Monash General Chat

[chasej]

oh and don't be worried about getting lost, I got really lost today myself and arrived 15 minutes late to a lecture even though I'm supposed to be trained in directing others.

And it turns out I actually waked past the theatre many times but the door was tucked away so I didn't see it lol.

[Seņor]

Monash should offer a unit that helps people find rooms.

[pi]

PSA: Jaffys (and others) watch out for a spam email that's been making the rounds saying your Monash email has expired. Don't click any links in it, you can lose access to your account apparently. I got the email and it was sent from a real @monash.edu (upon Googling) which has obviously been compromised by these scammers/hackers.

[Orson]

Anyone here doing ECC1000? Or a subject that uses the CENGAGE thingy? The lecturer said we can download the textbook for a limited time, but I can't seem to find the link. It just gives me this mess of an online based ebook.

[Aaron]

Note to self: takes double the time to get home via train(s) if it's later in the day. I'm learning more outside of uni at the moment than I am inside it. Left around 5:30, only just got home. So different from my previous travels to uni!

How long does it take everyone else to get home?

[sunshine98]

So I was always hearing about how there tends to be like a kinda of an underlying sense of  'course hierarchy'. But whenever I heard people say things like that I always  thought , well , it didn't make sense cause most people end up choosing courses according to their  interests rather than the ATAR needed to get in , or the reputation of the course. Was I wrong , or was I wrong? My bubble of denial was popped today in a lecture ( ik I just said yesterday I wasn't going to go to lectures but like I was at uni and thought -  my as well. ..right? Wrong again. Never a lecture again anyways) when the lecturer asked everyone to pick a number between 4 and 6. So this is how it went down:
Lecturer: Pick a number between 4 and 6?  '
* somewhat of a minor pause as everyone realised the only number between 4 and 6 was 5*
Crowd: *mumbles that sounded like a 5 *
Lecturer: phew...for a second there I thought I was in a arts lecture
Me: o_O
Everyone: OWWWW....**which later morphed into an applause**
 

How long does it take everyone else to get home?

Min 90 mins....max , well it depends on if I get lost or not. Or if I accidently go on the wrong train. The latter tends to happen  a lot. Like yesterday.

[pi]

Yeah there are a lot of "arts students" jokes flying around both in real life and on StalkerSpace, I'd like to think that most are said in jest and nothing malicious is meant by them. But yeah it's a bit douchey.

[keltingmeith]

Tbh, it's not so much about there being a hierarchy, as much as it's just there are stereotypes for each course. They're defs not true (although there may be multiple cases of "fitting the bill"), but people play with them. Some of the ones I know are:

Arts: absolute dropkicks who work at Maccas and never come to uni.
Engineering: smart and super socially unaware, with the most contact hours evar.
Med: super competitive.
Law: pompous arseholes who dress exclusively in suits and consider themselves a better species.

They're the ones off the top of my head - jokes about them are somewhat funny the first few times, but they all get really old really quickly, and I have plenty of friends that go against each of these stereotypes, so.

[heart]

So I was always hearing about how there tends to be like a kinda of an underlying sense of  'course hierarchy'. But whenever I heard people say things like that I always  thought , well , it didn't make sense cause most people end up choosing courses according to their  interests rather than the ATAR needed to get in , or the reputation of the course. Was I wrong , or was I wrong? My bubble of denial was popped today in a lecture ( ik I just said yesterday I wasn't going to go to lectures but like I was at uni and thought -  my as well. ..right? Wrong again. Never a lecture again anyways) when the lecturer asked everyone to pick a number between 4 and 6. So this is how it went down:
Lecturer: Pick a number between 4 and 6?  '
* somewhat of a minor pause as everyone realised the only number between 4 and 6 was 5*
Crowd: *mumbles that sounded like a 5 *
Lecturer: phew...for a second there I thought I was in a arts lecture
Me: o_O
Everyone: OWWWW....**which later morphed into an applause**
 :oMin 90 mins....max , well it depends on if I get lost or not. Or if I accidently go on the wrong train. The latter tends to happen  a lot. Like yesterday.

m8 there are infinite numbers between 4 and 6 if the restriction was a whole number then yes it would only be 5

[slothpomba]

Would I get in trouble for laying down some beats on Spotify while I study?

I had a bad relationship with my high school IT department, I don't want that to happen here.

