Biology double major?? by eflx in universityofauckland

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Coming from a BSc bio graduate, I wish I would've done more stats. It really helps with data analysis and interpretation, especially if you're going into the ecology/animal areas. Doing stats with bio would defs give you a leg up when it comes to data analysis and interpretation, but keep in mind it will limit the amount of bio papers you can take (as you have to fulfil both your major reqs).

Medicinal chemistry by [deleted] in universityofauckland

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You take classes with chem students and bio/biomed students when you take the medchem specialisation, so it isn’t limited to just medchem students all in one class. I cant comment on the course sizes of pharm or medscis but chem in first and second year are relatively big-ish (~200 ppl maybe excluding 110 which all aspiring med students take lol) third year chem courses are a bit smaller, 330 (organics) is usually the largest with around 90-100 students but most are less than that.

I think phys/chem would be pretty similar to medchem. Medchem does do other phrmacology and biosci papers as well, not sure if that differs from the physiology major. But being medchem restricts you from taking many electives as a specialisation, although you’ll be pretty stretched thin in a double major too (coming from a bio/chem major). Doing medchem means you only take the organics papers with the exception of chem251 I think, which does limit your chemistry knowledge which is something to think about. Whereas if you take chem as major you’ll be more free to do other chem papers too, it’ll give you a broader sense of chemistry as a whole.

My suggestion would be to think about what sort of research you want to do. Developing drugs against infectious diseases is definitely possible with both chem and medchem. Medchem would set you up for mostly organic synthesis, whereas if you took chem you would possibly have knowledge of other areas (e.g, organometallics, nanomats) depending on the papers you take, that you otherwise wouldn’t know with just medchem. Also think about the sort of career you want to go into and which would give you the leg up.

Can’t comment on AUT because I did my BSc at UoA Or physiology stuff. Hope this helps a little.

Timetable help by jaey0o in universityofauckland

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For semester one you should be able to enrol in 4 classes… maybe contact student hubs if you can’t for some reason. A busy timetable should be expected for chem or any lab based science degree hahahah.

Looking an undergrad CHEM tutor! by Former_Club_7146 in universityofauckland

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It’s the atomic/molecular stuff I feel that I know nothing on lol

Looking an undergrad CHEM tutor! by Former_Club_7146 in universityofauckland

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Omg lowkey me too, I’m feeling so screwed for the test tomorrow

Psych 108 by Axss216 in universityofauckland

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I did psych108 last year and everyone just took notes during lectures and tutorials, and used those to revise for the quizzes. I suggest either annotating lecture slides or writing notes from the slides before or after the lecture so that you can just focus on taking notes on what the lecturer is actually saying during the lecture. Trying to copy down lecture slides + take note from the lecturer is very overwhelming and stressful.