A few questions about Monash (Clayton)

[link125]

So I'm interested to go to Monash (Clayton) to do Business Information Systems but I'm still not sure yet

I live in the northern suburbs, about 40 minutes out from the city. So travel is a huge factor for me if I were to go to Monash

So I have some questions as to whether the uni can be a more viable choice for me.

1. How possible is it to organise your timetable so that you only have to go to the uni twice a week? I'd be happy with going only two times a week
2. I don't know much about this area, but aren't many unis adopting online lectures in case you can't make it (or just lazy)? Or alternative tutorials on their website or something? That would make life easier.
3. Not travel related, but how is the uni as a whole?
4. Lastly if anyone does or did BIS, what is it like?

Thanks

[WonderBunny]

I go to Monash and I can confirm that lectures are recorded and put online. I only have to go to uni when I have tutorials, which reduces the number of days I have to attend from 4 to 2. If you want to know whether this would be possible in the degree you want to do, look up the MUTTS timetable on the monash website. Fill in the subjects you want to do (look them up in the handbook online) and play around with the scheduling.

[DisaFear]

Your timetable depends upon your course. I don't know much about your course, but for Science I have 5 days a week; best cram I've seen is 3 days (that is skipping lectures occasionally)

You'll be given a table with all the available time-slots for your units. Then, you will number-preference them all. When the system closes, it will automatically find you a combination to obtain least number of clashes, or something.

All of my lectures were recorded, many of them with screen capture as well, so you can see annotations that lecturers occasionaly make on the slides, as well as video.

[slothpomba]

We're obviously going to be a bit biased in here but i think its a great university.

40 Minutes travel is definitely doable. Many of us here travel 1.5 or 2 hours to monash each way and we're all still (mostly) sane.

It's real hard to say in advance of time if your timetable will be possible.

Most subjects are recorded now (after the recent student union campaign), so, you can definitely skip them. Just caution with that though, you can easily skip them and just not watch them and fall pretty far behind (i know ive done that).

[JinXi]

You'll love the food at the meeting point in campus center. Especially the pastas and potato cakes. You know you're at Monash once you try it.

[zhenzhenzhen]

Never tried food from the meeting point; heard they cause cancer XD

[Devva[R]]

The pasta there is boss.

1. Unless you get lucky with Allocate(the unit allocation system), the only way is to skip lectures. I had 22 contact hours with 90 minute travel one way, so I skipped my lectures and most of  tutes(don't do this, unless you're TT, your marks will drop) so only went 2 days.

2. The only problem with lectures online is that if the lecturer uses a projector, then it isn't recorded and you won't be able to see what the lecturer is doing. Also, there might be technical issues and lectures end up not getting recorded(rarely).

3. Awesome pasta, alright coffee and sushi that gives you food poisoning.

[slothpomba]

On the upside, if you catch something new from meeting point, they can name it after you.

I was talking to this girl from the microbiology faculty and they swabbed meeting point and cultured the bacteria. It wasn't comforting.

Great uni but a lot of the food *in the uni* is fairly shitty.

I hear there might be some good stuff in clayton which isnt too far away?

[JinXi]

On the upside, if you catch something new from meeting point, they can name it after you.

I was talking to this girl from the microbiology faculty and they swabbed meeting point and cultured the bacteria. It wasn't comforting.

Great uni but a lot of the food *in the uni* is fairly shitty.

I hear there might be some good stuff in clayton which isnt too far away?

I drive to Glen waverly everytime I crave some asian food. There's a bus that goes to glen too.

[slothpomba]

I live in the west so i've got literally no idea about anything around Monash. I just usually go to monash and go home, so, no idea about the surrounds haha.

Any suggestions?

[b^3]

I live in the west so i've got literally no idea about anything around Monash. I just usually go to monash and go home, so, no idea about the surrounds haha.

Any suggestions?

15 Min walk to Nandos from the back end of campus

[slothpomba]

15 Min walk to Nandos from the back end of campus

That the one in clayton near all the other shops?

[b^3]

I'm talking about the one in Rudsen north of monash, have to walking through the eng carpark at the back to get there.

[Phy124]

40 Minutes travel is definitely doable. Many of us here travel 1.5 or 2 hours to monash each way and we're all still (mostly) sane.

He lives 40 min from the city, so he'd be looking at similar travel time to you guys.

[slothpomba]

I'm talking about the one in Rudsen north of monash, have to walking through the eng carpark at the back to get there.

Holy shit... didn't know it was there..

He lives 40 min from the city, so he'd be looking at similar travel time to you guys.

Ooooh. That makes more sense...