Auckland OLY1 chat - archive

[leiladian]

How long can you loan a textbook for? Is it possible for 1 semester?

I don't think you can loan a textbook for a semester.
most books are for 28 days. (?)
some high demanded textbooks are only for short loan, which is like 2 hours. (am i right? someone correct me if i am wrong... )
But you can renew your loans.

 

[Satmo]

I don't think you can loan a textbook for a semester.
most books are for 28 days. (?)
some high demanded textbooks are only for short loan, which is like 2 hours. (am i right? someone correct me if i am wrong... )
But you can renew your loans.

Yup that's right - loan for 28 days then renew for 28 days. Short loan can be 2 hours but can also vary depending on the demand for the book. I would assume that most books for OLY1 in the short loan would be 2 hours though. There are some more details on loaning textbooks a few pages back in this thread [MENTION=13210]Nogeat[/MENTION]

 

[Nogeat]

There are some more details on loaning textbooks a few pages back in this thread @Nogeat

Whoops, didn't see that^_^

So it's been said that tortora & derrickson text book can be found in the med library (not sure of the location). Then can all the other text books be found in the general library, or do they have specific libraries?

Particularly interested in loaning the physics text book.

 

[Satmo]

So it's been said that tortora & derrickson text book can be found in the med library (not sure of the location). Then can all the other text books be found in the general library, or do they have specific libraries?

Particularly interested in loaning the physics text book.

Most OLY1 text books can be found on more than one campus library. For example, Tort and D can be found in the Kate Edgar Short loan (loan for this book ranging from 2 hours to 3 days) as well as in the Philson (med library on the Grafton campus), general library (on the City campus) and the Tamaki library.

I just did a quick search for you and the physics text book and it is available from the general library and also from the Kate Edgar short loan (also on the City campus) and can be loaned from 2 hours to 3 days.

If you go to this link and type in the book's name in the bar bedside where it says 'library search' then it'll come up with all the info about the book. When the box comes up on the next page, click on the tab that says 'locations' and it'll give you all the locations and availability of that book.

The University of Auckland Library

Hope that helps

 

[Nogeat]

Hope that helps

Greatly appreciated

 

[Nogeat]

Are there any course books for poplhlth 111?
I've heard both a yes and no :blink:

 

[4everAlone]

Are there any course books for poplhlth 111?
I've heard both a yes and no :blink:

In my year, no. Just online resources (slides and readings etc)

 

[Zippo]

I've been wondering about Poplhlth 111 and how the tutorials are based at the Tamaki Campus and I've come across a bit of a dilemma.
I have my tutorial on a Monday straight after my Poplhlth lecture. I know tutorials don't start until a bit later to give students time to travel.

Now what I'm having trouble deciding is whether I should:

a) drive to the Tamaki Campus seeing as it is my last class on a Monday or
b) catch the bus to the Tamaki Campus, therefore, hopping back on the bus to get back to the Auckland campus where my car is parked...

Any thoughts? Also is there parking available if I do drive, and would it take longer driving there than if I were to take the bus?

Thanks in advance!

 

[qbob]

parking is free at tamaki so I'd park there

 

[4everAlone]

I've been wondering about Poplhlth 111 and how the tutorials are based at the Tamaki Campus and I've come across a bit of a dilemma.
I have my tutorial on a Monday straight after my Poplhlth lecture. I know tutorials don't start until a bit later to give students time to travel.

Now what I'm having trouble deciding is whether I should:

a) drive to the Tamaki Campus seeing as it is my last class on a Monday or
b) catch the bus to the Tamaki Campus, therefore, hopping back on the bus to get back to the Auckland campus where my car is parked...

Any thoughts? Also is there parking available if I do drive, and would it take longer driving there than if I were to take the bus?

Thanks in advance!

How sure are you that your tutorial is at Tamaki? From a quick class search all Monday tutorials are at City...Tamaki campus only has tutorials on Wednesdays and Thursdays? I could be very wrong though!

