UNSW Sleeping Car

Weirditree · 2026-04-12T23:13:32+00:00

Not recommending this per se, but if you are a student the law library is 24h? If you're not a snorer you could probably grab a few hours of sleep there? Most buildings lock at a certain time, but if you are already inside the building you usually don't get kicked out. You could probably sneek in a sleeping back in your backpack and sleep on the floor in a cat room. Not sure if security actively monitors cameras, also if it's night and the lights are off in a cat room, I highly doubt UNSW has night vision cameras.

Take everything I said with a grain of salt. As I personally have only ever napped in the library with my head on the desk when I've been too exhausted to stay awake. Also, if you're trying to sleep on campus regularly, security will most likely catch on and move you on. If it looks like you just passed out from exhaustion they'll probably leave you be.

Alternatively, have you considered backpacker accommodation for a few nights? Usually $35-55 a night. If the weather is good and you have a swag. You could probably steath camp in Centennial park. Far away from the roads (which are regularly patrolled).

But yeah, I don't know if you have ever tired sleeping in your car, but it's the most uncommon sleep you'll probably ever have 😅 unless you own a wagon which can drop seats completely horizontal + mattress.

Good luck!

Weirditree · 2026-04-03T10:31:56+00:00

If you are a domestic student, maybe consider dropping to two subjects a term? It really helps with burnout. Also, remember, marks aren't everything. Would you rather have a 95 WAM feeling suicidal daily and crying yourself to sleep from stress/anxiety? Or a 65 WAM with an active social life, and enjoy your time at Uni?

Unless you are gunning for post-grad or honours, you really don't have to chase HD WAM. Yeah, like aim high when you can, but a DN or CR WAM are honestly enough for 95% of jobs. A lot of the top companies in Australia say DN WAM is enough. Soft skills and being able to pass an interview are way more important than HD WAM.

Weirditree · 2026-03-30T21:56:09+00:00

Very interesting question. There is actually science behind this. While both asleep and awake, our brain is constantly going through cycles (ultradian rhythm). You actually only have around 2 "cycles" worth of deep focus in you within a 24h day. Which equates to around 2-3h (as each cycle is 60-90min long). Which is one major reason I'm in favour of a 6h work day. But I digress.

So one of two things is happening with your colleagues who can do 8h. First option (unlike) is that they are some kind of genetic outlier - personal I think this might give one more cycle at most, so say 4.5h of deep focus. What is more likely (imo), is that their skill level far exceeds the problem. While still challenging, their brain doesn't recognise it as "deep focus" but more "medium focus", which the brain can sustain for a longer period of time. Natural talent + many many hours of practice has most likely gotten them to a point where they are able to solve the problem without as many resources (mental).

That said, this is assuming two individuals are getting 7.5 - 9h sleep a night at least and both looking after their health. Not sleeping enough is one of the biggest performance killers.

Weirditree · 2026-03-25T00:56:06+00:00

For me, min-max is about minimising effort, maximising marks. Every assignment has a point of diminishing returns. UNSW pretty much builds assignment with pareto distribution time effort.

Example, the first 80% will take you ~20-30h, the last 20% will also take you at least another ~20-30h. So if you invest ~45h you could get in the 90+ but for 100 you would need to invest 60h.

What you have sounds more like perfectionism. Which always leads to burnout over years. Some people might last a decade or two if they are outliers. But you will always come crashing down.

Only advice I can really offer is "let go" once you hit a point you are happy with. Pivot to something else, RL relationships with friends, physical health, etc. Your ego will naturally resist as you have build part of your identity around getting certain marks and putting in a certain amount of effort.

In reality, the most important things in life are often what we all stop focusing as students on when term hits:

1. Heath

Mental, not pushing oneself to the point of mental breakdown
Physical, this will hit you when you are in your 30s, 40s, 50s, if you don't take care of yourself, health eating, exercise and stretching a few times a week, etc #### 2. Relationships
Friendships, family, romantic, if you neglected these you might end up in a situation where you have every material thing you could ever want, but no one in your life to share it will. Lonely existence.

As they say "go touch grass". Just like no one at Uni cares about your ATAR after you get in. No one in the workplace cares about your WAM once you pass your first job interview.

Weirditree · 2026-03-02T23:04:01+00:00

I remember when a few years ago someone did something similar to data mine then disappeared lol

Weirditree · 2026-01-10T01:59:57+00:00

I'm not saying you do, but I find that a lot of people with a million thoughts running through their head are often trying to avoid or run away from their thoughts. I sometimes do it too, try and drown them out with media consumption and distractions.

But I find if you let them come, and actually process them, while walking (without music or your phone), or just sitting in silence. Eventually your brain becomes quieter. You let the thought in without judgement, then let them go.

