Tertiary Education of various kinds.

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

Use this thread to talk about tertiary education of various kinds, obviously.

[Steph Format]

very nice.

so yeah, my second year of college is well underway. it's a lot better now that I'm taking more intensive studios.

I might not be doing something "useful" (science/engineering), something that shows high mental capacity (most humanities), something selfless (social work), or something that will get me six figures out of the gate so I can afford be a giant tool all through undergrad (business).

but dammit if I can't school them all at painting.

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

I guess you can argue that social workers do selfless work sometimes but they are definitely not selfless people.

I'm about to wrap up something similar to social work and here's an example

Last semester we had a class that had tutes that were available on thursdays and fridays. Most people picked one of the thursday tutes for whatever reason but we got into the lecture and there was one person who was too late and had to do a friday tute, but she needed to change to a thursday tute because that was the only day she could get childcare.

So the lecturer asked if there was anyone who would like to change. Nobody would. They sat there for about half an hour and still nobody wanted to change (the people in the friday tute went outside for a break...i was in the friday one)

Eventually she gave up and still nobody changed so I dont know what happened after that!

So in conclusion: social workers and people in that general profession are just as selfish as everyone else!

[Steph Format]

ooh, ouch. that's good to know, I guess?

there's a surprising amount of over-25 people in my painting studio, and one of them brought his little boy to class today. the kid was set up with paints and everything, and the prof even walked by to hold his board up and say "THIS IS WHAT ART LOOKS LIKE". it was cute.

with art everyone kinda assumes that you're self absorbed to begin with, and I can't say that I fight this assumption in any way.

[Caity]

Well - regarding uni - everyone's uni applications are in now (due September 29th) so now we sit back and wait and do exams ....

[cdejonge]

Last year of Uni this year (hopefully). One more week of classes. Then 2 exams and one presentation and I'm done (hopefully).

[Colezy]

Last year of school this year for me :) Exams start on the 13th Nov and then it's THE END!! :D hehe
I'm having a year off next year to save up and then moving away for Uni at the start of 2008 to do Human Movement. Still need to apply for the scholarships though.

[Jake]

I'm beginning to look at the application process and all the stuff I've got to sort out for my uni/tafe place. Photography or visual arts is looking the likely subject choice, and Melbourne is the place I'm looking at.

[Mirm]

I don't study for anything! wahey!
it was definitely obvious when I got my HSC results back. See you later, uni.

Im in tafe now and im doing at cert 2 in visual arts, possibly the laziest and easiest class I've ever done. no theory, no grading, the whole thing is pass or fail. I'm heaps into it, but I've been thrown in the deep end a little because the cert 2 class began in semester 2, meaning we missed a lot of basic drawing stuff that was taught at the beginning of the year. I've never painted with oils before so its nice to try that out, too. But I don't think I'll ever do it outside of tafe, it just takes sooo much time. I can't bear the thought of spending a whole day getting my paint ready, mixing my colours, breathing in turps fumes the entire time and painting some shit that takes weeks to dry.
My drawing has come along a lot, especially with portraits, but i clash with the teacher so that sucks. and printmaking is okay but its just so much like high school, the teacher was a high school teacher for a while there and shes just...i dunno.

[Chloe]

I'm almost done with first year of my bachelor of Communication Design, which is just fancy talk for Graphic Design. We have four classes each semester, which only adds up to about a 16 hour contact week including lectures. Not bad.
An annoying thing though with some of our subjects is that they're mixed with other sorts of design students, such as Interior or Multimedia design students, so not all classes focus specifically on Communication design. Next year however, all design students will only be doing subjects specific to their unit of study.

My favourite sort of project is creating 2D sorta junk, like postcards or posters, which is done in a number of our classes.

We also learn about web design, typography, working with 2D, and a bit of model making, which I loathe. That particular class is a joke and I can't wait to be done with it. All Comunication design students hate that class.

Here's some junk I've done so far this year if anyone cares.

Set of four related postcards including a word and image. It had to all be done by hand, no computer, which meant we got to fingerpaint and draw stuff with our eyes closed and stuff, as you do in university: (I put them against a black backdrop when I uploaded them onto the internet cos they're white. I know it looks cheap)
Click (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/brookadeedoo/finalpostcards.png)

Poster promoting an event that had to do with a given decade (I got 1920-1930). I chose Jazz. We were not to include imagery, the type had to in effect BE the imagery:
Click (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/brookadeedoo/jazzamatazz7.png)

Poster promoting a made-up event that involves an Australian designer of our choice:
Click (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/brookadeedoo/looking.png)

I have tonnes of other stuff but those are a few of the most recent.

Anyway there's Communication Design for you.

[*M!]

i wen tot uni and studied Fine Arts (majoring in photomedia) at COFA (part of UNSW)

the assessments were annoying but uni in general was the best time of my life (thus far)

my personal favourite bit was the "teaching you to think differently" part of my time there.

i also found out a lot about myself during that time - i know, that's kinda cliche but 17 - 21 are quite formative years in one's life and having to do a lot more for myself (i was away from home when i was at uni) well... it kinda makes you realise what can be achieved...

i'm all for uni, and for TAFE - i would like to do another course of some description in the near future 'cause i quite like learning...

and now that i've prattled on on a vaguely relavent tangent for X number of characters i shall finish...

*M!

[luke_the edge_dragons]

ive put in my preferences for next year. my top one is canberra uni sports media...does anybody go there or knows anybody who goes there? is it a good uni? hows the accommodation? (cause if i make it in i'll hav to move & live on campus)

[Lowee]

I'm studying economics, with a probable major in accounting and economic policy (first year) at the enormous, gigantic, Burnie campus of the University of Tasmania. I actually had a lecture this semester where I was the only student. No joke.

[cdejonge]

I actually had a lecture this semester where I was the only student. No joke.One networking subject I did at Uni, we ended up with only about 8 of us turning up every week. People were scared of the lecturer because he'd always ask the students questions and get them to come up the front and write stuff on the board.

[Rhiannon]

Whoa, I wouldn't go either. :|

I miss teeny class sizes, though. My High School Physics class has 9 people in it, it was awesome. Then Bio at Uni had 1200 students in it. So daunting for someone as socially retarded as I am.

[Mirm]

I definitely DONT miss teeny classsss sizes.
the smallest class I had was y modfern history class, with only 5 of us in it. 2 girls who the teacher abused constsantly and me and then teo boys.

teacher didnt pick on my cause heknew i wouldnt take his crap. hes a fucking asshole and has been in loads of trouble before, and will certainly be in trouble again. i hate that guy so hard. he failed me constantly all through year 11 and 12, yet in my hsc i gave the same answers and got about 95% or something. fucking cunt. drag my UAI down, will ya?
i mean, sure, im pretty drunk now, but that doesnt mean i wont hate this guy as much tomorrow mornign as i do right now. i hate that guy.

