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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Setekh on July 25, 2004, 07:11:47 am
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My university semester starts up again tomorrow... gonna miss those holidays. :ick: Anyway, looking at my new uni timetable, I was wondering what you other uni folks had. Here's what mine looks like:
Monday- 9-10am, integral maths tutorial
- 10-11am, software lecture
- 11-12pm, education technology lab workshop
- 2-3pm, education tutorial
Tuesday- 9-10am, discrete maths tutorial
- 10-11am, education lecture
- 11-1pm, Biblical studies lecture
Wednesday- 8-9am, integral maths lecture
- 9-12pm, software practical
- 12-1pm, Biblical studies tutorial
Thursday- 8-9am, integral maths lecture
- 10-11am, education lecture
- 1-2pm, discrete maths lecture
- 3-5pm, software practical
Friday- 8-9am, discrete maths lecture
Total: 19 hours. I'm pretty happy with it. :) You guys?
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I miss uni already.......
No, wait..... I miss not working.
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Setekh, I'm might as well ask since I'm sure everyone is wondering the same thing, what exactly is your area of study? From your courses, it looks like you're going in to become some sort of Religious Software Engineer Teacher, which uh...is the first time I've heard of such a profession ;) ;)
Or are some of those electives, and thats why I'm confused?
I haven't yet recieved my timetable, though I should in the next few weeks. The first year is Art Fundamentals, which is a little sampling of everything: 3d, painting, history, design theory, illustration and so forth.
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Man Setekh that looks like a pretty sweet timetable. Well apart from Thursdays but I think no matter where you go to college on earth Thursdays have been designated to hurt.
I finished college just 2 months ago and I already miss it. And the last year was hell. Everyday was 9 to 9 and I still miss it. I remember being tired all the time. And I still miss it. I also remember being in college working nearly every saturday. And I still miss it.
Course that could be cause my job at the moment is pants. Already thinking bout quiting after a month.
Anyway cherish these years. You'll never get them back.
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I know without looking that my last post is cheesy but what can I say.
I MISS COLLEGE!
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Monday
- 10-11am, Geology 102 Lecture
- 11am-2pm, Environmental Awareness Lab
Tuesday
- 1-3pm, Geology 102 Lab
- 3-5pm, Introductory Communications Skills Lecture
- 5-6pm, Environmental Awareness Lecture
Wednesday
- 8-9am, Environmental Awareness lecture
Thursday
- 10-11am, Geological Data Analysis Lecture
- 11am-12pm, Geological Data Analysis Lab
- 1-2pm, Geology 102 Lecture
- 3-5pm, Geology 102 Lab
Friday
- 8-10am, Chemistry Lecture
- 2-5pm, Chemistry Lab
20 hours. Couple of early starts I could have done without (Last sememster I didn't have a class before 10 am), especially the wednesday one, but otherwise servicable enough.
Oh, and we get a second "orientation week" for the new students in semester 2, so no classes for another week yet :D[/color]
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Geology rocks (pun and sentiment intended) :)
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Damn right - IMO, any uni subject that has a hammer on its booklist is a good bet for me :D
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...can't wait to get back to classes... :(
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8am starts? Screw me with a matric card!
lol, I don't start back till mid-September, and I have to think up an honours project about interactive multimedia for then!
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What's with the biblical studies thing?
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I hate you all.... :mad:
For the why I hate you, my usual weekly workload in university accounted for more than 40 hours.
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What year are you in and what course are you on?
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Originally posted by Inquisitor
Geology rocks (pun and sentiment intended) :)
Shouldn't that be pun and sediment intended? :D
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Originally posted by Genryu
I hate you all.... :mad:
For the why I hate you, my usual weekly workload in university accounted for more than 40 hours.
'bout average that, innit? Unless you only mean lectures.... I had less than 10 hours a week of timetabled work last semester of last year (bit more the previous semester, I took a 4-2 split) - but my project took between 30-50 hours of work each week, depending on other coursework & deadlines
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"discrete maths" ? do you haved to wisper and be really quiet or somethin ? (jus' kiddin' !!)
what are you aiming for (long term) AWACS ?
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Originally posted by magatsu1
"discrete maths" ? do you haved to wisper and be really quiet or somethin ? (jus' kiddin' !!)
what are you aiming for (long term) AWACS ?
Discrete maths is pretty easy, IIRC. Maps pretty well with boolean algebra. Think I got a pretty high mark for that one.
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Monday
- 8-10am, University Physics II
- 12-1pm, Computer Database Systems
- 2-3pm, Probability & Statistics
Tuesday- 9:30-10:45am, Computer Graphics I
- 12:30-1:45pm, Assembly Language
WednesdayThursdayFriday- Repeat of monday except scratch Probability & Statistics
16 hours... I really don't like morning classes, but I get at least an hour break between all my classes so I guess I really can't complain.
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Originally posted by aldo_14
Discrete maths is pretty easy, IIRC. Maps pretty well with boolean algebra. Think I got a pretty high mark for that one.
what does "boolean" mean BTW ? I looked in my works thesarus and it wasn't there ( I was having a particulary exciting day that day)
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Originally posted by magatsu1
what does "boolean" mean BTW ? I looked in my works thesarus and it wasn't there ( I was having a particulary exciting day that day)
http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+boolean&sourceid=firefox&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
(1) An algebra (named for George Boole) that is similar in form to ordinary algebra, but in which the values of the variables are restricted to the two possible values true and false. The logic of Boolean algebra works well with the binary logic of computers, where values are represented by the digits 0 and 1. (2) A term sometimes used to refer to Boolean operators, including AND, OR, NOT, EXCEPT, IF, THEN, TRUE, and FALSE.
