What papers are you planning on doing next semester?

After consultation with oob, I'm likely to drop my major in Physics and concentrate on CompSci. Contemplating doing the following:

Physics 213 - Weather paper. This is my "interest" paper.
Stats 220 - Easy? Hope so.
CompSci 225 or 280 or 230 (again) - Not sure which to pick, so would appreciate input. Will do one or two of these.
Physics 240 - Electronics and Networks. This is if I only do 1 CompSci paper.

Take four papers, stage three hopefully. Two econ papers, a politics paper and then a stage 2 int bus paper. if i cant do any of those ill be doing stage one spanish. hahaha.

oh and an 8000 paper for birmingham, which is my entire mark for this year. bollocks

I will be doing contract law, torts. maths 208 & management 101 (lol)

or i might do criminal instead, I'll see what they recommend to do.

Thats if I get into law of course. Otherwise ill be taking stage 2 finance papers and re-apply next year.

BIOSCI: 202,204,207 and 208 are required but as far as first semester goes i dont knwo yet. ill need to electives, probably philosophy again :)

Don't do Maths 208 in the morning (8am) stream. That's the primary reason I failed that paper.

Other than that I should be able to help you with it. (Doing Physics 211, which is a step above it)

Awesome, thanks heaps Tempy :D

oh, and one other thing.

Domination of Auckland and New Zealand.

You're actually acting on something I said? Me?!

Definitely do 230. As for the other two, look at what they lead towards for 3rd year papers (I didn't do either of them myself, but looking back I think I should have done 280 instead of one of my infosys papers). 280 is probably easier... and I think the difficulty of the papers you do is something you should really be considering a bit more with the workload you've got (plus a job etc.).

You should probably have a chat with Mr T about all this at some point, or better yet go to the Nothing Forum (which is swarming with compsci grads) and ask there. Get a second opinion before you act on anything I say/have said.

templar..

dont for the love of god touch CS225. Unless ure planning to do AI?

You should do 230...i haven't done 280 but i heard its useful?

280 teaches you VB... I don't know what else it's good for. VB's a good thing to know though, coming out of compsci only knowing Java would suck.

Ok Tempy who told you to do 225? You only do that if you like pain and failure.

230 is the most Compsci related out of those but I know how you didnt like that paper much so Ill tell you that 280 is easier (which it is). BUT if you plan on majoring in CS you are going to need 230.

Im not going to say which papers I will do because it seems I have internet stalkers

Well.

I'm going to be doing a plethora of Film/English papers...Including, but not restricted to:

FTVMS 301 - Film and Video Production.
FTVMS 302 - Bollywood and Beyond.
FTVMS 303 - Film and Broadcast Writing.
ENGLISH 321 - Theory and the Gothic

Oh yeah.

I have no fucking idea how this new system works, though...

Nor do I,

You know that's twice I've missed these 'new systems' by a few years. Dodged NCEA and now I've dodged this new uni system.

I dodged NCEA by a couple of years, but apparently I've been fucked over anyway. :shrugs:

The new system isn't going to affect us all that much. Average course is now 8 papers rather than 7, and each paper is rated as 15 points rather than 2. As a result, each paper will have its content cut by an eighth (or a seventh, can't be fucked figuring it out).

I won't do 225 then :P

They're also listing a CompSci 215 - Systems Development.

think i might actually ditch ftvms for the most part- i love film, but the uni courses really are boring, in level one at least.

so il be doing mainly English and Psychology, as the are fantastically interesting fun papers, and i actually do well in english. fuck english is fun. i reallllllllllllllly wanna do the English 2........ ...... paper which is something about creative writing/poetry etc, but so far its only being offered in summer school and i dont wanna do that.


only thing is, i did well in my eng121 paper, and im doing well in my eng257 paper, but my eng109 drama/english paper is boring me, so if i dont do well in it, il still have to take another level1 paper next semester...........and the other level one ones look BORING.

Also the new system requires you to sit and pass two stage one "general education" papers.... these can be found on www.auckland.ac.nz click on the search thing and type "general education" tada.....

I looked for me, they are basically un-course related to give you a taste of something un-related to your degree, for example, languages etc...... (I am still undecided wether this is good or bad)

It takes two "related" papers out of your degree - which probably sucks if your career orientated....

