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Post by Shwatta on Sept 10, 2004 21:07:18 GMT 10
All up now i am about 6 grand down in HECS fees and not overly enjoying my course (i am first year engineering). I skip hours on end because its depressing how hard my course is. I have an extremely bad attititude of 'fuck it'. I do want my degree and some weeks i string together some good marks, which makes me feel good about my course. HOwever most of the time i feel like shit about it (especially when its costing me so much)
Any advice? thanks
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Post by pinstripeme on Sept 10, 2004 21:53:24 GMT 10
All up now i am about 6 grand down in HECS fees and not overly enjoying my course (i am first year engineering). forget the HECs debt - it's something that you don't ever really have to worry about. I accummulated 5 years worth of hecs during my time at uni, but once you start work, a very small amount is automatically deducted from your pay and you never even miss it. i wouldn't even have a clue what my current debt is. I skip hours on end because its depressing how hard my course is. my claim to fame - I never attended a full week of classes in 5 years. (I did engineering also) - so who cares if you skip a few classes - just make sure you don't miss the important ones. my advice - keep on keeping on. If you really want the degree you will get it. if youre struggling to get there - maybe it's not the right course for you. I did 1 yr of uni - hated the course - quit, took a year off and went back and did what i really wanted to do. piece of cake. try not to stress. ;D |
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Post by Shwatta on Sept 10, 2004 22:20:16 GMT 10
yeah, the problem is that i have good weeks, and bad weeks and i get to a certain stage in a subject and i just have no fuckin idea what is goin on (this is physics at the moment, im just thankful my exam is worht 80% of my grade, hope i can cram it all in then)
I failed 2 subjects last semester and only just passed the other 3. I am one of those 'do the minumum work, just to pass' people.
What engineering did you do? How does it seem now you have your degree? What are you doing now?
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Post by pinstripeme on Sept 10, 2004 22:28:48 GMT 10
my no. 1 piece of advice for exams is this - study the previous say 4 years of papers (they should be in the library)...why? 1 + 1 will always equal 2 - there are only so many ways a question can be posed and ontop of this lecturers are inherently lazy at finding new and creative ways to test. Therefore if you can do most of the stuff on the old exams you should have no problems in your exam.
failing is not the end of the world in any case...you have 2nd semester to make ammends
i'm civil structural, have worked in design and also construction locally and o/s. it's a great career and the opportunites are endless - it's more a matter of setting your goals and priorities and going for them.
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Post by Damien on Sept 11, 2004 0:07:46 GMT 10
Any single one of the 80% of people on this planet that live on less than a dollar a day- would KILL for my problems- even on my worst possible day.
so i try to keep things in perspective....
unless you cut me off in traffic- then your ass is mine!
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Post by sarahj on Sept 11, 2004 13:42:54 GMT 10
All up now i am about 6 grand down in HECS fees and not overly enjoying my course (i am first year engineering). I skip hours on end because its depressing how hard my course is. I have an extremely bad attititude of 'fuck it'. I do want my degree and some weeks i string together some good marks, which makes me feel good about my course. HOwever most of the time i feel like shit about it (especially when its costing me so much) Any advice? thanks Shwatta, I had a very similar problem when I was in first year. I'm studying speech pathology, and the workload is very full-on. (Especially when you are a complete fool who took a year off "to work", but wound up sitting on their arse for about 16 months straight, and was therfore very out of sync when it came to having to be organised and focused.  ) I failed 3/9 subjects in my first semester and barely scraped by the others, therefore condemning myself to an extra year of UNI. I seriously considered transferring or quitting, because it all seemed to stressful, and I knew it was going to get progressively worse as the course went on. But at the end of the day, it all comes down to how much you want the career at the end of it. I loathe my actual course, it's freaking hard, most of it is perilously boring, you don't get holidays, and you rarely have time to relax. But I am sure I want to be a speech path, so I'm willing to put up with UNI. Anything worth doing is always going to be tough, it's just the way life goes. I'm quite lucky, because as well as all the dull academic stuff I also have clients where I do exactly what you'd do when you graduate...so that keeps me motivated, and has made me sure of my decision. I don't know what your course is like, but I'm sure most people don't really get to try out their career til they graduate...but maybe you could try to spend a day observing the sort of work you hope to do, chatting with others in the profession or other stuff like that, just to try to remind yourself of why you're bothering to spend your sunny weekends hovering over a stack of books in a dark room. |
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Post by Shwatta on Sept 11, 2004 13:53:40 GMT 10
thank you both for your advice, ill keep pluggin along at least for the rest of the semester and then re assess my options...
