing Hons in the best department ever - MY DEPARTMENT - on Friday at PDI, I will be there (incentive) and pizza will also apparently be there (the real incentive). Even if you didn't do a MIIM major OR you come from another place entirely (eg a diff uni) you can consider doing Hons with our dept - and who wouldn't want to, because we are the best department ever, publish the most in high impact journals ever AND we have a beautiful new building named after an impeccable man that will be on Q&A tonight - so be sure to tune into that too!  Even if you know you don't want to do Hons in MIIM, the questions you can ask will be relevant to other departments too - it's meant to just be like a general session afaik.

Anyway, shameless promotion...

Spoiler

http://i.imgur.com/ARG7x2D.jpg

Glad to hear your interview went well hobbitle, and I hope yours did too scribble! I think both of you would be great urop candidates! Good luck to everyone else that applied too (I'm sure you would also be good candidates, I've probably just forgotten who you are at this moment).  Let us know how you fare!

I will be there

im hearing... you don't need to have majored in the area to do hons in it.... this changes everything

[simpak]

I will be there

im hearing... you don't need to have majored in the area to do hons in it.... this changes everything

Tbh you don't need to have majored in most areas to do Hons in them.
It helps to have majored in it but if you can show you have an interest in it/do a project that is suited you can usually get around the major part.

[Starlight]

Has anyone taken or knows of anyone who has taken reproductive physiology? Did you find that they were hard markers during the semester and for the end of semester exam?
We got our midsemester test marks back today and the class average was 55. I suppose in that sense I don't feel so bad about my H2B score..

[lzxnl]

I don't think Biomed people do the protist/fungi/botany content, I always thought they started the semester with parasites?

They certainly did some on protists and fungi. Maybe not botany. At least that's what my biomed friends said.

[Starlight]

Does anyone else have numerous assignments and mid semester tests clustered together just before the midsemester break?
I have a 50% assignment, 15% mid semester test, 20% mid semester test and 15% assignment all due/occurring over a period of about 7 days

[Hehetymen]

Does anyone else have numerous assignments and mid semester tests clustered together just before the midsemester break?
I have a 50% assignment, 15% mid semester test, 20% mid semester test and 15% assignment all due/occurring over a period of 7 days

Had an assignment due today. Prac report/assignment due on Fri, another assignment due on tues, two due on fri, and an mst on fri as well. Feelsbadman.

[lzxnl]

Does anyone else have numerous assignments and mid semester tests clustered together just before the midsemester break?
I have a 50% assignment, 15% mid semester test, 20% mid semester test and 15% assignment all due/occurring over a period of about 7 days

Over a three week period, I had three mid sems, six prac reports and an assignment to do, which probably isn't remotely as much as what you had but I guess I'm lucky in not having such an explosive amount of work to do

[simpak]

I have a thesis ):

[LeviLamp]

Until you try to key out a moss accurately, you haven't known true pain. I spent the last 17 hours trying to key out a fern and a moss (I think I've found the moss genus), and I'm still stuck between three inadequately similar genera for my seemingly ubiquitous and simple fern (which might be a natural hybrid), and I think I'm ready to just sit on the street corner in the rain, cry and aggressively eat chocolate cake.

(Obviously this absolutely pales in comparison to an Honours thesis, but ~*fuck moss*~.)

[Stick]

Does anyone else have numerous assignments and mid semester tests clustered together just before the midsemester break?
I have a 50% assignment, 15% mid semester test, 20% mid semester test and 15% assignment all due/occurring over a period of about 7 days

Yep, plus I've also got a tonne of other family events on. Thank goodness I managed to get an extension for some of them.