Macadamia’s introduction to studies 🥜📚

Presented by Christabella Irwanto

Planning for your studies 🤓

• A lot of freedom and flexibility!
• Registration opens on WebOodi one month prior to the start of the course and ends at the end of the starting week
• You can remove your registration anytime (sort of)
• You can choose which 120 credits you want on your final transcript
• Retake exams if you fail them
• Failed courses will not appear on your transcript
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Which courses to take?

• Me looking up courses on WebOodi
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• Actually not a bad strategy–try it if it interests you, but drop it if you start struggling

Study plan 🗒

Compulsory courses for the major

Major optional courses

My choices of optional courses

CS-E4870 Research Project in Machine Learning and Data Science

• Actually a compulsory course—I haven’t taken it yet
• A course every year in period I-II, where faculty members propose topics for 5 credits
• The reason why it's a range of 3-10 credits is because you can also get this done via
  • Working in the department
  • Summer projects

CS-E4070 Special Course in Machine Learning and Data Science

• Topics are always changing, and very interesting! E.g.
  • Gaussian processes - theory and applications
  • Advanced Topics in Deep Learning
  • Adversarial Deep Learning
  • Probabilistic Modelling for Cognition and Interaction: Towards AI That Understands Its User
  • Recent Advances in Deep Learning (starting next week ❗)

CS-E4001 Research Seminar in Computer Science

• Security and Privacy of Machine Learning (starting next week ❗)
• If you enjoy reading papers and discussing them, I (and Andrzej) recommend it
• Samuel Marchal conducts it well and gives great constructive feedback about your presentations

CS-EV Course with Varying Content (2 cr)

• Junction hackathons (🔗 sign-ups are open, will be hosted in Väre!)
• Other eligible hackathons include Dash
• Fun way to get to learn about different technologies and tech companies, and meet new people
• 🔗 Major League Hacking (MLH) 2020 Season

Elective studies

• Everyone's transcript can end up looking very different
• Let’s talk about just a few interesting electives…

UWAS: University-wide art studies

• Open to everyone
  • Island workshop: Stay on an island for 4 days
  • How did we get into this mess? Exploring the Past in History, Science and Art
  • Creating Stories and Narratives
• List of UWAS courses this fall

Sustainable Global Technologies (SGT)

• Tinka (joined in 2017) did Sustainable Global Technologies Studio L
• Includes an overseas trip (past countries have included Uganda, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal) exploring topics e.g. innovation culture and disaster resilience
• Non-trivial prerequisites
  • State of the World and Development (2 cr.)
  • Sustainable Built Environment (5 cr.)
  • Motivation letter

Bachelor's level courses

• Won’t count towards your degree but you can still take them
• Pao (joined in 2018) did some Bachelor’s courses
  • Data Science
  • Statistical Inference

Tips

Create a Telegram group

The chat name is up to you…

Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Chat

Study groups

• Especially before exams, we book a large meeting room and revise
• Some classes, e.g. AMDM, encourage discussion, as long as you write your own answers and credit your collaborators in your submission

Study spots

• Paniikki (24/7 🕛)
• Learning hub (24/7 🕛)
• CS library
• Main library
• Aalto Spaces, e.g. Tomato 🍅, Basil 🌿, Pumpkin 🎃
• Helsinki Central Library Oodi
• Helsinki University Library

Don't forget to relax

You can still have a life!

UniSport membership 💪

• 147e for a whole year! Includes classes, e.g.

• Weightlifting
• Dance
• Yoga

Enjoy teekkari culture, e.g.

• Sitsit, cruise, trip, ice-hole swimming

Hiking 👟

• 🔗 Hyde & Teepakki organizes outdoors camping trips (extremely well)

Parties 🎉

• Hold parties to celebrate the end of academic periods
• Book club rooms free-of-charge at 🔗 otahoas.ayy.fi/en/kerhohuoneet

🔗 Aalto Wellbeing

• Meetings with a registered psychologist are available free of charge (up to three)
• Appointments are popular, can have a waiting period of a few weeks

Thanks for listening 🕺

• For questions you can ping me @lemonpeel on Telegram or ask other Macadamia students (e.g. @apisarek, @paoao)
  • Slides available at tiny.cc/macadamia2019