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Otago HSFY chat - archive
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LOL @ brin
Yeah, also found stationery shopping a major headache - ended up having to think through how I'm going to approach the work, then found the leftover stockpile of stationery from previous years (of excessive buying to abuse my high school's deal with OfficeMax) and decided I had all I needed.
Taking from skyglow's idea of repetition (to address rote learning) and greenglacier's good ol' fashioned "having all your notes for a paper in a couple of exercise books, written in your own hand", and some ideas from Student Learning Centre's notetaking and notemaking resources (here and here), my current idea (to be tested next week) involves taking raw notes in the lecture, and sorting through it afterwards, creating a set of organized digital notes which is also handwritten into an exercise book - both to reinforce learning and to create a highly reliable backup
[I must sound like a proper nerd now, lol]
Yeah, also found stationery shopping a major headache - ended up having to think through how I'm going to approach the work, then found the leftover stockpile of stationery from previous years (of excessive buying to abuse my high school's deal with OfficeMax) and decided I had all I needed.
Taking from skyglow's idea of repetition (to address rote learning) and greenglacier's good ol' fashioned "having all your notes for a paper in a couple of exercise books, written in your own hand", and some ideas from Student Learning Centre's notetaking and notemaking resources (here and here), my current idea (to be tested next week) involves taking raw notes in the lecture, and sorting through it afterwards, creating a set of organized digital notes which is also handwritten into an exercise book - both to reinforce learning and to create a highly reliable backup
[I must sound like a proper nerd now, lol]
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.
Are you sure that chem is in the biochem building? I'm probably wrong but I thought it was a seperate building - they could be together though?
https://blackboard.otago.ac.nz/bbcswebdav/courses/PHSI191_S1DNS_2011/Ground Floor Map.pdf
I can only assume this is the Science 3 building attached to St David?
I can only assume this is the Science 3 building attached to St David?
Yes, "Science III" and "opposite the Science Library" refer to the same location
the following is what the Science Library page says:As for chemistry, it would appear that we have conflicting sources of information: this says "Chemistry Lab 1st Floor" corresponds to the biochemistry building, this says chemistry building, and these two say Science I building, which, consulting this, seems to be the chemistry building...
If I had to bet, I'd say chemistry building, but we'll find out soon enough - even if they don't mention it in the first lecture, there's a good week to pop into the chem office to ask.
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Yes, "Science III" and "opposite the Science Library" refer to the same location
As for chemistry, it would appear that we have conflicting sources of information: this says "Chemistry Lab 1st Floor" corresponds to the biochemistry building, this says chemistry building, and these two say Science I building, which, consulting this, seems to be the chemistry building...
If I had to bet, I'd say chemistry building, but we'll find out soon enough - even if they don't mention it in the first lecture, there's a good week to pop into the chem office to ask.
haha, what a fantastic way to confuse people. Bravo UoO
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Taking from skyglow's idea of repetition (to address rote learning) and greenglacier's good ol' fashioned "having all your notes for a paper in a couple of exercise books, written in your own hand", and some ideas from Student Learning Centre's notetaking and notemaking resources (here and here), my current idea (to be tested next week) involves taking raw notes in the lecture, and sorting through it afterwards, creating a set of organized digital notes which is also handwritten into an exercise book - both to reinforce learning and to create a highly reliable backup
[I must sound like a proper nerd now, lol]
Whoa...
That sounds like it’d requires a level of diligence reached only in the Avatar state so essentially I wouldn't last a day... I so hope it works for you though. I think I'm just going to figure it out along the way but by the weeks end would be nice also...
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^hahaha
My apologies if this has been covered before, but does the Anatomy and Physiology Online thing (which came untouched with my second hand copy of A&P so I assume it comes with the book?) get officially used like WileyPlus for chem, or even officially mentioned like MasteringBiology for cels? Haven't seen anything about it on Blackboard as of yet...
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and cumberland is just awesome
At the PHSI lecture today, Craig Rodgers (how that guy has so much energy and can do repeated dramatic hyperactive lecturing is beyond me) said that as one of the largest physics papers in New Zealand (and possibly Australasia), PHSI191 has 1401 students (as of 28FEB), 1265 of which are HSFY students...
Assuming the correctness of the above numbers, is the 2011 cohort smaller? I recall past posts here estimating 1400-1600?
EDIT: Please excuse the double posting - thought I'd bring this up as a separate point.
Assuming the correctness of the above numbers, is the 2011 cohort smaller? I recall past posts here estimating 1400-1600?
EDIT: Please excuse the double posting - thought I'd bring this up as a separate point.
No, that's about right.
People tend to overestimate the number of HSFYers because they forget that not everyone taking the HSFY papers is HSFY! (Hence estimates of 1400-1600, which come from the number of students taking papers like CELS or CHEM).
People tend to overestimate the number of HSFYers because they forget that not everyone taking the HSFY papers is HSFY! (Hence estimates of 1400-1600, which come from the number of students taking papers like CELS or CHEM).
Don't think so. The textbook itself gets mentioned a lot, but the online thing is just an optional learning tool.
All you health sci veterans may be interested to know that the chem department are incorporating bestchoice into their choice; basically giving you a free 6/6 lab mark if you bring a printout to show that you did the equivalent prelab from bestchoice each lab session. I think its a brilliant idea but feel its a little too easy for some free marks.
kaixian0011
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Hmm,
I have a question for you veterans out there.
There seem to be alot of readings given for HUBS, and CELS.
I know these are pre readings but, do we have to gain full understanding of them?
Also, I meet the objectives described. Is it enough?
I spent so much time in the readings trying to understand them, and alot of it are not even covered in the lecture!
So I can't seem to understand, how much in depth do I need to know these things.
I already tried to remember like what year and who discover what as mentioned, but it isn't in the objectives,
Am I wasting my time?
Because it seems meeting the objectives just seem too easy!
I have a question for you veterans out there.
There seem to be alot of readings given for HUBS, and CELS.
I know these are pre readings but, do we have to gain full understanding of them?
Also, I meet the objectives described. Is it enough?
I spent so much time in the readings trying to understand them, and alot of it are not even covered in the lecture!
So I can't seem to understand, how much in depth do I need to know these things.
I already tried to remember like what year and who discover what as mentioned, but it isn't in the objectives,
Am I wasting my time?
Because it seems meeting the objectives just seem too easy!
Meeting the objectives is a good start, and they're good to focus your revision around. However, they are just a start, and you need to learn everything in lectures (barring clearly minor/unnecessary details).
With regard to readings: the ones for CELS are excessive. They're technically examinable, but I've not heard of them ever actually being in a test/exam. The readings for HUBS have appeared in tests/exams, but with a very minor weighting (in my year, you would have only lost one mark in one of the terms tests if you hadn't learnt the readings). I think it's worth doing the readings for HUBS, at least because they do line up well to the lectures, so you can go into a lecture well prepared, but don't let them detract from comprehensively learning what is actually in the lecture.
With regard to readings: the ones for CELS are excessive. They're technically examinable, but I've not heard of them ever actually being in a test/exam. The readings for HUBS have appeared in tests/exams, but with a very minor weighting (in my year, you would have only lost one mark in one of the terms tests if you hadn't learnt the readings). I think it's worth doing the readings for HUBS, at least because they do line up well to the lectures, so you can go into a lecture well prepared, but don't let them detract from comprehensively learning what is actually in the lecture.
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