Nick

Ancora Imparo means I am still learning and its the motto of Monash University.

I have been enrolled in the school of engineering in Monash University for a few weeks. So far I am still alive although Im not feeling that well this week, Im having a terrible sore throat. I Slept through a few classes and missed a few already =(

Anyway, the Monash University Student Association(MUSA) are pretty cool(and hot), they organized an orientation bash at Port Dickson for 150 students for free. I though I was gonna have a blast getting bashed up, or raped or whatever but I ended up spending a whole day competition in crappy telematches like who can create the best flag, transferring water using a sponge(this took us forever), transferring ping pong balls from a bucket of flour to somewhere else, half-blinded cartwheel race, burying competition. The only fun group activity that they organized was the tug of war, unfortunately I am not big and strong enough for that and so were most members of my group.

The activities were boring, but at least I made some new friends thanks to being in a group. While the organizers were busy counting the scores of groups for the boring activities, me and my friends went on a banana boat ride

Somehow, I got sand, flour, ping pong balls, soap and loads of salt water that day in my mouth that day.

This first few weeks werent as hard as expected physics and engineering dynamics are very repetitive. Ive learnt newtons 2nd law many times, in secondary school, MUFY, and im being thaught the same thing in engineering physics and dynamics.

Anyway, physics labarotory projects are all about eggs. My first project was to construct a vehicle powered by a standard rubber band to transport an egg to the furthest displacement. There were a few rules that made getting a large displacement hard such as no rotation objects and lubricant were allowed.

Anyway, my vehicle traveled 6.8m during the measuring session. Actually it had the potential to get to at least 8m but my whole group was traumatized by the disaster of the first run. On the first run, our vehicle went about 15 meters but without an egg, the egg flew off and cracked. =(

Sorry for the lack of pictures, not only am I lacking any interesting pictures Im having trouble uploading them