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Uni Stuff => Universities - Victoria => University of Melbourne => Topic started by: stonecold on January 23, 2011, 03:33:57 am
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It is inevitable that this thread be made.
What is everyone doing on AAD?
There are so many different info sessions to attend, and the BBQ at lunchtime also looks like a must!
List out the sessions you are planning on going to. Maybe you will have some VN acquaintances joining you!
I will try to attend
-Biomed info sesh
-Criminology (Arts)
-Linguistics & Applied Linguistics (Arts)
-Psychology (Breadth)
-Critical Thinking with Data (UniBreadth)
-Logic: Language and Information (UniBreadth)
-Medical Sequence (UniBreadth)
-Seeing the Whole Picture (UniBreadth)
I am too lazy/tired to work out the times atm.
I'm particularly looking forward to meeting mr. andrewloppol haha. He should be very easy to spot. :P
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That looks really interested Stonecold...
On the other hand I am just going to commerce-related stuff and using AAD as an excuse to hang out with friends ;D
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only one reason I can see why you would go to Arts sessions ;)
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What's the medical sequence?
I will be at the uni all morning, meeting other friends from 1st year biomed, I might see some of you (and not recognise you)
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i want to look at diploma of languages (French) and music as a breadth
also the management and finance sessions
some of my friends are going but they're arts students.
im completely alone, none of my friends even considered BCom at melbourne :/
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You probably won't end up going to all those sessions. If you're anything like me you'll get a few down then bail cause they were pretty damn boring
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Possibly something like this?>
Session
Bachelor of Science (surnames R-Z) Jan 24 11 am - 12 pm
Student Union BBQ Jan 24 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Philosophy Jan 24 2:00 - 2:30 pm
Creative Writing (repeat) Jan 24 3:00 - 3:30 pm
Criminology Jan 24 3:30 - 4:00 pm
Principles of Business Law Jan 24 12:30 - 1:00 pm
Logic: Language and Infomation (repeat) Jan 24 1:30 - 2:00 pm
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Mmmm...it's been ages since I've been to a union bbq. *Drools*
Lousy holidays. :p
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I'll attempt to sit through the science subject ones: bio, chem, maths - hooray for having a different surname to other people I know who are doing science.
Then bbq, aw yeah free food and off to psych, science expo and whatever else I can fit in and be bothered attending.
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i want to look at diploma of languages (French) and music as a breadth
also the management and finance sessions
some of my friends are going but they're arts students.
im completely alone, none of my friends even considered BCom at melbourne :/
I am in the opposite situation. I'm an Arts student with friends who do commerce, science, and environments. Good fun.
Anywho, I'll do the Arts info sessions, economics, politics and probably anthropology and social theory.
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I wasnt planning on attending all the science 'core' programs maybe they will be briefly touched on at the BSc session
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At the end of the day, if you don't go to a session you haven't missed much. You can always email the subject coordinator, who will be desperate for students to take his/her subject and get them to send you info/the course syllabus etc
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I'm a loner tomorrow, don't know anyone doing commerce @ melb uni.
I'm gonna be at:
Bachelor of Commece(surnames M-Z)
Accounting and Business Information systems
Economics
Finance
Management and Marketing
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For those people wishing to attend course information sessions for the popular science subjects such as Chem and Bio:
Tip: Get there early to either get a seat or at least stand in a place where you can hear the coordinator well.
Also, I found the Chemistry 1 info session very useful. :)
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I'm at: b
Bcomm(a-l) [is that ok despite having the surname tram? I need to go to his session other wise I miss out the dipmus session]
Dipmus session 11:30
Commerce advance standing-[do I need to go to this to claim credit for Umep??]
actuarial studies- 1:30
Might see some of you at the BBQ:)
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They don't actually care which lectures you go to. They only split them up alphabetically so the majority of people go "right, that's my time" and they don't get 700 people in the same lecture.
