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The horror of uni (3 Viewers)

thejosiekiller

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Im just wondering what was your worst moment at uni and how you resolved it??

mainly work related, but anything really that you want to share so us yr12s can dodge mistakes next year.
 

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Simply lying around, playing pool and socialising too much. It's made my grades plummet. :p
 

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i got really annoyed at one of my tutors and ended up crying coz she gave me a shitty mark that i didnt deserve. And the one reference book that we had to use was not put on reserve, and so we couldnt access it, and thats why i got the shit mark, coz i didnt have the reference book. Grrr, still makes me angry... grrrr, happened on a really shit day too, like it was just the last straw.
i needed good marks coz i was trying to transfer courses, thats why it matterred so much, and the tutor was a real bitch, which didnt help. Grrrr

anyway, the next time it happened we spoke to the course coordinator and asked for all necessary readings to be put in reserve in the library, and the problem didnt happen again.
*Walks off mutterring about stupid economics people...grrrr....grrr*
 

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Whilst effort is generally reflected in your marks, occasionally it isn't (ie, getting a credit after putting in 48-50 hrs into a report)
 

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procrastinating till sut vac is inevitable..not being consistent is inevitable :rolleyes:
 

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not understanding what qualified me for a degree. the credit points/units things. i just put my head in the sand and hoped it would sort itself out ... which it did in the end, but i couldve shaved maybe a year off my degree.

oh and being a lazy f*** and not doing any work in subjects that didnt interest me. or trying to do just the bare minimum i thought id need to do (= F :D)
 

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melbournian said:
tips.....just drink....its what uni is about.....
this is about the third time you've posted about drinking at uni and this will be the third time i say "uni isn't all about drinking, you're there to learn!"

someone has a good time then....
 

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i have to say that the horrors are the stress, assessments and cramming you must do. :p
 

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Also, don't think that you've finished the HSC after all this. At uni, it's like the HSC all over again....twice in a year....crammed into a mere 13 weeks...:(
 

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hell yeah. a few weeks last semester were possibly more stressful for me than the entire hsc combined
 

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dammit, i thought this was a freakshow fashion show i was going to apply id win fo' sho!!
 

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The worst thing for me is probably all the reading you have to do and always being behind no matter how much work you do:(.
 

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For one thing, my work ethic is completely different to what it was in high school. In year 12 everything was done well before the due date. Now, it's the norm for me to start assignments the night before they're due. I blame it on a combination of the heavier workload and the uni environment being so much more laid back.
 

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13 weeks to learn an entire subject is always fun. That and tutors who like to fail students.
 

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Lundy said:
For one thing, my work ethic is completely different to what it was in high school. In year 12 everything was done well before the due date. Now, it's the norm for me to start assignments the night before they're due. I blame it on a combination of the heavier workload and the uni environment being so much more laid back.
I have never had to do a night before job. I don't think I could handle the stress. I would spend all my time thinking that I only have so many hours left and not doing any work:p.


natstar said:
Topics are pretty rushed so u have to be up to date all the time. Like in HS u took a few weeks to d 1 topic. At uni its 1 topic per week!
Two topics per week in some subjects:eek:!
 

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well no one has pointed this out so i will
When people say "do a course you will enjoy or be good at", they mean it

If you do a course simply because it's the one with the highest uai you got, you might find it hard to keep up with the work. Unless you enjoy it and are good at it. But say you hate the subject, then you'll find yourself avoiding study etc and you'll struggle to maintain an credit average etc.
So before you even start uni, make sure you do a degree that you'll stay in (so that you won't have to drop out of the one you hate and waste a year in the process)
 

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Lundy said:
For one thing, my work ethic is completely different to what it was in high school. In year 12 everything was done well before the due date. Now, it's the norm for me to start assignments the night before they're due. I blame it on a combination of the heavier workload and the uni environment being so much more laid back.
I blame it on bullshit assessment weightings..I'm currently finishing an Accounting report that is worth 15%, which is crap because of all the damn hours put in to it...that, and the stupid multiple choice midsession was worth MORE at 20%
 

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i prefer the rushed atmosphere, doesnt get me bored :)
 

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thejosiekiller said:
Im just wondering what was your worst moment at uni and how you resolved it??
my worst momentS at uni are listening to anal private school students sitting in the front row asking the most irrelevant questions "what are the implications of *insert a concept that noone cares about, understands or will ever need to apply to real life situations*?", wasting everyones time during lectures, treating uni like its the HSC "is that examinable, is this examinable? can we have a syllabus?".
how i would LIKE to resolve this: i would love to just slap them silly
 

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Well UNI still sounds enticing none the less, as i have heard and seen far worse things, like the ridiclous time-tabling/scheduling of my bf's course. 9am starts and 5pm finishes on the same day with no breaks and the need to be up at 6-6.30am every morning (if he wants to be at the lecture/turtorial which is usally advisable) as the train trip takes an hour and a half with our poor poor train stystem.

Oh and a good thing about Uni is that noone really cares if your actually attend there or not - so it would seem. As i have been to Sydney Uni many-a-times and just used their library facilities (a desk as the books were all too freakishly similar) and i guess people figured i went there? Sorry to those of you who may have wanted that desk space i was using, or perhaps that oxygen i was breathing.

and a personal note: Fisher Library's windows could do with a good clean ;)

but hey, i dont pay the fees... yet... and especially with this new increase in the hecs fee, im sure they can afford window cleaners!
 

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