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[sluu001]

To make up for the disaster that wa the old archi bldg. My 1st yr there, they had signs plastered everywhere in the studios telling people not to disturb the cieling tiles. An naturally what did everyone do....

It was afterwards that we learnt that they were ASBESTOS tiles and insulation....

Plus the bldg looke like a cross between a spaceship and a lego block. Ever wondered why it was clad in aluminium? Well it was because the original wall cladding started falling off; so they had to restrain it somehow... The aluminium probably cost as much as the bldg itself.

Not the best advertisement for a degree you are supposed to be teaching.

[REBORN]

MCB and Anatomy on same day. Fun times ahead.

[Ballerina]

I love the weird statue at Old Physics but don't understand it. I don't understand any of the statues on campus.

Goddamnit, stop making the rest of us feel bad.
(Those notes are gorgeous, become a teacher and regale the student world with aesthetically perfect class handouts.)

It doesn't matter if the information is accurate as long as it's beautiful~!

That's what my mother would tell me. IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT YOU'RE WRONG PRETTY MUCH ALL THE TIME HONEY.

Sorry, but the spacing is different for the first few lines at the top. Also my favourite Vitamin, old Vit B6 (favourite because isoniazid depletes it causing peripheral neuropathy <3), has it's title overlapped with the lesser Pathetic Pantothenic Acid and the letter 'p' in the description is overlapped by Riboflavin. Not happy.

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Awh well, Ps get degrees :'C I made those boxes transparent so you could discern the lettering, and overlapped them so that it communicated they're all part of the same happy B12 family <3 <3 I get fuzzy feelings when I see the word 'family' in science. Amine family, vitamin B12 family, Pelomedusidae family awwh

pi, eat a snickers. You get a little pedantic when you're hungry!

Hahaha <3 You have absorbed much from Lecture 14 - Vitamins, Milky Ways and Snickers for everyone

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[LeviLamp]

Today I learned that the average grade for Structure/Function practicals so far is 56.7%, and that only eight people have an H1 average, out of nearly 140. Rob Day, whyyyy.

[jinny1]

To make up for the disaster that wa the old archi bldg. My 1st yr there, they had signs plastered everywhere in the studios telling people not to disturb the cieling tiles. An naturally what did everyone do....

It was afterwards that we learnt that they were ASBESTOS tiles and insulation....

Lol that reminds of the time when me and my friend prank called our school principal saying the entire school had asbestos

[litaluta]

Today I heard from someone that FOOD20003 Food Chemistry, Biology and Nutrition is such an easy subject. Then, there was a flashback in my head at when I was about to choooose my subjects. I chosen Microbiology over FOODDDDDDD. (read this sentence as if you r floating in space)

God I want to kill all microbes in the world right now ))))))

[chysim]

I just realised it's week 9 and I have still received literally no marks/feedback despite handing in 5 assignments across my 3 engineering subjects. It seems like engineering subjects are so, so bad at getting grades back in a timely manner.

Maths subjects always get them back within a week (sometimes quicker), the two Film Studies subjects I've done get them back within a week and a half, the non-eng Environments subjects I've done are pretty quick, but the Engineering/Geomatics subjects take a month at minimum to mark anything.

[Hancock]

I just realised it's week 9 and I have still received literally no marks/feedback despite handing in 5 assignments across my 3 engineering subjects. It seems like engineering subjects are so, so bad at getting grades back in a timely manner.

Maths subjects always get them back within a week (sometimes quicker), the two Film Studies subjects I've done get them back within a week and a half, the non-eng Environments subjects I've done are pretty quick, but the Engineering/Geomatics subjects take a month at minimum to mark anything.

Depends on what class. In ENGR20004, grades are given back within a fortnight and you can't really expect any better than that. Marking assignments aren't as easy or trivial as you think, at least with maths you have one clear cut answer you can mark against.

[LeviLamp]

I still have fifteen assessments this semester, when are we supposed to have time to study for exams??? DDDD:

[jinny1]

Wow did anyone see the student protests on Q&A live TV?

Nobody is happy about the university fee deregulation but these protests are just giving uni students a bad image -.-

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/protest-on-qa-is-reality-tv-at-its-best-20140506-zr5gc.html

[hobbitle]

I agree jinny... Good on them for standing up for something really really important to loads of people though. But I thought it could have been done a bit more maturely perhaps.

[vox nihili]

Wow did anyone see the student protests on Q&A live TV?

Nobody is happy about the university fee deregulation but these protests are just giving uni students a bad image -.-

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/protest-on-qa-is-reality-tv-at-its-best-20140506-zr5gc.html

I agree entirely. Though it was a little bit disturbing to hear Tony Jones say that removing them was "getting democracy back on track". A man clearly without knowledge of what democracy is.

Can't wait for some protests on campus though

[vox nihili]

Democracy is also about being civilised. Just because you can shout the loudest doesn't mean you get to ask all the questions.

Socialist Alternative is a effing disgrace. They're the one's with the "Fuck Democracy" Signs.

Rubbish, democracy is about having your say. You don't have to be civilised or an intellectual to express your views, that's the beauty of it.

Although, I do agree with you. If only I could walk past the library without being lectured those morons...

[Russ]

Why are we holding up democracy as the ideal though?

[vox nihili]

Why are we holding up democracy as the ideal though?

Because democratic nations have been extremely successful at forcing other nations to take on democracy in an altogether undemocratic fashion. So we're stuck with it.