Just out of interest, what are you studing and where? Or alternatively, where are you planning to study or where is your alma mater?

I'll kick it off,

Business degree with Marketing and Sport Business Mgmt double major at Massey University in Palmerston North.

Considering a semester in Australia where I can go to Deakin University by paying my fees to Massey.



Edited by thewestisland: 25/10/2010 11:10:32 PM

Fine Arts Degree at University of New South Wales, at the COFA campus

Masters of Engineering Science at UNSW Sydney.

previously

Bachelor of Engineering at UOW.

Arts at University of Melbourne will probably be my top preference next year. Ill probably defer whatever I get. Have a go at some other things. I have no certainty in my life at the moment so its hard to plan for anything.

Just study what you enjoy and not what you think will get you a job otherwise you will end up dropping out in the first year. Talk to as many people as possible about different courses and know whats involved with them.

+1. Keep your mind open. Even if it's murky now the picture will become far clearer at the end of first year when you can easily cross-credit everything.

Yeah thats why Id be doing Arts. I have some crazy shit to sort out though so uni is very much at the back of my mind. I cant even focus on these exams that are coming up.

Not to bitch or anything.

My first preference for next year is a Bach Arts with a major in Secondary Teaching at Uni of Western Sydney.

My other preferences were just a bunch of media courses.

Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) at University of Wollongong

Bachelor of Creative Technology (Audio Engineering and Sound Production) at JMC Academy.

Bizarre, Funky - I have about four friends who teach at one of those up here.

I'm doing a Bachelor of Nursing at QUT, majoring in Intensive Care nursing - then following on with a Graduate Bachelor of Midwifery.

doing a Bachelor of Journalism at University of Queensland. Feel like i will never finish. been at uni four years now. did Arts first for a few years though.

i just hate assignments. i prefer exams.

Bach of Information Technology at SCU Coffs Harbor

Hopefully switch into something else next year.

Edited by hawks: 26/10/2010 12:34:14 AM

Good veriety.

Bach of Engineering (electrical)

RMIT 4th year. but made it a 5 year course to much drinking to little study etc.

From my experience id take a gap year. I lost interest this year even though I only have 7 subjects to go.

3rd year of Bach of Primary Education at ACU

My cousin's in her 4th year in this course at ACU.

I could never teach at a school. Young kids smell and are grotty. Highschoolers have no respect + It would be hard to avoid 'desiring' the girls.

High schoolers only have no respect if you treat them like children. Treat them like adults and don't look down on them and they are fine:lol:

I think by the time you start teaching your choice in ladies will change. :lol:

As long as theres kids like my enrolled in the system I dont want to be a part of it.
You cant treat a slutty year 9 girl with her 10 boyfriends like an adult.

Small world we live in! What's her name i might know her :o

I'm doing primary Ed but i'm never ever going to work in a Primary school. Can't stand little kids, and when it comes to the teaching staff, you are surrounded by only a few people your age whilst the vast majority are 50-60 year old women, very difficult to enjoy yourself there when it comes to socializing with other primary teachers if you're a young male...unless you like talking about knitting and wine

:-" :-" :-"

Edited by sydneycroatia58: 26/10/2010 01:59:45 AM

shes pretty hot

:lol: I knew it

Nah I don't know her

HA!

Business Info Systems RMIT first year.

BA in Organisational Learning, University of Technology Sydney

Next year will be my last :d

Edited by Vaughn2111: 26/10/2010 10:23:52 AM

No idea what I want to do. Tossing up between BA (Media & Communications) @ Usyd, Arts/Law @ Usyd, Arts/Commerce @ Usyd, Journalism/Law @ UTS.

I actually don't know if I want to do journalism, law, marketing... Tbh I'd just love to be a football journalist but that's probably not going to happen.

I'm studying at University of Wollongong, in my first year of a Bachelor of Journalism, possibly becoming a double with B. International Studies later on.


