Every student on campus now has at least 1 x 24 hour study space now (https://www.facebook.com/msa.clayton/posts/10152791400271684). That's fantastic! I dont know how well it would get used though. Like everything on campus, it seems to benefit those who live the closest the most (and frankly, they are those who need to least) but i guess that cannot be helped. If you're a science student you already have the SSL, engineers have their place too.
This looks to be a really good system to initiate and build upon imo. Monash's "masterplan" states that they want to eventually develop Clayton into a "24-hour university city" and increased access to facilities such as this is really the first step to achieving that. Mind you, it'd be a whole lot better if the Clayton campus wasn't in, well... Clayton lol.
It seems like you've already made your mind up alondoeuk :p
Just make a list of pro's and con's and see how it goes i guess. Just based on what you've told us though, i cant see many upsides at all from keeping the science degree. I dont really understand why staying in science would force you to switch your majors though? Surely you can just continue with the ones listed in your signature? If you drop down to single biomed you would only get one major then as well.
Unless its really difficult for you to get 2 majors between 2 degrees (i vaguely remember something), in that case, if its major you dont really want, just cut it lose. Then again, remember you're *usually* only at uni for one contiguious block of your life, why not soak it up and enjoy it while you're here? Study things you're interested in? Of course you also gotta leave sometime..
Haha well. In true panicking student form I've ultimately decided to keep the double degree and push on with the genetics major. Another friend recommended the objective pros/cons table and while I'm still somewhat unsure as to what's best for me, sticking with the double degree this late in my undergrad pathway is for the best - especially if I'm looking to get into medicine at some later stage. As an added bonus, it lets me do a major (alongside the somewhat dreaded genetics major) in anatomy/developmental biology which I adore and is really worth all the difficulty associated with taking the BSc as well. Staying with the double degree also gives me about two extra shots at the GAMSAT and UROP which is nice, while dropping it would only allow me to graduate half a year earlier. Time will tell if I've made the right decision!
The whole issue with majors arose because of a profoundly stupid system in my double degree where students can only take an initial science major from a small list. The reasoning behind this policy is shoddy and circular and I won't get into it too much but it's pretty degrading (in my opinion) to the overall tertiary learning experience. I wanted to major in developmental biology, however it's not on the aforementioned list so in order to do so I would need to fit in a DEV major alongside an "approved" major sequence for the double degree (the only one I was willing to choose when I started my course in 2013 - when the list was even smaller than now - was genetics). As of next year some more majors were introduced to this list (notably none that would really benefit a biomed student), including psychology. I would ideally have liked to have taken a PSY/DEV dual major but I was one unit short of being able to complete the DEV component. PSY on its own wasn't of enough interest to me. As well as this, the faculty was unwilling to cancel credit on a space-filler unit I did in first year to allow me to complete the DEV major, leading to the whole crisis described over the past few pages of this thread.
Everything seems to be a bit more clarified now, even if I'm not exactly sure about the outcome.
On an entirely separate note, one of the Science units I was taking next semester was just cancelled. Anyone have any good, preferably easy Science units (ideally with no exam assessment) that I could take instead?
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