UNSW chit chat thread (12 Viewers)

[leehuan]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

As a disclaimer

There's going to be a point in every sem that you do from now on where you will feel at breaking point in terms of assessments
It happens every sem no matter what combination of subjects
and the content is going to be harder the further you progress

So don't give up, you've gotten through it before and you can again

The summer holidays are totally worth it

The only thing I read in all of that

 

[D94]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

As a disclaimer

There's going to be a point in every sem that you do from now on where you will feel at breaking point in terms of assessments
It happens every sem no matter what combination of subjects
and the content is going to be harder the further you progress

So don't give up, you've gotten through it before and you can again

The summer holidays are totally worth it

This is the truth.

I just want to cry, my thesis is dying on me every iteration of my simulation.

I will be working on my thesis during the mid-year break, whilst first/second/third years are having fun or volunteering or working. All that sounds better than praying to the high performance computing gods, hoping your thesis won't catastrophically fail.

 

[Queenroot]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

This is the truth.

I just want to cry, my thesis is dying on me every iteration of my simulation.

I will be working on my thesis during the mid-year break, whilst first/second/third years are having fun or volunteering or working. All that sounds better than praying to the high performance computing gods, hoping your thesis won't catastrophically fail.

you'll make it

And I think you're quite conscientious so it will pay off

 

[leehuan]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

This is the truth.

I just want to cry, my thesis is dying on me every iteration of my simulation.

I will be working on my thesis during the mid-year break, whilst first/second/third years are having fun or volunteering or working. All that sounds better than praying to the high performance computing gods, hoping your thesis won't catastrophically fail.

Yeah, I don't even want to think about my thesis

Good luck with yours

 

[Queenroot]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

Yeah, I don't even want to think about my thesis

Good luck with yours

>1st yr

 

[Mr_Kap]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

HSC was literally so much easier than this lol

ye but im so chill now. three weeks from exams and im like watever.

Comp1917 - ahaha fkn comp. fallen behind terribly in the past 2 weeks. Dont know what im doing anymore but yeh. watevs. the comp gods will save me.

Math1131 - im beyond saving. Feels like 3u math all over again. im still at projections in algebra...havent gone past that yet. Calculus im more up to date with but yeh ill still struggle. I tried a question in my tutorial and i didn't know how to integrate exponentials..RIP....... Probably only put in around 14 hours of maths myself over the semester so far, and only been to the first 2 weeks of lectures. (2 hours studying for each of the 3 tests we have had so far...and another 2 hours on maple tests, and then 1 hour on each of the 4 online tutorials i have done.)

SCIF1121 - this is the shit. Assignments all the way to a distinction.

CHEM1031 - not done much home study on this apart from lab reports, weekly chem quizes, or the 2 weeks b4 my mid semester exam. I am alright with the first and last section but have a massive knowledge gap for the whole second part with thr second lecturer. Fucken hybridisation and structures of fucking compunds and shit "Ax" shit and whatever. skipped a lot of tutorials and got my mate to sign me on . Done only the first 2 tutorial problem sets. but yeh should theoretically be ok as long as i learn the middle section. and also fuck thermodynamics.

 

[iforgotmyname]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

Let me do a review of my subjects to this point.

MAth1131: pretty chill course, a bit of new stuff but exam questions are surprising doable. Calculous lecture overcomplicates shit so skipped it since it makes my brain cells commit senpaku. Algebra is great though.

Elec1111, if you are given a choice to do or not do this subject then do it... If you wanna die. Subject is gg wp, if you get even one line wrong in the exam, you get zero for entire part/question. Content is way too fast. If you dont have fundation in electrical circuit, have fun dying.

Engg1811, started off as easy with excel and shit. Matlab is cancer. End of story. Lecturer cant speak english well, heavy accent. Labs is the shit to go to.

Phys1121, my favourite subject. Lol no... Screwed/10. The workshops are pretty bad, wish they provide actual tutorial do everyone knows what the fk is going on. Lecture notes are meh. Derivations are prrtty hard to do.

 

[Squar3root]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

Let me do a review of my subjects to this point.

MAth1131: pretty chill course, a bit of new stuff but exam questions are surprising doable. Calculous lecture overcomplicates shit so skipped it since it makes my brain cells commit senpaku. Algebra is great though.

Elec1111, if you are given a choice to do or not do this subject then do it... If you wanna die. Subject is gg wp, if you get even one line wrong in the exam, you get zero for entire part/question. Content is way too fast. If you dont have fundation in electrical circuit, have fun dying.

