You already said it. You were looking forward to international studies but the UWS offer is giving you second thoughts. If you do moderately okay, you can easily transfer into law at UNSW in second year. Don't go to UWS, it's shit.
It's not high school. People are cool about this, my friend stutters too and he has heaps of friends. You don't want to hang out with wankers that judge you for stuttering anyways.
Do the subjects that you are most confident in, because at the end of the day, amidst all the pressure and workload, you'll enjoy it and be motivated to pick it up and work at it. Good Luck!
Just concentrate on your major work for now. Once its finished, you'll get a deeper understanding of what you're actually studying. Everything will be fine!
lol about time! When I went on exchange to Taiwan, the colleges had a whole database filled with every type of porn possible run by students. Seriously about time they put it to academic purposes hahahha
Re: How do you study for modern?
Just learn a few quotes by historians, look out for historiography surrounding your topics, and write your notes under the syllabus points. Also write practise essays and past papers so you get used to answering modern history questions. History was a bit of a...
lol for modern history all I did was write all my notes up early and crammed the info 2 days before my exams. ;) Everything worked out fine, I could remember more statistics and quotes in my short term memory:D:D
Yeah it's good to work slowly so that you'll produce your best effort. I only skimmed through the other comments so I don't really know if this has been mentioned, but timetables are a negative form of motivation.. but of course if you can follow them, then good on ya. Maybe use one of those...