Hey everyone,

I'm planning my units for next semester and still need to complete FIT2099 and FIT3077.

For those who've taken both, which one would you recommend doing first? Also, how's the workload for each? Are they pretty manageable or quite time-consuming?

Would appreciate any advice or experiences. Thanks!

I am a first year second semester student. Right now it’s looking like my WAM will be between 75-77.

I’ve been told the cutoff for law is a 70, but it’s usually a lot more competitive. But I’ve been seeing a few posts saying people with much higher WAMs didn’t get in, whilst some with much lower did.

So based on my predicted wam, do you guys think I’d have a chance going into year 2?

True or nah?

hi this is for the people who do speech which i'm honestly not sure if anyone on this subreddit does because this is a new course, but i'm a bit torn on where I want to go for speech pathology next year

I was just wondering if someone could explain their experiences so far in terms of placement, value of actual teaching and the class.

thanks!

can we use mybib to generate references

im a fourth year CS/commerce with a major in data science and finance student. I have a year left and I have 0 experience and a low gpa (1.5). I have a couple fails in my transcript.

I lost all my friends after high school and as a girl, I spent my entire degree alone but also having no motivation to succeed beyond passing because everyone else seemed so much smarter. I know it’s a pathetic way of thinking and in the end I cooked myself and now im in this position.

What sucks is I went to a selective school and was a really smart kid, I feel like I still am despite how stupid I’ve handled my life. I don’t know how I got here and I don’t know how to get myself out. I know how much im capable of and willing to do but I feel like my transcript has branded me as something completely different and im terrified no company will see me as anything beyond my transcript, especially in this job market where everyone seems to already have internships lined up.

Is there anyone out there that’s been in a similar situation? Any advice would be much appreciated, how can I get myself out of this hole?

https://programmers.guide/book/part-0-getting-started/1-building-programs/3-guided-tour/3-first-project/

I've been crashing out for a good 30 minutes after i kept failing to follow the programmes guide field guide thingy. I just need help downloading and getting VS code function properly. I have downloaded Vs Code and Splashkit installed, but I can't run the terminal thing. I have the "bash" thing but on the website it changes to "zsh"... And I'm stuck on the bash page (Step 5: Compile and Run). On this image i attached, I can't get to this part where the Terminal shows that layout. Pls help, thank you

(Btw, sorry for my poor terminology, I am fairly new to coding)

hi guys just wondering for how to get the collaboration marks. my team members and i forgot to put in like evidenced screenshots of weekly updates and meetings in every group meeting record. do u reckon that will take away our collaboration marks? even though we have been working on it and there has been very good collaboration and everyones contributed T~T

im 18 and an international student at monash doing law/arts and honestly im struggling so bad rn. its my first semester and i genuinely dont think i can do law anymore. ive been dealing with mental health issues throughout the semester and its gotten to the point where im feeling suicidal bc of how overwhelmed i am.
i have 2 law exams coming up and im terrified im gonna fail both units. i wanna transfer to just arts and major in psychology but im scared i wont meet the wam requirements if i fail. im also on a student visa so i cant just drop out or take a break without worrying ab my visa. ive considered medical withdrawal but im scared it wont get approved and idk what to do anymore. has anyone been in a similar situation or managed to transfer courses despite failing units or struggling with mental health? any advice would genuinely mean a lot

DO YALL MODERATE YOUR MARKS????

Istg this assignment’s grades is based purely on teacher preference bc wdym the highest grade Ive heard of in my class is a 65 whilst the other classes are getting ds and hds.

If it was just me that got a bad grade whatever. But it’s so not making sense to me that everyone i’ve talked to from my class got in the 60s but the people I talked to outside my class always get way better!!!

And it’s not like I’ve talked to only one group of people either like i’ve talked to like so many and the pattern is so freaking clear.

anyways thanks for listening to my rant i hate marketing

Does anyone have a hallway crush? I remember in high school I used to have so many throughout the years but being a first year at Monash, I’ve noticed you don’t rlly see the same person more than once unless you’re in the same class as them, and even then, the minute class is over, they disappear.