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Post by Shwatta on Sept 12, 2004 19:50:12 GMT 10
civil hey? does this mean you would loathe at the oppurtunity to sit my dynamics exam on thursday?  |
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Post by pinstripeme on Sept 13, 2004 10:09:50 GMT 10
civil hey? does this mean you would loathe at the oppurtunity to sit my dynamics exam on thursday? I would but I would hate to deprive you of the wonderful experience! |
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Post by IncreaseDeleteEscapeDefeat on Oct 12, 2004 18:27:41 GMT 10
i'm new here. but i joined on the same day i decided to dump my boyfriend. i think i need to. i just feel suffocated. and for the past few weeks i've been in love with a new guy every three days. and none of them are ever my boyfriend.  |
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Post by IncreaseDeleteEscapeDefeat on Oct 12, 2004 18:33:32 GMT 10
Also, this is for anyone and everyone ... I know I'm stating the obvious but if your ever alone and everything is too much and you think you may want to take your own life you can always call: Lifeline 13 11 14 You owe it to yourself to at least do that much before you consider doing something so drastic. i felt like i should respond to this but i'm not sure why.... maybe just to ask....or comment.... in my experience....suicide don't seem so drastic....so it's hard to realise that you need to call someone. |
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Post by somethingforkaty on Oct 12, 2004 19:11:37 GMT 10
i felt like i should respond to this but i'm not sure why.... maybe just to ask....or comment.... in my experience....suicide don't seem so drastic....so it's hard to realise that you need to call someone. I guess it's hard to imagine because I wouldn't understand this at all either without speaking to my brother. My brother is a psychologist and there are people who do not feel as though they can stop themselves from doing it. These people are not severe enough to go into suicide watch, and I can see that this enables them to pretty much have some form of counselling on call 24/7. I'm sure everyone has thought about it at some time, but there are varying degrees of severity. I didn't expect that anyone here was having that much difficulty but thought the very LEAST I should do was make the number available incase anyone needed it. You don't have to be about to commit suicide to ring them either! You can call them with any problems at all ... |
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Post by IncreaseDeleteEscapeDefeat on Oct 12, 2004 20:38:22 GMT 10
I guess it's hard to imagine because I wouldn't understand this at all either without speaking to my brother. My brother is a psychologist and there are people who do not feel as though they can stop themselves from doing it. These people are not severe enough to go into suicide watch, and I can see that this enables them to pretty much have some form of counselling on call 24/7. I'm sure everyone has thought about it at some time, but there are varying degrees of severity. I didn't expect that anyone here was having that much difficulty but thought the very LEAST I should do was make the number available incase anyone needed it. You don't have to be about to commit suicide to ring them either! You can call them with any problems at all ... sorry. i didn't mean to sound like i was attacking or anything....it was just a comment. i should've ignored the urge. sorry. |
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Post by mesaplatonic on Dec 6, 2004 21:05:05 GMT 10
i just want something to happen i give my time and a fair bit of my life every time i go out (the meeting at manly was good for me i just needed to be around music lovers again and this has nothing to do with it,ok  dont you feel like sometimes you want force feed people infomation but the i guess there can only be 1 ending to such things i mean who whould want to orchestrate the whole day i know people who do this all the time and they end up becoming vegetables un moving real people destroy the world they make so the television is the only window and a quick glance and a cheap smile from the super market teller is all they have to illuminate thier life. |
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Post by mesaplatonic on Dec 6, 2004 21:11:37 GMT 10
there is no escape
there is only your small bag for the sentimentals and a quick look around
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) I failed 3/9 subjects in my first semester and barely scraped by the others, therefore condemning myself to an extra year of UNI. 
