Stationary

[acinod]

What do I need for uni?

I find that my pencil case gets smaller and smaller throughout my high school journey. In my final year of high school, I used a pacer, rubber, black/red/blue pen and ruler. Now that I'm in uni, I assume I'll use even less stationary?

What are must-haves if I intend to do Commerce at Melbourne (majoring in actuarial studies)?

[pi]

Firstly, you'd want some stationery instead


edit: regardless of what course I'd do, I'd probably use a highlighter, pacer, eraser and notebook. that should do it

[Gloamglozer]

You've already got pretty much everything you need.  If you're one of those highlighting people, then a higlighter perhaps.

And a scientific calculator for your exams.

[aes_999]

From what I heard, its good to have
a graphics calc for most commerce majors.
It'll make some assignments easier to do.
But hey, that's what someone told me, might
be different.

[Gloamglozer]

From what I heard, its good to have
a graphics calc for most commerce majors.
It'll make some assignments easier to do.
But hey, that's what someone told me, might
be different.

For the more mathematically inclines students, a graphics calculator is "weak".  MATLAB or something equivalent is the way to go from uni onwards, especially if you're going into a job which requires knowledge of programming and the like.

[Furbob]

you should ask Kennybhoy about this - I recall him surviving his first year of actuarial on just one blue pen.

then I bought him a 4 color pen and he called it a surplus and lost it in a week
(and found it again then lost it again)

[aes_999]

^@ Gloam, MATLAB huh...
I'll probably still use my graphics
unless I really need MATLAB,
defs not keen on maths / programming.

[dc302]

A pen should do it.

[acinod]

Guess I wont have as much fun stationery shopping then

Do we need a ruler? I can't remember why I used a ruler for high school but I recall needing one. Oh wait drawing graphs thats right. Do we need to draw graphs?

And considering whether I should stay with my usual black/blue/red pen or just use one fancy pen for everything. Because in high school when I had notes, I had red for the main heading, black for subheadings and graphs and finally blue for all the notes and writing. But I guess in uni you won't be doing all this? Or is it pretty much this type of notetaking?

Also I presume a scientific calculator is all I will need?

Also notebooks! Do I need one for each subject? Or can I just use a big one? Like one of those 4 in one books. Since I only have 4 subjects/semester pretty much.

[dc302]

Maybe if you want to draw nice graphs... but it's just for your own note taking usually. A calculator will probably be needed if you are doing commerce subjects, just for arithmetic. Notebooks: do whatever you want. Again, it's for your own note-taking. Not sure about tute work though...

[Kennybhoy]

you should ask Kennybhoy about this - I recall him surviving his first year of actuarial on just one blue pen.

then I bought him a 4 color pen and he called it a surplus and lost it in a week
(and found it again then lost it again)

Fuck off. Dev borrowed it from me from me during a Hargz sesh and then he kept it for a few weeks before I went to his house to take it back. On a side note, I have no idea where it is now but it's somewhere in the house .

Oh and here's my stationary advice. Don't do what I did and just take a blue pen. Sometimes you'll need a pencil too. I tried to do an accounting exam in pen and shit goes down when you muck up a few numbers. Oh fuck. (only for exam though)

[Kennybhoy]

No...I didn't and that was a regret .

[dc302]

I went into so many multi-choice question exams without a rubber... the ones where you shade in the ovals.

edit: without a pencil too in fact, kept forgetting to change my pen.

[paulsterio]

Throughout Y11-12 I've always carried with me, a single blue pen, well it's a Waterman so nerrr! but I switched to a fountain pen nearer to the end of the year - it looks so nice!

But yeah, that was all I needed, I didn't even have exercise books, I just carried around loose leaf tucked into the back cover of my textbook and hmm, I guess I've ran into people that call me extremely unorganised, because I have no systematic way of organisation, and then there's people who say I'm reasonably organised because I can always seem to find everything so meh

I guess for Uni I'll just carry around my iPad with a Bluetooth Keyboard and Stylus. That's an exercise book (which I can write with my stylus), all my textbooks (PDFs ), Notes (Keyboard!), Calculator, Facebook...etc. All I need

[Mech]

Am I the only guy here who borrowed pens throughout Year 12? I would borrow them off my friend and then she went out and bought me a packet. They are my favourite pens.

University, well, I own a laptop, pens and can buy some notebooks. Why are people over-thinking this?