[Steph Format]

1200 is an INSANE amount of people.

smaller classes = worst thing ever for art history. the smaller the class, the more likely it is to be a crappy intensive paper writing class :(

[Mirm]

yeah, it is true that in a larger class size you dont seem to do as much actual work as you do in a smaller one

[Sammas]

I did music composition at uni... the biggest class had about 20 people in it. It was good though because you spent the whole 3 years with the same 20 people.

[Caity]

We have only 9 people in my physics class, 5 in music and 6 in drama. Fun fun.

[Rhiannon]

Wow, 6 in drama. Doesn't that make it hard?

[Caity]

Wow, 6 in drama. Doesn't that make it hard?

Not really - it means more 1 on 1 time :D

[KillingInTheNameOf]

DODGY!

Such a ho Caitlin :p

[Rhiannon]

Not really - it means more 1 on 1 time :D

Good point.

[Mirm]

We have only 9 people in my physics class, 5 in music and 6 in drama. Fun fun.

my boyfriends drama class had about 6 in it, I think. it made it almost impossible for them to get their group project done because two of the girls never showed up (and were made to repeat the year anyway), and another guy left the class and another girl started missing classes really really frequently toward the end of the term. They ended up completely re-writing their group performance on the day it was due to be examined, and just improvised the whole thing. I dunno how they scored with it, but props to them for managing to do it.

[Caity]

We've been through 3 drama teachers - one got fired, one left after his improper relations with a student and now we've got a current one who studied at NIDA with Mel Gibson. She's had her work cut out but she's brilliant.

[Mirm]

hehe, i think one of my mates teacher's at his tafe course used to do NIDA with mel gibson too. that guy must be a slut or something. or maybe its just what people from NIDA say to sound more impressive when they start a teaching job?

[Jodez]

i never did drama in high school but the teacher there got fired cause he was turing up to his classes stoned, and one other teacher that was there got in the shit for staring at girls boobs and clevages....God knows wats going on there now. i finished in 2004. Now im at the last part of my tafe course, Im doing the Diploma of chns services. IMMM sooooooooo over it. and im on my final placement where i have to take over the babies room for 2weeks and plan for it. ITs so fucking hard. It goes for 5weeks, ive just finished two. I dont know how im gonna cope in the next 3 weeks. but i guess in my last week i get melb cup day and oaks day off. so it shortens the week a bit. I havent applied for anything for next year cause i dont hav a clue of what i want to do. i thought of doing some music things but they all seem to require folios and crap, which i hav none of and no experience

[Erin]

i'm not doing my VCE's yet, but the VCE drama class this year has about 15-20 students in it

i'm doing VCE drama next year in year 10, what do you have to do in it?

[State_Of_Emergency]

i'm not doing my VCE's yet, but the VCE drama class this year has about 15-20 students in it

i'm doing VCE drama next year in year 10, what do you have to do in it?

ive read the sheet we got erin, and i think its a bit of drama, and improvising and character structure.. lots-a drama yay :D

i can't wait to start VCE drama next year :)

[Rhiannon]

Our school was probably too small to have a drama class, so all our drama was done after school, giving up your own time and all that jazz, all year levels were allowed to participate. My year level would have been able to get a drama class going, we had heaps in it, but others years only had a few interested, some had none. I liked it that way, though, because otherwise it was hard to interact with other year levels. It was great when you were just starting school, too, because you got to know others really quickly and felt secure in being able to make friends with the veterans of the school.

Our director's only claim to fame was working as an extra in Neighbours a few times and working with Rove. Ooh, and he shared the same name as a famous person; Paul Hogan.

I miss drama more than anything else in High School.

[worry_rock]

We have only 9 people in my physics class, 5 in music and 6 in drama. Fun fun.

One of my friends is the ONLY person in her class. IB Latin. I would HATE to be one on one with a teacher for all my classes in a subject.

[Steph Format]

*cough*
I believe the sign says tertiary education

that said, college needs to be done with.

[cdejonge]

*bump*

How's everybody's exams going? How come Swinny had to start their exams later than other Unis :(

[Crystal]

One left for me! :)
Does your uni let you guys have like a week or so break between the end of classes and when the exam period starts?
Because some uni's (ie. Monash) don't and the exams start a few days after classes end, which is kinda shitful actually.

[cdejonge]

Yeah we had about a week off before start of exam period. But it's just dragging on. I think our semester started a week later too.

Worst still, I have a presentation right after all my exams. So I finish 25th November. At least no more ever again after that.

Good luck with your last one Crystal.

[Crystal]

Thanks. You too. :)

[Rhiannon]

I think La Trobe starts theirs pretty late as well. My friends there finish much later than the rest of the group.

[Colezy]

UTAS are only just finishing theirs this week, I think.

My exams aren't tertiary..but they're close enough I guess, as they count towards being able to do tertiary studies! :p They start in a week. I only have 3 which is ok as they're spread out nicely over the week and a half exam period. :)

[Crystal]

That's good. :)
Nothing worse than having 2 exams on the one day... blah!

[Colezy]

Yeah, I know! I have a friend who has a maths specialised in the morning and then Bio in the afternoon :(
My brain wouldnt cope with that...actually, it wouldn't cope with just the maths specialised! It's bad enough doing Bio..bah!

[Crystal]

Argh... brain overload!!
Well I suppose the only good thing with that is that specialist is first.

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

I've finished uni but i really want to study more...I want to study environmental science or something.

[Jawn]

This week ive finished my course, but Im hoping to do another course next year because being a student r0x0rz my s0xorz.

[Mirm]

I've finished uni but i really want to study more...I want to study environmental science or something.

environmental science is my favourite science ^_^
I'd be really interested in studying that, one of my boyfriend's friends is at uni studying it, and he says its really good.

But maybe I can just arrange for my high school teacher to teach it to you, because he's pretty much the best man ever. And when he's sick, Mr Ward fills in for him, and he is a total babe.

[Steph Format]

dang, you guys are all done with college already.
*applause*

I think I'm going to try and graduate a semester early (December '08), mostly because summer break is boooooring. I mean, there's only so many nights of getting drunk with my brother and friends I can handle.

[cdejonge]

I'm still going Steph! Had first exam today. Another exam, one report and one presentation to go. I'm gonna miss long Uni breaks. :(

[Jawn]

so im going to have to wait next week to finish uni for this course because the exam on wendesday got pushed back which is kinda cool because it gives me to thursday to finish off this stupid essay I gotta do before I worry about any exam.

[Mirm]

My course is just pass/fail, it rulz omg.
I have to hand in 3 completed paintings, one decent print, and a series of at least 3 drawings. Boogers!

[alkaline-kiwi]

Well I'm just about finished my course. Studying tourism, computing and business administration.

Started it the last week of the first term 2004 and should of had it all completed much sooner than this but eh it's free to do plus I like being a student.

Am working on some units for employment skills at the moment and doing this thing on fractions, decimals and percentages. Some of the fraction stuff is doing my head in - I hate maths.

Got an appointment tomorrow to talk about finding a job so won't be a student for much longer unfortunately. But I suppose I have to start work soon.

[dirty man]

school for me.............DAMMIT!!!