If you want a tip: take a B. Journalism ahead of BA (M&Comm).
Journalism courses are about teaching you how to write, as opposed to teaching you all this theory waffle. At UOW, you can take most BCM classes as Philosophy classes (BCM106=PHIL106, etc) because they're all "media philosophy" etc. Jour is more dedicated to getting out there and writing real stories about your town, as opposed to looking at how other stories are constructed.

On the flipside, marketing is really interesting. Some of the stuff they get to watch... =d>

See you there, although I'm not going to defer. Looking at doing Arts and majoring in Creative Writing or Media and Communications

Also mention that the majority of marketing is girls at wollongong :d Complete opposite of the dude fest 4 years i spent in the engineering faculty

Edited by da640: 26/10/2010 12:09:13 PM

Yeah that's what I'm thinking... but I'd like to do a double degree. Maybe go into business. I told you I had no idea what to do! I want to go to Usyd or UTS. Macquarie isn't good for what I want to go into and UNSW and UWS would be a nightmare for me to get to.

I'd love to go to the University of Melbourne actually. But I don't know if my parents would be keen on me moving interstate to go to uni...

Did AV at RMIT myself.

Marketing is tops. It's awesome to be studying a subject where watching funny and effective TV ads on youtube is a legitimate form of study :p

bachelor of arts majoring in security, terrorism and counterterrorism doing it by correspondance out of murdoch, started a bachelor of business a few years ago hated it dropped out after first semester and went and travelled and lived overseas.

I'm completing a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education, majoring in in ancient history. I'm at the University of Sydney Camperdown/Darlington campus. I'm going to teach History/Geography.

If I did arts id psych, criminology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, just stuff like that which Id find interesting. With the intention of doing a JD or honours + masters afterwards. Ive also thought about arts at monash then transferring to arts/law. Or I could probably get into Deakin straight off the bat if I put in a little work in the next 3 weeks. I think right now (literally this instant) thanks to this post/thread im finding motivation to study for my exams next week. :D
but of course I have to check and reply to every unread thread here first :S

Arts is a real degree?? :lol:

Arts is the only real degree. University wasn't originally started as a way to get a better job mate. It was started as a way to develop yourself as a person ](*,)

Anyone know how the enrolment process to Macquarine Uni is? I'll be enrolling as a mature age student and am not sure where to go, there seem to be alot of options..

Im planning on doing a Bachelor of Commerce at either Wollongong or Newcastle. Any recommendations about these unis. Ive got early entry into Wollongong but my missus wants to go to Newey so im still going for the ATAR.

I was just being cheeky lol.
I know university is all about
furthering our cognitive thinking skills ;)

I mean it's not like Arts is a Communications degree anyway :-"

Anyone know what Deakin is like? As in location, size, facilities etc. Also, anyone know what the cost of living is for a student in the surrounding area?

Haha yeah I know mate some of the classifications are a bit worrying :D

this thread is just making me jealous of all you lucky bastards who are finally out of school and having some freedom. Starting from next year, i've still got another 5 years of school ](*,) ](*,) ](*,) ](*,) ](*,) ](*,)

Trust me on this one mate. I know school sucks and it's hard and feels like it's a waste of time, but do as best as you can whilst at school, and appreciate the time being young.. Cause when you're out, it doesn't get much easier unless your parents are loaded :P

Edited by Draupnir: 26-10-2010 04:06:25

You don't have a clue kid.
High School is where you have the most freedom in all your life.
Where else do you not have to work,Write a few things in a book, have breaks for lunch and recess and if you really don't feel like doing anything just turn up to class and get yelled at a little.
Once you leave you realize that it's the most easiest time you will ever have in life.

This.

I'm in my last year of high school and I actually never want it to end. The last few years are great because you have all the freedom of being an adult, without the responsibilities.

Exactly right CCM4. Enjoy it while it lasts.

+1. I'm kind of upset it's over next Monday:lol:

I guess I that's why I'm, gonna do High School teaching because I like it so much:lol: :lol:

well hopefully then its just year 7 that sucks.
Im not saying school is better than being a full time responsible adult, through my eyes it looks like the best part is when you just leave school, have a gap year and got to uni.

