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Cartographer? Do you work with Archaeologist? -zofro's journal on GeoSpat Sci
K888:
--- Quote from: zofromuxo on September 02, 2017, 09:22:51 pm ---That's fantastic to know and also a little scary. I do hope you don't tell your best friend about this thread,if they go to RMIT, it wouldn't be too hard to figure out who I am.
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Haha your secret is safe with me ;) You'd probably know her, anyway! So it's reciprocal haha.
zofromuxo:
--- Quote from: Joseph41 on September 02, 2017, 05:46:23 pm ---Yesssss this is the best. Seriously looking forward to reading your updates - thanks for starting this thread!
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No worries, I will try my best to impress you Joesph and hopefully show Geography is more then a "colouring book subject" :P.
Joseph41:
--- Quote from: zofromuxo on September 03, 2017, 04:14:48 pm ---No worries, I will try my best to impress you Joesph and hopefully show Geography is more then a "colouring book subject" :P.
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Haha, I have no doubt it's more than that. :P
I am admittedly pretty ignorant about the degree, though, so looking forward to... becoming less ignorant hah.
zofromuxo:
Sunday, 03/09/2017 (Weekends, where blackholes exist and disciplined & motivation disappears into thin air).
My last day before my mid-semester breaks ends. I got to hand it to RMIT, the break really is in mid-semester unlike a lot of universities. This is something that RMIT has done well, although then again NAS has been pretty good though, but then again we just got the Allocate+ timetable system to replace STS so maybe I shouldn’t give too much credit to them.
Has my break been enjoyable? Somewhat, but then again, I’m kind of a workaholic so I guess in a “normal” sense it wouldn’t be. But what can I say, work is work and if your passionate about it, then you’ll enjoy it no matter what. Although as I say, that my 1,000-word report begs to differ. But I’ll shoehorn that away with the powers of procrastination :P.
But despite that I did really get a lot of work done, which is great since I have time to do my report properly and not half-ass it like my last one. I mean I only have self to blame for thinking dot point format would fly under a report, I know I’m an idiot we can establish that.
I’ll stop self-depreciating, as from the looks of things the quota for this is filling to the brim. But on to the good stuff now, my library has finally sent me the email that Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky can be picked up from Swanston Library. Which is fantastic since I’ve always wanted to read it and Russians come second to none in literature. Honestly, like if you ever get a chance, read Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Solzhenitsyn their books are amazing. Although fair warning, if you aren’t ready to throw your life into chaos and have multiple existential crises then it isn’t an appropriate time to read these books. If you unsure if you can handle it, then read 1984 and Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell as well as Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. 1984 and Brave New World will amaze you on how accurate both Orwell and Huxley were about their vision of a dystopian future and then slowly fill you with dread on how the world will progress into the nightmare depicted in that book. I can still remember myself shaking after finishing Brave New World and re-reading the ending to understand how futile it was for the John. The parallel to the ending passages of the book to the victims of online shaming on Twitter.
I know this entry isn’t exactly per say about my course, but once class starts I promise I will guide you all on my journey into untapped land that is Geospatial Science and a bit of Surveying.
What i'm studying for the rest of semester two Physical Geography, Introduction to Physical Modelling, Spatial Information Science Fundamentals and Applied Geospatial Techniques
zofromuxo:
Monday, 04/09/2017 (A new day, back to work and research).
I decided to leave early today despite not having my Physical Geography lecture at 12:30am. As I wanted to begin research on my 1,000 word report and also get work done… because as much as I love reading Reddit, it isn’t going to keep my grades up. I got a bit delayed because I got to my stop, I realised I left my myki in my coat pocket and not in my wallet. That was awkward….
I arrived at RMIT and went to Swanston library to get my books on hold. As soon as I found Crime and Punishment , it was extremely in poor condition. Which disappointed me, such a classic piece of literature being in a poor state pisses me off a lot, I guess that is what happens when you start taking reading seriously like I have this year. I then went up to a secret corner and got to work on my report. I began planning and then reading GIS and Crime Mapping to give me an overview of crime prevention with the use of GIS.
I learnt some interesting things on how GIS has been used, but also that a lot of the issues involved with it still exist such as such as technical issues, getting officers to use it and understand but also how to use the data sources in a meaningful way. This remind of my lecturer’s catch phrase regarding maps: “What is the purpose?”, which I also keep to heart as without purpose then you are useless, just wandering around and half-assing everything.
I then attended my physical geography lecture, we were introduced to climatology. Which was interesting in that I learnt some more depth on the topic in terms of ocean currents, but also how temperature variation can occur in various locations on the same latitude.
I then spent my 45 minutes break before my introduction to physical modelling lecture looking up career events I could go to and discussed with my friend potentially going to one next week instead of the next physical geography lecture .
Introduction to physical modelling lecture was alright, however I nearly fainted during the class due a lack of energy from eating my lunch at 11:00pm today, my physical geography lecture starts at 12:30pm and ends at 2:30pm…. Lunch break why? I went to Rice Workshop in Empormium and has an unadon (fried eel on rice), it was a good snack and only costs $9.90, well worth it and doesn't break the typical university's student bank, not that it concerns me too much since I saved like a Scrooge in high school and primary school.
I also began to read Crime and Punishment and the introduction was wow, amazing and fascinating. The history regarding Dostoyevsky and how his life in prison and being in deep debt at the same while making this book as it is, was something I didn’t realise and was shocked by how he achieved both the volume he was able to produce in Crime and Punishment .
Also I’m having a developing obsession on listening to Stellar (a kpop band) music, I might have to do with the recent changes and reliving the good times. But that isn’t important yet….
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