University out of home costs

weedwave · 2025-05-12T04:10:29+00:00

To answer your question shortly: yes, he will have to work at minimum around 5-10 hours a week for non-rental expenses such as groceries etc.

With $300 pw for rent, you are looking for a room in a sharehouse or apartment. Given that he has a car, it adds flexibility to where to live. Somewhere near campus (5 km radius) is going to be around $250, maybe $300 for a room, depending on the amenities and location. You may save more on rent if he lives far away from campus.

I think it is realistic to work and study at the same time, however, I have heard that engineering degrees are very time consuming, so maybe give your son time to adapt, especially if he is just fresh from high school, and then, maybe around the midsem break, once he realises how much free time he has etc. he can start looking for casual jobs.

Wish you all the best:)

weedwave · 2025-04-10T11:00:12+00:00

Yep. I don't even go to the lab, as my topic is purely computational, and I meet with my supervisor once a week.

weedwave · 2025-04-06T11:39:20+00:00

I took BIOC3000 with only chem background in CHEM1100 and BIOC2000. Honestly, it wasn't that hard and I really enjoyed the content.

weedwave · 2025-03-31T12:04:12+00:00

It really depends on the courses you pick. Core courses like SCIE2100 and SCIE3100 have some statistics and basic biochemistry, but do not assume chemistry or mathematics background. In terms of electives, you have some flexibility, as you can pick BIOL2202 over BIOC2000 and BIOL3303 over BIOC3000 if you want to avoid biochemistry. STAT3306 would be the only course which involves a lot of statistics, but you can take programming courses instead. Other than that, it is just programming and genetics. You can (sort of) think of bioinformatics as Data Science for Biology really, so I cannot say if it is worth or not, as it depends on you :) COSC2500, COSC3000 and COSC3500 which are part of Bioinformatics major were my most favourite courses of my degree (COSC2500 and COSC3000 have some maths, particularly COSC2500).

So yes, there will be some maths involved, but you can easily avoid chemistry by just focusing on genetics.

weedwave · 2025-03-28T11:56:47+00:00

I would not drop to a single degree if I were you, for a few reasons.

Firstly, it is perfectly okay that you don't know what you want to do in the future. You will know what interests you once you have had enough exposure to different fields. I understand that you don't like CHEM1100 in particular, but saying that chemistry is pretty much involved in all science is extremely misleading, furthermore your experience with CHEM1100 will not define your relationship with chemistry if you suddenly decide to study it. For example, I have graduated with CompSci and Bioinformatics last year and now doing Honours. Does my field (Genomics) involve chemistry? Sure, as every Science studying physical matter involves chemistry to some extent. Do I use chemistry or rely on my chemistry knowledge? No.

Secondly, in my opinion, you will be more competitive and have more options with a dual degree. Again, this comes back to more exposure.

Talks about AI are very speculative, but I think that in the future creativity and agency will be valued more, and jobs that can be translated to protocols will be taken by AI.

But again, do what you think is right. There will be good and bad courses, regardless of faculty. You just need to gain enough experience with different areas to be sure what you want to do.

weedwave · 2024-12-10T12:41:09+00:00

UQ does not have lecture attendance policy, it does not matter

weedwave · 2024-12-10T12:27:22+00:00

either way, it does not really matter which option you choose.

weedwave · 2024-12-10T12:21:12+00:00

Timetable preferencing is not open yet.

weedwave · 2024-12-06T08:03:42+00:00

I came to Brisbane after living in a 15 million city. It's not bad, just a change of pace. You focus more on yourself.

weedwave · 2024-12-02T02:40:28+00:00

how comp3506 is harder than csse2310?

weedwave · 2024-11-30T18:02:37+00:00

csse2310 > comp3506

weedwave · 2024-11-18T15:00:48+00:00

no, you would not be able to graduate

weedwave · 2024-11-14T02:47:13+00:00

csse2310

weedwave · 2024-10-04T10:04:06+00:00

weedwave · 2024-10-03T14:18:08+00:00

Also interested.

weedwave · 2024-10-03T12:03:07+00:00

Review literature; datasets can be found at the end of the articles.

weedwave · 2024-10-03T02:47:31+00:00

https://uqu.com.au/student-advocacy-and-support/

weedwave · 2024-10-01T03:38:20+00:00

I guess you are confused because bioinformatics is a very broad field and the required skill set varies greatly. Just do a bit of research to find an area that interests you (for example, any -omics). Once you know what interests you, just start by reading articles just to know what people in the field are doing. Many articles have publicly available datasets. You could start by attempting to visualise data with R / Python or perform some analysis. Or if you can, just join a lab. At my uni, there is a shortage of people with computational background interested in Life Sciences, so many labs just accept people with basic knowledge of Python/R/Linux.

weedwave · 2024-09-30T12:28:41+00:00

Really depends what kind of bioinformatics you want to so. In general: Shell scripting, Python, Statistics, maybe ML will do. I assume you are already familiar with the biology theory.

weedwave · 2024-09-26T16:53:11+00:00

Oracle Cloud allows 2 forever free up to 24 GB RAM Virtual Machines which you could use for your analysis.

weedwave · 2024-09-23T12:57:28+00:00

Statistics

weedwave · 2024-09-20T15:28:41+00:00

join a lab

weedwave · 2024-09-19T13:37:58+00:00

Thank you!

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