But yes as[MENTION=8392]qbob[/MENTION] said, if that's the case definitely park at Tamaki

 

[Zippo]

How sure are you that your tutorial is at Tamaki? From a quick class search all Monday tutorials are at City...Tamaki campus only has tutorials on Wednesdays and Thursdays? I could be very wrong though!

But yes as@[URL="https://www.medstudentsonline.com.au/member.php?u=8392"]qbob[/URL] said, if that's the case definitely park at Tamaki

Oh hahah. I feel like such an egg right now. My tutorial is in Old Choral. Problem solved. At least now I know parking at Tamaki is free. I'll be looking forward to lunch time at Carl Juniors

Thankies!

Ps. Now that I think about it, I specifically chose the Monday tutorial to avoid commuting to the Tamaki campus!

 

[4everAlone]

Oh hahah. I feel like such an egg right now. My tutorial is in Old Choral. Problem solved. At least now I know parking at Tamaki is free. I'll be looking forward to lunch time at Carl Juniors

Thankies!

Ps. Now that I think about it, I specifically chose the Monday tutorial to avoid commuting to the Tamaki campus!

Perfect. Lucky we caught that now, not at the time of your first tutorial!

 

[Hopefully]

Hi everyone ^_^

After browsing through some of these Auckland OLY1 forums, I'm curious as to the whereabouts of a certain Craccum article regarding some gen ed papers such as ECON 151G having a high "A/A+ grade boundary" and PHIL 105G being "an easy A paper", as memory serves. Does anyone have/can locate the original article so I can have a squizz? I just can't seem to find it anywhere on the web... This is because I am still unsure about what gen ed paper I should choose for Semester 2 atm :unsure:

By the way, ECON 151G is now closed, so that is no longer an option. Will they open up new lectures? Or do they just have that one stream?

And can anyone who has attempted the ENGLISH 121G paper comment as to whether it actually requires a large workload? How hard is it to achieve an A-/A/A+? (I know that the subject itself is quite subjective, so it is a tough one.)

How about INTBUS 151G?

Woo, my first-ever forum post! Hope I will see some of you budding biomeds around!

 

[camwells]

[MENTION=13946]Hopefully[/MENTION] - I haven't read the actual article from Craccum, but I got much the same impression just from talking to people and reading the archived posts on here. ECON 151G was closed a couple of weeks ago when I went through and enrolled, so I assume that it's probably still that way. I wanted to do PHIL 105G for my gen-ed, but couldn't, as it clashed with my timetable, and I couldn't be bothered changing everything around to suit it.

I've heard that the English paper isn't overly difficult, but that could be said of many of the gen-ed papers - they aren't going to make the hardest papers available as gen-eds. I personally chose SCIGEN 101G, which is about communicating scientific ideas, mostly because I found it interesting (and also because it fitted into my timetable!) I don't think it really matters what gen-ed you take. Once you have the B (or B+? I can't remember atm) GPA, to qualify for an interview position, the non-core papers don't count at all towards entry into medicine. So if you have a core GPA above 8 (equivalent to straight A's), you could have B-'s for all the non-core papers, and still get into med. I'd recommend taking a gen-ed that you have an interest in, rather than picking a paper because it has a reputation for being easy. But that's just my (rather inexperienced) two cents.

 

[4everAlone]

[MENTION=13946]Hopefully[/MENTION] - I haven't read the actual article from Craccum, but I got much the same impression just from talking to people and reading the archived posts on here. ECON 151G was closed a couple of weeks ago when I went through and enrolled, so I assume that it's probably still that way. I wanted to do PHIL 105G for my gen-ed, but couldn't, as it clashed with my timetable, and I couldn't be bothered changing everything around to suit it.

