Communal University Journey Journal

[sweetiepi]

Today and tomorrow are my only chillax days- where I have 4 hours or less of classes.

Yesterday I presented, and I'm glad that's over. Tomorrow I'm not looking forward to a workshop which I'd rather have in the morning (but I have it in the late afternoon and it's mathematical, so my head will hurt ).

Thursday will the start of my chem labs for the semester, I'm sorta looking forward to making some deep heat (methyl salicylate), and Friday afternoon I get a lab tour (with free food afterwards- goals ), and I'm really excited for it, because it's a great way to finish this long week off!

[Coffee]

Really happy with my productivity today.

- 2/3 of the way through my history assignment
- 1/3 of the way through my literature assignment
- Caught up on last week's philosophy lecture
- Caught up on yesterday's literature lecture

Planning to finish off the night with yesterday's philosophy lecture, and finish my history and literature readings for this week. Health-wise, I'm feeling much better too.

[Shadowxo]

15/08
-I almost forgot to do my pre-workshop work due 9am tomorrow. Glad I didn't, that would have been a disaster.
-I've been putting off my assignment that I really should write up tonight (why I forgot about the pre-workshop).
-Prac today was alright but they're always long and tough. 9am 3-hour pracs should be illegal. Predictions didn't match results so we had to figure out where we went wrong. We had to do and write up 3 pracs in around 2 hours :-/ and figure out where our logic went wrong and explain it.
-I went to a Women in Physics afternoon tea today It had delicious cakes and fruit and got to know some of my lecturers a bit and provide feedback on the course.
-I waited in line for over an hour to get free food from a BBQ- not worth it. Next time, I'm skipping the line and buying food
-Watched last week's episode of GoT and... Dany's OP.

On Thursday I'm going to try  and get ahead a bit so I can relax on the weekend never seem to have all my work completed :-/

[Jay.C]

16/8/17

- Deciding whether to continue with Bach of sci at Melbourne or move to first year Bach of biomed at monash.
- Direct pathway to med is attractive at monash plus the chance to start again and get a higher WAM then I currently have. Worried I won't have the wam to make the tranfer into biomed possible though.
- Put off by the extra year of study it would bring.
- Have to be productive today and revise what we have learnt in Chem 2 so far.
- Hopfully I'll be on top of eveything later on in the week.

[tashhhaaa]

- Direct pathway to med is attractive at monash plus the chance to start again and get a higher WAM then I currently have. Worried I won't have the wam to make the tranfer into biomed possible though.

do we get a new WAM only if we change unis or if we change courses as well??

[Joseph41]

do we get a new WAM only if we change unis or if we change courses as well??

My understanding is you have an independent WAM for each course.

[Sine]

15-08-17

Not too bad had lectures/tutorials from 2-6 but skipped a 8am lecture 
continued working on bms1042 assignment
I think I have a group presentation coming up RIP

18-08-2017

finished bms1042 assignment still got a few days to proofread and go over everything a few more times
Had a relatively long day 9-6 (17/08/2017) today isn't too bad only 1-6

[K888]

I find myself getting more and more anxious each Sunday night about the week of uni ahead, and it's not pleasant.

[elysepopplewell]

Today was one of those days where it's just one unfortunate event after another. My group assessment was to facilitate a tutorial from 9-12, with four members. We agreed everything would be finalised on Saturday. I was the only one to submit everything on Saturday. Last night everyone said "Just finishing off now!" So I went to bed. I woke up at 7am, to a message saying a team member is ill and won't be coming in. I said how much it sucks but I hope they get better, and can they please send me their work for the tutorial so I can present it instead. He said he's been sick and hasn't done anything. As in, for the 5 weeks we've been at uni, nothing. Laughable. My tutor would understand, it just meant that things wouldn't quite be as smooth for the rest of us. I get to class, I reach into my handbag and my waterbottle has not just leaked, it has completely opened and spilled. I got a nice leather bag for my birthday so this is not absorbing anything - there is a POOL OF GREEN CORDIAL in my handbag. I pull my phone out - the screen is fuzzy and then turns off. It gets really hot and sits on the desk for a while turning on and off without me touching it Google tells me I will need a new iPhone (third this year!) but I'm committed to the rice remedy. But what is quite funny (in retrospect), is that I carry around a little personal alarm/siren where if I pull the chain, it sounds a loud siren (y'know, in case anyone attacks me). The water got into that and it triggered it, and I couldn't stop it! At all! It was SO loud and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so I had to leave my tutorial, take it to the toilet, and flush it! I'm devastated, sooo bad for the environment But nothing would stop it! My wifi dongle, wallet, remote on my car keys, and novel, are also all ruined. Tragic.

It goes on, dear friends, but let's just leave it there and imagine a very frazzled me banging on a personal alarm system trying to explain to my class why I even have it in the first place, and then walking down the university halls to the bathroom holding it to my stomach to try and mute the sound, before flushing it down the toilet.