[Macccca]

im at unsw doing a bsci majoring in psych and minoring in film

i overloaded this session and im paying the price, completed 1/5 classes, ill do an film essay tomorrow and another film essay on friday and will have completed and most likely passed 3/5 classes.

the other two are psych and im pretty sure ill fail at lease one of them. through the combination of having a 5 night a week job, moving out and going through a breakup of a 2 year relationship, if i do mangae to pass them all, i will do something damn special to celebrate :D

[Colezy]

Bloody hell. After all of that, you deserve to celebrate big time! :D Good luck with Uni :)

[cdejonge]

Good luck with all of that Macca!

[Loo C]

Hey Macccca do you have any friends doing a Bachelor of Education at UNSW? It's one of my options for next year, but someone told me that although the Arts faculty is awesome, Education is poxy. That true?

Oh, and best of luck with all your classes.....sounds nasty. :(

[Macccca]

thanks guys!

dont think i know anyone doing education at unsw, ill ask around but the only teachers-to-be that i know of went to usyd, it cant be that bad though

[Steph Format]

got my fingers crossed for ya Macccccca.

fact: adult students (you know what I mean, at least over 30) can be incredibly aggravating.
for us 'kids' being brats, you moms sure do whine a lot sometimes.

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

It seems that the stupid university has lost one of my assessments! This is a problem because A) My laptop is quite dead B) I can't really find it and C) all assessment has to be marked by the end of this week so I can graduate EEEK!

They know that I've handed it in because of the assignment-tracking-thingie but damn i dont want to do it again!

[Macccca]

at about 4pm today i found out my film essay i hadnt started was not infact due in at friday 4pm but tomorrow at noon.

suffice to say i got home from work at midnight, had some dinner and am now at 1330/2500 words. go me!

[Macccca]

woo

2 pots of green tea and 3 eels albums later i have reached 2046 words.

i think 4 hours sleep is a deservered reward before i wake up and read my ramblings trying to see if it actually makes anysense

[cdejonge]

I beat you. 7297 words :p But that's a whole semester project and including appendices which includes 10 pages of code. I thought it was finished at 1am last night. Then this morning I get an email at 6:43am saying he's made some minor changes. Argh. I'm over it now.

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

I wrote a 3000 word assignment in a day once! I don't really advise it.

[cdejonge]

Ok Kylie wins. I hate essays/reports. Luckily in 5 years of Uni I only had to do about 5-10 long essays/reports and only about 5 presentations :) No wonder my communication skills are shite :p

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

I havnt heard back from the lady who was going to mark my missing assignment yet....I hope its okay because I dont want to do it again eeeeek eek eek,.

[Rhiannon]

That happened to me last semester, an essay that was worth 50% of my mark went missing and I didn't have another copy. I never found out that they didn't have it until after they were all marked. I ended up withdrawing from that subject knowing I wasn't going to pass. It was too late in the semester so now I have a fail on my record. Fun.

[Sofia]

at about 4pm today i found out my film essay i hadnt started was not infact due in at friday 4pm but tomorrow at noon.

suffice to say i got home from work at midnight, had some dinner and am now at 1330/2500 words. go me!

What's studying film like? I'm doing an elective on it right now in high school and I really enjoy it, but at uni level... I don't know. Do you want to do something related to it when you finish uni?

[Jawn]

I beat you. 7297 words :p But that's a whole semester project and including appendices which includes 10 pages of code. I thought it was finished at 1am last night. Then this morning I get an email at 6:43am saying he's made some minor changes. Argh. I'm over it now.

Lame. I have to do two essays that will end up around 5000-6000 words each. I typed them in about 2 days each. I had one assignment exceed 80 pages once, and my full year group project's final report exceeded 200 pages or something.

You be in a children's course :p

[cdejonge]

We did one this semester that was around 10,000 words. But yes, I am doing a children's course. One with no jobs at the end. Speaking of, just got a confirmation letter from a job I didn't get but was on the reserves list on for, saying I was unsuccessful.

[Macccca]

it really depends on the uni and what you want to get out of it.

at unsw every course besides one is theory.

film theory is great to experience films you might not have ever seen, but you dont learn much if you want to go into film making.

[Erik]

i finished my last exam ever yesterday (if i pass)
got so drunk at the uni bar, 12 jugs i think...then off to some club i mean wow i feel like shit this morning

[cdejonge]

haha, congrats Erik :)

[Jawn]

I just finished one of my exams.

So I have:

One assignment to hand in
One exam to do


and then I have graduated from "uni bum" to "bum". Hooray!

[cdejonge]

and then I have graduated from "uni bum" to "bum". Hooray!I like the sound of that. Sounds like me.

How did the exam go?

[Jawn]

I like the sound of that. Sounds like me.

How did the exam go?

It was a first year subject and im in fourth year... you do the maths :p

[cdejonge]

It was a first year subject and im in fourth year... you do the maths :pI have heaps of that with my double degree. But I find 1st year engineering subjects hard no matter when I do them. :confused:

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

well, stupid judith lady never got back to me about my missing assignment...so if its not ok then I can't graduate in february...but i dont know! Stupid judith...stupid assignment submission service.

[cdejonge]

Hope it works out Kylie :(

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

It doesnt really matter I guess, because i'll be 'completed' but just not have the piece of paper.

[Caity]

Still sucks though :( *hugs for Kylie*

[State_Of_Emergency]

*hugs* That sucks

[Brady]

this seems as good a place as any for me to vent my annoyance with studying and exams.

I wish I was able to sit still and do it, but unfortunately that's never worked out too well for me.

[cdejonge]

We got distracted while studying at Uni today. Ended up watching movies on my friend's laptop which he hooked up to the projector in the lecture room.

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

Hooray, i just got accepted into a bachelor of natural environment and wilderness studies at the university of Tasmania... I barely remember applying for that but maybe i should totally move to tasmania.

[Caity]

Haha I can't imagine you in Tasmania Kylie!

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

id have to buy a lot of clothes...i dont even own a jacket.


still, i shall put it in the back of my mind in 'things i might do on impulse'

[cdejonge]

So you're probably not going to do it? Aren't you doing a course now? Are you planning to do another one?

Crazy :)

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

yeah, I finish my course this semester but I would like to do another one...WHY NOT!?

I also want to move out of brisbane.

[Steph Format]

you never know!
would you do post-grad, or another bachelor's degree?
if it's another bachelor's degree then I second Cam, craaaazy :p

oh man. next week is Thanksgiving, which means four-day weekend and sitting around eating my mom's cooking. ahhh that sounds like the life

[Jawn]

one day and then COURSE FINISH'D

[Adele]

Music Industry at tafe next year for me!

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

I dont really want to do post-grad because i want to learn new things, rather than delve deeper into the stuff I already know.

BUT REALLY I JUST WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HECS AND NEVER PAY IT BACK EVER.

[Colezy]

Awww, come on Kylie! Come to Tassie! :p
I find out if I've been accepted into Uni in a few weeks.

[cdejonge]

I dont really want to do post-grad because i want to learn new things, rather than delve deeper into the stuff I already know.