I've heard that the English paper isn't overly difficult, but that could be said of many of the gen-ed papers - they aren't going to make the hardest papers available as gen-eds. I personally chose SCIGEN 101G, which is about communicating scientific ideas, mostly because I found it interesting (and also because it fitted into my timetable!) I don't think it really matters what gen-ed you take. Once you have the B (or B+? I can't remember atm) GPA, to qualify for an interview position, the non-core papers don't count at all towards entry into medicine. So if you have a core GPA above 8 (equivalent to straight A's), you could have B-'s for all the non-core papers, and still get into med. I'd recommend taking a gen-ed that you have an interest in, rather than picking a paper because it has a reputation for being easy. But that's just my (rather inexperienced) two cents.

I second this. Don't stress over good marks in your gen-ed paper, it's not a core so it doesn't matter. If you're going to pick something easy, it should be so that you have more time to study for MEDSCI, rather than getting top marks in the general ed. I'd be choosing something that interests you rather than something that's easy personally, but up to you.

In regards to the craccum article, I wouldn't take any notice of what's written in there. What's easy for you may be hard for someone else and vice versa, and this article will only be someone's opinion of what's easy. Personally I did Phil105g and found it a walk in the park, but I know people who have done it and failed it (and they weren't dumb people). Do something that works for you, not something someone else has told you to do for whatever reasons!

 

[Hopefully]

@Hopefully - I haven't read the actual article from Craccum, but I got much the same impression just from talking to people and reading the archived posts on here. ECON 151G was closed a couple of weeks ago when I went through and enrolled, so I assume that it's probably still that way. I wanted to do PHIL 105G for my gen-ed, but couldn't, as it clashed with my timetable, and I couldn't be bothered changing everything around to suit it.

I've heard that the English paper isn't overly difficult, but that could be said of many of the gen-ed papers - they aren't going to make the hardest papers available as gen-eds. I personally chose SCIGEN 101G, which is about communicating scientific ideas, mostly because I found it interesting (and also because it fitted into my timetable!) I don't think it really matters what gen-ed you take. Once you have the B (or B+? I can't remember atm) GPA, to qualify for an interview position, the non-core papers don't count at all towards entry into medicine. So if you have a core GPA above 8 (equivalent to straight A's), you could have B-'s for all the non-core papers, and still get into med. I'd recommend taking a gen-ed that you have an interest in, rather than picking a paper because it has a reputation for being easy. But that's just my (rather inexperienced) two cents.

Thank you for your opinion, camwells ^_^ I didn't know that about ECON 151G, but in the end, it really doesn't matter too much as I'm not much interested in the subject. To be honest, my first preference was actually ENGLISH 241G (Literature and Science) until I saw that the semester column had "Not offered in 2012" printed in it! :blink:

Yes, I agree with you. It is a hassle to completely edit your timetable due to one clash, and the Science Department doesn't recommend that because they said you may end up losing your enrolled place to a waitlisted person.

As many of you guys have said before, I would take enjoyment > difficulty level anytime! However, I'm fiddling with a dilemma of sorts now...
My second preference is PHIL 105G yet my family has expressed their concern over my lack of 'logic'. If for that reason I end up with a GPA that cannot allow me to compete for entry into medicine, I would be utterly screwed. (Don't get the wrong idea that my parents are pressuring me to do this; it's solely my decision, as they were so against it initially.)

Anyhow, what you said about the calculation of the GPA is very obviously true, and I ultimately shouldn't worry too much about this! -_-
SCIGEN 101G also sounds interesting though, and seems plenty useful! So I may consider other gen eds like that. In the end, fingers crossed that one I like will fit into my timetable haha!

Since we are both first years, guess we're both in the same inexperienced boat. ^_^

@4everAlone - Thank you for your opinion as well ^_^ I think that PHIL 105G will be a gamble. However, the entire selection process can be considered a gamble (albeit one with hard work and diligence factored into it), so I can't say much.

What were your impressions of PHIL 105G after that one semester? Was it an enlightening experience? You said it was a walk in the park. How so?

 

[4everAlone]

[MENTION=7190]4everAlone[/MENTION] - Thank you for your opinion as well ^_^ I think that PHIL 105G will be a gamble. However, the entire selection process can be considered a gamble (albeit one with hard work and diligence factored into it), so I can't say much.

