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Seamus Wong:
First Uni journal entry.

Why I'm writing a Journal:
- It's good to keep track of how I'm feeling towards studies and life in general
- I wrote a VCE journal and it was pretty cool to look back at it at the end of the year
- I tend to stress too much about stupid shit and my mind gets clogged, which prevents me from fully focusing on my work.

What I'm studying:
- Bachelor of Commerce and Computer Science
- For commerce, I'm majoring in Finance. I might change it to Economics though. Idk yet, I will have to do some research.
- For Computer Science, I am specialising in Data Science.

Why did I choose this Degree
- I like the financial markets and I like money lol
- I find the study of Economics extremely interesting due to the fact that Economic Thinking rules the way that we live our lives
- I want to start an investment fund, and I know that in order to make wise investment decisions, a shit load of data needs to be analysed. So obviously choosing to specialise in Data Science would likely help me in processing data extremely quickly and effectively - much more efficient and effective than me doing it manually.
- I also find technology and computer programming really interesting because we are literally surrounded by it. I think it's good to have a solid understanding of how it all works.

My Uni Goals
- Start an small Trading and Investing club with other Uni students
- Get some smart friends
- Keep up to date with Uni work and hopefully get HD's in all my commerce Units and Data Science units
- Be very efficient with the way that I use my time
- Not really a uni goal, but just keep working out consistently and eating healthy food
- Get a job

Actual Journal Entry

- Uni has started online this week
- Online format sucks
- The user interface on the myMonash website is okay, but takes a bit to get used to
- I've finished all the work for Accounting (which was just watching a lecture and taking notes (i think...))
- I did a bit of maths. Idk how to feel about maths as of yet. So far the content has been relatively easy. It was a bit hard at the start because all the concepts were new, but I've got used to the way that the content is delivered, and the style of the content, so I think if I stay focused and on top of the work I'll be fine.
- Economics is likely going to be my favourite subject
- I got 6 credit points for doing Algorithmics last year, so I was allowed to skip FIT1045 (Programming Fundamentals in Python) and jump into FIT1047 (introduction into Computer Systems, Networks and Security). I am enjoying this unit so far. We just have gone over converting Binary into decimal. There is some other stuff that we learnt but I've forgotten it already. Gotta write up some notes tomorrow.

- I need to allocate an hour everyday to keeping up with the financial markets. It's a bit overwhelming because there is so much information to digest and I don't really have a lot of time to process it all on my own. Hopefully the Investing and Trading group that I've setup actually get going and some proper research and discussion can be done, and informed investment decisions made.

Gonna sleep now.
I should also set a bed time so that I can get a good routine going cos currently I have no solid routine at all. 

Joseph41:
How's the online format affecting you? Like is it 100% online (I'm a bit out of the loop with this)?

Seamus Wong:

--- Quote from: Joseph41 on March 13, 2020, 09:30:53 am ---How's the online format affecting you? Like is it 100% online (I'm a bit out of the loop with this)?

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We watch streams of last years lecture and we don't have tutorials/labs for the first week. One of my computer science units tried to do a live online lab, which I left after the first 10 minutes because the connection was poor and it would be much faster for me to do the lab worksheet by myself.

Bri MT:

--- Quote from: Seamus Wong on March 13, 2020, 12:59:25 pm ---We watch streams of last years lecture and we don't have tutorials/labs for the first week. One of my computer science units tried to do a live online lab, which I left after the first 10 minutes because the connection was poor and it would be much faster for me to do the lab worksheet by myself.


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I just had a lab through zoom (on programming) and it worked well for me but in the chat there were some people who struggled to engage with it. It's hard to tell how much of that difficulty was from the content and how much was from the online format. I found that splitting the screen so I could see what was going on in the chat and on the presenter's screen at the same time as doing my work was slightly annoying at the start but I got used to it.

Hopefully if there's a next time your connection is better then :)

Seamus Wong:

--- Quote from: Bri MT on March 13, 2020, 04:31:46 pm ---I just had a lab through zoom (on programming) and it worked well for me but in the chat there were some people who struggled to engage with it. It's hard to tell how much of that difficulty was from the content and how much was from the online format. I found that splitting the screen so I could see what was going on in the chat and on the presenter's screen at the same time as doing my work was slightly annoying at the start but I got used to it.

Hopefully if there's a next time your connection is better then :)

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Well most of the questions that we went through were very easy, so I think the lack of engagement is purely due to the online format. I hope I don't get penalised for not attending it in its entirety.

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