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Will Shakespear

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Have you done any of the following courses:

EMGT2040
EMGT2050
BIOL3350

Any BIOL 2000 level courses (2010, 2020, 2050, 2070, 2090, 2220)
Any 3rd year biol courses

if so, any comments on the courses, which ones are good or which ones to avoid would be awesome

thanx <3
 

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EMGT2040- Haven't done it, never doing it. Know people who did it, probably fine, dunno lol.

EMGT2050- This course is fuckin mad! We got to go on a field trip, camping the weekend in the watagans and trap Australian native animals and go spotlighting for frogs and OMG best course. Pretty easy though. It kind of felt like it was geared towards tourists, which there are plenty of in the course. Fun though!

BIOL3350- Haven't done any third year courses.

Any BIOL 2000 level courses (2010, 2020, 2050, 2070, 2090, 2220)

BIOL2070 (ecology) is a first grade course, interesting, a fair bit of lab work, field excursions, but it's not overly hard, you'd smash it. I really like the lecturers, they're both excellent.

BIOL2002 (Cellular lab skills)- I did this for a few weeks, it's all lab based assessments. Every week there's a new lab and you've got to write up a full lab report and keep your log book up to date. A big, mandatory, structured workload and the labs themselves aren't easy.
This course was a major reason in motivating me to change from "living systems" major to "social systems" major. It was too much for my liking and I dropped out of the course.

Bio lab courses are annoying, because the cunt tutors are always heaps anal and on your back about every little thing. "you must flame sterilize that rod before re-applying it to the petri dish" yeah fuck off.

If you like a structured workload and working consistently throughout the course, and love lab work it might be okay. Also, the lecturer when I did it two years ago was some English (Irish maybe?) guy, and everyone thought he was a mean prick.

That's all I've done.

You were maths/phys before weren't you?

How does the change work? You have a minor in physics? I wanted to do a dip ed, but I read the rules for gaining accreditation as a teacher, and apparently you need to have at least a qualification in maths/phys/chem to become a science teacher. My experience in Bio/earth science is worth nothing
 
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Will Shakespear

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i've only done just enough physics to get the minor, no more, so it worked out well, i.e. no excess physics

plus a couple of maths subs to cover my electives

thanks for that :D

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in the double degree you can major in chem, bio, physics, or earthsci

but at least one of your major & minor has to be chem or physics

or you can do straight maths
 

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Chemistry was fun. I ended up making friends with a stoner and we used to burn his hand with sulfuric acid.
 

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surprised that more people dont run outta those labs with bottles of chloroform.
I stole a jar of potassium nitrate. They don't use it in undergraduate lads, it's too high class. I had to get it from the cupboard when no one was around.

Have to get value from my $800 course fees somehow.
 

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chloroform being a date rape drug is a myth apparently. All it does is make you dizzy and gives you cancer.
 

Will Shakespear

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what physics subjects have you done? im thinking of doing some for my general electives. give me some info
2170 (Quantum mech & semiconductors) - awesome course, i think you have to do it for electrical anyway
best part was actually measuring the distance between 2 atoms using electron diffraction

2100 (astronomy) - good bludge
 

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