The good news is that I got a distinction for the presentation, despite being underprepared thanks to my flakey team mate and very frazzled thanks to the disaster cordial. So things aren't awful, just very expensive

I hope you smiled at this story, because now several hours have passed, I think I can smile at it now too

[K888]

Today was one of those days where it's just one unfortunate event after another. My group assessment was to facilitate a tutorial from 9-12, with four members. We agreed everything would be finalised on Saturday. I was the only one to submit everything on Saturday. Last night everyone said "Just finishing off now!" So I went to bed. I woke up at 7am, to a message saying a team member is ill and won't be coming in. I said how much it sucks but I hope they get better, and can they please send me their work for the tutorial so I can present it instead. He said he's been sick and hasn't done anything. As in, for the 5 weeks we've been at uni, nothing. Laughable. My tutor would understand, it just meant that things wouldn't quite be as smooth for the rest of us. I get to class, I reach into my handbag and my waterbottle has not just leaked, it has completely opened and spilled. I got a nice leather bag for my birthday so this is not absorbing anything - there is a POOL OF GREEN CORDIAL in my handbag. I pull my phone out - the screen is fuzzy and then turns off. It gets really hot and sits on the desk for a while turning on and off without me touching it Google tells me I will need a new iPhone (third this year!) but I'm committed to the rice remedy. But what is quite funny (in retrospect), is that I carry around a little personal alarm/siren where if I pull the chain, it sounds a loud siren (y'know, in case anyone attacks me). The water got into that and it triggered it, and I couldn't stop it! At all! It was SO loud and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so I had to leave my tutorial, take it to the toilet, and flush it! I'm devastated, sooo bad for the environment But nothing would stop it! My wifi dongle, wallet, remote on my car keys, and novel, are also all ruined. Tragic.

It goes on, dear friends, but let's just leave it there and imagine a very frazzled me banging on a personal alarm system trying to explain to my class why I even have it in the first place, and then walking down the university halls to the bathroom holding it to my stomach to try and mute the sound, before flushing it down the toilet.

The good news is that I got a distinction for the presentation, despite being underprepared thanks to my flakey team mate and very frazzled thanks to the disaster cordial. So things aren't awful, just very expensive

I hope you smiled at this story, because now several hours have passed, I think I can smile at it now too

Oh no Elyse! What an unfortunate series of events Fingers crossed that the rice works!

When you clean your handbag (though you've probs already done this)- make sure you stick it out in the sun to dry! Way better than just sticking it in front of a fan or heater It'll prevent any bacteria or nasty stuff from hiding away in your bag and causing odors and the like.
Can't remember the cleaning tip for leather - a soapy sponge?

This is the exact reason why I take a backpack to uni, with a dedicated water bottle sleeve on the outside haha.

[elysepopplewell]

Oh no Elyse! What an unfortunate series of events Fingers crossed that the rice works!

When you clean your handbag (though you've probs already done this)- make sure you stick it out in the sun to dry! Way better than just sticking it in front of a fan or heater It'll prevent any bacteria or nasty stuff from hiding away in your bag and causing odors and the like.
Can't remember the cleaning tip for leather - a soapy sponge?

This is the exact reason why I take a backpack to uni, with a dedicated water bottle sleeve on the outside haha.

This is genuinely good advice! Will definitely give it a better scrub tomorrow and leave it in the sun! Your advice made me smile

[strawberries]

for yesterday (21/8)

- finished my 2 politics readings
- answered half of my tute questions for IPE
- very briefly started researching my essay for IR, I borrowed a lot of books from the library!

[RuiAce]

And all in a sudden I understand what feels like nothing in computing. Ugh, pointers and arrays and getchars...

[AngelWings]

And all in a sudden I understand what feels like nothing in computing. Ugh, pointers and arrays and getchars...

I totally get that feeling all the time.

May as well contribute.

30th August 2017:
Had a mostly great day today.
- Had a chemistry mid-semester test which I studied mostly last night. Think I did alright, little shaky on it though because it's been rather neglected in favour of my research unit. 
- Went to meet up with my supervisor who got me to revisit the binomial distribution, which I haven't done since Methods! (Might have done it in MTH1020/1030, but I forget.)
- Sat down to eat lunch and decided to check emails, as one does in modern day boredom... I got an interview for the paid internship I applied for! (Anyone ever done a video interview on a phone? My uni laptop has decided to malfunction.)
- Went early to my afternoon lab, as requested by my lab partners, and completed the video for our assessment task.
- Got to come home early which is rare. 

[Sine]

6/9/17

Finished neuro practical quiz (7%) which is a huge chunk for an online quiz. It was relatively okay but always a few dodgy MCQs where there seems to be 2 answers. 
Got two MSTs in the next week
MTH2010 (multivariable calculus) (20%) on friday
BMS1062 (molecular biology) (10%) next wednesday

MTH2010 hopefully isn't too bad, praying they don't put in any proofs I haven't seen before and molecluar is 18 lectures so RIP (inb4 someone says they have more) ,

btw I'll make a personal journal soon!