What were your impressions of PHIL 105G after that one semester? Was it an enlightening experience? You said it was a walk in the park. How so?

Some of the stuff just put names to like concepts that to me seemed common sense. So I didn't really feel like I was learning anything, just learning the names to things that already made sense to me. So it wasn't very enlightening, but I enjoyed it. The lectures I went to (probably 40% of them) were quite interesting and presented in a really cool way (not sure if that's changed now though...). I found the tests painfully easy, studied for about 4 hours max in the few days before them, and that was that. But I can see how its a paper you either 'get', or its all foreign depending on the person. I'm quite a logical person and this was a very logical paper which is why I think it worked, if you're not logical then maybe you won't find it as easy? I don't know.

PM me if you want to know more about it and I can flick you some stuff so you can see what it's like

 

[Hopefully]

Some of the stuff just put names to like concepts that to me seemed common sense. So I didn't really feel like I was learning anything, just learning the names to things that already made sense to me. So it wasn't very enlightening, but I enjoyed it. The lectures I went to (probably 40% of them) were quite interesting and presented in a really cool way (not sure if that's changed now though...). I found the tests painfully easy, studied for about 4 hours max in the few days before them, and that was that. But I can see how its a paper you either 'get', or its all foreign depending on the person. I'm quite a logical person and this was a very logical paper which is why I think it worked, if you're not logical then maybe you won't find it as easy? I don't know.

PM me if you want to know more about it and I can flick you some stuff so you can see what it's like

Yes, I agree. As to whether I am a logical person or not is still to be determined

This is a little roundabout but how good were you at English in high school? And did you ever do debating and the like? I will flick you a PM, thanks ^_^

@4everAlone - Ah, I encountered an error that said that I must have at least 5 posts before I can use the PM function. So I will just post here and you can flick me a PM/reply to this thread if you want ^_^

I just have a few more questions for you (thanks for your time!) ^_^

- Do you consider yourself a pictorially/verbally logically person? Does being pictorially logical actually necessary for PHIL 105G?

- How did you go about studying for it?

- Did you ever have to do debates in tutorials?

- Can you please show me some of the work/questions that you had to do?

Thanks

 

[agentlucerne]

[OFFTOPIC]

[...] (Don't get the wrong idea that my parents are pressuring me to do this; it's solely my decision, as they were so against it initially.) [...]

Haha, sort of the same thing here. When I was younger, my dad wanted me to do music. My mum has always wanted me to do business/commerce. Dad's now pretty happy with whatever I choose to do, but mum still kind of wishes I had chosen something commerce-y.
[/OFFTOPIC]

 

[4everAlone]

Yes, I agree. As to whether I am a logical person or not is still to be determined

This is a little roundabout but how good were you at English in high school? And did you ever do debating and the like? I will flick you a PM, thanks ^_^

@4everAlone - Ah, I encountered an error that said that I must have at least 5 posts before I can use the PM function. So I will just post here and you can flick me a PM/reply to this thread if you want ^_^

I just have a few more questions for you (thanks for your time!) ^_^

- Do you consider yourself a pictorially/verbally logically person? Does being pictorially logical actually necessary for PHIL 105G?

- How did you go about studying for it?

- Did you ever have to do debates in tutorials?

- Can you please show me some of the work/questions that you had to do?

Thanks

English at high school = Failing unfamiliar text, pretty good at the rest. Never did debating or anything like that at school/uni.

I consider myself verbally logic, but I hate pictorially logic questions (think umat section 3). Pictorial logic didn't come up in phil (other than super basic venn diagrams).

Studying = Reading over lecture slides and doing the past papers (of which there's heaps) and working out what they were looking for. It's an arts paper, and the content is literally about one 50th of what you need to know for all the other OLY1 papers so studying is a breeze

Only went to 2 tutorials and didn't do any debating. Some people liked getting into arguments with the tutor, but that never ends well

Yep when you get to 5 posts PM me your email address and I'll email some stuff to you