Most of my uni friends are either school friends, people that I met through those school friends, or people from clubs that I've joined. Engineering people all seem to be super introverted/not interested. =P
Seriously, you can make some of the best friends you'll make through clubs and...
Ahh, they might be shaking the course up a bit. The last text book pretty much covered PHYS1210 and PHYS1220 perfectly.
Hell no. =P I managed to get a HD in ELEC1700 and a D in GENG1803 without either of those textbooks. Chances are that you'll feel like shooting yourself in the foot if you...
It should be the same book, but digital. The digital copy is shit, though. You can only access it after logging into the Mastering Physics website and it's browser based. Buying a physical copy is expensive (around $200), but I found it to be totally worth it.
If you're the only person going from your school, it should be a fresh start. In my case, around half of the year ended up getting accepted into the same university, so I haven't even made much of an attempt to meet new people, as I pretty much stepped into uni with so many established school...
The only programming course that you have to do in first year is GENG1003, so an 8th of your total course loadings for first year, full time study. ELEC1700 makes you think like a programmer, sometimes, too.
Mechatronics certainly has a greater number of programming courses that you have to...
The single greatest textbook that you can pick up for first year electrical engineering is 'Physics for Scientists and Engineers' by Giancoli, preferably the 4th edition. It's a set of three volumes and it covers both courses. You're given access to a digital copy of the book, however, I think...
Haha, very late response. Apologies for that. =P I'll list each of the first year courses and briefly describe their contents.
Semester 1
ELEC1700 - Computer Engineering
Introduces you to the foundations of the workings of computers. The course mainly applies mathematical logic to different...
If anyone is still thinking about it, I personally can't recommend electrical engineering here enough. It's a great program and maybe I'm just really lucky, but all of my lecturers and tutors have been excellent.
I'm jealous of you guys for having a significantly larger telecommunications and general electrical engineering component to the course. They even put logic gates on the formula sheet, now! That is rad as!
Lifting devices was a shitty module, so I'm glad it got shafted. =P
I may be the one person in New South Wales that actually voted for the Liberal Democratic Party with the intention of voting for the Liberal Democratic Party. Regardless of whether or not this was a mistake, I am quite pleased. =P
The two single things that I regret in regards to my HSC subject selections are picking Industrial Tech (Multimedia) instead of god damn anything else and dropping Ext. 1 Mathematics after prelim. Multimedia was a career interest that I had always had years into my life, and I really enjoyed...
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Kanye West - Runaway
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The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
Tool - Stinkfist
Foo Fighters - Baker Street
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Advice from a 2012 band sixer (93): coast the entirety of the course. This is not limited to spending full double periods playing Counter Strike and Halo CE. In the HSC paper, if you find that the option/s that you studied in class are harder than you expected, utilise your knowledge from your...
In the last 24 hours:
Fifteen vodka and cranberrys
One 375 mL bottle of Chivas Regal 12 y/o Scotch
One Le Snack
Three large chips (McDonalds)
One Roadhouse Brekkie Roll (McDonalds)
One hash brown (McDonalds)
One small coke
One doner kebab
Two cannelloni rolls
Definitely going to have to cycle...
I too attended a 200+ school (by the way, I am very offended at your implication that anyone who attends a school of such ranking has a low IQ), graduating last year. We have a couple of courses in common, in Standard English and IPT. Just because you're at a 200+ school doesn't mean that you're...
I too attended a 200+ school, graduating last year. We have a couple of courses in common, in Standard English and IPT. Just because you're at a 200+ school doesn't mean that you're going to do bad in those subjects at all. It's all on you how you go! With a decent amount of effort, I was able...
Oh, you're doing the IPT/IT/SSD combo. As passionate as I am about computing and its applications (especially network engineering), I would have committed suicide if I stuck with the initial 6 unit IPT, Industrial Tech: Multimedia and IT combo that I studied during prelim, haha. =P
To study...