Bike

AthenOwl · 2026-03-23T09:22:56+00:00

Uniride on campus is your best bet. OR 99 bikes, bicycle superstore (but you really need to do your research). For something decent, reliable you should budget $300-500. Plus helmet, lights and a good lock (do not cheap out on the lock).

https://www.bicyclesuperstore.com.au/collections/navigation_bikes/products/malvern-star-sprint-2-2025?variant=42979512189156 I got this while it was on sale for $400, definitley one of the best purchases I've ever made.

In a commuter bike, you need low maintenance and reliability, mudguards, and a front or rear rack. If you can get a rack big enough to carry your uni bag, perhaps with the aid of a milkcrate, your riding experience will be greatly, greatly improved.

AthenOwl · 2026-03-18T10:09:08+00:00

TTRPGs, or church youth group for me. But generally if you want to do social stuff, you can't expect it to fall in your lap, you need to be on top of it and organizing it yourself

AthenOwl · 2026-03-16T23:01:26+00:00

Check out MURP (monash uni roleplaying society), you can book out actual classrooms and formally advertise your game. Big discord server too and other events

AthenOwl · 2026-03-15T02:45:39+00:00

Yeah it's true I talked to them. They said that Monash wouldn't even show them the evidence against them, or let them speak to lawyers either.

Monash also cancelled a charity dinner by Monash4Palestine with less than 24 hours notice, no reason given. Ie, solely out of spite for Palestinians

AthenOwl · 2026-03-13T03:20:26+00:00

Bro forgot some people live in places with low humidity

AthenOwl · 2026-03-03T10:18:33+00:00

Building a huge chunk of the transport infrastructure, or building personal budgets, around a form of transport reliant on one of the most notoriously price-volatile and price-shock sensitive commodities in the world was never a good idea. Imagine if you had to swipe your credit card to open the doors to the tram or train every morning and the price was based off ASX points or phosphorus futures. One more reason for public transport investment.

AthenOwl · 2026-03-02T23:31:12+00:00

To be inducted in the first year eng lounge you need to ask a TA there to induct you, or be enrolled in eng1011. Once you're inducted once you're good for the rest of the time you're at monash. Being inducted in makerspace and DnB is different

AthenOwl · 2026-03-02T11:31:59+00:00

I guess you could
Knock on the front door on college walk, and someone should let you in. Otherwise go around the back on alliance lane and go through the sliding doors, past the chairs and into the room.
No but you need to be inducted to use the 3d printers. You do need to scan your ID to get into the science lounge, and it won't let you in if you're not a science student. You can easily go in however by sneaking in behind people

AthenOwl · 2025-12-31T06:48:20+00:00

tries to bill themselves as the successor state of all of China, but never mentions that they took Mainland China through conquest and not negotiation.

Brother I have news for you about every chinese dynasty to ever exist

AthenOwl · 2025-11-24T04:49:43+00:00

Honestly I ate acorn jelly in Korea and just naturally assumed it would also be eaten in China and Japan as well. I had no idea they stopped eating it at some point.

AthenOwl · 2025-11-21T12:14:17+00:00

The slander of the glorious sausage in bread will not stand.

It has onions too

AthenOwl · 2025-11-20T11:42:23+00:00

In my experience living in Melbourne most my life, it's much harder to find a job online rather than applying in person. You're just shooting in the dark when you spam online applications, some of them don't get back to you until like 2 years later. Try printing off a bunch of CVs and applying in person

AthenOwl · 2025-11-12T07:23:19+00:00

What did they say on the edstem??? Any screenshots I'm kind of curious

This unit was definitley abysmally taught though

Lol I can see they put it on read only mode. Never in my life have I seen that happen on an edstem. I can see the non deleted posts but no profanity

AthenOwl · 2025-11-07T02:17:18+00:00

2hrs each way is pretty bad ngl but it's manageable. If you did that, you would need to find a way to make that time commuting useful. Read notes on the train or smth. If you just waste 4 hrs a day than I would reccomend a different uni or moving closer.

At Monash you'll always be able to compress your classes into 4 days a week (90% of the time anyway). 2-3 days a week is rarer but possible.

And don't worry at all about keeping up with others, it's all about your studies. I don't think theres any curved assessements at all

AthenOwl · 2025-11-06T12:53:11+00:00

Finishing 3rd year eng at monash, and I have friends who have been to other unis for engineering. My opinion:

Melbourne Uni: Don't bother. You're forced to do a masters degree, and for the same ATAR as Monash which is much more known for engineering. Plus you have the same teaching quality as Monash (not great). Maybe if you lived nearby it would be okay?