Gotta agree with the others, i finished school this year and i miss it already. Just starting full time work for a year aswell and im over it already. Theres no point having a gap year unless ur gunna work your arse off or go on holidays. Enjoy it while you can, cause i gurantee you'll miss it

Heh trust me again mate, absolutely everyone thinks the same thing when they are in year 7.. But when you finally get out of school, it's not much but a kick in the arse for the next 5 years, unless you are in really favourable circumstances heh.

I'm sure most of the guys that've agreed with what I said above only wish that they had so many people as you do to reinforce it to them, heh. I know I do.

well ive got my eyes set on travelling all over the world. I reckon the last few years of high school will be awesome, and then uni and a gap year.
I'd like to do some backpacking for like half of the gap year, with a few friends

Even on this side of the Tasman 'junior' high is pants, but when you get into high school there is all the freedom with about 1 day a week of actual working time.

University (over here at least) pretty much equates to living in poverty unless your parents are loaded. While you have fun and meet great people it is ultimately a means to an end, and when you hit second and third year you just want it to be over (probably how you feel about school). The most exciting thing for me about being at uni is that my objectives have changed. I no longer want to meet people, get smashed every night and get crazy with as many girls as possible. Instead, I am excited about getting a good job, buying a house, finding a missus, and having kids. It's weird because some of my mates are still where my head was at before and get pretty stroppy when I turn E because I don't really want it, or only have 3 or 4 beers because I have class the next day.

In short, chin up little chief. You'll be surprised how much better things get and how much yourself and the people around you will change over the next few years. Enjoy school while you're there, it's excellent.

Edited by thewestisland: 26/10/2010 04:23:39 PM

Planning to study at Maquarie Uni (SFC train there :P) to do a Bachelor of International Studies and hopefully study in Russia. Will probs combine it with another degree as well.

Why I love Uni, while still getting a credit average. :d

Kudos to you! Passing uni and being rowdy is, for me, like Arabs and Israelis. They can't coexist well at all. It got to the point where I transferred universities just so I picked up my sack and actually started working hard at it.

Well in Vic its second tier, behind UoM and Monash. Then I think RMIT, La Trobe and Deakin are all pretty level. Its a good uni and its my local one.

Depends if youre going to Geelong/Waurn Ponds or Burwood. Burwood isnt too far from the city and its in a nice suburban area. They have housing across the road where they do a lot of sharehousing. Im sure they have campus accomodation too, not sure where though. As far as the Burwood campus is concerned I think its alright. Some people think its really ugly but I have no idea what theyre talking about. The science areas look shit but the law building is nice and new.

Oh and with the whole leaving highschool thing. Ive had a shit high school life so I wont miss it. I liked bits of this year and have many good memories but its always been a place that disagreed with me.

The only thing ill miss is catching up with all my friends every day and midday finishes.

Welcome to university.

Wollongong is excellent. The last few years the uni has been expanding rapidly and it is very good quality uni. My housemate did commerce at UOW and loved it and i have just finished civil engineering at UOW. The teaching is quality and is consistently ranked number 1 in australia for teaching.

The rest of the atmosphere is pretty good as well. Lots of things to do, parties, events, anywhere u live you are less than 3 ks from the beach. Wollongong is a uni town.

I dont know much about newcastle but friends who go there have said its fairly similar. After all they are both steel cities :d

I think you'll find you're view of the world may change or be reshaped in the years at university. You'll make new friends who share your view, and it is usually these friends you have for life. But of course, try not to lose contact with friends from high school.

At uni you will spend 3 hrs a day in class and the rest with your mates drinking beer in the sun. It is a hell of a lot better than school.

