Monash roll call 2015

[--whiteskies]

So like VCE English?

Let's not talk about english never again will I forget that feeling of horror when writing the section A essay in under 15 minutes #ripsectionA

[keltingmeith]

So like VCE English?

Oh no, believe me, you'll be wishing for your VCE English exam back when Simon asks you what a tensor is...

[Valyria]

Do you guys reckon they'll accept a ATO summary for TFN (as stated on Monash's site) without the receipt from AUS Post Office? As my interview for a TFN is on Thursday and thus I won't have it by tomorrow.

Thanks.

Do you have to book an appointment to lodge your TFN?

[Anchy]

Do you have to book an appointment to lodge your TFN?

Nah you don't have to. Just go to a selected post office and they'll do it on the spot.

[dankfrank420]

Wow so many people doing Commerce/Eng 

Good luck to all of you, hope to join you next year!

[chasej]

Do you have to book an appointment to lodge your TFN?

there's an online form you fill out, print the page it spits out, then take it to a post office. I made an appointment when I did mine, but mostly you can just go to the post office (as long as it offers the service).

[slothpomba]

biomedical science/ engineering

so whats the deal with textbooks?

http://www.booko.com.au for buying them, dont buy from the campus bookstore unless its an emergency. The library will have copies you can access if you need to.

Second hand i recommend textbooksexchange and monash marketplace in your student portal.

[JinXi]

Aero/Sci here, anyone doing or thinking of doing MTH1035? Seems interesting and challenging,

Oh no, believe me, you'll be wishing for your VCE English exam back when Simon asks you what a tensor is...

Simon tried convincing us that we're converging on the concept of convergence and divergence for sequence and series but ended up admitting that we're probably diverging.

^Uni maths in a nutshell

Take MTH1035 if you're really into maths/thought spesh was a joke. If you're going for marks, stick with the conventional MTH1030. You'll cover similar topics just a little more in MTH1035 in terms of abstract stuff.

[alondouek]

There looks to be quite a few incoming biomed jaffies! Let me know if any of you have questions about the course

[xlaiyn]

Bachelor of Emergency Health   

Monash (Peninsula) was my first preference, despite living four hours away. So I'm super excited. Already enrolled and put in my preferences the minute I got my offer.

Current downside though? I can't find anyone on here doing the same course. Y'all should transfer and become paramedics with me o k a y

[nerdgasm]

Oh no, believe me, you'll be wishing for your VCE English exam back when Simon asks you what a tensor is...

Simon tried convincing us that we're converging on the concept of convergence and divergence for sequence and series but ended up admitting that we're probably diverging.

^Uni maths in a nutshell

Take MTH1035 if you're really into maths/thought spesh was a joke. If you're going for marks, stick with the conventional MTH1030. You'll cover similar topics just a little more in MTH1035 in terms of abstract stuff.

Ahh, the memories and anecdotes come back. I probably have committed more of Simon's statements to memory than actual maths I learnt in MTH1035, for example:

"Every semester, it seems that some students tend to 'disappear' around the time we teach sequences and series. They sort of appear again once we start DEs, though."
"I'm like a big baby". (on his love of Coke Zero)
"You see, the factorial beats up the exponential and takes his lunch; the exponential beats up the polynomial and takes his lunch; the polynomial beats up the logarithmic and takes his lunch; as for the logarithmic, well, he's just got no lunch."
"It's all very 'Game of Thrones'-like, isn't it?" (after explaining the relationships between various hyperbolic trig functions, though I do give him some credit for watching GoT before its massive rise in global popularity)
"The second of my questions on the exam will be about separable, first-order homogeneous DEs. Oh hang on, I wasn't meant to tell you that they were separable."
"My goodness, this room is stuffy. Even I'm falling asleep, and I'm the one meant to be doing the majority of the talking! If you don't hear any sound from me for 5 minutes, get that stick over by the windowsill and poke me with it." (On a hot day)

But yeah, I don't think you'd be missing out on too much if you did MTH1030 instead of MTH1035. If you want to 'try out' MTH1035 for a couple of weeks to see if it's right for you, that's perfectly fine with the coordinators of both units - just inform them if you decide to continue doing MTH1030.

[slothpomba]

Good news! The administrative bungle was unbungled! I'm back full time for yet another year (you all cant hide from me!) largely knocking off a diploma of arts in religion and theology (it's pretty close to doing a double degree minus a few extra requirements).

Also nerdgasm's quotes are hilarious, i don't know why they don't have more upvotes.

[Professor Polonsky]

On campus 3 days this week and 3/4 next.

Am I going to contract a case of jaffyitis?

[anna.xo]

Nutrition science !

Anyone else ? ..anyone ?

[BigAl]

I can't believe this is my 5th year in Australia and 3rd year at uni...time really flies...