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Glasses:

--- Quote from: ellellen on September 27, 2017, 02:24:42 pm ---Eric is ... not my favourite. I just find his lectures hard to follow, especially because he doesn't use powerpoint slides! :O

Lisa is alright. Her content is good and she's really nice but sometimes can be a bit monotonous. I've gone to some of Eric's lectures and his are so much more engaging! (pub law eric not torts eric lol)

Who do you have?

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Yeah I haven't heard the best things about Eric. I've got Gerry who is really good though! (And he uses powerpoint slides which is a plus!).

And for Public Law I've got Oyiela, who isn't too bad. She's really nice but I personally am not a big fan of the content, which doesn't really help with my attention in the lecture haha

ellellen:

--- Quote from: Jigsaw on September 27, 2017, 03:46:53 pm ---Thank you so much for such an in-depth response! Really appreciate it. Also, just a follow up question,  the earliest one can transfer from arts at monash into arts/law is after one year?

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Correct! To transfer you must have completed at least 48 credit points of study, which is equivalent to one year's worth of units.

ellellen:

--- Quote from: Glasses on September 27, 2017, 04:36:03 pm ---Yeah I haven't heard the best things about Eric. I've got Gerry who is really good though! (And he uses powerpoint slides which is a plus!).

And for Public Law I've got Oyiela, who isn't too bad. She's really nice but I personally am not a big fan of the content, which doesn't really help with my attention in the lecture haha

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Ooh haha, maybe I'll have to sneak into some of Gerry's lectures and check them out!

And I know so many people find pub law really dry, but I actually really really enjoys the pub law content!!!

ellellen:
1/10

I'm not happy!!!!!!!!!! because i start uni again in 10 hours :'(

Also I got so little work done over the midsemester break compared to what i wanted to achieve. I didn't get any of my history diary entries done !!!!! :(((( I had planned to finish like 4/6 of them, but i tried starting the first one and realised that they were going to take a lot longer to write than i had thought they would, so now my plan is just try and get them done sometime during the rest of the semester.

BUT, i did manage to finish my research essay proposal for journalism that's due tomorrow. I got a choice of 10 topics to write on, and the one I chose is "How is political journalism changing, and does this change undermine or assist democracy?" and i need to compare the 2016 USA and Australian election campaigns. I'm talking a lot about how political journalism is becoming super sensationalised and trivialised. I mention things like the whole #faketradie scandal in aus, stories about how Bill Shorten ate his democracy sausage the wrong way, and the massive coverage of this kind of stuff, with little focus on actual policies. But also i'm saying that maybe mAybE this all actually benefits democracy! by making politics accessible to a larger range of people. maybe.

Anyway, I'm glad I got that proposal done. The actual essay is due in four weeks so i've got a lot of time to do more research for it.

Also tonight I did my readings for my public law class tomorrow. We're practising statutory interpretation skills, which involves reading a few pages of legislation, being given a set of facts, and then having to answer a few questions by interpreting the meaning of the legislation and applying it to the facts. i am BAD at this, so hopefully tomorrow the lecturer gives a nice explanation of how we're meant to have answered the questions. For the q we're doing in class tomorrow, the legislation is about stalking. Basically, the legislation says that you're not allowed to stalk someone through "email, internet chatrooms or sms". The facts say that this guy was stalking a girl over twitter. We need to interpret a few different sections of the legislation and see if twitter should be included under "email, internet chatrooms or sms". There's a bit more to it than that, but i thought i would just give a brief example of what we have to do, in case anyone was interested!

Okay that's all for now goodnight!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ellellen:
5/10

Okay things that happened this week:

MONDAY
- i submitted my journalism research plan
- i had my public law class and i actually understood a lot of the statutory interpretation stuff, which was nice!
- i also finALLy started to understand the stuff we're talking about in torts. We were going through defences for negligence, and it made SEnSE, and also in our tutorials we went through structuring a response and i goT it !!!!

TUESDAY
- omgggg i was meant to have my history lecture today buT i got there, and everyone was sitting and waiting and the lecturer just didn't show up !!!!! and then after 20 minutes of everyone just sitting there, one of the tutors said "oh lol i just got an email, the lecturer is sick and not coming today!" and so class was cancelled !!! it would have been nice to get some notice lol, and because of the class being cancelled it meant that i had a 3 hour break until my next class ! i was just scared because we have to write a diary based partially on lecture content, and this was one of the lectures we HAVE to write about, but i think there will be a make up lecture next week possibly.
- At night I did my Public Law library quiz. it's only worth 10% and i got 18/20 for it, so it was alright. im not tOO upset about losing the 2 marks , because i'm still averaging 85% and all i have left is my exam worth 60% so hoPEfuLLY if i really do well on the exam i can get a nice mark for pub law!!!! i haven't been doing amazingly in my other subjects so im really relying on pub law to be my best mark this sem!

WEDNESDAY
- i had torts classes and they were alright and i understood things
- in my break at uni i applied for a job on campus ! nervOUSssss
- i tried to watch my journalism lecture online but idk why, but every time i try to watch an online lecture my laptop heats up sO much and the fan gets so loud!!! it only eveR happens for monash lectures, and only this year (since monash changed the program we watch lectures on.... suspicious !!!) anyway, so i couldn't get through the whole lecture because i was scared for my laptop but i don't think i missed too muCH. It's just annoying that i always have to watch journalism lectures online. Journalism is only at caulfield campus, and the lecture time is right in between when i have 2 clayton classes, so it is physically impossible for me to get to the journalism lecture and back in time. But after this semester i won't need to go to caulfield anymore, because i'll have finished my journalism minor, so that will be fun.

THURSDAY
- today i only had my journalism tutorial and it was fine , and then i borrowed library books for my journalism essay !!! now i've got to try and write a practice essay for torts.

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