I wholeheartedly agree with DA.
The other good thing about UOW is that you don't feel like just a number or a statistic. I went to Uni of Canberra for a while and dropped out but I knew from that time there that the uni just treated you like everyone else. You were literally dollars in their wallet at the end of the day. Same with my mates at ANU - alot of them tell me they wished they had've joined me on the coast.
I live on campus at UOW and I share the residence with 200 people from over 30 countries - there is literally not a day that goes by where you don't hear another language or talk to someone about their homeland.
Only an hour from Sydney by train, three hours from Canberra by road (good for me, maybe not for you), and the uni itself has some awesome gigs every now and then.

Get into any faculty other than engineering or science and it's babes akimbo. ;)

Edited by dale1878: 26/10/2010 07:07:03 PM

Where are you originally from Dale? NSW?

Anyone got any opinion on Macquarie?

I'm planning to go to the University of Western Australia and do a Bachelor of Arts next year with a double major in Politics and probably German/History.

Edited by bozSpur: 26/10/2010 07:14:20 PM

Fifth generation Canberran, mate.
I don't care what my future wife says, we're having the kids there.

Good luck :D

Gotta find a girl stupid enough to procreate with me lol

Oh I thought you had her lined up already haha. Find a Canberran. Make sure she's not family seeing as though you're 5th generation in a small city though :P :D

Yeah i am now at UNSW for a year doing a masters and it is the absoute worst for teaching, they are just taking my money. All im there for is the masters content and the unis name on my degree. Other than that UNSW is the biggest joke for lecturers and there quality of teaching, its rubbish.

so wait.... iv been arguing with a 13 year old... how.... beneath me?

asian city... not that there's anything wrong with that

you didn't know already? :lol:

I feel like i've demeaned myself to even reply to his crap, just ugh

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I might as well turn up in this thread.

Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) at University of Newcastle.

WOOOOOOOOOH ONE DAY OF UNI LEFT, GET IN THERE



back o' the net

^ clearly doing a course with few to no exams...

Edited by Anchor Man (Defend): 28/10/2010 05:25:43 PM

So any more comments on Macquarie?

I think I'll be starting there next year and I want to know what the "scene" is like around there? I've heard it's pretty quiet and nobody really hangs around.. Which would be a disappointing for me..

Went to the open day with my dad, we both thought it was really underwhelming compared to UoM and Monash, the Burwood campus seemed to be pretty small too, you got the feeling it would be packed with all the students and staff

I think its a business and arts uni. No comments other than that. Also, that everybody hates on macquarie.

Your obviously in sydney, not keen on sydney uni or one of the other city unis?

Edited by da640: 28/10/2010 08:21:45 PM

thought of doing it by correspondance? its good in being able to work at your own pace and not having to put up with annoying people but motivation is very hard to find sometimes

Well yeah its not a massive uni. UoM is in an amazing location and Monash has a great reputation. Its convenient for me cause its really close. If I do end up there. And offers reputable degrees.

The degree I'm looking to do is only offered at Macquarie within NSW. Why do people hate on it? Is it low quality or something? Seen as inferior to UNSW and University of Sydney I would assume already, but is there something wrong? I'd be more keen on UNSW - My house is 2 minutes away from there. (I'm moving back from Stockholm on sunday).

I'm not sure I could do it by distance. It involves some physical stuff.

I'm just coming back from overseas and don't really have any mates in Australia anymore. It's pretty depressing actually, and it'd be nice to be at a uni where the social scene is decent.

Edited by Draupnir: 28-10-2010 09:45:09

CSU Wagga Campus tbh.

:d Yeah its only hated on because people think its actually inferior to UNSW and syd. I cant complain, I went to UOW for my undergrad degree and any sydney uni student thinks that UOW is scum of the earth. Dont worry macquarie is a good uni as is UOW. I go to UNSW at the moment but i dont really know the social seen as i travel up on the train from the Illawarra every uni day. I have friends that say UNSW social seen is really good.

i found the feedback with regards to an assessment a laugh and a half

using 'advanced capstone course' is a fine way of saying 'yeh but nah' in terms of getting a better mark for an essay :P