Engg1811, started off as easy with excel and shit. Matlab is cancer. End of story. Lecturer cant speak english well, heavy accent. Labs is the shit to go to.

Phys1121, my favourite subject. Lol no... Screwed/10. The workshops are pretty bad, wish they provide actual tutorial do everyone knows what the fk is going on. Lecture notes are meh. Derivations are prrtty hard to do.

tl;dr

math1131: alright

elec1111: death

engg1811: peasant computing

phys1121: ebola

 

[anomalousdecay]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

This is the truth.

I just want to cry, my thesis is dying on me every iteration of my simulation.

I will be working on my thesis during the mid-year break, whilst first/second/third years are having fun or volunteering or working. All that sounds better than praying to the high performance computing gods, hoping your thesis won't catastrophically fail.

You'll be fine. Have a chat to your supervisor(s) and tell them what is happening. Even if they can't fix it, they'll be understanding and give you suggestions on what to do.

tl;dr

math1131: alright

elec1111: death

engg1811: peasant computing

phys1121: ebola

i died from laughter

 

[Flop21]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

ye but im so chill now. three weeks from exams and im like watever.

Comp1917 - ahaha fkn comp. fallen behind terribly in the past 2 weeks. Dont know what im doing anymore but yeh. watevs. the comp gods will save me.

Math1131 - im beyond saving. Feels like 3u math all over again. im still at projections in algebra...havent gone past that yet. Calculus im more up to date with but yeh ill still struggle. I tried a question in my tutorial and i didn't know how to integrate exponentials..RIP....... Probably only put in around 14 hours of maths myself over the semester so far, and only been to the first 2 weeks of lectures. (2 hours studying for each of the 3 tests we have had so far...and another 2 hours on maple tests, and then 1 hour on each of the 4 online tutorials i have done.)

Comp, Linked lists... prac test coming up...



And with math, how you going to pass the class test when your that far behind in algebra? After my test today I will be spending it on algebra study + linked list study. Because right now I'm fucked.

 

[Flop21]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

As a disclaimer

There's going to be a point in every sem that you do from now on where you will feel at breaking point in terms of assessments
It happens every sem no matter what combination of subjects
and the content is going to be harder the further you progress

So don't give up, you've gotten through it before and you can again

The summer holidays are totally worth it

I will do everything I can for this NOT to happen next sem, and I think I will do much better.

 

[leehuan]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

You guys know that there's a subject review thread right

Also

SCIF1121 - this is the shit. Assignments all the way to a credit.

Ftfy UGH I HATE the discipline stream assignment, whoever thought an 8000 word report and 20min speech was a good idea can go rot. This is going to be my biggest WAM killer the entire semester. Even MATH1151 gives me hope of getting a distinction.

I also have a massive inner worry that my section in the report is going to be plagiarised. If that happens then ugh its all my fault.

No idea of any websites that checks plagiarism from book sources

 

[Flop21]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

Also it's nice to know that my birthday will be in a real shitty time in semester, for all the uni years to come

 

[turntaker]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

Lmao everyone hates their subjects.

>unsw mater race tho.

 

[leehuan]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

Also it's nice to know that my birthday will be in a real shitty time in semester, for all the uni years to come

Mine's next week. Lol.

Getting my ECON paper back for my birthday possibly. That sounds like a worry.

Lmao everyone hates their subjects.

>unsw mater race tho.

At this point I only dislike one of my courses out of four

 

[turntaker]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

Mine's next week. Lol.

Getting my ECON paper back for my birthday possibly. That sounds like a worry.



At this point I only dislike one of my courses out of four

Yea me too.
The teaching at my uni so far is great.

 

[leehuan]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

I remember just worrying about how much I would hate business subjects when I stepped into actuarial. And now I find them easier than my maths.

 

[Flop21]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

Lmao everyone hates their subjects.

>unsw mater race tho.

Are you finding your subjects easy? What grade you expecting?

 

[turntaker]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

Are you finding your subjects easy? What grade you expecting?

HD for programming
Hoping for a Pass for others.

 

[Flop21]

Re: UNSW chit chat thread 2016

HD for programming
Hoping for a Pass for others.

That's good. I hope for a D in comp, currently I'm not too keen on the prac exam coming up. I just gotta learn how to use linked lists tho and should be right hopefully.




Also to others, you know those volunteering societies? Where they do a lot of outreach events where they go to schools and do workshops with kids? Is this good for your resume?

There's one training workshop that will allow me to go on all workshop events, the only one this year, but it's on my birthday lol and goes for a while. Should I definitely do it?