The IT policy seems outright scary but i've download large files at uni before and been fine. Unless you're obviously using heaps on a consistent basis (especially if they can see its say illegal torrents), they wont care at all. It's a big place, they use heaps of data every day anyway.

Spotify, especially on normal quality, uses far less than you think. It's probably only a couple hundred megabytes an hour, if that.

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If you get done without a concession card and you don't have one at all (i.e. you just didn't leave it at home), you are *fucked*. Even if you try appeal, you will probably lose. There's very little you can dispute.

I have talked my way out of it twice. I acted confused and showed him my Monash ID, he let me off. Another time i said i was on the way to get it. If you get caught without one, your only hope of saving yourself is saying something that appeals to the ticket inspector to not even issue you with a fine in the first place.

Now, if you are caught without your concession card and it's just at home OR if you are caught with a myki thats not touched on/not enough money, you have many avenues to appeal this on and most people do tend to be let off in these cases. Can give more details for anyone who wants to know.

[slothpomba]

Firstly, the getting lost thing. I've been lost so many times and ik the simple answer to this is ask people. But you see, when I conjure up the courage to do so , the directions provided by people are often highly dubious (I'm not being ungrateful , I'm completely grateful for anyone that takes the time to reply to me. But maybe its just that I'm not good with directions).

Probably cause we're as fucking confused as you. If you've been around Monash for awhile like me, you've been through a lot of changes. Paths either exist or don't exist where shit used to be. They've totally reworked the building systems as well (addresses, 23 chancellors walk; this is new, we used to just have building numbers).

Also, once you get into a habit of going to the same lecture theater week after week, you dont need to remember what number it is, your feet just remember where to go. So, if you haven't thought in terms of building numbers for ageees, it might be a bit confusing to be asked where 23 Chancellors walk is and things like that :p.

Google lost on campus. It has pictures of every building and quite often the rooms inside the building. It'll help you a lot. Available as an app too.

[chasej]

also knowing where a building is and how to walk to it yourself is a very different thing to being able to explain the directions to someone who doesn't. after a while you can gain an innate sense of direction and it's difficult to explain.

[IndefatigableLover]

Anyone here doing ECC1000? Or a subject that uses the CENGAGE thingy? The lecturer said we can download the textbook for a limited time, but I can't seem to find the link. It just gives me this mess of an online based ebook.

I think you can only view it online rather than download it as a PDF as such.

So I was always hearing about how there tends to be like a kinda of an underlying sense of  'course hierarchy'. But whenever I heard people say things like that I always  thought , well , it didn't make sense cause most people end up choosing courses according to their  interests rather than the ATAR needed to get in , or the reputation of the course. Was I wrong , or was I wrong? My bubble of denial was popped today in a lecture ( ik I just said yesterday I wasn't going to go to lectures but like I was at uni and thought -  my as well. ..right? Wrong again. Never a lecture again anyways) when the lecturer asked everyone to pick a number between 4 and 6. So this is how it went down:
Lecturer: Pick a number between 4 and 6?  '
* somewhat of a minor pause as everyone realised the only number between 4 and 6 was 5*
Crowd: *mumbles that sounded like a 5 *
Lecturer: phew...for a second there I thought I was in a arts lecture
Me: o_O
Everyone: OWWWW....**which later morphed into an applause**

OOH was that what happened? Wasn't paying attention and just heard random applause and looked up before realising where we were up to in the lecture >.>

[Orson]

Engineering: smart and super socially unaware, with the most contact hours evar.

No, extremely yes and yes.

I think you can only view it online rather than download it as a PDF as such.

Ohk cheers. I'm buying the 5th edition for $25 tomorrow (6th edition is like $130) from someone tomorrow. The lecturer said that the online textbook is bound to go missing soon, and he said he will tell the publisher, so that's why I'm getting it.

[extremeftw]

No, extremely yes and yes.

Ohk cheers. I'm buying the 5th edition for $25 tomorrow (6th edition is like $130) from someone tomorrow. The lecturer said that the online textbook is bound to go missing soon, and he said he will tell the publisher, so that's why I'm getting it.

 Just a heads up that I literally didn't open the ECC1000 book at all for the entire semester, so don't worry about spending too much $$ on it . Best way to revise for that topic is to watch Stephen King's videos on youtube.