BUT REALLY I JUST WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HECS AND NEVER PAY IT BACK EVER.Cool, or you could always move overseas :p

And don't forget student discounts! I'm going to miss them :(

[Colezy]

Or you could come to Tassie and... and... DO A TOUR OF THE CADBURY'S FACTORY AND GET FREE CHOCOLATE! :D

[Mirm]

Today is my last day of printing. God damn it. Stupid whores in the class use ALL the paper and take up so much fucking time on the press and then little old miriam has to rush fucking everything because the stupid menopausal old ladies think their shit is better than mine. cunts.

[Steph Format]

the moms/granmas in my studios are awful.

stick to making store bought arts and crafts, okay? Christmas is coming up, I'm sure you'll have something more presentable there

[Jodez]

Music Industry at tafe next year for me!

whats involved in that and what requirements do you need?

I finished officially on monday when i handed my stuff in. If i pass lol, i will then be a qualified child care worker. I want to stuy next year, but i dont know what i want to do, and im sure that anything (such as a music thing) needs requirements which i dont have....Its lame

[Marv From NZ]

I've finally made my decision and i'm going to take a 12 month break next year and get back to my Bachelor of Communication studies degree in Feb 2008(I rejected my conditional acceptance into the course today! YIKES!!!! But they said there will keep my details handy and such, so that when i inform them next year, i'll be guaranteed of my spot.) all refreshed and wanting to study again, which doesn't mean i'll be a bum, i'm going to be working basically all of next year so i can save up for my studies, that way i won't have to get such a big fat student loan out. I hate debt with a passion you see. Also if i have enough money saved, i'll be treating myself to a holiday or a new car, so realistically all's not bad in my camp.

[cdejonge]

All the best with that Marv. I feel like taking a year off now but probably shouldn't because it may affect my chances at getting a job. I wish I started travelling overseas during my Uni breaks earlier :(

[*M!]

i didn't even think of travelling when i was at uni - i wanted to get it all over and done with!

i'm stupid i think 'cause now that i'm not at uni i realised how much i loved it!

i'd like to go back there now - and then go over seas to do part of my degree 'cause everyone i was really good friends with at college was from OS!

*M!

[cdejonge]

I meant travel during my breaks, not for study or taking time off to study :p I hate working and studying here enough, so when I go overseas I like to just travel and enjoy myself.

[*M!]

awesome - lets go travelling together then!

har har! :p

*M!

[cdejonge]

If you want, but my trips end up costing a bit! Just warning you.

[*M!]

hehe - no point in the dosh burning a hole in your pocket is there!

good food, good company!

so long as you let me indulge in my desire... to take photos and make cocktails... i want a big book of them from all over the world!

*M!

[Steph Format]

next summer I'm going to be working and taking a class or two. this is why a friend and I decided we're going to Vancouver for spring break.
mmm nothing like being cold and rainy in a foreign city with really good food.

I think after college, I'm going to apply for some sort of fancy work visa (or just get paid under the table ;)) and work/travel overseas for a few months or so. even if it's just at a Starbucks, it's all good.

[Mirm]

gonna come back to australia?

[Erik]

we have starbucks

[cdejonge]

so long as you let me indulge in my desire... to take photos and make cocktails... i want a big book of them from all over the world!That's cool. I take a shitload of photos too. Heck, if you pay for them I might even have a cocktail myself [/shock]

next summer I'm going to be working and taking a class or two. this is why a friend and I decided we're going to Vancouver for spring break.
mmm nothing like being cold and rainy in a foreign city with really good food.I loved Vancouver :) Probably my favourite place I've been to.

[*M!]

That's cool. I take a shitload of photos too. Heck, if you pay for them I might even have a cocktail myself [/shock]

orrite, you're on! :D :p

*M!

[Steph Format]

yeah, Vancouver is really nice. it has some similarities to Melbourne :)

[cdejonge]

I just had my last exam ever!!!

39 subjects down, 1 to go ...

[*M!]

Woot - nice one Cam! :D

how'd it go?

can you believe that there's only one subject left?

i remember that feeling... my best friend and i went and celebrated that arvo by watching finding nemo

*giggles*

ahhh - uni how i miss it

*M!

[cdejonge]

i remember that feeling... my best friend and i went and celebrated that arvo by watching finding nemoI managed yet again to escape going to the pub. That group of friend didn't even wait around for me. Which is good, I didn't really want to talk to them anyway :p

I'm sure they'll bug me next Friday though. I'll just say I'm going to see TWR in Geelong, even though I haven't got tickets ...

[cdejonge]

Jawn has finished! Congrats Jawn :)

(sorry if you had already posted this)

[Steph Format]

congrats you guys!
I would buy you a drink Cam, but I'll get you an Italian soda instead.

I've got finals in a couple weeks... hooray.
(and two more years of college to go)

[cdejonge]

congrats you guys!
I would buy you a drink Cam, but I'll get you an Italian soda instead.

I've got finals in a couple weeks... hooray.
(and two more years of college to go)I haven't finished yet :( No Italian soda for me yet :p What is an Italian soda by the way?

[Steph Format]

basically - it's club soda with any flavor of your choice mixed in, topped off with half and half (optional).
peach? strawberry? blackberry?
I'm partial to coconut melon.

[cdejonge]

Sounds good!

Half and half of what?

[Lowee]

Soda and cocaine.

[Mirm]

Sounds expensive.

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

i'll buy you one some day mirm. Like, when I get paid which im hoping will be soon because i am craving chinese food.

[Mirm]

..some coccaine? COOL!

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

only if its with soda.

[Mirm]

... ok, deal.

[dirty man]

who needs soda with their coccaine?

[Mirm]

Someone who enjoys the taste?

[dirty man]

you dont drink cola with rum do you!
:p

[cdejonge]

I've Finally Finished F@!#ing Uni!!!

Unfortunately, I don't feel any different now that I've finished. Here's all the subjects that I was tortured with:Design For Multimedia 1
The Internet & WWW 1
Software Development 1
Engineering Mathematics 1
Design For Multimedia 2
The Internet & WWW 2
Computer Communications & LANs
Software Development 2
Design For Multimedia 3
User Experience Design
Internetworking
Advanced Java
3D Animation & Special Effects
Digital Video And Audio
Network Administration
Engineering Mathematics 2
Industry Based Learning
Industry Based Learning
Telecommunication Technologies
Multimedia Systems
IP Technologies
Engineering Mathematics 3B
Electronic Systems
Advanced Multimedia
Database 1
Engineering Mathematics 4B
Electronics
Communications Principles
Electromagnetic Waves
Network Modelling And Analysis
Engineering Management 1
Embedded Microcontrollers
Communications Information Theory
Digital Signal & Image Processing
Engineering Management 2
Photonics & Fibre Optics
Broadband Multimedia Networks
Design & Development Project 1
New Venture Development And Management
Digital Electronic Design
Wireless Communications
Design & Development Project 2

[Caity]

Holy shit.



I start uni next year :p

[private_eye]

i'm deferring, woo hoo!

[mel_bound]

I've Finally Finished F@!#ing Uni!!!

