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Otago HSFY chat - archive
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Profiterole
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From what I've obtained from blackboard, some labs start next week which I believe is week 9?
Yes, next week (beginning 27th Feb) is week 9 of the academic year, and some labs start that week (e.g. HUBS for me), but other labs might not start until weeks 10 or 11 e.g. chem and physics depending on what stream you are in.
Profiterole
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are the times of lectures (not labs) the same for everyone, only in different theatres?
That depends on what you mean by "tutorials" - HEAL192 has "tutorials" instead of labs, those are official classes run by the university, so they'll be timetabled. In this sense, a 'tutorial' is the non-lab equivalent of laboratory practicals.
In your sense, tutorials are out-of-class tuition, which are run by your hall, not the university, so no, they're not on your timetable. If you're hall-less, then you can sign up for OUSA ones, but again they're not run by the university as official classes.
As I've mentioned many times, what the university (and indeed the world) gives you is generally not a coordinated response, meaning the PIMS timetable will only tell you the times of compulsory classes officially run by the university registered with the registry.
In fact the PIMS timetable doesn't even change, so if you happen to, for whatever reason, change your stream with the departments involved, this will not be reflected in PIMS.
Nimbus2000
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next week is week 9
Am I allowed to complain on here? I don't like my timetable at all ><.
Your timetable might be pretty bad by HSFY standards, but it's worth noting that my med II timetable has more contact hours, and it only gets worse in ALM then doctoringnext week is week 9
Am I allowed to complain on here? I don't like my timetable at all ><.
Nimbus2000
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Your timetable might be pretty bad by HSFY standards, but it's worth noting that my med II timetable has more contact hours, and it only gets worse in ALM then doctoring
ALM ?_? haha, i guess its just a massive change ><
ELM = Early Learning in Medicine (EDIT: In lecture theatres)
ALM = Advanced Learning in Medicine (EDIT: In lecture theatres AND hospitals)
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Nimbus2000
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i have heard that it does get worse :S but at least then (if I get in) it'll be for something I actually fully want to be doing... although I could probably contradict myself by saying, these HSFY papers seem pretty related to the basics of med... at least HUBS does... and I'm continuing in my haze of 'WTF'ness about the other papers *looks bewildered*
also. i have just identified a potential problem -- the PHSI terms test is on at the time that I have a CELS lab... if my memory serves me correctly - aren't labs' compulsory - so should I email the course co-ordinator for CELS/PHSI?
also. i have just identified a potential problem -- the PHSI terms test is on at the time that I have a CELS lab... if my memory serves me correctly - aren't labs' compulsory - so should I email the course co-ordinator for CELS/PHSI?
You'd be surprised, BIOC, CELS and HEAL are every bit as important as HUBS. And PHSI is surprisingly useful (I'm yet to think of any use for CHEM /biased).
And don't worry, they'll restream your CELS lab for that week, they're not sadistic enough to make you miss a test for a lab
Nimbus2000
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okies. BIOC just looks really really scary. mostly because of the CHEM191 pass prereq, but whatever, its still scary.
so should I still email/talk to them about it? I figure the earlier the better?And don't worry, they'll restream your CELS lab for that week, they're not sadistic enough to make you miss a test for a lab
You wouldn't understand nearly as much of BIOC if you didn't do the CHEM.
EDIT: It's really in retrospect that you see you really needed all 7 of the papers - I did anyway.
BIOC isn't that scary. I didn't overly like it, but it's no harder than any of the other papers in my opinion. (And CHEM being a prereq is deceptive, I think it has very little to do with CHEM, although some people would disagree).
And no, they'll deal with it closer to the time.
BIOC is a lot more like CELS than CHEM, but it *is* based on having chemical knowledge - if you didn't do CHEM at all you'd end up asking questions that can be answered with a bit of chemical knowledge.
Think of it like this: in the pathology lecture, they said that hyperplasia is increase in cell numbers as cells go into mitosis. We didn't stop and go "what's mitosis?" because we covered it in detail in CELS, but do we need to describe the process in detail for pathology? No. CHEM lays down foundational knowledge that facilitates BIOC and makes BIOC easier, but you don't actually go back and regurgitate chemistry.
No, I spoke with a second year in my hall (who is currently doing medicine) and he said not to bother.
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For Physics, by all means - the department officially encourages it, and there were a few occasions where I was glad I did. (Although I must've been one of a very few to actually bring it.)
For everything else, don't bother - I know for a fact that CELS labs has textbooks at the front (because I was arguing a point with a demonstrator once, and was owned by the textbook which was right there
), and I'm pretty sure HUBS lab has the textbook available. For CHEM and BIOC you have no practical need for it (in fact, for BIOC I had no practical need of the textbook at all during the course).For HEAL... I've never needed it, but the HEAL book was small enough so I always carried it in my bag everywhere anyways...
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