Otago HSFY chat - archive

[baba]

chem is out! and i did not fail! whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

 

[chococroissant]

I'm a little disappointed in my mark. Still pretty happy

 

[Profiterole]

chem is out! and i did not fail! whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Congrats!

New stats for the updated chem mid-term

New average=17.93
Standard deviation=6.03

28 is ~95th %ile
26 is ~90th %ile
24 is ~84th %ile
22 is ~75th %ile

Congrats to those who did well!

For those who didn't do so well, just keep at it and do well for the final!

 

[Wongtong]

The guy/girl who got 30 must be pretty darn happy

 

[Sam]

The guy/girl who got 30 must be pretty darn happy

xDDD! Lucky them

 

[Ruth]

Congrats!

New stats for the updated chem mid-term

New average=17.93
Standard deviation=6.03

28 is ~95th %ile
26 is ~90th %ile
24 is ~84th %ile
22 is ~75th %ile

Congrats to those who did well!

For those who didn't do so well, just keep at it and do well for the final!

You need to update your graph!

 

[Sam]

You need to update your graph!

Really rough graph (middle is probably fairly accurate but the outlaying values clearly are not):

 

[Profiterole]

Really rough graph (middle is probably fairly accurate but the outlaying values clearly are not):

If anyone wants, the stats breakdown (raw values)
highest was 30, one person got it.
42 students were absent
lowest was 3.

 

[Caesar]

Hey guys, just a heads up, there's a new list out - there weren't 42 absentees, as apparently I was one of them but now I have mark. Which is nice.

 

[eltee]

Is there anyone here from Selwyn? I'm wondering which residential college to have as my first choice and am favouring Selwyn at the moment, but I have heard that living there is not always a particularly happy experience. My main criteria in a college is that it is close to lectures and reasonably quiet (warm in winter would be a plus as well!). Is hazing and bullying much of a problem at Selwyn? Just wondering why it doesn't have such a great reputation.

 

[Sam]

Is there anyone here from Selwyn? I'm wondering which residential college to have as my first choice and am favouring Selwyn at the moment, but I have heard that living there is not always a particularly happy experience. My main criteria in a college is that it is close to lectures and reasonably quiet (warm in winter would be a plus as well!). Is hazing and bullying much of a problem at Selwyn? Just wondering why it doesn't have such a great reputation.

I haven't heard a bunch about selwyn, but I know it's not in the "top tier" of colleges. If you want a close college I would put arana or st. margs as your choices and unicol as your backup (just pick a alcohol free floor - much quieter).

 

[juna]

Carrington is the place that you want to be at, and it is one of the hardest to get into, harder to get into than St Margarets or Arana. But it's an amazing environment to study in, and the people here are like top in the nation- we honestly have so many outstanding scholars in Carrington. Also, we got the most people through to med last year than any other colleges. And the food is great. So yeah, Carrington's the place to be at.

 

[Sam]

Carrington is the place that you want to be at, and it is one of the hardest to get into, harder to get into than St Margarets or Arana. But it's an amazing environment to study in, and the people here are like top in the nation- we honestly have so many outstanding scholars in Carrington. Also, we got the most people through to med last year than any other colleges. And the food is great. So yeah, Carrington's the place to be at.

yeah but everyone there stresses a lot

oh wait

 

[frootloop]

Carrington is the place that you want to be at, and it is one of the hardest to get into, harder to get into than St Margarets or Arana. But it's an amazing environment to study in, and the people here are like top in the nation- we honestly have so many outstanding scholars in Carrington. Also, we got the most people through to med last year than any other colleges. And the food is great. So yeah, Carrington's the place to be at.

Lol, if this doesn't sum up Carrington's rather high opinion of itself, then I don't know what would. Sorry, but I can't help but read that in an upper-class English accent.
Also, Carrington doesn't get the highest number of people into med. In 2010 at least, that was Arana.
Oh, and just for funsies: You could look at the high number of 'very smart' people at Carrington as a bad thing, to be honest. At least at supposed 'lower tier' of colleges, you get a place away from the stress of HSFY.

 

[Sam]

Lol, if this doesn't sum up Carrington's rather high opinion of itself, then I don't know what would. Sorry, but I can't help but read that in an upper-class English accent.
Also, Carrington doesn't get the highest number of people into med. In 2010 at least, that was Arana.

Thank you! The self masturbation that is carrington gets annoying.

 

[juna]

Lol, if this doesn't sum up Carrington's rather high opinion of itself, then I don't know what would. Sorry, but I can't help but read that in an upper-class English accent.
Also, Carrington doesn't get the highest number of people into med. In 2010 at least, that was Arana.
Oh, and just for funsies: You could look at the high number of 'very smart' people at Carrington as a bad thing, to be honest. At least at supposed 'lower tier' of colleges, you get a place away from the stress of HSFY.

Carrington has consistently got one of the top number of people through to medicine. And I wasn't trying to sound all upper class English accent about it (I'm asian, ), just giving my personal opinion.
I also think it's good that there are so many smart people here, not saying that other colleges don't, because at least for me, it motivates me to study even more and we have our study groups going, etc. For example, if I have a question, then I can just ask my friends, or we can both try to come up with the answer. Believe it or not, Carrington actually focuses a lot on balance- mixing play with study, much more so, than I would imagine other halls would be. I would say one of the best things about Carrington is that you can study, but there will always be heaps of people that you can hang out with, if you want to have a little bit of fun. It is definitely not what everyone thinks, where we study 24/7.

 

[Sam]

Carrington has consistently got one of the top number of people through to medicine. And I wasn't trying to sound all upper class English accent about it (I'm asian, ), just giving my personal opinion.
I also think it's good that there are so many smart people here, not saying that other colleges don't, because at least for me, it motivates me to study even more and we have our study groups going, etc. For example, if I have a question, then I can just ask my friends, or we can both try to come up with the answer. Believe it or not, Carrington actually focuses a lot on balance- mixing play with study, much more so, than I would imagine other halls would be. I would say one of the best things about Carrington is that you can study, but there will always be heaps of people that you can hang out with, if you want to have a little bit of fun. It is definitely not what everyone thinks, where we study 24/7.

Other halls get more into med than carrington often enough. Every hall has a balance of study/fun. None of these things are specific to carrington lol.

 

[frootloop]

Carrington has consistently got one of the top number of people through to medicine. And I wasn't trying to sound all upper class English accent about it (I'm asian, ), just giving my personal opinion.
I also think it's good that there are so many smart people here, not saying that other colleges don't, because at least for me, it motivates me to study even more and we have our study groups going, etc. For example, if I have a question, then I can just ask my friends, or we can both try to come up with the answer. Believe it or not, Carrington actually focuses a lot on balance- mixing play with study, much more so, than I would imagine other halls would be. I would say one of the best things about Carrington is that you can study, but there will always be heaps of people that you can hang out with, if you want to have a little bit of fun. It is definitely not what everyone thinks, where we study 24/7.

I'm afraid that if you think those things are unique to Carrington, you're sorely, sorely mistaken.

 

[juna]

I'm sure that's true. But I've only been here, and I really like it here, so just giving my humble opinion no need to get so sensitive about it....

 

[frootloop]

I'm sure that's true. But I've only been here, and I really like it here, so just giving my humble opinion no need to get so sensitive about it....

We're not being sensitive, we're just trying to calm down the wild claims you're making, like 'Carrington is the place to be', and 'Carrington gets more people into med than any other hall'.
Anyway, this discussion has really run its course...