No, that's if you're starting a course in 2006 or later.

Well maybe some of us are!

will that include me then if i want to turn my bsc into a bsc/bcom conjoint?

I'm looking at going into Software Engineering as my specialisation, but I'm really unsure if I want to continue in Engineering. It seems that if I want to do Software Eng, I may as well just hop into CompSci and finish a year earlier.

^^ Yes do that

Software Engineering is a joke (no offence Software Engineers)

SE always seemed like compsci + unnecessary extras to me. Better off doing a CS degree and getting better grades, plus you save a year which means more work experience (particularly critical in IT) or more time for a masters. I should warn you though, many of us are CS majors or grads, so we're not exactly objective.

I'm not too concerned with work experience - I've been working part time for a year or so at a software company in central auckland. Yay for QA & Testing!

I really wish I'd been doing something like that during uni.

It was pretty much pure luck I have that job. My mum just happened to be talking to a lady who just happened to be married to a man who was running a software company. And that company just happened to need someone like me to do some testing (since no one else wanted to do it lol).

Hey Templar, I'd say your decision to drop out of physics was the right one. It gets insanely hard at stage 3, while comsci isn't too bad.

As far as the stage 2 comsci papers go, I'd rate them as follows:

210: Assembly language, unix, some OS stuff. You should probably do this one. It's probably not essential as far as getting a job in IT is concerned, but it's the type of stuff I reckon every CS person should know

220: Maybe if you liked the alogirithms and graphs stuff from 105. Quite theoretical, and tends towards the academic side of CS. Not essential

225: Like 220 but even more theoretical - it's actually a discrete maths paper. Lots of graph theory and some 7th form stats-like stuff thrown in at the end.

230: I would say this one is essential. Well, except for UML bit.

280: Didn't do this one. I'd say it's not essential but I hear VB can be useful. I think they give you free stuff (XP, visual studio)

I've done Physics 111, 112 and 211 (or whatever they call them these days) and while there is a bit of overlap between 211 and Maths 208 they are actually quite different. 208 looks more at the mathematical theory, while 211 is all about using it for physics.

Finally, software engineering is a pretty solid degree. As Oob said you can do everything in it with comsci, but you get to do a project in 4th year which looks good on the CV, and they make you get 800 hours of work experience, 400 of which must be in your specific field of engineering. What's funny is that the engineers pay more per paper than science students, even when they're doing the same paper (SE370 = CS340) HA!

anyone who understands the new shit, basicly are papers 1 semester long worth 15? is that the general idea?

Everyones been being sent a letter next week with clarification. nDeva was converted to the new system last weekend

Stick with the engineering, its easier to get a job. Most of the Software engineers (with good grades) are head hunted by companies, I know 2 guys that are on $100,000 straight out of uni with Software Engineering. As you said in the other thread its more of a "career" degree

I'm going to start a new degree. :quagmire:

Both my intermediate and high school got massive upgrades the year I left - in time for the next year to benefit, while we had to shift around in more cramped space to make way.

The during the election capaign, Helen Clark came to my old school and promised to build yet another new building - there has been a new music block in the last five years worth around $2 mil, the new one (I think its a new arts/computer space) will be worth $4 mil.

:cry:

I did idiotic imported English high school exams ('Cambridge') that the UK themselves are going to eliminate, yet my high horsed high school thought it needed to stick it's head back into the imperial-colonialist trough.

In terms of papers next semester, I'm going to do a Spanish language paper, two politics papers (god knows what they will be) and probably microeconomics.

Your Intermediate and High School clearly spit on your honour, Scuzza.

Starting a commerce conjoint halfway through my health sci degree has really stuffed up my course load. I guess next semester ill be doing my remaining commerce stage one paper (econ 101) (and then 111 the semester after that) and whatever health science papers i can fit in there.... lots of joyful community health papers.

Does anyone have any recommendations for commerce majors? at the moment im looking into either infosys, economics or management.

economics for the win.

I'll be starting a Masters in History, but all the Asian history specialists are on leave next year - I've got to choose other departments' papers which will keep me busy until those guys get back... then I have a dissertation to consider. :ph43r:

Dont do econ! Its all bullshit assumptions!

But really, it depends on what you like best :)

I'm thinking now about not dropping a major, but switching to Geophysics.

dont listen to him, he liks finance!