Otago HSFY chat - archive

[Bamboozle]

i thought labs don't start the week after apart from hubs?

 

[Ben]

Haven't had my prelim lecture yet, lol, I'll just put an 's' on "Monday". (Noticed it didn't specify this week on PIMS too)

 

[Bamboozle]

ah k. eek. super excited for monday.

 

[Ben]

Same! 6pm finish... Better than the 9pm finishes.

 

[aaa24]

haha i pretty much start at 8am everyday and finish around 5pm. Worst timetable ever haha. Oh well atleast it gets me up early or otherwise i would just sleep in.

 

[skyglow1]

Going to your scheduled lectures will last about 2 weeks max haha. It's much more of a problem for you guys now than it was for us though...with people skipping lectures. We just went to whatever lecture times we wanted and it was almost always not a problem.

 

[Cathay]

Going to your scheduled lectures will last about 2 weeks max haha. It's much more of a problem for you guys now than it was for us though...with people skipping lectures. We just went to whatever lecture times we wanted and it was almost always not a problem.

Yeah they stressed a lot on going to our scheduled lectures at the prelim... 8am start four days a week and 6pm finish four days a week ftl...

 

[greenglacier]

Yeah they stressed a lot on going to our scheduled lectures at the prelim...

Probably should. There will be some lectures that will be completely full as it is. Sometimes you can swap (e.g. 5pm lectures pretty much never fill up), but do be careful. Second semester is where you can really start stream jumping.

 

[aaa24]

I feel your pain cathay .

 

[SaxGuy]

Can I just say, I know how annoying it is when a lecture is full and you have to sit on the step (only if the lecturer is nice/the technicians aren't around) or worse - leave the lecture. However, that being said, I did jump between lectures. If you don't want to get scanned for HUBS, sit in the very middle. They only scan around the edges of rows, and occasionally, a whole row along the sides.

 

[Cathay]

HUBS191/192 - 72% final exam (60 mcqs, 30 marks short answer, 30 marks extended answer), 2 x terms tests worth 5% each (and each with 25 mcqs), 6% from lab tests (mcq), 12% from online tests (mcq, occasional fill-in-the-blank).

For what it's worth (EDIT: no pun intended - didn't even notice until now), the GLMs are now worth 8% (4 x 2%), terms tests now 7% each, labs and final exam percentages are as before, according to the HUBS prelim lecture slides on blackboard, which appear to be more in-depth than the HUBS section in the HSFY prelim slides (which can be found in the CELS part of blackboard).

 

[brin]

Just spent a solid hour or so translating this mental mofo of a schedule into phone calender. No way in hell I was going to be able to remember that.

Keen as for monday. It's been fun getting hundreds of weird looks with the cane.

 

[papermoth]

There really was no need for the comment made...

 

[greenglacier]

For what it's worth, the GLMs are now worth 8% (4 x 2%), terms tests now 7% each, labs and final exam percentages are as before, according to the HUBS prelim lecture slides on blackboard, which appear to be more in-depth than the HUBS section in the HSFY prelim slides (which can be found in the CELS part of blackboard).

Thanks for the updated info

 

[skyglow1]

For what it's worth (EDIT: no pun intended - didn't even notice until now), the GLMs are now worth 8% (4 x 2%), terms tests now 7% each, labs and final exam percentages are as before, according to the HUBS prelim lecture slides on blackboard, which appear to be more in-depth than the HUBS section in the HSFY prelim slides (which can be found in the CELS part of blackboard).

Seems like that's a far more sensible allocation of marks. GLMS used to be worth nearly as much as HUBS tests which was silly.

 

[Screen Name]

Does anyone know where our PHSI191 labs are held?

I've been using this list https://www.otago.ac.nz/aeuic/docs/university_pool_rooms.pdf

And the lab room specified on my timetable is Physic Lab Grd Fl South which doesn't show up on the list :l I imagine we'll be told all this in our first lecture but I just like knowing

 

[Screen Name]

OK, so from what I've been able to figure out, the PHSI191 (Physic Lab Grd Fl South lab session atleast) is in the Science III building. So just a summary for anyone who is confused, using the list in my previous post: https://www.otago.ac.nz/aeuic/docs/university_pool_rooms.pdf

CHEM191: [Chemistry Lab. 1st floor] lab is located in Biochemistry Building
PHSI191: [Physic Lab Grd Fl South] lab is located in Science III Building
CELS191: [Biochem G13 Biol 1st yr] lab is located in Biochemistry Building
HUBS191: [Microbiology Lab. G02] lab is located in Microbiology Building

This is assuming all information in that list is accurate, therefore the validity of what I just posted might not be accurate so don't kill me if it's wrong , I assume this info will be given to us in our first lectures anyway.

 

[aaa24]

Random question if no one minds: How many modules are their for each paper roughly?

Thank you

 

[Cathay]

Random question if no one minds: How many modules are their for each paper roughly?

Thank you

Having dug into the lecture schedules on blackboard, it appears that PHSI191 has 6 modules, CHEM191 has 5, HUBS has 4, and I'm not entirely sure about CELS but it appears to be 3 (Cellular Structure, Genetics, and Microbiology), unless Molecular Biology is a module on its own in which case CELS would also have 4.

 

[papermoth]

So...

Who found stationary shopping to be a complete nightmare o.0 Have no idea how I'm going to approach lectures (well now, thankfully, I have some idea, albeit a slight one).

I think I went with the Noah's Ark mentality and bought two of everything; everything save what I’ll probably end up using :\