EDIT; I think I should have said 'binary algebra', not boolean. IIRc boolean algebra is already part of discrete maths.
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First thing, I'm french, so the education doesn't work the same here. I was in a cursus roughly equivalent to an undergraduate degree. We had maybe 12~14h a week of lectures, and the rest was exercices, practice and projects.
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Originally posted by Genryu
First thing, I'm french, so the education doesn't work the same here. I was in a cursus roughly equivalent to an undergraduate degree. We had maybe 12~14h a week of lectures, and the rest was exercices, practice and projects.
That sounds about the same as I had, actually. Pain in the arse, but that's the way the cookie crumbles, I guess.
EDIT; should add, actually, that last year I had less lectures than usual because our honour project takes up a large chunk of the final mark allocation - about a third I believe.
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[color=66ff00]I'm not back in uni until late september. Looking forward to going back. :nod:
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KT's Schedule through the first half of Summer:
Monday-Thursday
7:30(am)-9:30(am) US History 17.2
8 hours :p But 7:30 am really blows.
KT's Schedule through the second half of Summer and into the fall Semester:
Monday
7-10pm Russian (or) Chinese Beggining Language and Comprehension
3 hours :p But till' 10pm kind of sucks. I'm still going to High School as well though, so I guess it evens out.
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monday - thursday, 10:00 - 2:30. taking four classes. government, economics, math, sociology. then i work five days a week in the evenings.
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I am quite happy with my schedule.
MWF 9:00-9:50: intro to microeconomics (gives a required social science core credit)
MWF 12:00-12:50: advanced calculus 2 (confusing name for real analysis with several variables)
MWF 1:00-1:50: partial differential equations (a "for scientists and engineers" class, but it still gives a higher level credit)
MWF 2:00-2:50: number theory (this should be easy as hell but will give a high level credit)
MWF 3:00-3:50: general physical mechanics (will probably take the exam for this and replace it with something else, but it's what I have listed right now)
W 10:00-10:50: economics discussion (apparently they give quizzes during these sessions, so you unfortunately have to attend)
F 10:00-10:50: mechanics discussion
That's right, I only have to go three days a week, and since I am commuting from home, I can just stay home for the other days. :D
Most of the classes are also in one long bunch, so I don't have to find something to do for short periods between them either.
The Intel thing has been useful here, as the UMCP people are going a bit out of their way to keep me happy. They are letting me take a number of final exams for various classes to get the credits and grades without actually doing the courses, so I'm going to be busy with that for most of the summer. The only bad thing is that I really wanted to enter the complex analysis class as that's where my interest and strength is (so any work would be fun), but there is some inane restriction that you can't do a graduate class until satisfying a certain number of the BS core requirements. :mad:
This will be my first semester in college. It should be an easy introduction.
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Don't know what my timetable will be like for this year, though going by last year's 2nd year timetable, lectures in the morning, tutorials and labs in the afternoon.
I do Aerospace engineering, so I end up with more lectures and less essays/assignments to do than other people... which is good and bad.
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Ha-ha! Non-college-dropouts SUCK!
Can I get a "hell yeah"?
:D
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Originally posted by Rictor
Setekh, I'm might as well ask since I'm sure everyone is wondering the same thing, what exactly is your area of study? From your courses, it looks like you're going in to become some sort of Religious Software Engineer Teacher, which uh...is the first time I've heard of such a profession ;) ;)
Or are some of those electives, and thats why I'm confused?
The only elective is Biblical studies, which I took for interest. Turns out it was my best subject... well, a bit of prior knowledge never hurt anyone. ;) Anyway, the rest of my subjects are core subjects - education, software, maths.
As for long term, magatsu, I'm aiming to be a high school maths and computing teacher - probably more of the latter, but the first is a good feather in the cap for employment prospects. High schools over here in Australia can't get enough male maths teachers. I'm very hot property. :D
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Specially considering you can pick up stealthed ves... Er, I mean, yeah.
:p
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Monday through Thursday:
8:40 AM-12:10 PM: Chinese
1 PM-2 PM: Technical writing
2 PM-4 PM: Arguement
And that's just my summer term schedule.
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Originally posted by Styxx
Specially considering you can pick up stealthed ves... Er, I mean, yeah.
:p
Haven't heard an AWACS joke for a long, long time. :p
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Here's my Johns Hopkins schedule (listed in time order):
Monday
1. Discreet Mathematics Lecture - 11:00 to 11:50
2. Calculus III Lecture - 12:00 to 12:50
3. Introduction to Business Lecture - 1:00 - 1:50
4. Chemical Engineering Today - 2:00 to 2:50
5. Introduction to Chemical and Biological Processes Lecture - 3:00 to 4:20
Tuesday
1. Discreet Mathematics Lecture - 11:00 to 11:50
2. Calculus III Lecture - 12:00 to 12:50
3. Introduction to Business Lecture - 1:00 - 1:50
Wednesday
1. Discreet Mathematics Lecture - 11:00 to 11:50
2. Calculus III Lecture - 12:00 to 12:50
3. Introduction to Business Lecture - 1:00 - 1:50
4. Introduction to Chemical and Biological Processes Lecture - 3:00 to 4:20
5. General Physics I Lab - 6:00 to 8:50
Thursday
1. Calculus III Group - 10:30 to 11:20
2. Discreet Mathematics Group - 12:00 to 12:50
3. Introduction to Business Group - 1:00 - 1:50
Friday
I'm FREE, but then I have work-study.
:doubt:
This is my first semester in college. I replaced most of my frosh introduction courses with Advanced Placement credits. I'm going to be looking forward to this experience!
Rampage