Things you wish you hadn't done

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I'll start off first.

This is an anecdotal account from a friend: never do marketing and management in the same semester.

[alondouek]

Never get into a shouting match with a member of the Socialist Alternative, nobody wins.

[slothpomba]

If you take a unit because you think you'll enjoy it, at least make sure you'll at the very least...kind of like working for it too.

History sounded interesting to me...until i had to do work for it (was still pretty interesting to learn but the work sucked).

TL;DR Just make sure its the UNIT you like and not the IDEA of the unit. Philosophy...History...Chemistry...and pretty much everything else all have the potential to be interesting ideas to casually read up on but doesn't mean you'll enjoy slogging out a semester of it.

[MJRomeo81]

If you take a unit because you think you'll enjoy it, at least make sure you'll at the very least...kind of like working for it too.

History sounded interesting to me...until i had to do work for it (was still pretty interesting to learn but the work sucked).

This. It's still a miracle that I walked away with an A in Roman History. I seriously got lucky on that exam (the parts of the Aeneid I read were on the exam).

[nacho]

Bludged first year. Put barely any effort into it. Probably attended less than 12 lectures all up last year, and barely went to my tutes.

I had all the answers for all my subs (to tute questions), put in the least amount of effort I could to get a pass. This will forever stain my GPA. Now I'm looking to do an exchange student program, and I know they take your GPA into consideration when going through the selection process. Also if you plan to overload, you need a credit average (varies for faculty). Luckily I made the cut, but still, i got lucky considering the way i handled first year.

Don't bludge first year, work hard and you'll find out which subs you enjoy more so you have a good idea of what you want to do later on. Furthermore, a stellar GPA is much more likely to land you an interview compared to a mediocre one.

Studying for Uni is way more fun than VCE, so don't think of it as a chore.

[Furbob]

taking a few days off to chill during SWOTVAC in sem 1 then realizing how screwed I was

[Charmz]

Turning down my Monash offer.

[slothpomba]

Turning down my Monash offer.

What did you do instead?

[Charmz]

What did you do instead?

Interstate commerce.

[Furbob]

I'll start off first.

This is an anecdotal account from a friend: never do marketing and management in the same semester.

I did marketing and management in the same semester last year

very passable units but prepare to have a boring (and easy-going) semester

[pi]

Don't fall behind by 36 lectures and then try and cram them into a week + revision for everything else. Bad times. Never again.

[Planck's constant]

Don't fall behind by 36 lectures and then try and cram them into a week + revision for everything else. Bad times. Never again.

I was almost certain your answer would be: VCE Physics

[nacho]

vce doesn't have lectures

[ShortBlackChick]

Doing Intro to Sociology 1, doing shit in it, then being a total fucking derp and doing Intro to Sociology 2.

[CaptainAwesome]

Bludging first year. I'm doing language units, so I'm really going to struggle this year :|
Not to mention I want to go on exchange next year, and my GPA is..................... um................... yeah.