Unfortunately, I don't feel any different now that I've finished. Here's all the subjects that I was tortured with:

WELL FRIGGEN DONE! Hahahahah! *claps*

I can empathise with the whole 'not feeling any different' coz I've finished schooling at.. my old school, and I don't feel any change!

[cdejonge]

I think it's basically because I have a list of things to stress about, which never ends. For example, I have to work most days next week. So no break after end of Uni. Also, no job lined up for next year.

[hillaas]

I've Finally Finished F@!#ing Uni!!!

Unfortunately, I don't feel any different now that I've finished. Here's all the subjects that I was tortured with:

:eek:

WOOT FOR CAM!!!!!!


Wel done on that achievement. After all your complaining about studying you are finally done!

Good work Cam!

-andre

[cdejonge]

Yep time to complain about work now. :) Oh, I haven't got results yet, so haven't technically finished ...

But thanks Andre.

[hillaas]

You would hate to fail.

HA, now it'll be on your mind until you get the results!

[*M!]

I've Finally Finished F@!#ing Uni!!!

oh that's right... that was today

nicely done - you should celebrate by going to see a nice movie with a good friend like i did!

good times

wow - now it's WORK world...

sucked in :p

*M!

[cdejonge]

You would hate to fail.

HA, now it'll be on your mind until you get the results!Thanks you little shit :p

oh that's right... that was today

nicely done - you should celebrate by going to see a nice movie with a good friend like i did!

good times

wow - now it's WORK world...

sucked in :p

*M!Yeah I already know how crap work is though. At least you get paid though. Movies would be good. Only problem, no friends! Got a few things to do around house though I guess.

[hillaas]

Anytime!

I'd go and celebrate like *M! said. After all that hard work you deserve it!

[cdejonge]

Hmm, don't feel like celebrating to be honest. I feel like I'm at same stage as 6 years ago. I'm going to gig tomorrow night though. Yeah, like that's out of the ordinary.

[*M!]

and if you don't want to...
Andre and I shall go out to a movie together and you can pretend you're celebrating via us!

:p

*goes gets a beer and gives cam the alcoholic salute*

*M!

[cdejonge]

After all that hard work you deserve it!You sound like my Mum.

M, alcohol is bad. :) And Gayle might get jealous with the movie thing.

[*M!]

Gayle can come too ;)

*giggles*

you're right - alcohol is bad - i'll have a nice tall glass of water for you then... satisfied?

*M!

[cdejonge]

Nup, because if you really want the beer, then you're just cheating yourself :p

Okay, let's let this go back on topic now.

[*M!]

beer/alcohol IS tertiary education Cam...

you just missed it!

:p

*M!

[cdejonge]

Sheeet, what was I doing the last 6 years?

Oh yeah, saving money. Not pissing it against the wall :p

[Jawn]

Alcohol is hardly a waste of money. Its an investment. A proper and sound one.

[cdejonge]

My liver thanks me every night. Does yours?

[*M!]

did i mention i loved you today yet Jawn...

Jawn is correct (again)

i miss uni

*M!

[Jawn]

My liver loves me because I feed it sweet sweet whiskey.

My heart thanks me because I give it red wine. Seriously, a glass of red is good for the ol' ticker.


My inner bogan loves that I feed it beer.

[Julian]

Red wine is terrible. I swear some people would drink piss if it contained alcohol

[cdejonge]

My liver loves me because I feed it sweet sweet whiskey.

My heart thanks me because I give it red wine. Seriously, a glass of red is good for the ol' ticker.

My inner bogan loves that I feed it beer.haha, that's gold. I have some wine occassionally. It's funny. I hardly drink and when I do people always comment on how quickly I drink for a non-drinker.

[*M!]

we need sweet sweet alcohol thread

and yes
i'm a fast drinker too!

even when i wasn't an alco

see... THAT's what uni does to people :p

*M!

[Jawn]

Red wine is terrible. I swear some people would drink piss if it contained alcohol

I find that slightly insulting as red wine is truly the nectar of the gods. You just gotta know what bottles to buy and have a mature enough pallete to handle it. Most people who dont like wine haven't developed their pallete for it. And we certainly don't guzzle the wine for the alcohol.

Having said that, non alcoholic wine is bullshit, so dont be twee and say "if you dont care about alcohol drink the non alcoholic version".

[cdejonge]

I generally hate alcohol, but love the wine at Church. And not because it's been blessed. It tastes fruity :)

[Julian]

We've got a wine tasting here on Sunday. It's so fucking stupid. But I don't mind white wine.

[worry_rock]

Hey Jawn, where's Ian? Haven't seen him around the TLE neck of the woods for quite some time. Sorry, if this seems random, it's just that you mentioned inner bogan haha.

[*M!]

Cam... you're fruity

but agreed

church wine is pretty not so shabby...

*M!

[Jawn]

The diabetic has his own metal forum to play with. Why you asking about him? Do ya wanna date him?

[Jawn]

I generally hate alcohol, but love the wine at Church. And not because it's been blessed. It tastes fruity :)

Does your church do the for real alcoholic wine? My old church did Ribena which was crap, and my new church does ribena substitute or something. It tastes like nothing.

[cdejonge]

Does your church do the for real alcoholic wine? My old church did Ribena which was crap, and my new church does ribena substitute or something. It tastes like nothing.I'm pretty sure it's alcoholic. I only have it when I'm Eucharistic minister. Which means I end up having about half a glass because nobody has it. I used to avoid it because it gave me hiccups and the sharing thing is gross. Why even bother wiping the edge of the glass?

[Julian]

Ribena is the nectar of the gods

[Jawn]

I'm pretty sure it's alcoholic. I only have it when I'm Eucharistic minister. Which means I end up having about half a glass because nobody has it. I used to avoid it because it gave me hiccups and the sharing thing is gross. Why even bother wiping the edge of the glass?

Sucker... we get our own individual little glasses for ours.

And Julian, discussing the fine points of wine with you is wasted if you think Ribena is the nectar of the gods. I wouldnt feed it to a dehydrated dog. Well, unless I hate the dog.

[Julian]

Your pallete is obviouslu not sophisticated enough for the complex taste of the ribena

[Jawn]

Your pallete is obviouslu not sophisticated enough for the complex taste of the ribena

I'm sorry but sugar and second rate grape juice doesn't count as a sophisticated taste. :p

[*M!]

at college we only had goon...

i liked it though - there are some seriously good cask wines around - i think they're especially made for uni students with no money and correctly alligned priorities!

*M!

[Jawn]

at college we only had goon...

i liked it though - there are some seriously good cask wines around - i think they're especially made for uni students with no money and correctly alligned priorities!

*M!

drinking wine from a cask is a capital offense in my country.

[*M!]

but you got to use the bladder thing as a pillow

and some creative guy at my college made a suit out of them

he looked like he was from outter space

goon is good for lots of things Jawn - i shall buy you a box for christmas

*M!

[worry_rock]

at college we only had goon...

i liked it though - there are some seriously good cask wines around - i think they're especially made for uni students with no money and correctly alligned priorities!