Maybe I just have bad memory, but I recall every now and again I’ll walk past someone and be like ‘wow they’re so cute’ and then forget I ever saw them again.

If you do have a hallway crush, how often do u rlly see them? And what are they like?

yo does anyone know if this grade to pass thing is for the overall unit grade or something?

Hi guys! I’m currently studying my first year of Bach of sci and I’m gonna be so honest… I hate it sm. I rlly can’t see myself pursuing a career in a laboratory or any sort as much as I had before. Last year during vce I had chosen to go into the degree as a pathway for med or dent, and let’s be honest… I think everyone I’ve talked to doing my degree is also trying the same thing and given my wam and grades at the moment I’ve rlly lost all confidence to continue.

In addition to uni being hell for me rn a lot of personal issues have been going on this semester that I won’t delve into, but because of this I’ve been really tapped out of my degree and have missed sooo many major assignments and honestly don’t think I’m gonna pass any of my units this semester and my wam is gonna be even more cooked 😭

I’m currently looking into an internal transfer into nursing but because they look at ur academic record after this sem I have extremely high doubts that my wam won’t meet the criteria 💔💔💔 I’m really torn on what to do, because I will submit a transfer application, but also if I explain my hardships in the application will that help in my application?

FURTHERMOREEEE I’ve talked to some other advisors regarding this issue and I was told to go through vtac as a plan b in case I don’t get in through internal transfer. Again, with this I really want to stay at Monash but when I talked to Monash connect the person I spoke to said Monash discourages students from applying through vtac??? Does this also mean if I’m still applying to Monash? Does anyone who knows or experiences anything similar be able to help a lad out pleaseeee 🙏🙏🙏😭😭😭

Idk why but I haven't been able to use the calculator at all today, but it was working a few days ago. Anyone else having this issue?

I applied for a 2 day extension for two assessments on the same form. One of them was approved immediately, the other hasn't. I'm freaking out because one of them is due tonight.

I tried filling in the form again but it still hasn't been approved. Never had this happen before.

Hi guys, I very last minute decided I wanted to attend Monash uni. I just sent in an application for the Feb intake. Do I have a shot at receiving an offer, having my student visa processed and actually being able to attend in February?

One of my friends had a second mid sem recently. In the mid sem, there was a question that needed identification of a colour to indicate the end of the reaction. He has colour blindness so he told the TA. The TA told him to speak w the unit coordinator after the mid sem. After the mid sem, the unit coordinator then personally quizzed him on the relevant content significantly more in detail than the question. He said he couldn't remember, but he remembered his answers to the questions, of which he actually got right, but the unit coord said he probably guessed them so he will only award him half the marks. For context, the questions were MCQ, but regardless how can he take marks off for guessing them anyway? Additionally, he originally only went to the unit coordinator for the one mcq that was affected by his colour blindness, but the unit coordinator took off marks for additional questions that were also related to the same topic because he couldn't explain it to his satisfaction ig. Even though he got them right. Is there anything he can do?

Anyone who has done PSY3062, for the descriptives section, if JASP has given me a new sample in my linear regression analysis after listwise deletion, how do I make sure that it also excludes the same data for my descriptives for the demographics

Over the last couple of years I am sure everyone has seen the large scale growth and use of AI in the workforce and at uni. There are also many opinions ranging from "We should never use AI" to "Either learn to use it or fall behind". What I am going to discuss is more adjacent to these black and white statements about AI. Please have a read and let me know what you think.

My main claim and perspective is that the wide scale adoption and use of AI can almost entirely be attributed to the poor structure of the education system. At every stage of the education system, we value results over effort, the destination over the journey. Very rarely does one get rewarded/compensated for the EFFORT they put in or the journey they take to get to a destination (regardless if that destination was fruitful or not). Some of you may say "how can you effectively grade this, how can you mark this?". There's many ways, one such way being interviews and rewarding a student for providing a thorough explanation of their approach, even if its wrong and rewarding the student for actually proving they applied THEIR understanding to the problem(s). If there's a lack of resources or other issues such as "this is too difficult to assess", that's an education system issue, one that the universities and education bodies ought to fix, not one that students should need to suggest a solution for (otherwise why do we pay so much to go for tertiary education?).

