UoM General Chat

[Turtle]

Sorry Russ I wasn't trying to call you out and say you didn't appreciate your undergrad living situation or anything if that's how it came across!  I was just trying to point out that even if you don't live 'too far' from the city km wise the further out you get the worse the PT is - you have to take so many forms to get in to the CBD and with each different form you have to account for the possibility that it will be late/not arrive (buses anyone?) and all that possibility means you leave even earlier etc etc

Re Turtle's post: I 'chose' to stay at home for support somewhat, financially somewhat but also because I wouldn't have wanted to move straight after my dad had passed away and leave my mum and brother alone so soon.  I agree with what you say about some people having reasons not to want to move out of home.  I just finished my degree and I still feel to young to have moved out lol.  There are many reasons that a student might live at home when they study and often the path isn't as simple as get job ---> live away from home.

I just think that everyone has the right to go to university based on desire to study a course and based on merit without having to factor in that university's distance from their home.  Exams are worth such a large chunk of the final grade and I do think that it's unfair for that much of somebody's deciding assessment to come down to one morning on which they had to wake up at a completely ridiculous time...or one day in which they had an exam at 8:30am and then one at 4:30pm...when they had to wake up at 4:30am just to get to the first one so they're starting the second 12 hours later!  I just don't think that the timetable works for many local students.  Our low population density (leading to infrequent transport) and the fact that such a high proportion of domestic students live quite a long way away by any mode of transport (as opposed to somewhere like the US where most live on campus or very close to) means that in my opinion it just doesn't work.

I agree exactly with what you have said I'm not moving out if home for ages!! Especially because if a murderer broke into my house, I would have no one to defend me haha!!

[BelVP]

Sorry Russ, but you have dug yourself a bit of a hole here...

So for someone who lives in Dandenong for example, or Mentone for example, or any outer suburb...you expect their entire family to pack up and move closer to the CBD?

Firstly, usually its not someone's choice where they live, if they live with their family. It's their parents choice.

Secondly, not everybody wants to work 30 hours a week to pay $250 a week for rent. It's hard to work that much and do well at uni. It's even harder if you are involved in anything outside of university, such as sport.

Furthermore, although Simpak doesn't live at home, for other people-not everybody wants to move away from their parents either. You can't except all 20 year olds to have the maturity to move out of home because everybody's different.

There is no circumstance in which it is appropriate for you to comment about someone's living situation, without knowing all the facts.

Not only is it hard to manage work/uni not all of us can find a job (I tried several years solidly in high school to find part time work - which I could manage with my medical conditions - and couldn't only to later find out people in my area only got jobs through friends...which didn't help me as I was always a loner), let alone one with hours that fit in well with the uni schedule. I am anemic hence very low on energy and find it hard enough as is to keep up with uni and spending 3 hours traveling let alone working. At home I get free board and don't have annoying roommates to deal with either. The content load of the course matters too since I know some students with lax one day schedules compared to others with full-on 5 day ones.

[claireb]

Sorry Russ I wasn't trying to call you out and say you didn't appreciate your undergrad living situation or anything if that's how it came across!  I was just trying to point out that even if you don't live 'too far' from the city km wise the further out you get the worse the PT is - you have to take so many forms to get in to the CBD and with each different form you have to account for the possibility that it will be late/not arrive (buses anyone?) and all that possibility means you leave even earlier etc etc

Re Turtle's post: I 'chose' to stay at home for support somewhat, financially somewhat but also because I wouldn't have wanted to move straight after my dad had passed away and leave my mum and brother alone so soon.  I agree with what you say about some people having reasons not to want to move out of home.  I just finished my degree and I still feel to young to have moved out lol.  There are many reasons that a student might live at home when they study and often the path isn't as simple as get job ---> live away from home.

I just think that everyone has the right to go to university based on desire to study a course and based on merit without having to factor in that university's distance from their home.  Exams are worth such a large chunk of the final grade and I do think that it's unfair for that much of somebody's deciding assessment to come down to one morning on which they had to wake up at a completely ridiculous time...or one day in which they had an exam at 8:30am and then one at 4:30pm...when they had to wake up at 4:30am just to get to the first one so they're starting the second 12 hours later!  I just don't think that the timetable works for many local students.  Our low population density (leading to infrequent transport) and the fact that such a high proportion of domestic students live quite a long way away by any mode of transport (as opposed to somewhere like the US where most live on campus or very close to) means that in my opinion it just doesn't work.

I think the biggest problems with the early starts would have occurred on cup day due to the modified public transport time tables. Especially for those who live far away or who need to catch buses which don't start really early. It also can mean really long wait times between modes of transport or the lack of city loop trains on some lines.

Definitely glad I didn't have the 8:30 am, 4:30pm on the same day exam combination. Exams always drain me so much. I just want to sleep afterwards.

[charmanderp]

Does anyone else have an obsession with checking their study plan? On the one hand I don't want to know what my results were, but on the other hand it's killing me!

Also, is there a VCESS thread? Should we make one? I'm so excited for it (excited for VCESS that is, not the thread)!

[vox nihili]

Does anyone else have an obsession with checking their study plan? On the one hand I don't want to know what my results were, but on the other hand it's killing me!

Also, is there a VCESS thread? Should we make one? I'm so excited for it!

It's driving me absolutely mental. It's Facebook, Instagram, ATARNotes, then Study Plan. And it's a Saturday! I have a sickness.

[Starlight]

Does anyone else have an obsession with checking their study plan? On the one hand I don't want to know what my results were, but on the other hand it's killing me!

Only the weekdays.

[Sinner]

Only the weekdays.

Same. Needless to say it's pointless checking during the weekends.

[charmanderp]

Same. Needless to say it's pointless checking during the weekends.

Well duh.

[vox nihili]

Same. Needless to say it's pointless checking during the weekends.

I still do... just in case 

[scribble]

Also, is there a VCESS thread? Should we make one? I'm so excited for it (excited for VCESS that is, not the thread)!

Have you/anyone heard anything about the camp? It's next week isn't it? I haven't recieved any information at all. I don't even know where it is or how to pay rofl;;

[Muuru]

I used to be obsessed with checking my study plan but apparently I no longer have access since I have reached the pinnacle of my degree! It is killing me!

I need to "re-enroll for next year" if I want permission to check my grades sooner. I think I will pass.

[Ballerina]

Is anyone here  doing biological psychology next year and wants to save $100? PM if you like, because I have a very lovely surprise for you. It involves a PDF with 770 pages. 

[scribble]

I don't even check my study plan anymore, I just check the results thread to see if anyone's posted results from my subjects.

[Ballerina]

Thanks to y'all I just checked my study plan on a Sunday.

[charmanderp]

Have you/anyone heard anything about the camp? It's next week isn't it? I haven't recieved any information at all. I don't even know where it is or how to pay rofl;;

One of the coords told me there'd be info out over the weekend or early this week, so fingers crossed! It's making me a bit anxious though.