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This is exactly what I feared and that's why I applied for safe study spaces on the campus for taking the exams. For everyone, here is the URL to apply for study spaces on campus and usually the approval takes up to 24 hours and you'd get it. it. it.
Aside from spreadsheets which is a really good idea, I’ve seen people creating Notion templates. It’s a desktop + phone app that’s basically like a digital journal and highly customizable. A page tracking job applications can look like this: https://www.notion.so/Job-Applications-e22c1e57d09c48bd9841898daec27d1a
The course is pretty full on as well, they basically throw you in to do the deep end from week 1. There's a fair few assignments and depending on what they are, you might get them done in like an hour or they'll take you weeks - that's kind of just the nature of creative works
Good time management is essential to not getting overwhelmed, I'd recommend having a schedule or something to get an idea of what you need to do and how long you expect them to take. Personally I use a Kanban Board in Notion (https://www.notion.so/) so I get an overview of what I have left to do and what the priorities for each task is.
My advice would be to get your breadth subjects out of the way in first year, and save the music electives until second/third year. Use first year to try different things and see where you want your career to go, and then from second year you can use those electives to add to that career path.
Don't expect to get into super advanced and niche areas in your studies, the course is more based around giving you the skills in a bunch of areas so that you can easily learn and explore other areas of music making on your own. For example, I didn't really make any music or know music theory in any complex detail before starting, but I know how to go and do music analysis because I'm confident in the fundamentals and how to use them in my music, and I pick up more advanced concepts because the concepts were introduced to me, even if I didn't necessarily use them in class.
The course can be difficult at times, but don't let the occasional fuck up deter you from doing your best, the course is structured so that if you attempt an idea and it doesn't work out, you can easily make up those marks during a different assessment.
The course is pretty full on as well, they basically throw you in to do the deep end from week 1. There's a fair few assignments and depending on what they are, you might get them done in like an hour or they'll take you weeks - that's kind of just the nature of creative works
Good time management is essential to not getting overwhelmed, I'd recommend having a schedule or something to get an idea of what you need to do and how long you expect them to take. Personally I use a Kanban Board in Notion (https://www.notion.so/) so I get an overview of what I have left to do and what the priorities for each task is.
My advice would be to get your breadth subjects out of the way in first year, and save the music electives until second/third year. Use first year to try different things and see where you want your career to go, and then from second year you can use those electives to add to that career path.
Don't expect to get into super advanced and niche areas in your studies, the course is more based around giving you the skills in a bunch of areas so that you can easily learn and explore other areas of music making on your own. For example, I didn't really make any music or know music theory in any complex detail before starting, but I know how to go and do music analysis because I'm confident in the fundamentals and how to use them in my music, and I pick up more advanced concepts because the concepts were introduced to me, even if I didn't necessarily use them in class.
The course can be difficult at times, but don't let the occasional fuck up deter you from doing your best, the course is structured so that if you attempt an idea and it doesn't work out, you can easily make up those marks during a different assessment.
> Getting a Sim card --> what's the most worth it plan? I'm good with 15-20GB/month
You might not need a plan with 15-20 gb because you get free wifi from the uni and maybe from your accomodation as well. Regardless, find a plan here: https://www.whistleout.com.au/
> Australia bank account --> should I get a multicurrency bank account with DBS or get a youtrip one? are there any other options?
Any multicurrency account will do. I have a local account, but also use transferwise, which I think is like youtrip.
> how much cash should I bring around?
depends on you. you'll probably spend upwards of $1000/month, not including rent.
> I'm staying very close to school, do I really need a concession card? how much is the concession plan for students?
Foreign students cannot get concession cards.
> How cold can Melb get from Feb to Jun? Do I need a winter jacket D:
In winter its 10-20 degrees during the day. 0-10 degrees during the night. I would recommend you bring a winter jacket.
Still no notes, but a friend of mine who did the subject told me this:
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> I think some relevant chapters are 1 - 8, 10, 12, 14 from the recommended textbook G. Chartrand, L. Lesniak and P. Zhang, Graphs and Digraphs, 6th Edition, Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2015.
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>Note that the textbook might go into more detail than the lectures. Also, the content may or may not be different for 2021. I think chapters 1 - 8 are likely to still be highly relevant for 2021 as these chapters cover core material
Text here.
I wouldn't focus on taking notes, more on practising problems. It's a skill like learning to read or algebra. Go through the Grok worksheets and do as many of the practice questions as you can. Maybe for the larger ideas, you should take notes, i.e. loops, variables, functions, conditionals, but don't try and take notes for specifics (what specific syntax does - there are loads of inbuilt python functions), just as you wouldn't take notes for mathematical operators (+, -, *), rather you learn by using them.
If Grok isn't enough, there are tons of websites which give you practice questions.
codingbat.com/python - Great set of very basic questions, works in python
leetcode.com - Great set of questions with varying difficulty
Are some examples..
Also, download python onto your computer, or check if its already on there. Open up a terminal or command line in windows and simply type python to start a python console. Learn how to write and run basic python files. Remember, Google is your friend in any question you have.
Once you feel comfortable, you could practice making a text-based game, or a simple calculator, tic-tac-toe.
Yes, and you wouldn't be hand-writing code for just one big-scale program for 3 hours, it will be spread across multiple questions.
You can definitely learn with vim if you like the old-school style but if you're new with dealing with terminals and that sort of stuff, then you should definitely stick with any modern text-editors, like VScode, Atom, Notepad++, etc. For this subject, you'll most likely be learning in Grok anyways so you could also practice from there since they have their own editor and it doesn't have auto-completion.
Yes. For written assignments, I would strongly encourage getting into the habit of using a reference manager—it makes the entire process of referencing easier and more efficient. I believe the University pays for an EndNote license, allowing you to download and use it for free. But I personally recommend Zotero for a reference manager because it is already free, it has a supportive community of developers who are happy to help if you encounter any issues, and you can continue to use it even if you are no longer studying/working at this university.
I bought a physical copy of this book because I had been getting 80%+ for all my lab reports, and wanted to see if tweaking my writing at a sentence level would get me a 90%+. Unfortunately I got my lowest mark yet (79.86%), which is still pretty good, all things considered, but that mark didn't justify the extra effort.
Overall the book was both concise and comprehensive. In the sense, there were 136 pages and 7 chapters and only the last three address psychology specific tips. But it was full of examples from actual psychology papers and exercises (which I didn't have time to do, as I got it one week into the lab report), so, I will probably go through it again before next semester.
Also, as an international undergraduate I appreciate everything the uni does in terms of 'academic skills', I survived in the first year because of the free guides available on the uni's websites. That said, I don't think it would hurt if something similiar to this book was prescribed (or suggested) to all psychology students in year 1. Just to get everyone on the same page, from the get go.
i think here is a dissection kit, but it don't got no reviews
Thanks for the response! I thought it might be python, seems like it's the standard 'basics of computing' language.
I'm hoping to switch from arts to science, hopefully majoring in CS. I did a subject in logic for first semester (run by greg restall, I highly recommend it) and found formal logic fascinating. Much more fascinating than my Eng Lit subjects >.<
I've also been self-teaching java using 'Head First Java' and have found a lot of the concepts to be challenging but sooooo fun (in a masochistic kind of way).
Any books/websites you've found helpful? I'm using Khan academy at the moment to brush up on my algebra/calc. I'm hoping to hit the ground running after I bail from arts!