To potential high achievers

[tram]

I was planning to do actuarial for a while, even studied quite a bit for it in year 12. What a load of rubbish. Materialism.
Glad I did science.

I can't wait for theoretical physics... so I can get away from the labs.

whan you say studied for acturial, what exactly did you do?

[TrueTears]

he read this book called actuarial science which i also read over the holidays but didn't pursue it becoz probability aint my thing, teaches from basic probability to the very advanced, it was a very good read tho


i was gonna attach it here but its too big

[tram]

ummm tt any way of getting it to me? i can pm you my e-mail if that helps

[tram]

I was planning to do actuarial for a while, even studied quite a bit for it in year 12. What a load of rubbish. Materialism.

why do you say that /0?

[TrueTears]

ummm tt any way of getting it to me? i can pm you my e-mail if that helps

sure thing, pm me ur email and ill send it.

it's a really fun read, starts off with all the basic methods probability and then goes way higher.

a good selection of problems-very diverse.

[Cthulhu]

Labs at any university are shit. You're not going to do anything exciting when you haven't learnt anything yet.

I've done labs at Monash (17 or so, 5 of 4 hours?), but I don't think they were the same as what you guys do

First and Second year labs are 3 hours long and there are approximately 9 in second year. Don't know about first year.

[TrueTears]

yeah 3 hours of lab doing shit we haven't even learnt. wdf?

[Cthulhu]

It's going to happen everywhere you go. Depending on class sizes(approx 150 in second year physics) there are 4 lab sessions and 3 groups of ~6 people in each lab session they arent going to have enough equipment for everyone to do the same experiment. Do you know how hard it is to fit 6 people into the x-ray room in the second year labs?
Hint: It's not easy

[/0]

I was planning to do actuarial for a while, even studied quite a bit for it in year 12. What a load of rubbish. Materialism.

why do you say that /0?

My personal opinion in my context. The only reason why I wanted to do actuarial was because of the crazy money those people get. I might have mis-worded it because I was partially thinking aloud.

Now, I don't doubt there are people who like actuarial studies, and that's great.

But I'm glad I chose science because I couldn't spend 6+ years getting an actuarial qualification.

[tram]

lol, k fair enough

[methodsman]

Nothing could be more dull and boring than programming...
tempted to drop the IT part of my degree, but i think it's early days.

[vexx]

Labs at any university are shit. You're not going to do anything exciting when you haven't learnt anything yet.

I've done labs at Monash (17 or so, 5 of 4 hours?), but I don't think they were the same as what you guys do

First and Second year labs are 3 hours long and there are approximately 9 in second year. Don't know about first year.

yeah we do double lab pracs to fit in with school for first year chem, so thats 8am-4pm of lab with reports of both experiments due that day, and of things we haven't done either. so badd

[/0]

Labs at any university are shit. You're not going to do anything exciting when you haven't learnt anything yet.

I've done labs at Monash (17 or so, 5 of 4 hours?), but I don't think they were the same as what you guys do

First and Second year labs are 3 hours long and there are approximately 9 in second year. Don't know about first year.

Same here.
You have to do 3 labs and 1 lab report if you do Quantum only, and 9 labs and 2 lab reports if you do quantum and thermal.

And of course, nobody does thermal unless they're also doing quantum. There's no reason why you would want to.

[Cthulhu]

We also have to write 2 reports. I just finished my Quantum experiments and only have Atomic and Nuclear ones left.

What are you quantum labs like?
We did:
X-Ray Diffraction
Charge-to-Mass ratio of the electron
and The Ramsauer-Townsend Effect(which is the one I'm writing my report on this time around)

[appianway]

X-ray diffraction labs would be fun

The lab's I've done have been pretty random - I can't remember exactly what I've done, but I know that I've done APhO 2010 (obviously), IPhO 2003, APhO 2000, APhO 2001, APhO 2003, IPhO 2009 and others. You can look those up on the net if you're interested - they're not like typical labs. I'm not sure what I'm doing for UMEP this year because I'm exempt from the normal first year labs, but apparently Melbourne wants to give me some extension. Hmm...