Education & Reference Uni Thread

[Saint KFC]

I also got a high mark and am doing law, my first preference. So no, not really. Pretty happy actually. Difference is i don't think i'm infinitely better than someone due to my marks/degree.

Most science grads i know work in labs and plod around, so it'd be quite funny if you were suggesting you're top class. If i were an arseh*le i'd say you've wasted your 99 TER on a science degree.

But i have no doubt that's what you wanted to do, so therefore you made the right choice.

Why would I pick something requiring an ATAR of 75 if it wasn't what I wanted to do? Science was my first preference and Law didn't feature.

I could have done law, but why would I want to? Boring content filled with pretentious book smart yuppies who spend the bulk of their time with their head in a 500 page law textbook. I haven't heard a single law student with a positive outlook on the course; nearly as rare is a law student who actually enjoys law and isn't taking the course just because 'I got the ATAR so I might as well...' Earn as much as you can mate, but I'll be surprised if you enjoy yourself while you're doing it. Serious question to all Commerce (not sure how it got grouped with the 'prestigious' courses as it's a step above Arts in my eyes)/Law students, do you actually enjoy the content? Or are you doing it just for 'job prospects'?

 

[centrelink1]

My brother switched to law after doing commerce.

Also, not all commerce students are doing accounting. I'll probably major in entrepreneurship. Next to no job prospects

 

[shibz_1989]

Serious question - why do so many people pick Commerce?

 

[centrelink1]

Serious question - why do so many people pick Commerce?

Was just thinking the same thing babe.

 

[jonoman89]

Why would I pick something requiring an ATAR of 75 if it wasn't what I wanted to do? Science was my first preference and Law didn't feature.

I think you're misinterpreting what i was saying. I said that you did the right thing in chosing the correct course for you.

What i did take issue with was you stating how academically gifted you are, and how useless Arts is...yet you are doing a degree which is perceived as almost as middle-of-the-road as an Arts degree by many people.

I can assure you many, many Arts students had very high TER scores and chose their course for the same reason as you chose science: because they wanted to.

Yet somehow their choice was rediculous and yours correct?

I could have done law, but why would I want to? Boring content filled with pretentious book smart yuppies who spend the bulk of their time with their head in a 500 page law textbook. I haven't heard a single law student with a positive outlook on the course; nearly as rare is a law student who actually enjoys law and isn't taking the course just because 'I got the ATAR so I might as well...' Earn as much as you can mate, but I'll be surprised if you enjoy yourself while you're doing it. Serious question to all Commerce (not sure how it got grouped with the 'prestigious' courses as it's a step above Arts in my eyes)/Law students, do you actually enjoy the content? Or are you doing it just for 'job prospects'?

I actually really enjoy law school. The content is great, and on the most part the people i'm doing it with are fantastic. As with any course, law can attract a certain crowd which is undesirable. But more often than not the people doing it are very normal. The work is challenging but satisfying.

There is nothing i would rather be doing with my life right now.

A lot of people do law for the job prospects of course, and i think that is often a good idea: try something out...if you end up liking it you've landed yourself in a more prosperous field. If not, drop it. Easy.

The majority of law graduates do not end up practising law anyway, so the whole "i'm doing it for the money" factor is often not involved. Besides, there are plenty of lawyers out there only just making ends meet.

 

[ben_09]

Serious question - why do so many people pick Commerce?

There are about 30 freakin' majors you can do in commerce, nuff said.

 

[Benno_900]

Serious question to all Commerce (not sure how it got grouped with the 'prestigious' courses as it's a step above Arts in my eyes)/Law students, do you actually enjoy the content? Or are you doing it just for 'job prospects'?

There's a lot of variety in terms of the subject choices in a commerce degree. Some are bland, some are interesting. But the compulsory law subjects are hell in comparison to most of the commerce stuff (and they are just general/introductory stuff).

 

[ThePuppetMaster]

Not really, I'm actually a humble guy. Just had to call out delusional arts kids, as you do.

you are delusional if you think you're humble

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

I got a 99+ TER/ATAR, scored highly in English, am doing Science and even I think the majority of Arts is a joke.

umad?

