Recent content by ssglain

Sydney Medical School offers a range of Summer Research Scholarships in various disciplines, including immunology. I did one in physiology after finishing first year. This summer a lot of first year friends of mine are doing summer research projects. You should have no problem applying.

I have to point out that the rule about at least 24cp of junior units from at least 2 areas other than maths & stats is very very flexible. There are only 15 cp of junior maths units available anyway so you will inevitably take at least 24cp of junior units from other areas of science. You...

As MongMan pointed out, there is Microsoft Office for Macs. I recently bought a MacBook Pro and I'm dual booting Windows 7 for gaming. BootCamp should be perfectly fine if you install it properly. If you know that you are primarily going to be using software that may not be supported or...

http://web.timetable.usyd.edu.au/ has the current proposed timetable for all units of study. Is that where you looked? All the centrally timetabled lectures, tutes, labs, etc. should be there.

Sorry, my bad - 48cp from a different faculty if you're doing a single science degree. The 96cp required to complete your science degree is divided into 12cp of junior maths & stats at least 24cp of junior units from at least 2 areas other than maths & stats 60cp of intermediate/senior...

This is an evaluation survey that I filled out about INFO1903 a few months ago, if it helps:

You can do up to 48cp from a different faculty - almost anything from Arts, Economics & Business and Engineering.

That sounds great! In 2nd year I did INFO2810 Database Systems 1 (Adv) and COMP2907 Algorithms (Adv) and they were both very interesting courses. By the way, which first year subjects are you doing? INFO1903 Informatics (Adv) is the most interesting, well-taught and useful subject that I've...

All the computers in the labs run Red Hat Enterprise Edition, which is a Linux OS. So compared to Windows, it will actually be a lot easier if you run Mac OS X, which is also Linux/Unix based - especially for the C course because you can compile everything from the terminal and you will just...

If that's the case, then I think it sounds a lot fairer. But still, only restricting the number of Scientias within the Faculty of Medicine just sounds like them trying to get out of rewarding high achieving students who deserve a scholarship.

Same here. I've overloaded every semester with all advanced/SSP units. The most I've done is 33cp. It's definitely doable. And I know a lot of other people who've done the same. So if you satisfy the prerequisite for advanced units of study, there's no reason why you shouldn't do them. You...

LOL. Yeah, that "person who has done it" would be me. In '07 I received an invitation to the program and the TSP function on Info Day very soon after HSC/UAI results came out. And since I worked for Marketing & Student Recruitment on Info Day this year, I know for a fact there was a TSP...

The only thing that I can complain about the Combined Medicine Program is that it should really be called Provisional Entry Medicine Program, in the sense that as you spend the first 3 years completing a B Sc (Adv) or whatever, with guaranteed entry into the graduate MBBS program in your 4th...

@Jackie.bored: I spoke to Prof Rakesh Kumar at the High Achiever's event in '07 and asked about the "limited Scientia scholarship for students enrolling into medicine", and was told that it was based on socio-economic disadvantages. Maybe things have changed if it's indeed highest combined...

If you're interested in taking some IT subjects but not interested enough in a major, then a minor is definitely the way to go. You may in fact discover that you really enjoy it and decide to go with a major, like I did. IT is the only area (that I can think of) which offers a minor because...