Education & Reference Studying

[jo172]

hydrogen, helium, lithium, berilium, boron, carbon, nitrogren, oxygen, neon

**** sake I am missing one of the first 10.

HHeLiBeB
CNOF
NeNa
MgAl
SiPS
ClArKCa

That's how they taught us the first 20 elements in my day!

 

[swiftdog]

Cheers mate. I just don't understand people who do degrees that they don't like, just because it seems to make more money as a career. If you do something you like, you'll eventually be rewarded monetary wise.

Was definitely a pet peeve of mine back at uni. I did a sports science degree and there was this one girl that had very little interest in sport, was clearly overweight and had a tendency to bitch about every subject and how pointless they were. Just shut the **** up! Pretty sure she's doing haridressing now. She wasn't the only one like this but she was definitely the worst offender.



One thing I remembered from back at school was a sign in one of the labs: "Don't memorise, understand". Didn't take much notice of it at the time but was defitniely good advice for uni doing a scienceish course. It made everything so much easier actually learning the basics and really understanding how and why things happened in the body at a basic level.

My studying technique was pretty simple. Just don't force yourself to study and study when you actually want to study. As someone mentioned before it's easier when you like what you're doing so I knew that there would always be a time when I wanted to study. I found 1-2 hours of quality study was much better that 2-3 hours where I had to force myself. Mainly took this approach in 3rd year and a little bit of 2nd year; less study hours overall but better grades.

 

[Kahuna]

HHeLiBeB
CNOF
NeNa
MgAl
SiPS
ClArKCa

That's how they taught us the first 20 elements in my day!

Great study tip right there,

using the first letter of formulas/procedures to make a word,

heaps easier to memorise than the whole word.

Got me through doing cash flow statements SAAP,CIAAD come to mind.

 

[BACCS]

I studied an Arts degree because I actually wanted to study subjects I was interested in. Doesnt change the fact that doing work for these subjects can be tedious and hard to concentrate on, especially when there's other stuff you'd rather be doing.

Great advice though. You usually read the periodic table for leisure?

Isn't that what we all do....?

 

[BACCS]

Fluorine.

Oxygen has a valency of -2 so it had to be a halogen you were missing.

You nerd...

 

[yeah_nah]

You nerd...

cmon mate you should know this, being a Chemical engineer, BITCHES.

feelsbaccsman

 

[Ben the Gooner]

You nerd...

Chemistry 1, bitches.

 

[Lazarus]

pfft Chemistry. Physics is where it's at. Newton's law of gravitation ftw

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

In my experience there is more room for critical thinking in the arts than the sciences at undergraduate level. It evens up at postgraduate level. It is basically non-existent at VCE level.

 

[yeah_nah]

pfft Chemistry. Physics is where it's at. Newton's law of gravitation ftw, bitches

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FEELSBACCSMAN no Chemical engineer income for you.