You can claim credit at any time by going to a student centre and filling out a form. Just do it when you have 20 minutes to kill some time in first semester.
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Thanks for the info :)
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Another question, on the vtac website it says my enrolement time is from 11 till 12 at the exact place where the second bcomm lecture is being held, is it just a lecture or is there anything else happening that is personal?
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For those people wishing to attend course information sessions for the popular science subjects such as Chem and Bio:
Tip: Get there early to either get a seat or at least stand in a place where you can hear the coordinator well.
Also, I found the Chemistry 1 info session very useful. :)
So what goes on during the actual course BSc session, just basically giving an outline of the course parameters and possibility of certain studys?:
Also theres no specific chem sessions just chem..I think
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They don't actually care which lectures you go to.
Can anyone else confirm this?
I don't want to go to the early session! :P
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Are they checking names??
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They don't actually care which lectures you go to.
Can anyone else confirm this?
I don't want to go to the early session! :P
Rustic is correct
Are they checking names??
No
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I've only ever had my name checked at a lecture once, which was at a special guest lecture in ESD1. They were so desperate to have people actually attend that they made 2% of your final mark a freebie just for attending the guest lecture.
Which basically just meant we got our names scanned, walked in the door and straight out the opposite door. ;)
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I've only ever had my name checked at a lecture once, which was at a special guest lecture in ESD1. They were so desperate to have people actually attend that they made 2% of your final mark a freebie just for attending the guest lecture.
Which basically just meant we got our names scanned, walked in the door and straight out the opposite door. ;)
Niceee, what subject was it??
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They don't actually care which lectures you go to.
Can anyone else confirm this?
I don't want to go to the early session! :P
Rustic is correct
Are they checking names??
No
Thanks! On a related note, does anybody know if all the BSc sessions are held in the same theatre? The itinerary site doesn't let you choose your non-'allocated' one so i can't confirm which theatre session 2 (10-11) is in.
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One thing to clear up. What happens on the enrolment date? Mine's at 10-11 at some building off campus and I seriously have no clue whether to bring tfn number/passport/things like that along. Called up 13 MELB and whole heaps of other numbers last week but I was on hold for over an hour. I gave up waiting, haha!
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They don't actually care which lectures you go to.
Can anyone else confirm this?
I don't want to go to the early session! :P
Rustic is correct
Are they checking names??
No
Thanks! On a related note, does anybody know if all the BSc sessions are held in the same theatre? The itinerary site doesn't let you choose your non-'allocated' one so i can't confirm which theatre session 2 (10-11) is in.
Think so, this is 10-11 Basement Theatre, The Spot, P13
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I've only ever had my name checked at a lecture once, which was at a special guest lecture in ESD1. They were so desperate to have people actually attend that they made 2% of your final mark a freebie just for attending the guest lecture.
Which basically just meant we got our names scanned, walked in the door and straight out the opposite door. ;)
Niceee, what subject was it??
ESD1 is first year, first semester engineering.
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One thing to clear up. What happens on the enrolment date? Mine's at 10-11 at some building off campus and I seriously have no clue whether to bring tfn number/passport/things like that along. Called up 13 MELB and whole heaps of other numbers last week but I was on hold for over an hour. I gave up waiting, haha!
my question exactly
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One thing to clear up. What happens on the enrolment date? Mine's at 10-11 at some building off campus and I seriously have no clue whether to bring tfn number/passport/things like that along. Called up 13 MELB and whole heaps of other numbers last week but I was on hold for over an hour. I gave up waiting, haha!
my question exactly
I think you need: Passport, Student #, TFN
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Is it just a day for attending seminars? Ie no real enrolment happening? Or do we also get our student card on the day..
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Okay so you know how the enrollment pack is all 'accept your offer by 24 Jan' but then on the next page it's like 'make sure you have accepted your offer and done all this other stuff by Jan 31'? Well, WHICH IS IT? Because on the portal it tells me my offer lapses Jan 31.
