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Re: Should i do arts?
« Reply #30 on: August 20, 2010, 01:10:13 am »
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definitely still do a biomed/eng or sci/eng double degree! don't limit your options, as you want to do med so badly in a few years and realise you haven't done biomed/sci, plus you seem to not be certain with what you want, so another area of science is good for you! and for the mind to expand;)

although you may find great interests in arts, the main problem with this i've discovered, as i also want to do so many art subjects (i could do an entire degree focused in arts and still want to do more subjects in many areas), is that most are things that are done out of interest and not for career advancement you possibly explore more and get more out of self-study.
 as less fun as that sounds it's true, for example, to self-study a language can be far more efficient then the same thing for 2-3 years at uni, or studying & reading philosophical concepts of choice instead of having to write huge essays are some you may not find too interesting and don't want to do.
but you obviously cannot learn everything this way, but it is true for most interest-based arts subjects.
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« Reply #31 on: August 20, 2010, 01:24:39 am »
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after doing a double degree at monash can you do postgrad med at melbourne after you complete the ugrad?
for eg.
biomed/law @ monash ------> MD at melbourne?

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« Reply #32 on: August 20, 2010, 01:25:16 am »
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after doing a double degree at monash can you do postgrad med at melbourne after you complete the ugrad?
for eg.
biomed/law @ monash ------> MD at melbourne?

yes of course.
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Re: Should i do arts?
« Reply #33 on: August 20, 2010, 02:09:18 am »
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after doing a double degree at monash can you do postgrad med at melbourne after you complete the ugrad?
for eg.
biomed/law @ monash ------> MD at melbourne?
I'm pretty sure you can.

That's what I'm planning too, Masters @ uom
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Re: Should i do arts?
« Reply #34 on: August 21, 2010, 10:15:29 am »
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after doing a double degree at monash can you do postgrad med at melbourne after you complete the ugrad?
for eg.
biomed/law @ monash ------> MD at melbourne?

I think Melbourne takes GPA into account for grad med rather than using a cutoff, so doing law might impede your chances. That being said, the English component of law should help with sec2 of the GAMSAT.
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Re: Should i do arts?
« Reply #35 on: August 21, 2010, 10:33:45 am »
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I think Melbourne takes GPA into account for grad med rather than using a cutoff, so doing law might impede your chances. That being said, the English component of law should help with sec2 of the GAMSAT.

33% of the evaluation, ranked against everyone else, but UoM has prereq subjects unlike other PG med courses.

If you want to do arts, consider sitting in on some of the lectures before you make that decision?


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Re: Should i do arts?
« Reply #36 on: August 21, 2010, 11:33:40 am »
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If you're interested in engineering, biomed has a biomedical engineering major I believe.  You could also do some philosophy subjects as part of your breadth requirements in either biomed or science.

Doing it through biomed would also still give you the prereqs for med at Melbourne, should you change your mind or something.

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Re: Should i do arts?
« Reply #37 on: August 21, 2010, 01:56:12 pm »
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but if you did biomed/law at monash but didnt get into med at melbourne, wouldnt it be good that at least got a law degree and therefore be able to work at lawfirms?

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« Reply #38 on: August 21, 2010, 02:38:58 pm »
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Does anyone here actually do biomedical engineering? the chick at monash open day that was representing it was extremely boring...
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« Reply #39 on: August 21, 2010, 02:44:28 pm »
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^ someone on irc chat does. cant remember who though...

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Re: Should i do arts?
« Reply #40 on: August 21, 2010, 02:49:26 pm »
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Ahh i just haven't spoken to anyone whos doing that particular double degree so i can get an idea of the difficulty and workload, contact hours etc

Although the two degrees don't really complement each other, it would be nice to have something different to do, rather than just maths maths maths all day
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Re: Should i do arts?
« Reply #41 on: August 21, 2010, 02:52:33 pm »
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maths maths all day would be fun 8)

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Re: Should i do arts?
« Reply #42 on: August 21, 2010, 02:54:00 pm »
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Hahah but it would be insane super hard uni maths... ie eng/sci with maths major would be killer
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Re: Should i do arts?
« Reply #43 on: August 21, 2010, 02:56:45 pm »
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ya i guess so. that is why im doing biomed :)

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Re: Should i do arts?
« Reply #44 on: August 21, 2010, 03:00:07 pm »
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I wonder why girls aren't attracted to engineering... nothing wrong with it
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