Monash General Chat

[Cowboy]

Quick question regarding graduation, if you're doing a double degree, will you graduate and be given two certificates or will your degrees all be merged into the one?

two certificates

[slothpomba]

Awesome. Really interesting. Does existing literature have much to say about this?

Progesterone element of the pills downstream turns into several different neurohormones/neurosteroids that affect certain receptors (GABA, etc) that may affect mood. So, its not nearly as a weird link as it sounds when you trace down the lineage. We have some existing evidence that women on P only pill tend to have more depressive symptoms, bit more unclear for the combined pill (we think estrogen might balance out the depressive effects of P).

Still waiting on ethics but that should be ready in a week. I've had a lot of setbacks so i'm just keen to start. Another problem is that uni is basically finished til August. I planned to recruit around campus (a lot of people in a small space, willing participants, generally healthy and are able to do things during business days). 

People have suggested various thing, say handing out flyers on the street but thats got a really bad time spent/people recruited ratio. For an hour spent doing that, i might get one willing and eligible person if im lucky. Whereas if i did something similar around campus, i'm sure i'd get way more.

I could be a dick and hand them out at Caulfield after exams finish or something but who would really want to spend an hour or two of their day doing stuff like that during SWOTVAC? So yeah...thats a problem to solve haha.

My favourite part of Honours thus far is the lack of exams. So good.

We have exams 3:. We've got to critique scientific papers and rewrite them. It's open book and you get to talk to your classmates after reading time (but before you see the questions) so its not super intense i guess.

[slothpomba]

Hey, i heard on the grapevine they're hollowing out the blue carpark (the one near the bus loop) to make it underground. Further, they're actually going to build a coles and other shops on the land? IDK if legit though... Anyone hear anything like this?

[IndefatigableLover]

two certificates

Sweet thanks Cowboy!

Hey, i heard on the grapevine they're hollowing out the blue carpark (the one near the bus loop) to make it underground. Further, they're actually going to build a coles and other shops on the land? IDK if legit though... Anyone hear anything like this?

Can't remember where I heard it from (possibly from high school LOL) but I have heard about underground carparks at Monash but wasn't too sure about it being specific to the blue carpark... haven't about Coles and such though but that'd be interesting ._.

[Joseph41]

Have heard similarly re: both underground carpark and supermarket. But we'll see.

Also, just a quick reminder to submit work to The Undergraduate Awards. The submission deadline has *been extended* to 14 June. Really awesome opportunity. Can't recommend it highly enough.

EDIT: Also, did anybody apply for a Winter Research Scholarship?

[chasej]

a supermarket at clayton would be like a dream come true. wouldn't have to bring lunch to save money.

[keltingmeith]

Hey, i heard on the grapevine they're hollowing out the blue carpark (the one near the bus loop) to make it underground. Further, they're actually going to build a coles and other shops on the land? IDK if legit though... Anyone hear anything like this?

Hate to disappoint - it's definitely not a supermarket, it's going to be an "education building". The university has not clarified if this means it's for general teaching or for the faculty of education, but this is what it is. I don't know about underground carpark, though - potentially it will be? I haven't heard any news of it, though, and the uni is usually pretty happy to share information about more parking.

[Joseph41]

Oh, I misread Sloth's post. The supermarket thing I heard isn't going to be in the immediate future and isn't on that bit of land. More of a long-term thing.

[chasej]

the construction site next the busloop is going to be an underground carpark of a few levels with a large building on top, which would include education faculty student services and a range of various lecture halls and classrooms. due for mid-2018. it's all on the website, I don't know how there are rumours ?

http://www.monash.edu/about/campuses/clayton-campus/learning-and-teaching-building

[Phy124]

Plans for the southern precinct also include a new public transport interchange, additional parking, facilities for cyclists, public plaza and retail outlets.

Eateries including Subway, Schnitz, Guzman y Gomez, Papparich, Sushi Sushi and Rolld are apparently coming to Monash Clayton, so this is probably where they are going.

[IndefatigableLover]

Eateries including Subway, Schnitz, Guzman y Gomez, Papparich, Sushi Sushi and Rolld are apparently coming to Monash Clayton, so this is probably where they are going.

^Most of those shops will be opened in Semester Two actually provided what they posted up on the fencing before semester started was true!

[AngelWings]

EDIT: Also, did anybody apply for a Winter Research Scholarship?

Yes to this question. 

[Joseph41]

Yes to this question. 

Which one(s)?

[AngelWings]

Which one(s)?

Some of the later ones on here. I doubt my chances of actually getting in, but trying is better than not and regretting it later. On the off chance I do get in, I'm hoping that this will motivate me for the second semester. Why do you ask?

[(Daniel)]

Hi i want to transfer to commerce at monash. Doing arts at the moment. I am playing the numbers game just checking if im on the road to distinction average and i just realized that for some of my units, none of my marks are available. Is it usual to check grades and see nothing there at this stage of the semester? Not even my tutorial participation marks?