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Otago HSFY chat - archive

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the_international said:
Any1 else have heal today too?
The tut was pretty good.

Think I read 3 wrong though, thought it said incorrect did it say correct about surveillance?

In that case its the hospital answer?
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Yeah, that question was confusing. I put B, everyone else put B as well. Though the guy who got 96 average last semester put C :-S
 
ChickenPie said:
Both are good halls. Carrington IS getting wireless next year.
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Are you sure that Carrington is getting wireless next year and do you know if it will be available in all rooms? Struggling to decide between St. marg and carrington, but at this point not having wireless in your own room seems like a big inconvenience for me.
Thanks (yy)
 
Criticalnz said:
Are you sure that Carrington is getting wireless next year and do you know if it will be available in all rooms? Struggling to decide between St. marg and carrington, but at this point not having wireless in your own room seems like a big inconvenience for me.
Thanks (yy)
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Ring them up and ask them. I'm prejudiced against St Margaret's (all my friends there don't enjoy it that much) so of course I'm going to say you should go to cton.
 
well, I'd day, if you need a quiet place, then st.Margaret!!
during the exam period, it's got this 24-hr quiet hours, which I found very good :)
In St.Mar, there are rules but everyone's enjoying life here, lots of people choose to return next year because they've been having a good time this year.
you don't want to come just because tutorials are good, it's because of the environment and opportunities to meet awesome people, sometimes you get to meet your lecturers too!
 
Hey,

Just wondering how is Cumberland College and Hayward College, are they suitable for ppl doing HSFY ?

thanks :)
 
One of the advantages of Hayward is that it's really close to central library, which is handy. Lots of students prefer to study in the central library rather than their hall (although space does get very tight towards exams).
 
skyglow1 said:
One of the advantages of Hayward is that it's really close to central library, which is handy. Lots of students prefer to study in the central library rather than their hall (although space does get very tight towards exams).
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Thanks for your help.
I would like to live in a place which has lively environment, but at the same time not too distracting. Can you please recommend for me some colleges?
I was thinking of Carrington, Hayward and Cumberland Court ?
 
dee said:
Hey,

Just wondering how is Cumberland College and Hayward College, are they suitable for ppl doing HSFY ?

thanks :)
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I'm at Hayward College.

Advantages
Biggest Rooms available
Very few restrictions on drinking
Close to the Central Library,Med Library,New World Supermarket.
Small Hall, 160 people.
4th Floor was recently renovated, so they have larger beds and newer furniture.
In Campus, so you'd get Wifi connection in your room
Close to Unipol if you like to workout
Has it's own Gym


Disadvantages
Very few restrictions on drinking means that most Friday nights you'll have to study at the central library.
Most students are healthsci's
Second Floor extension, if you get a room here, you'll be getting a room smaller than the rest of the hall and you'd still be paying the same amount.
3rd,2nd,1st,Ground Floor are have smaller beds and older furnishings.
 
dee said:
Thanks for your help.
I would like to live in a place which has lively environment, but at the same time not too distracting. Can you please recommend for me some colleges?
I was thinking of Carrington, Hayward and Cumberland Court ?
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If you want to do well in HSFY, St Margs or Carrington would be a good choice. From What i heard they focus more on academics, however that might be debatable.
 
Does anyone stay for a second year at Carrington?
I'd like to stay two years - but I don't want to be the only second year!

When do you start looking for flats? Cos have you found flatmates after only a few months at Carrington - or are you still getting to know people?
 
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jay said:
Does anyone stay for a second year at Carrington?
I'd like to stay two years - but I don't want to be the only second year!

When do you start looking for flats? Cos have you found flatmates after only a few months at Carrington - or are you still getting to know people?
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I think people generally start looking for flats second semester.
I'm staying on as a second year because i want to get flat with people from my own course. :D
 
So at Hayward does anyone know how the gender specific areas work... like is there a female only floor? If so which floor (or does it change every year?)

Thanks!
 
papermoth said:
So at Hayward does anyone know how the gender specific areas work... like is there a female only floor? If so which floor (or does it change every year?)

Thanks!
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Ground Floor- Male Only
1st Floor- Female Only
2-4th Floor- Mixed Gender, everything is share, bathrooms, kitchenette,showers by both genders.

It doesn't change.
 
patkirtan said:
Ground Floor- Male Only
1st Floor- Female Only
2-4th Floor- Mixed Gender, everything is share, bathrooms, kitchenette,showers by both genders.

It doesn't change.
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Oh sweet thanks.

Since you're at Hayward I might as well bug you with another question :]

How are the tutorials and do they generally have them for all HSFY papers?
 
papermoth said:
Oh sweet thanks.

Since you're at Hayward I might as well bug you with another question :]

How are the tutorials and do they generally have them for all HSFY papers?
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The tutorials are given by past Healthsci students who are either in Med or Dent. They are usually good. Hayward provides tutorials for all HSFY papers because 70 percent of the residents are doing healthsci related courses.

If tutorials are one of your most important factors in choosing a hall, by going to Hayward you will be severely disadvantaged. St Margs offers much better tutorials. The Cells and Biochem tutorials offered at St Margs are by one of our lecturers (according to a friend). Tony Zaharic https://biochem.otago.ac.nz/tony-zaharic/ <-- this guy is basically incharge of Biochem OMFG.

If you really want to come to Hayward, you better make sure you work hard because it is a severely disadvantaged hall in terms of Academics. Last year only 3 people from Hayward got into Med. One Pharmacy and 1 Physio.

St Margs and Carrington just spew out Med students (n).
 
patkirtan said:
The tutorials are given by past Healthsci students who are either in Med or Dent. They are usually good. Hayward provides tutorials for all HSFY papers because 70 percent of the residents are doing healthsci related courses.

If tutorials are one of your most important factors in choosing a hall, by going to Hayward you will be severely disadvantaged. St Margs offers much better tutorials. The Cells and Biochem tutorials offered at St Margs are by one of our lecturers (according to a friend). Tony Zaharic https://biochem.otago.ac.nz/tony-zaharic/ <-- this guy is basically incharge of Biochem OMFG.

If you really want to come to Hayward, you better make sure you work hard because it is a severely disadvantaged hall in terms of Academics. Last year only 3 people from Hayward got into Med. One Pharmacy and 1 Physio.

St Margs and Carrington just spew out Med students (n).
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Arrgh no way! Most important factor for me is gender specific areas actually :O It would take something short of a miracle to sway me, so I have like zero options! (I recon I could make them swanky halls easy too... which adds major insult to injury).

Do you recon you could get by on medico tutorials? I mean isn't everybody working hard either way? Like how much of an advantage are they really? If I invest in those bloody expensive text books that should suffice, right?

*Question overload my bad!
 
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