*M!

hahaha, I met some classy bogans a few months ago. A mate and myself went for a little day trip to Ballarat and these guys we were hanging with had their little bags of goon....and POURED IT INTO A CUP. Who does that?? haha!

[Jawn]

but you got to use the bladder thing as a pillow

and some creative guy at my college made a suit out of them

he looked like he was from outter space

goon is good for lots of things Jawn - i shall buy you a box for christmas

*M!

The problem with goon is that it comes out of a bladder and a cardboard box. The wine is sometimes ok depending on what you get. However, drinking a wine out of a bottle allows you to have this snobbery attached to your drinking. I like this said snobbery and looking down at people drinking from their pathetic little bags.

[*M!]

goon from a cup means you think you're classy

i personally liked this TV show's take on the goon bag

what you do is:

open the back of a poor defensless teddy bear
remove the stuffing
cut a hole between it's legs for the goon bag pourer bit to go though
put in a zip so that you can do the teddy up again
chuck in a chilled goon bag
throw in some of those styrene ball thingers like in bean bags
zip up teddy

drink

it kinda looks like you're giving an inanimate object head but *shrugs* a good goon carrier is worth it's weight in... toenail clippings!

*M!

[*M!]

The problem with goon is that it comes out of a bladder and a cardboard box. The wine is sometimes ok depending on what you get. However, drinking a wine out of a bottle allows you to have this snobbery attached to your drinking. I like this said snobbery and looking down at people drinking from their pathetic little bags.

to avoid the harsh lines of cardboard see my previous post...

and yes
i remember a time when i thought that having a bottle of wine meant you were rich

then i found this amazing $2 per bottle (in pretty blue bottles) wine...

lets just say... myth busted?

*M!

[Jawn]

it better be white wine if your chilling it. Red wine must be at room temperature!!


/end wine nazi.

[*M!]

yeah
i know
i'm more a white girl myself

i do winery tours... i mean poster distribution for work every other month - i live in a wine district - i know my wines Jawn

what is your stance on rose (damn - no dooby thinger... accent)

*M!

[worry_rock]

Sorry, this reminds me of Wayne's World. I can't help myself.

Cassandra: I don't believe I've ever had French champagne before...
Benjamin: Oh, actually all champagne is French, it's named after the region. Otherwise it's sparkling white wine. Americans of course don't recognize the convention, so it becomes that thing of calling all of their sparkling white "champagne", even though by definition they're not.
Wayne: Ah yes, it's a lot like "Star Trek: The Next Generation". In many ways it's superior but will never be as recognized as the original.

[Jawn]

yeah
i know
i'm more a white girl myself

i do winery tours... i mean poster distribution for work every other month - i live in a wine district - i know my wines Jawn

what is your stance on rose (damn - no dooby thinger... accent)

*M!

Rose... pfftt. Thats like red wine for those too wimpy to have the real stuff. :p

[*M!]

fair point
i'm not a rose girl anyway - just wanted to know we were on the same page

if yoy're ever in the area (near my place that is) i shall take you on a poster distribution run so you can sample all the local wines if you so desire Jawn

and anyone else too for that matter i suppose

*M!

[Jawn]

fair point


if yoy're ever in the area (near my place that is) i shall take you on a poster distribution run so you can sample all the local wines if you so desire Jawn

*M!

if your the designated driver, sure :p

[*M!]

yes - of course i can be designated Driver Jawn - for you anything! :)

either that or i can rent a bus...

*shrugs* winery crawl sounds a lot less appealing than a pub crawl...
and winery tour sounds SO posh...

*shrugs*

goon and cool - like when i was at college :D

*M!

[Steph Format]

I'd say something about this topic veering off track (because it never EVER happens on the boards) but, nothing goes hand in hand quite like college and alcohol.

this weekend some of us had a small 'Symposium', where we talked about literature and philosophy (we all took the same course covering the classics) and got trashed from red wine.
good times all around.

[Erik]

ah red wine and philosophy come hand in hand. I drank beer and didn't study philosophy :)

[Steph Format]

usually I prefer liquor, it tends to be the more cost-effective option.

most of my classmates in the school of art seem to prefer bong rips, though.
hooray stereotypes coming to life!

[Mirm]

I cant stand being stoned. I got stoned accidentally a while back from eating cookie-mix that was a LOT stronger than I'd thought. I only had a finger-szed taste of the mixture, and I pretty much greened out.
I stick to drinking, but i think what I really should be doing is getting myself a valium prescription. that would be so good.

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

I like hanging out with people who are on acid, its really entertaining.


(meanwhile, im not on acid, obviously, i dont do those things.I Just have friends who like to eat funny paper)

[cdejonge]

nothing goes hand in hand quite like college and alcohol.Nobody told me :p [/joking]

After all my whinging about Uni, I think it's better than working. Except you don't get paid to go to Uni.

[Mirm]

I like hanging out with people who are on acid, its really entertaining.


(meanwhile, im not on acid, obviously, i dont do those things.I Just have friends who like to eat funny paper)

especially when they are acid virgins! its the best ever cause they just talk and talk.. my boyfriend had a party where there was some acid going around and it was, i dont know, bad or something, so everyone there went kind of crazy. I even got a little second-hand dose by accident and I started to go a little crazy! it was one mental, mental party. fifteen acres of bush filled with maybe a hundred people tripping off their dial. ew.

[Mirm]

And, on topic oh em gee, i handed in all my tafe shit today. I got some pretty good feedback for my pretty mediocre work, and now im free to have weekends all week! me and my friend carey drank a bottle of canadian club on saturday night to celebrate this. from now on, we might drink on tuesdays instead ^_^

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

maybe the funniest thing about watching people on acid is that they like to tell you that they are on acid about every 2 minutes.

they also say 'colours' and 'confused' a lot.

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

i've officially finished all of my course requirements! I got my last two assignments back yesterday. So I guess im a social scientist now! and a human service practitioner...albeit a not-working-in-the-industry one right now.

[Steph Format]

hooray! there's something really satisfying about finishing each semester in college.

ahaha a bunch of kids going out into the bush to get messed up. oh wait... they do the same thing here, except it's desert with cactuses and junk.

my favorite spot on campus is on the art museum roof. it's a little bit of a climb, but there's a table and chairs.
with a candle, ipod and speakers, it's basically perfect.

[Erik]

well done kylie!

i have finished also, yay me! sucks though already found a job and cant enjoy the last real summer before real life

[Mirm]

ahaha a bunch of kids going out into the bush to get messed up. oh wait... they do the same thing here, except it's desert with cactuses and junk.

.

is it that crazy cactus that makes you trip out really hard? I dont remember what its called but every stupid hippy i know talks about it like its the holy grail of trips.

[Marv From NZ]

May i ask what a TAFE is?

[cdejonge]

Tertiary education aimed more at trade-type jobs. And costs similar to public high schools.

[Mirm]

similar to high school my ass.
my art course at TAFE cost more than my entire school fees for year twelve.

