Uni

[NtripleB]

starting UNI next year on the goldy at griffith, any advice? funny stories? LOL moments?

[zaen]

Uni life is the greatest. Try move out of home while you're at it.

Advice? None.

[pete]

Mostly, make the most of all the free time and have some fun.

But also try and get part time work related to your studies. It'll let you know if you're going in the right direction and make the uni work easier as you can understand stuff from the practical perspective as well as the theoretical.

[deathy]

if you get to pick your tutorials and shit make sure you try to schedule all you classes to be only over the course of a few days. having mondays and fridays off is the greatest thing you can achieve. find out at the start of each unit which classes are compulsory and whether the lectures are posted online...if they aren't compulsory and the lectures are online, don't turn up if the waves are good. learn to love goon and if you're wishing to rack up a gnarly tally of women, just adopt some low standards and shag anything that drinks in your vicinity.

[zaen]

Avoid girls in your course unless you like seeing that chick you banged when you were blind on night every time you turn up for class.

Also find out uni night and make sure you avoid having classes the next morning. No matter how much you intend on being a good student, you are not going to be one.

[despes25]

Avoid girls in your course.

this is so true

[Swoodle]

Avoid girls in your course.

this is so true

Pfft, I dated a girl that was in my course. . . .. she also lived rather close to the uni I still claim she was the hottest girl in my course. .. ... . Then again it was a bac of Computing so there were only about 8 girls to choose from

I agree with trying to smash all your lectures and tutes in a couple of days. Free as much time up as possible even if that means having a 8am tute and staying until 8pm.

My advise for uni. Get through it!!!!!!! Ps get degrees. When you leave uni maybe your first 2 jobs will look at your uni results or transcripts. After that it's all about the experience that you have in what ever field you work in. Doing specialized courses after uni while your working, like ones that go for a week to get certified in something helps HEAPS.

I still think that most people will learn more in the first 6months of industry work than what they do in 3yrs of uni.

In my first year I struggled with a Java programming assignment. Finished it about 3hrs before it was due so what was I to do before handing it in. . . . I went to the pub. Got pretty hammered. When I handed it in, I rolled up to the tute, threw it at my tutor and said, "There's your f#$@ing assignment!" and walked out

[pete]

I still think that most people will learn more in the first 6months of industry work than what they do in 3yrs of uni.

Substitute 'most' for 'all' and 'months' for 'weeks' or 'days' and I'm with you

[Wonderbread]

What course are you doing? I'll probably see you around campus... Actually I'm doing engineering so unless you happen to have the same lab days I do or be there on the one day I turn up at a lecture we probably won't.

[NtripleB]

hahah good advice from everyone, should be a hella time if i do the necessary study,
wonderbread im doing bachelor of urban and enviro planning so highly unlikely i'll see you anywhere

[savage flame]

Uni sounds like an awesome life experience, and would certainly pay off.
Personally, I don't think I could commit to it. I was glad enough to finish year 12, haha. I'm so slack with study. Also, I have no idea what it is I want to do in life.

Guess it's full-time work for me at this present time. At least I basically kind-of-enjoy-my-job.

In conclusion - don't listen to me

[despes25]

Uni sounds like an awesome life experience, and would certainly pay off.
Personally, I don't think I could commit to it. I was glad enough to finish year 12, haha. I'm so slack with study. Also, I have no idea what it is I want to do in life.

Guess it's full-time work for me at this present time. At least I basically kind-of-enjoy-my-job.

In conclusion - don't listen to me

thats the right idea, it took me a year and half of being out of high school to figure out what i wanted to study and im glad it took me so long to figure it out. i know guys that went straight into uni from high school and they are changing there courses after a year or getting burnt out and bailing and just lose all that time they already spent on something they don't even like

[savage flame]

^ Exactly. If you know what you want to do 100%, then definitely go for it.

But I see it so much with people I know. They are 25 years old, with a useless degree to their name, and no money or motivation to do anything because they went straight to Uni as soon as they finished school (obviously not thinking about it and jumping straight into it) and ended up hating what they were doing.

One thing that really annoys me is the authoritarian-style brainwashing most school teachers put in vulnerable kids' heads.
They have this theory that if you don't get a perfect enter score or in the least, don't complete year 12 you will be a loser with no career for the rest of your life.
It's when you finish secondary school that you look back and think, "what a crock of shit".
My completion of school didn't help me in any way what so ever. Didn't help my resume, didn't help my intellect, didn't help my employment opportunities, nothing.

Maybe 30 years ago it was different. But in this day and age it's completely banal to do your own thing.

For the record, I am in no way saying don't aim for your best in school. Always aim to achieve your best. But yeah, I just hate the hypocrisy of it all.
Also, not all (but alot) of teachers could not give two shits about you. They just want to continue their power trip and treat you like a 4 year old.

Uni is fantastic though. It's a better structure. The leaders there pretty much let the kids do what they want which builds responsibility and character in the students and lets their actions speak for themselves.

Kind of off topic there, but I think it does relate.
In the words of RATM:

The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he can't recall
The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
Bouning off every f@king wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
Bullshit that he learned in school

/end rant

[meaksy]

^^ true, success is purely up to the individual, finishing school is not compulsory in order make something of yourself but for most people it the push to finish is beneficial,
Uni is great for sorting out those that want to put in an effort and those that dont as they dont get that push to finish or do there homework from teachers that you get in school. Watch how many people are around at the start of the year compared to half way through, it was very noticable when i was doing my undergrad. I agree with the P s get degrees theory as you can stress yourself out other wise, however its definately worth putting in your best effort, youre paying $25000 for your course so you might as well get the most out of it. Ive done a bit of teaching at uni in the last 5 years and my biggest bit of advise from a teachers (and ex students) point of view is to answer the freaking question !!! ha ha, seriously the best way to utilise your time effeciently and still get good grades is to make sure you find out exactly what is expected of each assignment or practical etc. The amount people that lose easy marks because they didnt answer part of an assignment or they anwered something that wasnt asked for, or they didnt follow the marking criteria gets really frustrating when your marking assigments. Those that answer all the required criteria in an orderly and consise way will always get good marks even if they do less than someone who produced a thicker assingment that missed the point. Take the first half to a year to learn how to produce the work they way your teachers want (go and ask them if its not clear or youre not given marking criteria)and the next two or three years will be easier. The ol' work smarter not harder rings true.

Good Luck

[NtripleB]

Yep agree completely, TBH im not 100% sure of what im doing but its the only thing im really interested in, i ohnestly couldnt see my self doing anything else and atleast now its easier to change courses as im in the university system so woo, how bullshit are the hollidays though, i havnt done anything but work part time and party since 29 novemeber and start on 27 of feb? lololol!!