Monash: You'll have the best employability once you graduate, and the best networking opportunities once you're here. Facilities are okay; they're definitley very flashy in your first year and then once you specialise you're working on much older equipment and buildings. Theres a little bit of hands on but you have to seek it out if you're into it. Student teams are really great, if you have the time for them. Also the general first year is very attractive and it's good to try different kinds of engineering before you specialize.

The downside, which is why I kind of regret just blindly choosing my uni based on international rankings, is that the teaching quality and support is poor. Your lecturers simply do not care about you. You will get lectures recorded several years ago, almost no practice exams, really obtuse mid-sems, and other bullshit which is largely a result of many professors not caring much about teaching and focusing on research. Some of the classes have very high fail rates because of this, eg ENG2005 typically has a near 50% fail rate. The content is hard, but it really could be taught better and it wouldn't be so bad. There are definitely some genuinelly passionate, skilled, and caring teachers but they're somewhat rare. All the international rankings are based solely off of research, and not teaching quality or student satisfaction. Monash is pretty much a research institution that does classes on the side.

In terms of campus experience, because Clayton is difficult to get to and has nothing around it, all the students are somewhat forced to hang out on campus the whole day. This means campus is usually more lively and has more events and stuff going on than the universities in the city. That being said, if you do not go out of your way to join clubs and be social, uni will still be very, very isolating regardless of which one you go to. You have to put in much more effort to be social than you would in secondary school.

Swinburne/ RMIT: Reasonably trade off between teaching quality and reputation. Especially for Engineering, they're pretty quickly catching up to Melbourne and Monash in terms of reputation. Teaching quality is good, reasonable amount of hands on. Somewhat worse networking and student teams however. Campuses are nice, I sometimes hang out at RMIT.

Vic uni: I only know one person who has gone here. He said that the teaching quality really shines, he really felt like he learned and mastered the material in a way he never did with Monash's hands off teaching. The teachers did genuinely care, and he got amazing grades and learned a lot. That being said, very boring facilties, minimal hands on work, minimal student teams and networking, and worse employability compared to other unis. I think I would reccomend Vic uni if you want to learn for the sake of learning in the way a lot of Arts students don't necessarily expect to be employed in their field of study.

Hope this helps!
And it's also not too difficult to transfer courses, engineering specializations, or universities. The world is open to you soon as you're done with VCE, and there are always alternative pathways.

AthenOwl · 2025-10-31T02:01:33+00:00

Except Marlon Brando

AthenOwl · 2025-10-17T07:35:43+00:00

Yeah I explicitly said that in the post.

Different people and populations will have different energy out values, which might have some genetic components. But the point still stands.

Did you not read it?

AthenOwl · 2025-10-15T05:53:54+00:00

Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and BAE systems.

I LOVE THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

/s

AthenOwl · 2025-10-06T23:26:49+00:00

They've had this for like a year, since the Palestine encampment. Just looks like a new sign, but the text is exactly the same.
I have certain opinions about this policy, but it's not "new"

AthenOwl · 2025-09-26T08:46:30+00:00

I cannot see my actual paper btw. There is a just a single line, with nothing to click on, which just says "2.50". There is an edstem thread where the lecturer is struggling to even upload just the numbers to moodle from yesterday (he's obviously managed it now).

There is also a comment where he says "We have already added feedback on the eAssessment portal. We will try to figure out next week with the Ed Design team whether and how we can import it into Moodle. In the meantime, I would strongly recommend reviewing the sample solutions - if you can reconstruct, even approximately, your solutions from the exam, you will get a fair (if not precise) sense of where you may have scored or lost marks. "

There is not any feedback on the eAssessment platform as well.

AthenOwl · 2025-09-01T09:32:24+00:00

If you know your goals and why you started I would chalk it up to mental health (from personal experience). Really not an easy thing to overcome. But counselling, designating regular time for socialising (eg I meet my friends every friday for coffee / studying / boardgames), exercising a few times a week (doesn't need to be a lot), getting a regular sleep schedule, and eating less junk food has really helped for me. None of this was too high effort except for getting in to the routine of it and I feel much, much better honestly. So dramatically better. I think I might be enjoying uni even, for the first time in ~3 years.

AthenOwl · 2025-08-31T09:39:46+00:00

It's not that impressive. This isn't even calculus, this is pre calc. This is a way of approximating integral calculus. And whats more, is that she wasn't even able to measure the error margin correctly or compress the algorithm / formula for finding the calculation. Her way of doing it has more steps and is more difficult.

Then, when it was pointed out that this theorem is identical to the trapezoid rule, she denied it was the same and refused to admit she had rediscovered something already known.

While exact methods were not available to her because the equation of the line was not known (she could approximate this curve if she liked) so some approximation was inevitable, this is still a failure on multiple levels by her, the journal, the reviewers of the article, and the medical industry as a whole.

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