Otago HSFY chat - archive

[Pineapple]

aaa getting 1 - 2 wrong in short answer is a really good score. they had quite a few in there to trick people (like me) lol.

 

[papermoth]

Maybe, wonder if Bellamy will get 100% lol, prolly. I might scrape in an A+ hopefully.... 1-2 stupid mistakes from the MCQ that im regretting! Read the damn question and don't always assume that when they ask about configuration they are talking about chiral carbons.

Well, now im really relieved. Only 1 more to go and we are done!

Haha, I love it how he's the go to for results. You know you're the poster-child for health sci when papermoth knows of you....

In sayin' that, he is mad impressive, my mates went to chem olympiad with him, they are rocket surgeons and even they think so (well I assume... anyway).

 

[Cathay]

my mates went to chem olympiad with him

Ah yes, Chem Olympiad, where I was a bum (seriously) and we got smashed by David Bellamy, good times... Well, my severe post-CELS CBFitis did nothing good for chemistry, that I can tell ya...

Anyhow, just to remind those that are still keen for the post-physics MSO Health Sci Meetup (veterans, ie past health sci's, are also welcome if they feel so inclined), that frootloop, Ben, and myself (more like froot and Ben, but they've requested to be banned from MSO until after the exams so they don't procrastinate here) have decided that we'll meet in the foyer of Science III outside the Science Library at 1500 hrs.

 

[aaa24]

Haha, yeah im guilty of 'post-CELS CBFitis' like you say, well rather - post-exam CBFitis.

Ill try make it but im not promising anything, i have to rush home to make my bag and prepare in general for a flight on Saturday.

 

[Pineapple]

anyone else see the mistake in question 22 where all the options they gave you were wrong?

 

[Cathay]

anyone else see the mistake in question 22 where all the options they gave you were wrong?

Apparently it's not just HUBS that has MCQs which are full of s**t...

 

[aaa24]

Lets face it, the chem department took a massive sh*t on us hahahahahahahah.

I actually would be surprised if they didnt scale it, well anything can happen and honestly im over it now.

 

[greenglacier]

It's just about over guys! Just have to survive physics and then you have two weeks until results come out - do try to keep the exams out of your mind during that time (it's about your only proper break this year after all).

Much as I'd like to catch up with you guys, I still have class, so won't be able to make the catch-up on Friday (I have a physiology lecture then - my last physiology lecture ever in fact, and when you guys meet the med physiology lecturer next semester you'll realise just how significant that is).

 

[Hinemoa]

Well, just as I guessed, chemistry was an absolute disaster. At least I can take an 8th paper next semester and sweep that mess under the carpet! Hellooo maori society!!

 

[iUsername]

Well, just as I guessed, chemistry was an absolute disaster. At least I can take an 8th paper next semester and sweep that mess under the carpet! Hellooo maori society!!

Is it full science for you guys or do you do any social science like courses as well...like population health. Maori society probably is similar to what we do over at Auckland in pophealth 111 but I'm sure your one's optional?

 

[Cathay]

Is it full science for you guys or do you do any social science like courses as well...like population health. Maori society probably is similar to what we do over at Auckland in pophealth 111 but I'm sure your one's optional?

I don't know what Population Health at Auckland entails but it sounds similar to HEAL192 (Epidemiology) which is a compulsory second semester paper. Our seven core papers are Cell & Molecular Biology (CELS191), Human Body Systems 1 & 2 (HUBS191 & 192), Biological Physics (PHSI191), [Biological] Chemistry (CHEM191), Biochemistry (BIOC192), and Epidemiology (HEAL192). In addition, we can take an optional paper in humanities to lift our average grade.

 

[aaa24]

"Hi all
A number of students have emailed me concerned about Question 22 in the multiple choice section of the exam. There was, unfortunately, a typographical mistake with the question, meaning that the correct answer was omitted. For this reason, ALL students will get a mark for this.
Dr Dave"

From blackboard, well 1 mark is hardly anything anyway but maybe im just a pessimist.

P.S, shot pineapple you were right

 

[Cathay]

From blackboard, well 1 mark is hardly anything anyway but maybe im just a pessimist.

Now there's one mark out of a hundred that I definitely got, lol

 

[Pineapple]

awesome.awesome.

 

[iUsername]

I don't know what Population Health at Auckland entails but it sounds similar to HEAL192 (Epidemiology) which is a compulsory second semester paper. Our seven core papers are Cell & Molecular Biology (CELS191), Human Body Systems 1 & 2 (HUBS191 & 192), Biological Physics (PHSI191), [Biological] Chemistry (CHEM191), Biochemistry (BIOC192), and Epidemiology (HEAL192). In addition, we can take an optional paper in humanities to lift our average grade.

Yes epidemiology...
Lucky that you get to take an optional paper! I really would love to drop my film and television media studies paper! 2 hour lectures!

 

[iUsername]

Cheers (y) enjoying life sounds like a great plan! So looking forward to Otago, just got to get thru that hsfy cos more years of study is too expensive now after my extra yr :cry:

Thanks 4 ur answer

I think the best time to study is right before lectures.... I tried the whole study thing in the weeks preceeding uni but I didn't get a huge deal of it.
perhaps too many words went right over my head! Although I must say reading casually over notes before lectures and after them helps a great deal

 

[aaa24]

Now there's one mark out of a hundred that I definitely got, lol

Haha, whatever cath! Your the man at chem, your just being modest as usual.

 

[papermoth]

Anyhow, just to remind those that are still keen for the post-physics MSO Health Sci Meetup (veterans, ie past health sci's, are also welcome if they feel so inclined), that frootloop, Ben, and myself (more like froot and Ben, but they've requested to be banned from MSO until after the exams so they don't procrastinate here) have decided that we'll meet in the foyer of Science III outside the Science Library at 1500 hrs.

Will there be more to this meet up than loitering outside the science library?

I can't lie; I just wanted to (forcibly) integrate the word "loiter" into a sentence.

 

[Cathay]

Will there be more to this meet up than loitering outside the science library?

I can't lie; I just wanted to (forcibly) integrate the word "loiter" into a sentence.

Judging by how froot and Ben ambushed me at Science Library last time and admitted that their plan only went as far as sitting down across from me unexpectedly, I'd say that you're all more than welcome to come up with stuff to do after we meet up. Afternoon tea at St D cafe, perhaps?

 

[papermoth]

Haha, they're so useless. You here that ladies? You're useless. I like how I can sass them now that they're banned (self-imposed or otherwise). It's really quite small of me...

Anyway; that sounds sensible enough. I'm going to go do some ambushing of my own, a library is involved too; the public one. I plan to borrow myself stupid. I'm also going to the art gallery(s), museum(s) and to see some albatrosses(). If you can add to my pitiful "things to do in Dunedin while I idly wait to go home because I booked before the stupid exam timetable came out and am now too cheap to change" list, please do... but be warned if anyone so much as utters a bar/club name I'm disowning them... like disowning for serious disowning none of that frenemies bs.

Anyway, everybody (by which I mean just me) better go make like the wind and do some serious physics. Damn you preemptive holidaying.

Oh and apparently 'preemptive' doesn't mean what I thought it meant... it has something to do with shares... I think.