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i think accepting the offer is before 24th of JAN, and the 31st of JAN is for the enrolment of the subjects...
but i might be wrong ..
this is quite confusing
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Nah it actually says offer lapses Jan 31 on my portal, I can screencap it:
(http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3593/ridiculousc.jpg)
I'm only asking because I actually can't accept it until someone approves my course withdrawal.
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yeah ...maybe you are right ...i logged on to mine
it says offer lapse date is 31st of JAN
and the Enrolment Lapse date is 18th of FEB..
but we need someone else to confirm this ...
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Just enrol before either of the dates and you'll be fine.
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Well I can confirm it because it's now 12:01 and my offer is still there for the taking. I knew they were just lying to make you go to AAD. Like, it's not like they mark your name off or anything or even know if you go.
When I called uni and asked if I could be admitted to two courses at once the woman was like 'no you need to withdraw from your course first but all you do is press a button, just be sure because there's no turning back'.
So I waited until I was sure/could be bothered and it was THEN that I found out there is no button there is a form which needs to be approved by the Arts students centre, which never does anything.
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What do we bring for AAD?
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Your appetite for sausages.
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surely you dont bring passport and tfn to AAD, as thats all been done online?
in the brochure it is not instructed
it says bring your passport/licence to get your ID, at a later date.
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Fuck you Melbourne weather. That is all.
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Fuck you Melbourne weather. That is all.
LOL ahaha
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its bipolar
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Fuck you Melbourne weather. That is all.
It's funny, because I was in bed at 7am this morning thinking "hahah all those new 1st years". I just got up, I'll be getting around to coming in soon *smug*
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Guess where I'm not :D
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Also, lawls.
(http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/772/lolzag.jpg)
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"stop putting me on hold for 30 minutes and then not helping me"
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Yeah that was after I was all:
(http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/9539/lolz1e.jpg)
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Chill out.
Rule of thumb: if you have a question, figure it out yourself from information on the website. If you have a ridiculously specific question, make a time to see the subject coordinator. If you want to see a subject coordinator, don't attempt to do so when 5,000+ new students are all wandering around the uni.
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It was ridiculously specific and also urgent but yep!
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Sorry for the double post but those of you who went today did you get told how to book an appointment for Sciences?
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I got asked how to book one a lot of times. Never got told how.
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Sorry for the double post but those of you who went today did you get told how to book an appointment for Sciences?
Didn't they have a stand of course advisors that were handing out appointment cards?
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Sorry for the double post but those of you who went today did you get told how to book an appointment for Sciences?
There was a table in the foyer at the Spot that was surrounded by a crap load of people. If you managed to wait long enough, they'd give you an appointment card with date + time.
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Maybe that's why so many people kept asking us for appointments: we had a table set up on the ground level of the spot foyer. :P
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Maybe that's why so many people kept asking us for appointments: we had a table set up on the ground level of the spot foyer. :P
Nah, I think they all thought you looked like course advisors. :P
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Our new polos are pretty sharp...
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It took ages to get through that enormous cluster of people in the Spot, but eventually managed it.
My favourite session I went to was the Physics one, the guy talking, Roger, was highly amusing even if his ridiculously lame puns wanted to make you bash your head against the nearest wall.
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Is the second AAD identical to the first?
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Couldnt get into my allocated science sesh because the parents took up all our spots -.-
Comm/enviro was okay, didnt really find out anything else that the site couldnt tell me
Chem was a turn off
Engineering was cool, Jaime was quite funny
Physics was also interesting
pretty good day all up, bummed that i couldnt get my concession form done but i knew people in each lecture so that made it heaps easier! and the camps look pretty awesome
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Is the second AAD identical to the first?
On a much smaller scale but otherwise yes.
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Is the second AAD identical to the first?
On a much smaller scale but otherwise yes.
cool thanks.
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The BSci course information sessions in terms of student (OR STUDENT WITH PARENTS) population: no comment.