Yeah, well I did both degrees simultaneously. u mad?

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Once your into your course TER score means **** all anyway. Bragging about a high score = ghey.

Nobody could care less about your TER once at uni. Means absolutely nothing.

Serious question - why do so many people pick Commerce?

Leads straight into work after undergrad without need for postgrad, well nearly always.

 

[Kahuna]

Serious question - why do so many people pick Commerce?

I always found business interesting and I felt it would give me a good understanding of what I want to do later in life (small business owner, risky but worth it potentially).

Off course many pick it because you have a very high chance of getting a job afterwards, I don't understand why people do abstract degree where there are 400 jobs Australia wide for. They say you should do something that you love, well doing it from a centrelink line is no good.

Lots of Asians do it, mainly because apparently there is a lack of educated people in a business sense. Apparently they aren't adapt to Western business or some crap.

 

[Easty]

I do commerce because I've always been intrigued by business operations and their reasons, so for me it was more interesting than anything else. For me the extra job avallability is just a bonus.

 

[clivewaterhousen]

i did commerce because i didnt know what i wanted to do.

flexibility of commerce allowed me to try a heap of different things before i made my decision

 

[black and white]

Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communication)- majoring in Public Relations.
Deakin Uni.

 

[beez]

i did commerce because i didnt know what i wanted to do.

I did Commerce because at the time I KNEW what I wanted to do.

 

[dales.girl38]

I'm doing an Arts (Psychology)/Management double at Deakin WP. I enjoy it and I'm already getting experience in an office job, so I'm not too worried about arts being a 'pointless' degree. Sometimes I wonder if commerce would have been better though.

 

[Big Sledge #32]

Interested to hear what jobs can come from an arts degree? I have no idea and am willing to learn.

I'm currently doing a Bachelor of Arts/Education double degree at Flinders.

So I get to major in English which is my preference along with getting the career I want out of it in the end. I get good enough grades yet still get to enjoy the uni experience so I'm not just winning, I'm Bi-Winning

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

I'm doing an Arts (Psychology)/Management double at Deakin WP. I enjoy it and I'm already getting experience in an office job, so I'm not too worried about arts being a 'pointless' degree. Sometimes I wonder if commerce would have been better though.

If you are doing psychology, but also think you would enjoy commerce then you would probably enjoy economics.

 

[dales.girl38]

If you are doing psychology, but also think you would enjoy commerce then you would probably enjoy economics.

Mmm, I was Dux of VCE Economics in both year 11 & 12, it was definitely something that I enjoyed and was pretty good at. I think I'll be doing it at some stage of my Management degree, but I need to do some more research on that.

 

[Swans120]

i did commerce because i didnt know what i wanted to do.

flexibility of commerce allowed me to try a heap of different things before i made my decision

Exactly the same for me. Out of school chose Commerce/Arts just cause I had no idea what I wanted to do so I thought a more general course would be good for me to be able to choose what I liked along the way.

Has done part of the job so far, have found out I despise Accounting and enjoy economics after a bit of trial and error. Will probably continue on with a Master's in International Studies and link it to economics, public policy and international relations. Something like that. Fairly happy with my original choice of commerce though I must say, considering I had such little idea of what I wanted.

 

[Arecsa]

2nd year Civil Engineering at Curtin. Looks like they are quite a few BF members around Curtin.

 

[clivewaterhousen]

i reckon that psych is far more similar to marketing than economics?

 

[c00lcat]

2nd year Civil Engineering at Curtin. Looks like they are quite a few BF members around Curtin.

probably seen you around brah.

 

[neng]

I did Commerce because at the time I KNEW what I wanted to do.

Same. Commerce has to be one of the most boring courses you can do.

 

[yeah_nah]

Too bloody right Commerce is boring as shit. I highly doubt I would want to do this shit if I wasn't working in an Accounting firm throughout my degree.

Working in Commerce type jobs >>> doing a commerce degree.

Can't do one without the other though, so I'm trying to get in and out as fast and as pain-free as I can.