UoM General Chat

[Ruffini]

Just wondering, what program do most of you guys use to take notes on during lectures?Ive always just used a word document but I want to annotate my slides this year

I use Evernote on an iPad. It automatically sinks across all my devices and has a great notebook like storage system where you can add tags and also search within your notes.

[Stevensmay]

I use Evernote on an iPad. It automatically sinks across all my devices and has a great notebook like storage system where you can add tags and also search within your notes.

Likewise except with OneNote.

[zsteve]

Hi, does anyone know what should happen with Diploma applications?
According to this information: https://students.unimelb.edu.au/achieve/concurrent-diplomas, timely applicants will be notified of the outcome by 26/2?
However, I haven't received any correspondence regarding my (timely) application. Does this mean that somehow my application didn't go through, or was incomplete? I filled out the form and uploaded it as per instructions so I'm waiting for Monday to chase this down.
Can anyone else applying for a diploma (esp. Maths) confirm whether outcomes were sent or not?
Thanks

[ikiwi]

I got an email saying that I submitted my course plan for the diploma incorrectly. I emailed them back the amended course plan and she said I would get an offer "soon" (still haven't gotten it). This is for the maths diploma as well so I think correspondence should have been given out already? I actually submitted my application a few days late as well so if you submitted a timely application I would think that you should have already gotten an offer.

Also when I check the my uni melb app, my diploma subjects have already been cross credited. There's a tab for my diploma results but I haven't even gotten my offer yet which is a bit strange...

[alchemy]

I know this is a bit late, but can anyone sell me some books for first year commerce. Looking for the following in particular:

Lambiris and Griffin’s First Principles of Business Law (‘FPBL’)

Business Reporting for Decision Making, 5th Edition by Birt et al, 2014

Principles of Microeconomics by Joshua Gans, Stephen King, and Gregory Mankiw (GKM)

Microeconomics: Case Studies and Applications by Jeff Borland

Elementary Linear Algebra: Applications Version (lol, why does this name sound so simple for a subject like Accelerated Maths)

[Gentoo]

I'm pretty sure I still have the Microeconomics books and the Accounting book. We can work something out.

[alchemy]

I'm pretty sure I still have the Microeconomics books and the Accounting book. We can work something out.

Aight sweet. I'll pm you.

[Stevensmay]

Aight sweet. I'll pm you.

If it falls through I have micro.

[alchemy]

If it falls through I have micro.

I haven't got a reply from Gentoo yet, so I'm open to you. Shoot me a PM

[cosine]

Apologies for the newbie question, but what do you bring to a lecture? Are there notes that are meant to be on the LMS website prior to a lecture that need to be printed out? Cheers

[seretide]

Apologies for the newbie question, but what do you bring to a lecture? Are there notes that are meant to be on the LMS website prior to a lecture that need to be printed out? Cheers

Well it depends. Lecture notes are normally posted before hand so that you can get a chance to review them and then bring them in with you to the lecture. It's happened before that they might be late to do so or plan instead to post them at the end of the week (rarely if ever). Now what you bring to the lecture after that is pretty much up to you. Some people print notes out and bring them to write on them, some use laptops or whatever and some just come empty handed and prefer to just listen. It's all up to you.

[vox nihili]

This Friday I'm giving a lecture on last minute tips for the GAMSAT. Just wondering if anybody has some ideas of things they'd have liked to know before they had a go at the GAMSAT the first time?


I don't think it'd be a very good lecture if it just consisted on my narrow views on GAMSAT, so figured I'd pick your brains

[Auralee]

Will there be any cafes open tomorrow morning on campus between 7-8am before my first lecture? xD Cheers

[cosine]

Well it depends. Lecture notes are normally posted before hand so that you can get a chance to review them and then bring them in with you to the lecture. It's happened before that they might be late to do so or plan instead to post them at the end of the week (rarely if ever). Now what you bring to the lecture after that is pretty much up to you. Some people print notes out and bring them to write on them, some use laptops or whatever and some just come empty handed and prefer to just listen. It's all up to you.

Yeh I found the lecture notes on the LMS website. Thank you for that. Also, is it necessary to have a textbook present at lectures? Lets say for example, biology?

This Friday I'm giving a lecture on last minute tips for the GAMSAT. Just wondering if anybody has some ideas of things they'd have liked to know before they had a go at the GAMSAT the first time?


I don't think it'd be a very good lecture if it just consisted on my narrow views on GAMSAT, so figured I'd pick your brains

I will sit it next year, but if i was coming to the lecture next year I would want to know about:
- How can you study for the GAMSAT? Can you even study for it?
- If you study hard and the required stuff, are you guaranteed to do well?
- What happens if you do not make the GAMSAT cut off?
- Do you need to buy thousands of dollars worth of books to pass it?
- When did you start studying for it?

Will there be any cafes open tomorrow morning on campus between 7-8am before my first lecture? xD Cheers

8am lecture tomorrow ay, feel the pain too..
Do you know what room it is at? Haha

[Mieow]

Yeh I found the lecture notes on the LMS website. Thank you for that. Also, is it necessary to have a textbook present at lectures? Lets say for example, biology?

No. Some people like to just sit there and absorb the information, most people have their lecture slides in front of them and annotate them as they go along.

Will there be any cafes open tomorrow morning on campus between 7-8am before my first lecture? xD Cheers

I know House Of Cards is open very early in the morning. I have to thank them for helping me get through 8am lectures for a whole year.