And yeah, marv, TAFE is kind of the losers version of uni. the courses offered are often more practical, or like cam said, trade and industry based. Like the main difference between studying art at uni and studying art at tafe is that at tafe, I dont do any theory. (and the teachers arent wankers)

[Jawn]

is it that crazy cactus that makes you trip out really hard? I dont remember what its called but every stupid hippy i know talks about it like its the holy grail of trips.

Peyote!

My mate did it, he said it isn't really worth the torture in getting the stuff down.

[Steph Format]

what all classes were you taking Mirm? I know you had a printmaking one and gah, if you want a long, time-consuming semester - take printmaking.

I don't know anyone who's done peyote (my dumb hippie friends seem content with shrooms) but I did see 'John Safran vs. God' where he goes out into the Tucson desert and records his peyote experience. "got my crayons, got my magna doodle..."

[Jodez]

Can someone do me a favour? Can someone look up all the short courses on the Victoria Uni site and NMIT? cause for some fucked up reason my computer wont open them. Can you post if on here or pm me. PLSE! thanks

[Lowee]

There seem to be a lot, too many to post easily, but they open fine for me with "PDF Reader 2", which I use, from http://www.cadkas.com/pdfreader!.exe . Might be worth a go.

[Jodez]

Ok thanks. im downloading it now. ill see how it goes.

[Mirm]

what all classes were you taking Mirm? I know you had a printmaking one and gah, if you want a long, time-consuming semester - take printmaking.

I don't know anyone who's done peyote (my dumb hippie friends seem content with shrooms) but I did see 'John Safran vs. God' where he goes out into the Tucson desert and records his peyote experience. "got my crayons, got my magna doodle..."

I did printmaking and oil painting and drawing.
Printmaking pissed me off the most but i think I actually produced the best work from that.
i think I might go take pictures and scan in some of the crap I did now.

And yeah, John Safran is pretty good.

[Jodez]

Lowee it didnt work. im looking up short courses and when it goes into acrobat reader it says There was an error processing a page. A font contains a bad CMap/encoding.
Then i press ok. Then it says "This file contains information not understood by the viewer. Supress further errors. Then all i get is blank pages. Can anyone help me?????? PLSE??!!!!!!!!!!!!! stupid prick of a thing

[Jawn]

re-download and install acrobat again. Chances are you have a corrupt version, or the file uses things that your older version of acrobat doesn't like.

[Mirm]

Okay, so I only had like one oil painting at home, which I guess means that all the others have been left at TAFE and hence thrown out.
But this is it:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y263/miriamsucks/P2090022.jpg

and these some of the prints I did:

Tomato Scout:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y263/miriamsucks/P2090021.jpg

Tomato Scout in red:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y263/miriamsucks/P2090020.jpg

And these two were the hardest mother fuckers to carve. Earlier in the semester we started an Artist's book, and mine involved a lot of turps release from drawings I'd done. Then the teacher asked us to do some Lino prints using images from our artists book. So I had to carve one out in positive and one out in negative, and it took forever and gave me awful callouses. But at least they were better than the stuff that the cranky old menopausal woman does.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y263/miriamsucks/P2090019.jpg


Those are all really bad, out of focus photographs, but the digital camera has been misbehaving.

[Jodez]

Its more likely because my computer is a piece of shit. but ill try anyways. Should i delete it then re install?? Thanks Jawny

And Mirm they are awsome!

[Steph Format]

aw, pretty! I really like the colors in the oil painting. the prints turned out nicely too, very clean. sucks you had to carve two lino blocks of basically the same image.

I swear, every class has a token old person (over 40). they're often giant kiss-asses and god damn if they don't produce some crappy artwork.

[Mirm]

I was the youngest, then there were about 3 other guys who were in their twenties, and everyone else in the class was over 35. There was even some old chief who was about 65.
But yeah, this one woman, she just looked down on me for no reason other than my age, and everything she did was about muslim women and the only colour she ever wore was that stupid menopause mauve.
She didnt shave her armpits or her legs, and she was a rather hairy woman, and she just.. ugh, she pissed me off so hard.
She would use up the expensive $5-a-sheet paper like it was nothing, hog the press, hog the prep tables, and then whenever I'd use the fucking presses she'd feel like she had to monitor whatever I was doing.. I wanted to sabotage her crap so bad.

[Macccca]

oh. hell. yeah





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Session Course Title Result

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S2 GEND0225 Creative Character Design........46 PC
S2 GENS4015 Brave New World..................67 CR
S2 MEFT2203 The Hollywood System.............56 PS
S2 MEFT3203 Film Genres & Styles.............62 PS
S2 PSYC2071 Perception and Cognition.........49 PC
S2 PSYC2101 Assessment and Personality.......51 PS
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[Lowee]

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Unit Code......Unit Title................................Mark......Res ult
BEA130 Foundations of Economic Policy..........84..........HD
BEA140 Quantitative Methods.........................76..........DN
BFA104 Accounting Context and Method.........74..........DN
BFA181 Financial Management........................70..........DN
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[cdejonge]

Congrats on all your marks people! Interesting subjects there - sounds much better than mine:

Subject code Subject name Mark Grade
HDMD101 Design For Multimedia 1 86 HD
HET113 The Internet & WWW 1 97 HD
HIT1051 Software Development 1 85 HD
HMS111 Engineering Mathematics 1 95 HD
HDMD102 Design For Multimedia 2 76 D
HET123 The Internet & WWW 2 93 HD
HET224 Computer Communications & LANs 96 HD
HIT1052 Software Development 2 87 HD
HDMD201 Design For Multimedia 3 75 D
HET213 User Experience Design 92 HD
HET432 Internetworking 95 HD
HIT3087 Advanced Java 75 D
HET208 3D Animation & Special Effects 80 D
HET222 Digital Video And Audio 76 D
HET410 Network Administration 81 D
HMS112 Engineering Mathematics 2 88 HD
HET300 Industry Based Learning n/a P
HET400 Industry Based Learning n/a P
HET313 Telecommunication Technologies 75 D
HET404 Multimedia Systems 90 HD
HET424 IP Technologies 79 D
HMS213 Engineering Mathematics 3B 85 HD
HET182 Electronic Systems 79 D
HET409 Advanced Multimedia 76 D
HIT2016 Database 1 91 HD
HMS214 Engineering Mathematics 4B 89 HD
HET210 Electronics 79 D
HET314 Communications Principles 72 C
HET316 Electromagnetic Waves 57 P
HET336 Network Modelling And Analysis 78 D
HES3380 Engineering Management 1 80 D
HET232 Embedded Microcontrollers 81 D
HET315 Communications Information Theory 70 C
HET329 Digital Signal & Image Processing 69 C
HES5380 Engineering Management 2 73 C
HET417 Photonics & Fibre Optics 64 P
HET436 Broadband Multimedia Networks 80 D
HET550 Design & Development Project 1 87 HD
HBSG200 New Venture Development And Management 75 D
HET431 Digital Electronic Design 95 HD
HET452 Wireless Communications 75 D
HET556 Design & Development Project 2 65 C

[private_eye]

just changed my preferences

1. 33031 International Studies (RMIT University, City, F/T) (Type: CSP)
2. 32491 Management (RMIT University, City, F/T) (Type: CSP)
3. 33121 International Business (RMIT University, City, F/T) (Type: CSP)

now have to decide whether to defer or not

[cdejonge]

Are they charging students to defer now? I think I heard something about that.