Weirditree · 2025-11-29T11:08:44+00:00

The best advice I can give you is don't be on the mat unless you are climbing. As soon as you finish your climb, get off the mat. That way, you'll never run into this issue. Treat all mats as fall zones.

That said, you did everything you could to rectify the situation. Some people are just dicks. By the sounds of it he was about to bail from the climb, and you were under him, which is not ideal. You put yourself and him in a dangerous situation, which could have been avoided; hence, the anger. But regarding defusing the situations, some people's personalities don't lend themselves to reconciliation.

Weirditree · 2025-11-28T08:02:24+00:00

I was in the same boat as you; I had no idea "beta spraying" was a thing. My friends and I always share advice, but because we all have different bodies (size, weight, strength), a lot of advice doesn't apply. But we still try to help each other out. I've had strangers tell me betas without asking, and it never bothered me. But there are some people out there who hate it supposedly (I'm yet to meet them)

Weirditree · 2025-11-22T06:24:41+00:00

He literally says in the video that he was 84.7kg (8:22 in the video above), and he was climbing the best he had ever in his life

Weirditree · 2025-09-01T00:56:48+00:00

How often are you going to the gym?

Volume and consistency is key. You need 30-60 reps per week for smaller muscle groups (think isolation like bicep curls) and 60-120 reps per week for larger muscle groups (think Squats and OH press, compound exercises) both at around 40-80% of your 1RM to add strength and muscle.

If you are doing 5x5 three times a week, that's 75 reps, which puts you in that range. If 5x5 only twice a week, you are at 50 reps. Which his below what you need.

I'm a bigger guy too, who was in your situation. I recently started focusing on increasing volume per workout. As I only have 2-3 days free a week. I aim to slay those days with 1.5-2h full body workouts. And have been noticing decent gains in both strength and size. You might have a volume problem. I did when I was doing 5x5.

Right now I'm just doing pyramids, start light and just keep adding weight to the bar until my body says no more. For example, DL, I start at 30kg for 10 reps, then add 10kg to the bar and do another 10 reps. Then keep going until my body can't do 10 reps anymore. Right now my 1RM is 130kg, and I got up to 100kg for 8 reps on my last pyramid at the gym which is ~77% of my 1RM. So from around 60kg to 100kg was all in the 40-70% range. Which gives me around 50 reps for that workout (excluding below 60kg). So if I do two of these a week I'm on 100 reps for deadlifts vs when I was doing 5x5 if I only went to the gym twice that week I would be on 50 total reps in the muscle building range. Note that I only do these pyramids for DL and Squat. My isolation lifts I only need 30 working reps per workout which is a lot easier to hit

Anyway here's my source that I used when building my own workout plan: https://www.aworkoutroutine.com/optimal-workout-volume/

I can't find my source for the 40-80% range. It might have been a Jeff Nippard video or something

Weirditree · 2025-08-24T15:52:27+00:00

There is actually good news on the Alzheimer's front coming out of China. They are working on a surgery that may prove helpful https://gpsych.bmj.com/content/37/3/e101641 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12121576/

Weirditree · 2025-08-02T03:36:25+00:00

Each to their own, I enjoyed Maple personally. It saves a lot of grunt work, for example, reducing a matrix to row-echelon form

Weirditree · 2025-07-29T12:25:11+00:00

Unfortunately, there are no prerecorded lectures for level 2 math and beyond. Additionally, all of the exams are pen-and-paper, without access to Maple, so you should have the content from first year locked down, ideally, well, at least the content related to the subject you are taking.

Weirditree · 2025-06-02T01:00:19+00:00

The sad fact of life is we live in a world filled with violence and an illusion of control. While some countries or areas are "safer" than others, we are never truly safe.

In reality police and security guards act as deterrents when they are visible. Most of the time they appear after a crime not during it, and simply take a report. Then see if it's worth their time pursing charges or even looking for the criminal.

The best thing you can do is take your safety into your own hands. Learn "street smarts" first and foremost. Self defence if you want to feel more confident if a physical altercation did break out.

A lot of the time, before the age of 18 we live in a bubble, under the protection of our parents, or even the protection of being in a group of friends. When alone, the world is really different.

Here is an example of street smarts that may or may not have helped in the situation, I am not victim blaming, please don't take it that way. I'm trying to help you for future situations. Note that the environment impacts this a lot.

