The ATAR and Results Build Up Thread!

[thushan]

Nah mate, leave it - it's a build-up thread, you can talk about anything you want here, just so long as it is generally appropriate and not troll-y.

[paulsterio]

combine medicine and engineering....human engineering LOL!

[Special At Specialist]

I can see what you're saying... medicine does sound very prestigious. Saving innocent lives, helping victims of cancer, making lots of money etc.
But I mean there are heaps of other equally prestigious jobs out there. I'm just curious why everyone clings onto one of them.
If it's a traditional thing, then I understand. I know a lot of people who joined the police force because so many of their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents etc. joined the police and they wanted to continue on with the tradition.

[thushan]

hahaha nooooo! i believe in love! LOL!

Nawwwwww. Love's in the air...in the form of a helicopter

[taiga]

Paul doesn't need a med degree to have ladies chasing after him.

[paulsterio]

Well, what do you want to be Spesh@Spesh, if you thought about it deeply you'd have reasons for that, similarly, those who want to go into medicine will have their own desires, tradition may or may not be one of them (it's not for me -  no one in my extended family are anything medically related)

hahaha nooooo! i believe in love! LOL!

Nawwwwww. Love's in the air...in the form of a helicopter

what's this whole helicopter thing? LOL! i don't get it

Paul doesn't need a med degree to have ladies chasing after him.

that's not funny =.=" and also very untrue, i'd be really happy with just one special one

[thushan]

that's not funny =.=" and also very untrue, i'd be really happy with just one special one

It's very funny and quite true! Oh yeah just one special med degree so you can organise the Paulsterio Fan Club

[paulsterio]

It's very funny and quite true! Oh yeah just one special med degree so you can organise the Paulsterio Fan Club

no, just one special girl ;P
and how is it true?! oh god =.="
this is so going off topic now (and i'm not saying that cause i happen to be the one being scrutinised - honest!!)

[thushan]

no, just one special girl ;P

I can see Paulsterio looking in horror as his nose is getting longer and longer... ;P
Don't try to run away now Paul hehehe

[paulsterio]

lol no! I don't support polygamy! =.=" I'm an extremely sentimental and caring person, and no my nose is still short!

so guys, less than a week! :O

[funkyducky]

combine medicine and engineering....human engineering LOL!

It's called biomedical engineering and it already exists

Also @paul:
I agree with teaching, teachers are so undervalued in Australian society. I owe a lot to having some really awesome teachers, and having incompetent/disengaged teachers is horrible. My Uni Maths teacher, however, is a really smart guy and really loves maths and gets all excited when he teaches us new things. Once, he told us he got an ENTER of 99.35 for VCE. Someone in my class asked him "then why are you a teacher?". That's the kind of mentality that keeps our education system down

[thushan]

combine medicine and engineering....human engineering LOL!

Once, he told us he got an ENTER of 99.35 for VCE. Someone in my class asked him "then why are you a teacher?". That's the kind of mentality that keeps our education system down

Amen. My head of house at school was amazingly smart, did really well at school (he went to scotch as a boy!), school captain, music captain. people at my school keep saying that he "wasted" his life becoming "only" a high school teacher :S

[b^3]

... people at my school keep saying that he "wasted" his life becoming "only" a high school teacher :S

Screw what everyone else thinks, do what you enjoy in life! (as I'm sure a lot of you do are planning to do anyway).

[james_blues]

Im freaking out, i think i wont get my 72.00 ATAR

[paulsterio]

I know, my physics teacher got three 50's LOL! he's a gun, he took on a scholarship to do a Bachelor of Science (Honours) at Monash, the awesome one where you can do it all in 3 years with individual guidance, and then he became a teacher
But yeah, I hate the negative mentality towards teachers, I think it's the stigma, like I actually honestly do want to become a teacher, I enjoy teaching others! But yeah, who knows, I might become one some day
I remember my physics teacher saying that some of the guys in his DipEd cohort couldn't even get 60% on the methods exam and they wanted to teach methods, I think that's kind of stupid don't you think :S

It's called biomedical engineering and it already exists

I thought I was a genius for a second there - let me have my funnnnnnn!!!!!