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Couldnt get into my allocated science sesh because the parents took up all our spots -.-
The amount of students with their parents was ridiculous!
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Couldnt get into my allocated science sesh because the parents took up all our spots -.-
The amount of students with their parents was ridiculous!
I know. Try spruiking a camp with ridiculous amounts of drinking to hot girls standing next to their disapproving fathers.
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Couldnt get into my allocated science sesh because the parents took up all our spots -.-
The amount of students with their parents was ridiculous!
+1
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Couldnt get into my allocated science sesh because the parents took up all our spots -.-
The amount of students with their parents was ridiculous!
I know. Try spruiking a camp with ridiculous amounts of drinking to hot girls standing next to their disapproving fathers.
LOL. I assume you didn't get very far. :)
If they need their parents for AAD, how on earth are they going to survive uni alone?
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Nah, I totally blitzed it. Blah blah making friends blah blah fun activities blah blah get into the swing of uni blah blah here's a form.
"Oh and I'm going to nail your daughter. :) "
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LOl btw
thanks for the heads up about the survival guide, its fucking godly!!
Whats the guide look like?
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if i was sin^2 and you were cos^2
together we would be 1
GENIUS!
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I got one of the SSS bags and it didnt have it in there, not very happy. Will wait til O-week.
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I got one of the SSS bags and it didnt have it in there, not very happy. Will wait til O-week.
Please tell me you aren't complaining about the contents of the free showbags. ::)
They weren't handed out in the SSS showbags, anyway.
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I got one of the SSS bags and it didnt have it in there, not very happy. Will wait til O-week.
Please tell me you aren't complaining about the contents of the free showbags. ::)
They weren't handed out in the SSS showbags, anyway.
I got a pink pacer in mine hhaa
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They were awesome. I put one of those in every single orange showbag we gave out today. *Crumbles from exhaustion*
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They were awesome. I put one of those in every single orange showbag we gave out today. *Crumbles from exhaustion*
No argument there, the pacers were good, some of the 'benefits' of the color texters was questionable lol
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I got free lead pencils in those SSS showbags haha
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They were awesome. I put one of those in every single orange showbag we gave out today. *Crumbles from exhaustion*
No argument there, the pacers were good, some of the 'benefits' of the color texters was questionable lol
Yes, pink pacer and the colour pen is a winner.
Your stupid $50 flight voucher has already expired though lol :P
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They were awesome. I put one of those in every single orange showbag we gave out today. *Crumbles from exhaustion*
No argument there, the pacers were good, some of the 'benefits' of the color texters was questionable lol
Yes, pink pacer and the colour pen is a winner.
Your stupid $50 flight voucher has already expired though lol :P
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I was going to use that when I went overseas!
Also, lol they've obviously been modified from the British "keep me safe n sound, I'm worth fifty pound." "Keep me safe n sound, I'm worth fifty dollars" just doesn't sound right.
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I did not get an orange showbag :'(
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I did not get an orange showbag :'(
same, was wondering why people were carrying orange bags..
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I did not get an orange showbag :'(
same, was wondering why people were carrying orange bags..
That's why we made them bright orange: to make you wonder! :P
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I did not get an orange showbag :'(
same, was wondering why people were carrying orange bags..
That's why we made them bright orange: to make you wonder! :P
I wanted more pink pacers :(
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vegemite book, its funny as too LOL they'll be handing them out again o-week i reckon
I was actually looking to get one but didn't find them anywhere!
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We were handing them out just about everywhere, but we had completely run out before lunchtime, lol.
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I got one of the SSS bags and it didnt have it in there, not very happy. Will wait til O-week.
Please tell me you aren't complaining about the contents of the free showbags. ::)
They weren't handed out in the SSS showbags, anyway.
I may have over exaggerated about my unhappiness. I just wanted one as i have heard good things about it and had looked forward to getting one.
The other contents of the bag was great. I'll just try search around for one of those survival books.