Monash 2014 Jaffy Tips & Questions Thread

[excal]

Do I count as a jaffy? :p

[slothpomba]

Do I count as a jaffy? :p

Do you want to :p

That sig could use an update too

[Fyrefly]

Week One!!
Good luck jaffies 

[Spider]

The way my transport works out I'll be getting to uni pretty early - around 7.30 so 90 minutes before my first class starts.

Just a few questions.

- Will there be cafes and such open at this time?
- Where's the best place to get breakfast/coffee?

[vashappenin]

Do we need to print off lecture slides?? Don't the lecturers display the slides in every lecture anyway or am I wrong? I just don't find it useful to annotate slides but I prefer instead to write down my own notes so I"m thinking of not printing them off. I mean, I'll still have access to electronic copies..

[Art Vandelay]

Do we need to print off lecture slides?? Don't the lecturers display the slides in every lecture anyway or am I wrong? I just don't find it useful to annotate slides but I prefer instead to write down my own notes so I"m thinking of not printing them off. I mean, I'll still have access to electronic copies..

no, you don;t have to print them off, and yes the lecturers display the slides in the lecture

[vashappenin]

Thought so
Ok each to their own, I know, but what do you guys generally do (that you think was effective for you) in lectures? Do you just listen, write on/annotate slides, just write in a notebook or use a laptop and type notes/important points? Do you leave it at that or write more detailed notes based on pre-readings/ after listening to the actual lecture? Sorry I know these questions probably commonly come up but I need to know what was effective for people so I can implement/try it out myself.

[Dallas45]

Thought so
Ok each to their own, I know, but what do you guys generally do (that you think was effective for you) in lectures? Do you just listen, write on/annotate slides, just write in a notebook or use a laptop and type notes/important points? Do you leave it at that or write more detailed notes based on pre-readings/ after listening to the actual lecture? Sorry I know these questions probably commonly come up but I need to know what was effective for people so I can implement/try it out myself.

Personally, I use my laptop during the lectures to take notes of the important points. Some subjects have lectures which have most of the info on the slides. Others, though, only have images on the slides and require you to write down all the important points.

Later on I type up and/or handwrite fully detailed notes with information from readings, lectures, tutorials etc ready for exam time. If I found a lecture particularly 'heavy' in terms of content I'll go back and listen to/watch the recording on MULO if the lecture is recorded.

[slothpomba]

- Will there be cafes and such open at this time?
- Where's the best place to get breakfast/coffee?

Is there any way you can avoid getting there 90 minutes early? It's good to have a comfortable buffer zone incase you're late but 90 minutes is huge. I don't think much of anything will be open, i guess try it and once and see, that'll be the ultimate test of it. The MSA has free breakfast every wednesdays starting 8am i think it is too if you want to look into that. If you're smart about it, 90 minutes is enough to get to the city and back probably, you could try that.

Do we need to print off lecture slides?? Don't the lecturers display the slides in every lecture anyway or am I wrong? I just don't find it useful to annotate slides but I prefer instead to write down my own notes so I"m thinking of not printing them off. I mean, I'll still have access to electronic copies..

Keep in mind in uni, you don't have to do *anything*. Most people do it to annotate the slides/read along before hand. If you don't like doing this, then, you don't have to do that.

I usually annotate the slides or just sit and listen, depending on the nature of the lecture. Awhile later i use the textbook and other sources to make some slightly more detailed notes (i attatch like 4-5 blank sheets to each set of slides for this) and explanations to myself.

[slothpomba]

Ooops, almost forgot, how was everyones first day(s)? Make any jaffy mistakes or see anything cool?

[Spider]

Is there any way you can avoid getting there 90 minutes early? It's good to have a comfortable buffer zone incase you're late but 90 minutes is huge. I don't think much of anything will be open, i guess try it and once and see, that'll be the ultimate test of it. The MSA has free breakfast every wednesdays starting 8am i think it is too if you want to look into that. If you're smart about it, 90 minutes is enough to get to the city and back probably, you could try that.

It's either that or take four buses to get there just 10 minutes earlier.

[duhherro]

btw are eng support classes running this week?

[DoctorWho]

My first day sucked. I hate it. Can I drop out now?

[alondouek]

My first day sucked. I hate it. Can I drop out now?

Keep going, I had a pretty meh first day too (same every semester really), but I can assure you it gets better when you're more in the swing of things.

[b^3]

I can already tell how full on this semester is going to be. First day, already got three assignments for three different units despite only having two lectures today... Also some lecturers have decided to add an extra tute for the first few weeks so I'm going up to 25 contact hours... great...

EDIT: Just realised this was meant to be in the Monash General Chat thread, my bad...