UoM General Chat

[vox nihili]

My genuine condolences. No university student should be forced to be at Parkville that early.

3 times a week, all year 

[Russ]

Two chess pieces, black carved into a brain and white into a heart, on opposite ends of a chess board?

If you're trying to make a point about the heart vs the mind this is good.

nb 8am starts are fine Y'ALL ARE WUSSES

[charmanderp]

3 times a week, all year 

That's for lectures though, right? YOU CHOOSE THAT LIFE.

[hobbitle]

nb 8am starts are fine Y'ALL ARE WUSSES

I concur

[Ballerina]

I gave deemed the coffee at the VCA itself the best in the area but their food and snacks suck so I sacrifice coffee taste and go to Blondie

The instant coffee machines at 7/11 make better lattes than the cafe next to the library. The barista doesn't know how to foam the milk. Their sandwiches look nice though.

If you're trying to make a point about the heart vs the mind this is good.

nb 8am starts are fine Y'ALL ARE WUSSES

Thanks for the pro tip, Russ!

I think you phrased that even more eloquently last time!

Probably. I only get up that early if there's a reason.

And sorry, but 8am exams seem fine (or at least not unfair). If you live a long way from the uni, it's a conscious choice you make. It sucks but 8 isn't too unreasonable.

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.

It's still a choice. I said it was a crappy choice but in most circumstances people choose to stay at home for the support and to not have to do the shitty work/study combo. I am well aware I was lucky with my living situation in undergrad but that's not the point I was making.

BelVP that's when I typically get to sleep, so yes.  Russ, living a long way from university is not a conscious choice people make. Sorry but that's extremely ignorant. Not everyone can afford to live out of home, many are forced to live where their parents choose to live. Not everyone can get in to college or afford the fees, not everyone is eligible for centrelink. I wasn't before my dad died, my parents were earning too much. To assume that anyone that lives a long way from the city CHOOSES to do so is just really stupid. You're lucky to have lived relatively close to university with simple public transport options. I had three forms of public transport to catch to get from my family home to uni and many others are the same. I'm looking forward to living a 15 minute tram ride from uni now, but I'm never going to stop being empathetic towards others that travel a long way to uni because their options are work 20 hours a week and do poorly in classes or live at home and deal with the travel times.

I especially like the +24 respect points on that last post, simpak is a super communicator. +25 now.

[LeviLamp]

Adding to Ballerina's enthusiastic positivity about her summer subject, I went on my second excursion for Flora of Victoria today, and the view from the top of Camel's Hump was AMAZING, and you should all go up there if you're ever in the Sunbury-Mt. Macedon area. This subject is great and I encourage all you non-artistic biologically-minded people to take it over summer (it's also extremely good for building social ties or skills!) if you're looking to lighten the load for the year.

[Ballerina]

Adding to Ballerina's enthusiastic positivity about her summer subject, I went on my second excursion for Flora of Victoria today, and the view from the top of Camel's Hump was AMAZING, and you should all go up there if you're ever in the Sunbury-Mt. Macedon area. This subject is great and I encourage all you non-artistic biologically-minded people to take it over summer (it's also extremely good for building social ties or skills!) if you're looking to lighten the load for the year.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PLEASE TELL US MORE ABOUT PLANTS, PLANT WIZARD. I'm super curious because for those 10 minutes I was enrolled in Flora, the class seemed extremely well organized and interesting. Are you now able to identify surrounding flora by sight? Because that is very goddamn cool. Like Peter Pan. Is it demanding? The intensive seems intensive. The Painting Techniques intensive is not intense. At all.

Are Lila and blank around? Or other Painting Techniques students? Because I think it miiiiiight be post your portfolio 'o cloooooooock ding ding diiiing

[Jeggz]

Haaai guys! 
I know Im kinda interrupting your current conversation, for which I apologise profusely! But I just wanted to make an intro, as a fellow UoM Jaffy - and I hope to see some of you around campus! Wooo UoM 

[Ballerina]

Fortunately we never discuss anything relevant! Welcome to the warm bosom of UoM, fellow weaning calf.

[~T]

Haaai guys! 
I know Im kinda interrupting your current conversation, for which I apologise profusely! But I just wanted to make an intro, as a fellow UoM Jaffy - and I hope to see some of you around campus! Wooo UoM 

Hai fellow jaffy ^_^ I was seriously close to doing Commerce with an Actuarial major. I got cold feet and fell back to my beloved mathematics, but we should be friends so I can see what I would be doing in an alternate universe!

[Jeggz]

Hai fellow jaffy ^_^ I was seriously close to doing Commerce with an Actuarial major. I got cold feet and fell back to my beloved mathematics, but we should be friends so I can see what I would be doing in an alternate universe!

YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE IT! WE COULD HAVE BEEN FRIENDS!
And you could've helped me out too

[Stick]

Fortunately we never discuss anything relevant! Welcome to the warm bosom of UoM, fellow weaning calf.

I actually love that term. :3

[simpak]

Jeggz feel free to come to the UoM meet THIS THURSDAY, EVERYONE!  Come one, come all.

[Hancock]

UoM Meetup definitely Japanese Curry from that Asian place in the Basement. It's my drug.

[vox nihili]

UoM Meetup definitely Japanese Curry from that Asian place in the Basement. It's my drug.

Had it for the first time last week, wow.