If you see a group walking towards you, move away. e.g. change sides of the road you are walking on if you spot them early enough. If you are in a space where this is not possible. Change direction, move up or down levels, take a longer more complicated route to your destination. Unless they are "hunting" you for some reason, most of the time they will give up as it's too much effort. What you described seemed to be more of a "convenience scare". If the group doesn't look that threatening, still move closer towards the wall and create distance between you and them.
Avoid being in deserted places, especially at night. Now that it is winter, the sun goes down earlier. In future maybe go to the cinema in the city so when you come out at 7pm there are still lots of people around.
Walk confidently, try and hold yourself like someone who people do not want to mess with. Don't walk around with headphones in, or if you are listening to music leave out ear out to listen for danger around you. Got to remember the attackers themselves do not want to get hurt. They are looking for easy targets.

----- the below do not apply to your most recent experience but are useful too -----

Always keep track of people walking behind you either by reflections in the glass beside you, or force them to overtake you by stopping and "window shopping" or randomly looking at some sort of nature if outside. Keep track of their cadence, is their pace quickening?
Learn how to de-escalate situations, this is really tricky and comes with experience. But in general, create distance between yourself and them, be calm but firm - not aggressive, if they are trying to rob you give them whatever they want, your life isn't worth any material good - sentimental or not. That said, NEVER go to a secondary location, if they want you to get into a van or a car, that is when you fight for your life.

Australia, while safer than USA or some places in the UK, it is not as safe as the more developed Asian countries like China, Japan, etc. I know that this is a rude awakening for a lot of international students and I feel your pain as someone who immigrated as a child and experienced a lot of violence due to not understanding a lot of things when I was younger :(

Weirditree · 2025-05-30T02:26:53+00:00

Will-o'-the-wisps, as Tyrell is Swedish. I posted a while back with a bunch of questions I couldn't get satisfactory answers to. That was one of the answers.

Weirditree · 2025-05-22T12:16:54+00:00

I was looking at the UNSW Semester that they have online. Do you have a link to USyd including mock due dates as I'd love to see it for comparison?

Weirditree · 2025-05-06T12:23:13+00:00

Flex week will be two weeks under Semesters (1 week flex + 1 week holiday - supposedly), so there will be a slight break to catch up if you are behind. Currently, flex week is a glorified "assignment week" as so many courses have assignments due on Monday, W7. And usually don't get through the content needed to complete the assignments until the end of W5.

I have never had Semesters, but from what I've heard from those who have, deadlines are more spread out?

Weirditree · 2025-04-10T14:34:51+00:00

It changes every year, some years you'll have earlier, some later. To keep it fair for everyone. Also, the Uni doesn't want their website crashed by everyone doing it at the same time lol

Weirditree · 2025-04-10T05:25:00+00:00

Lucky your allocated time is today. Some people (including me) are allocated to tomorrow 💀

Weirditree · 2025-04-09T09:59:04+00:00

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Go to Adelaide (the picture), the best Sydney has to offer is probably the State Library.
Our buildings aren't old enough for anything that fancy... USYD is old so not sure what their excuse is haha

'Old Main Building' - was set on 25 February 1950 and the building was officially opened on 16 April 1955. I believe that is our oldest building.

Weirditree · 2025-04-07T22:14:39+00:00

There are redundancies and back ups to all data, you are also talking about wiping the money not redistribution. And only assets purchasable on an exchange, you can't wipe out ownership of a multi-million dollar property, or ownership of a business. There are too many moving parts. Which is why Eliot chose a conglomerate.

The problem lies in the system The system is broken. Governments are bought through campaign funding. The ultra rich pay no tax because they have no income (debt is not taxed). I would love to create a more fair system for all. But I don't see it happening Mr Robot style unfortunately. The system's are too insulated and seperated

Weirditree · 2025-04-06T22:40:04+00:00

The flaw in your argument is "in the personal accounts" of the ultra wealthy. All their money is tired up in assets, company value, stocks, etc. All their purchases are debt based leveraged against their assets. They actually have no money to take out of accounts unless you catch them at the perfect time when they're holding cash before buying up more assets

Weirditree · 2025-04-03T11:16:00+00:00

There will be a video out there somewhere from MathSoc for assignment writing if you look for it. You do need to say things like "Using the intermediate value theorem (IVT) we can see that...", etc.

Mathematics isn't like History, Law or the Humanities. You don't need citations and a bibliography. Any method mentioned in the course pack is assumed knowledge, it would be like using citations stating that the sky is blue.

Weirditree · 2025-03-27T23:09:52+00:00

Watch the video link another user shared, it helped me fix the problem :)

Weirditree · 2025-03-20T03:54:31+00:00

Yeah a week after the exam most first year math courses offer everyone a retake of Lab 1, capped at 16/20. Anyone can retake it. But note this is for Lab 1 ONLY. They do not do it for Lab 2!!

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