[Marv From NZ]

So guys, what's cracking in your university life?

Today i had orientation and it was solid'ly fun, although it did get weird in some parts. It was nice to be in a new enviroment for once, meet new faces, get with the same faces, if you know what i mean. But yeah, through our BCS briefing, i could already tell that there were some real "cowboys" in my class, it kinda reminded me too much of high school listening to some of the stupid questions lol. But apart from that, it was very fun and enticing, there were so many HOT GIRLS it wasn't funny, it was awesome, and in my class there's only like 40 of us guys to about 90 good looking girls. FUN. During the afternoon break entertainment thinggy, there was this Zulu Africian dance off comp, it was real funny, and then later they had this brazilian dance comp and the chicks all had fat arses and wore highlighter coloured g-strings, was kinda cool, and then there was this clown guy who asked me these stupid questions..."How do you comuunicate in communication studies?" *me and my chick friends, being real puzzled* *sarcastically* "Paper?" ..."GOOD ANSWER!" *hands us these little stickers for kids.". OK...

[luke_the edge_dragons]

hey...i finished yr 12 last year & got into bathurst uni. does anybody go there or does anybody know what its like?

[Marv From NZ]

You had orientation yet?

[Caity]

I have an Academic Preparation thing this Saturday. No idea what that means but I have to go haha!
Orientation week starts on the 21st and then most classes start on the 26th.
I registered for my tutorials today. I think I did it right. Here's hoping! Does it sound right if I have one lecture and one tutorial per subject/unit thing?

[Grumma]

Haha I actually think this is the first time I've dare venture into this thread

Probably put off by all you people wanting to go to Uni and the like :p

[Mirm]

I'm doing a cert IV in costume design now.
The tafe is out of town and costs me like nearly $25 a week in bus fare for just three days of tafe.

[Grumma]

Don't you have a car/lisence?

[Brad]

I have an Academic Preparation thing this Saturday. No idea what that means but I have to go haha!
Orientation week starts on the 21st and then most classes start on the 26th.
I registered for my tutorials today. I think I did it right. Here's hoping! Does it sound right if I have one lecture and one tutorial per subject/unit thing?

UWS? I had my tute registration today as well, I'm only at uni 3 days a week. Although my Tuesday is 8am-7pm, with 5 hours of breaks.

[Caity]

UWS? I had my tute registration today as well, I'm only at uni 3 days a week. Although my Tuesday is 8am-7pm, with 5 hours of breaks.

UWS yep! And I'm only there 3 days - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - and my Tuesday is 8 - 7! Shit haha!
What course are you doing?

[Grumma]

Look out James ;)

[Caity]

You are such a tool Grumma.

[cdejonge]

All the best to everyone at TAFE and Uni this year. I may post photos of my graduation after it's been.

[Jodez]

Haha Cam when is your Grad? mine is in june i think..im not looking forward to "dressing up"

[cdejonge]

Haha Cam when is your Grad? mine is in june i think..im not looking forward to "dressing up"March 22nd. Yeah I hate dressing up for interviews. At least everybody will look the same on grad day.

[Jodez]

Oh well... yours is way earlier than mine! Probably the only highlight of the night would be the fact that (hopefully) me and some friends are gona go 2 a hotel and PAR TAY..might as well take advantage that its at the convention centre

[cdejonge]

My highlight is that The White Room are playing the next day, and I'll have to ask for a day off work that day (graduation day). :)

[Marv From NZ]

I have an Academic Preparation thing this Saturday. No idea what that means but I have to go haha!
Orientation week starts on the 21st and then most classes start on the 26th.
I registered for my tutorials today. I think I did it right. Here's hoping! Does it sound right if I have one lecture and one tutorial per subject/unit thing?

Yeah sounds right Caity. I got sorta the same deal basically. My days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I'm at uni for only two lectures a day, which are each 2 hours long, plus i'll have tutorials and stuff, which is stock really. Only gutting thing is that my Mondays and Tuesdays begin with lectures at 8 in the bloody morning! Means i'll have to get up around 6'o clock in the am, and catch the real early bus or train into town. O well, at least i'm not a bum or still in high school!

8am-7pm Tuesday! YIKES! That's real intense, but my programme leader said it happens to some people, the whole 5 hour break thing in between lectures. It sounds real stupid but at AUT (My uni), they have all these mean rumpus rooms set-up for students who have to wait for lectures. It's not bad at all. And then there's the bars and stuff in the student plaza.

[Steph Format]

I'll say it again, I wish there was a such thing as an on-campus bar. wouldn't I like to catch a drink before a studio.

good luck everyone starting college!

(only four weeks until spring break, oh yeah!)

[Mirm]

Don't you have a car/lisence?

no, and no.

[Jodez]

niether do i

[Grumma]

How do you live :eek:

[Jodez]

ummm, walk, bike, transport and my mum doesnt drive either. So ive never had that option

[Julian]

Not everyone needs a car/liscence you fucktard Grumma

[Caity]

I have my P's but no car. I can use James' if I want but it's a friggin' tank and it has no power steering so that rules me out.

[Grumma]

Sooky la la :p

[Julian]

Wanting to keep a car on the road isn't being a sook

[Disease]

Maybe.. but driving without power steering isn't hard. I learnt to drive with unpowered steering and unpowered disc brakes.

[Grumma]

First non powered steering car I drove was an old V8 VH wagon.

Man that was noisy.
It also had a rediculously heavy clutch and a gear stick that kept jamming when you went from second to third

[Jodez]

if i ever go for my licsene im getting a automatic

[Grumma]

*sigh*

Imagine if you'd said that in the olden days!
They didn't even know what auto's were!

[Jodez]

When someone was giving me advice about how to drive manuals, they said, "Just listen to the engine" and i was like it sound sthe fucking same to me!"

[Grumma]

Haha nah you can tell when you need to change gears pretty easily after a few drives

[Disease]

When someone was giving me advice about how to drive manuals, they said, "Just listen to the engine" and i was like it sound sthe fucking same to me!"

You're not hearing impaired at all..?

[Grumma]

Oh now you've done it Jodez :p

[Neo]

You're not hearing impaired at all..? hey disease, while you are online... (this is totally off topic by the way)... have you ever tried to kill anyone in your dreams recently??

[Grumma]

You mean apart from you?

:p

[Jodez]

Someone tells me about revs,. you have a better chance talking to a brick wall!

[Disease]

hey disease, while you are online... (this is totally off topic by the way)... have you ever tried to kill anyone in your dreams recently??

Haha.. no.. I don't believe so.

[Neo]

Haha.. no.. I don't believe so.
oh... well i'm just letting you know that you and your band members tried to kill me the other night in one of my dreams, and i thought i'd let it off my chest cause it was bothering me especially since i dont even know who the hell you are!