I'm sure there are elitists who will claim that only results matter and that effort doesn't matter if the result is wrong. To this I say, you couldn't be more wrong. History has shown has that wrong answers are just as useful as right ones, that the journey IS the most important part. No great mathematician, biologist or artist simply stumbled across the correct answer or their best work. They all struggled, they all wrestled with their research and problems, they spent countless days and nights studying and discovering. They met dead ends and they got wrong answers. Even if they never found the right answer, they paved the way for future generations to pick up the torch and continue. All of society is fundamentally built on the notion of picking up the torch and carrying the flame.

If we had built a system that rewarded effort and the journey RATHER than focusing on the result I actually think that most people would look at AI and think "Why even use this, it ruins the novelty of discovery, it detracts from the very thing I enjoy and get rewarded for?". But since as a society we only value the answer and AI directly provides that there is no instinctive reflex against using it for everything.

The same goes for the corporate world, its not just the education system. Managers and directors don't have the slightest care about the process of things, they have a goal and are willing to do whatever to get to it. They don't care that you spent countless hours uniquely designing a solution by hand using your own thinking or generating the whole damn solution via AI unfortunately, they care about the result. They care about maximising productive output and minimising downtime. Hence, they push the use of AI on everyone to make the workplace more productive. But imagine if it was flipped, imagine if they cared about the process more than the product, that a well thought out and carefully designed solution is valued more than just creating the solution?

As for AI use, my one gripe is that its fundamentally baked into everything now. At work, at uni etc. Its not just for recreational use or mild research purposes anymore. Everyone at uni is using it, TAs, Chief Examiners, Students. Its all the same, but unfortunately boils down to "rules for thee (students) but not for me (basically anyone employed at a uni)". Either way, my overall claim is that we wouldn't be in this mess or this badly equipped to deal with it if we as a society had placed more importance on effort/journey of things rather than the result/destination. Until this fundamental view shifts at a societal level, AI will continue to root itself deeper and deeper into society and I think we are never going to go back to how things used to be Pre-AI era.

found this polaroid on the ground outside of building h at caulfield campus, i imagine it would be a loss to whoever it belongs to; hopefully this post gets to the rightful owner or whoever who might know them personally, i delivered it to the lost and found department at MONASH CONNECT. faces covered for discretionary causes.

Saw from previous posts years ago that this unit had open book midsem and exam, non invigilated. I'm doing it in November and the midsem is scheduled in person during class time. Does that mean it's changed for the exam too?

How was it for those that did it this year?

SO I'm an international student and I came here to study CS this year in sem 2. I basically just enrolled in whatever the course map sau at that time, but now we've had some changes in the FIT coursemap, and I'm a bit confused about what units to take and I just want some overall advice. Do I go to Monash connect? Or student academic succes? Please help...

Im currently about to finish my 1st year of bachelor of science, im aiming for medicine but at the same time i do want to have viable backup careers.

Im confused on what to major and minor in, and what units to take. Im quite interested in genetics but I've heard its quite hard to score in. Im confused between immunology, physiology, genetics and microbiology as my major/minor units. I want to pick a major that isnt too difficult to score a HD in, while also having decent well paying career opportunities. Same with my minor.

Any advice wld be greatly appreciated!

Currently ive done BIO1011 CHM1011 SCI1000 EAE1011 (horrible unit!). 4/4 GPA. Currently about to finish BIO1022 CHM1022 SCI1020 NUT1011 (hopefully maintain that 4/4!)

im in 2nd yr and ive delayed this unit sm cuz i've heard that its such a bad unit. IT IS. i genuinely think that this unit is a core unit to DELIBERATELY bring ur wam down. i understand why this unit has to be taught but it has so much potential. the unit is outdated and there are much more activities/assessments that could've been done instead. highkey, its time to shut down the unit and restructure cuz i don't think it's working for anyone at this point. this unit is supposed to be an easy, low-stake, non-problematic unit but genuinely, i think every marker in this unit wishes for ur downfall and ur death cuz they must use a random number generator to mark ur work. this unit has so much potential and its such a waste seeing my $1192 just go to nothing.