Question about timetabling classes

[iroflmfao]

So im doing first year commerce.
And i timetabled all my classes so its just two days a week.

My question is, is it bad to have 1 class after another. Like 1 ends at 10 30, and the next one starts at 10 30 ?
Do the lectures care if im late / leave early ?
And are the classes like in one building so i have the time to make transitions from one class to another ?

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[aes_999]

What I know is that classes are not in one building for commerce. But judging from the clayton map, the buildings that you have to go to (say, for example, from building 11 to building 8 or building 64) are quite close to each other.

[Fyrefly]

Classes finish 5mins before scheduled time, and start 5mins after scheduled time.
Thus, you have 10mins to get to your next class.

[iroflmfao]

Classes finish 5mins before scheduled time, and start 5mins after scheduled time.
Thus, you have 10mins to get to your next class.

Oh really ?
Thanks man.
Thank God

[slothpomba]

Its only bad if you think its bad. If you think you can take it by all means go for it. After all that mental work though your concentration might take a bit of a nose dive though.

Also, it might be a bit hard to find a time to eat properly but they generally dont care if you bring food into a lecture, long as it isn't like a pot of stew or something.

Might also make it hard to see other people at uni considering you'd have a lack of breaks but i have a timetable like the one you describe. I live far away so its a good trade off for me personally.

[playsimme]

How do you organize your timetable so its 2 days a week? I don't understand O_O isn't it just keying in subjects for now? Someone please explain?D: There isn't an option for picking your days.

[slothpomba]

How do you organize your timetable so its 2 days a week? I don't understand O_O isn't it just keying in subjects for now? Someone please explain?D: There isn't an option for picking your days.

My post here (Re: Western Suburbs to Monash Clayton ) might help.

Follow the directions there.

How do you get it on 2 days? You have to be incredibly lucky really.

A lot of subjects (at least in first year) repeat the same lecture 2 or 3 times simply because theres so many students and to try avoid clashes. So, theres where you get some wiggle room to choose. The first chemistry lecture might run three times, monday 8am, tuesday 2pm and tuesday 4pm. They'll all cover the same thing say the periodic table. Then you have the second lecture for the week also repeated 3 times, on wednesday 8am, thursday 3pm and friday 1pm and these will all be repeats on the same lecture on atoms. This is just an example of course but it works like that.

Same with tutorials and labs, they pretty much always run more than one to avoid clashes and to simply fit everyone in.

Look in the handbook for a particular subject, it says you only need to go to one lab and 3 lectures a week for example. So, you'd simply tick only one lab in mutts and 3 lectures (make sure they're seperate lectures and not repeats).

MUTTS is simply there to help you figure out a prospective timetable and to play around. Your actual preferences don't go in untill a while later and these go into something called allocate +. Hopefully i didnt confuse you too much..

[iroflmfao]

I pretty much live about 1 hour and 30min away on a lucky day, if all the trains and buses connecting are on time. So commuting for more then 2 days a week, I probably could not handle it.

I made my timetable so that i have about 2 hours of a lunch break, so its all good. The only thing bad is that my classes run from 9 in the morning to about 5 30.

Just wondering where's the closest subway located to the clayton campus ? Like any in walking distance and is convenient ?
Or any decent (not overpriced and taste good) places in or around the campus that you recommend ?

[gemgem49]

Just wondering where's the closest subway located to the clayton campus ? Like any in walking distance and is convenient ?
Or any decent (not overpriced and taste good) places in or around the campus that you recommend ?

As far as I know, the closest are Pinewood and Brandon Park which both require a bus trip if you don't have a car. I used to work at both and we'd get heaps of Monash students. You also get a 20% discount if you have your student card. I don't THINK there are any closer.

[andy456]

Theres one past Clayton Station?? Not sure if thats the one of the ones mentioned above.. Theres a bus stop right out the front of it.

[slothpomba]

A lot of the on-campus food is incredibly horrible, in my opinion anyway.

I think theres a thread about this somewhere in the monash forum about places to eat.

Most of the time i just skip eating and grab something on the way home but i guess the sushi is *ok* and decently healthy..

[TrueTears]

So im doing first year commerce.
And i timetabled all my classes so its just two days a week.

My question is, is it bad to have 1 class after another. Like 1 ends at 10 30, and the next one starts at 10 30 ?
Do the lectures care if im late / leave early ?
And are the classes like in one building so i have the time to make transitions from one class to another ?

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I also put all my classes so that I have one/two day weeks. Like Fyrefly said, you will have time to get from one place to another. Although some places are quite far and 10 mins break may not be enough, however most commerce tutes aren't too far away and tutors don't really care if you're late... just walk in and settle yourself down hah

I pretty much live about 1 hour and 30min away on a lucky day, if all the trains and buses connecting are on time. So commuting for more then 2 days a week, I probably could not handle it.

I made my timetable so that i have about 2 hours of a lunch break, so its all good. The only thing bad is that my classes run from 9 in the morning to about 5 30.

Just wondering where's the closest subway located to the clayton campus ? Like any in walking distance and is convenient ?
Or any decent (not overpriced and taste good) places in or around the campus that you recommend ?

Mine is the same as yours next semester, starting from 9 and finish at 6:30pm, it's actually not too bad, you get used to it after a while, plus this way you have so much more free time to self study etc rather than having to go to uni each day.