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[Greater Gattsby]

I retreat, good stuff.

By the way, did you make the website?

Yeah, I just googled website creator and made it myself. I can't however change the pink colour

 

[Stromageddon]

250 bucks for designing guernseys, NM Design?

 

[lmach]

 

[Greater Gattsby]

250 bucks for designing guernseys, NM Design?

Yes.

 

[West_Coast_Eagles]

Local footy clubs?

 

[Stromageddon]

I'm sitting here at Uni doing absolutely nothing. If this is what tertiary education is going to be like, I can live with it.

 

[akkaps]

I'm sitting here at Uni doing absolutely nothing. If this is what tertiary education is going to be like, I can live with it.

I have been doing the same thing for the past four weeks.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Uni is ludicrously easy. So much myth and bullshit attached to the whole thing. You can churn out essays the night before and still average distinctions over the year. All about the biddies, though.

 

[Craegus]

I'm sitting here at Uni doing absolutely nothing. If this is what tertiary education is going to be like, I can live with it.

Once the assignments kick in (around mid semester break time) the workload will increase but here is the basic run down of your uni years (as per the normal uni student, experience may vary {e.g. my uni did not have a bar so non attendance to actual campus replaces the bar below}):

*This also depends on your schedule, if you have lectures and tutorials that run back to back, or lectures that are required for the tutorial (only a few subjects will have this, most of the time it won't be the case), you will be more likely to attend the lecture, if there is a gap then you won't, or if you have multiple lectures in one day the below will also be more likely to occur.

1st Year: Dedicated to study, attend all or most of your lectures and tutorials, work load varies but you will be hammered around mid semester break (so much so you won't have a break) most assignments will be easy, however some will be quite difficult. -Aiming for highest grade possible-

2nd Year: Not very dedicated to study, attend uni bar (if it has one) more often than lectures (unless compulsory attendance) and all tutorials, work load is average and assignments are not as hard as 1st year. -Aiming for good grades-

3rd Year: Completely over it, attendance of lectures and tutorials about the same as 2nd year (tutorials may drop off a little, though many have an attendance requirement), work load increases, assignments more difficult but by now you are used to it. -A pass will do-

4th Year (if part of course, or if you choose to do honours/masters): You are so far over it that you just want to get it done, as such dedication to work increases to above 1st year levels, attendance to lectures and tutorials more like 1st year, however uni bar is still utilised though some study actually takes place there, work is hard but you just don't care and get it done to a decent standard (if not the best standard that you have done in your 4 years). -not aiming for grades, but good ones seem to follow-

 

[Craegus]

Uni is ludicrously easy. So much myth and bullshit attached to the whole thing. You can churn out essays the night before and still average distinctions over the year. All about the biddies, though.

That really depends on your course, well the grade bit, always did my assignment at the last minute (except during my masters), but the courses I did meant that my grades were not always distinctions (well mostly not distinctions).

 

[West_Coast_Eagles]

Hmm i bet everyone just loves uni so much they seem to fogert 1 important thing. Hecs debt.

I have heard of ppl who have a 65,000 hecs debt now thats alot

 

[TheDoctor11]

I'm sitting here at Uni doing absolutely nothing. If this is what tertiary education is going to be like, I can live with it.

What uni are you at?
Uni really isn't that stressful at all. It's fairly laid back, unless you're doing something like medicine.

 

[Craegus]

Hmm i bet everyone just loves uni so much they seem to fogert 1 important thing. Hecs debt.

I have heard of ppl who have a 65,000 hecs debt now thats alot

Mine is a little over $30,000 (i think) however it is nothing to worry about, especially seen you only pay it back after you earn $49,096 and that is only 4% ($1963.84 p/y), and it never goes above 8% (at $91,178), so if you never earn that lower threshold you never have to pay it back, and even if you do, it is only a small amount in reality.

 

[West_Coast_Eagles]

+intrest

 

[Silent Alarm]

+intrest

HECS is interest free.

And although not a free education, I'm repeating half my first year because that's all the RPL I could get. But even then, I think it's only costing me $13,000 or something. It's not much money at all. As creagus said, it comes out of your tax and you barely even notice it. If you don't want to repay HECS, don't pay it.

Kids in England get student loans and those rise with interest and end up being $25,000. And that's just for living expenses. I think tuition at a liberal arts college in America is like 25k a year, which is just to study. It's insane and I have no idea why you'd go to college if you were doing Arts. Alas...

For education, let alone a good one, it's great. Australia is pretty cool like that.

I only go Wednesday and Thursdays, but I'm looking forward to restarting. I'll have second year indifference because I'm technically a first year, but this is my second of uni. Might overload this semester and add a few more units, but I'm fine to be complacent and I like the student lifestyle, so another year with an easy year this year... it's geeewd.

 

[El_Scorcho]

HECS is interest free but goes up with the CPI, and when you have a 30k debt that's a fair bit of money.

 

[Craegus]

HECS is interest free but goes up with the CPI, and when you have a 30k debt that's a fair bit of money.

Yeah it is a lot of money, but unlike all other loans, you have your entire life to pay it off (if at all), so there is absolutely no pressure having it.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Yeah exactly.

When I went for my home loan the bank asked if I had any other debt and they said HECS didn't matter to them at all.

If the bank isn't figuring it in when they're determining whether you can afford your repayments, it definitely can't be that much.

 

[Silent Alarm]

But isn't medicine like 40k in HECS? I think the average is like 20k. It just isn't worth worrying about. Especially when most suburban arseh*le get loans left, right, and centre to buy their four wheel drives and cream brick houses.

 

[lmach]

Does anyone else get like two emails a week inviting you to seminars?

I got my first assignment in my first lecture. It's pretty easy though.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Look at you first year reb dogs. I didn't even go to my first lecture today. You're all talk.

 

[lmach]

 

[Silent Alarm]

Das racist.

 

[West_Coast_Eagles]

Why is that racist? I would say 30% of my students at my uni are asian.

 

[lmach]

This isn't.