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PhoenixxFire:
Hey

Still haven't heard anything about the application for late withdrawal which is getting frustrating. I should have just dropped them through isis (as in anu's enrollment system, not as in the terrorist organisation) after I applied for it because I'm still enrolled in them on that until they do something with my application :'(

I got an email about special arrangements for exams, gonna have some long exams if I use all the time I get lol. Fuck I need to email them about the exams I'm not doing for the courses I've sort of dropped

Still haven't called centerlink. Should probably do that, technically still enrolled full time at the moment but I'd imagine they're not gonna be happy if I don't tell then then it gets approved because it'll be retrospective.

Don't really know what I'm going to do about chem. Didn't go to my last lab on Wednesday and they're compulsory so I don't really know what I'm going to do about that. I was supposed to get a medical certificate if I missed them, problem being Mark (course convenor) says he'll only accept ones from a doctor not those ones you can get for $20 at a pharmacy. I wouldn't even know where to find a doctor that I could see the same day, and honestly pretending to be okay enough to go to class would have been easier than finding a doctor and going to see them. I should probably email him and ask but I'm putting it off :-\ Don't know if I'd pass that class anyway given I'd have to get almost 70% on the end of semester exam to pass the theory.

Bio is mostly okay. Except I have an assignment that was due on Thursday, and another that was due the Thursday before that and I haven't submitted either of them. Oops. Should probably spend less time crying and more time studying

Still haven't got a job but I finally started applying for some more again. Canberra is frustrating. 99% of jobs are either full time or minimum wage. Which is probably similar elsewhere, but Canberra's just too small and too spread out to have many decent jobs.
Did I mention that I finally did the math on it.
Minimum wage is $15/hr (or $11/hr...)
My rent is $290/week :'( :'(
$100/week for food and other stuff
So, uh $390/week just for stuff I can't avoid
=26 hours/week. So yeah, not going to get a minimum wage job lol. Did I mention that junior wages are the stupidest things in existence?

This week is my last week of classes for this semester (where tf did time even go???), and it's just lectures this week because of the public holiday today. My bio exam is on the 8th and chem is on the 11th. Also have chem HPO on the 17th, doing that would probably help my score a little bit, but I haven't been to any of the lectures for it (although I think there's only 8 or 9), so maybe I'll do it. Then I have holidays until mid-July which could potentially be a bad thing if I don't manage to get a job by then. Got to have some reason to actually get out of bed and all and not having classes isn't going to help that.

In slightly more positive news though, I got an email back from the Canberra dog shelter and they might let me play with some doggos but I've got to fill in some forms and stuff and it's kind of annoying to try and organise without knowing what time I'll end up working when I get a job. Also applied to volunteer for ACT wildlife, answering calls from people & vets who find injured wildlife and organising people to pick up and care for the animals, so that'll be really cool to do if they let me.

PhoenixxFire:
I'm finished my bio exam!

Went better than I thought, there were a few things that I know I didn't explain properly or didn't know the examples for, but it was still easier than I expected.

The content was similar to high school, but the way it's tested is so different. I think I prefer it like this though.

The examiners are way less paranoid too, I was in a small room because I got extra time + rest breaks. We were allowed to leave the room during our rest breaks. The foyer area outside was being used by a few people to study whilst we were doing our exam. I couldn't help but compare it to high school when they were so paranoid that there were separate toilets that we weren't allowed into until after we had started the exam and that no one not doing the exam was allowed to use for the entirety of the exam period. It would be so incredibly easy to cheat on these exams if someone wanted to (not worth the risk, but easy).

Chem is on Tuesday morning, way more worried about that then I was about bio (although rip my bio score because I didn't submit two of my assignments). It's not so bad now that I've started actually watching the lectures - definitely easy than organic chem, I just probably should have started learning it a little sooner than yesterday :-[

The chem HPO exam is on the 17th. I haven't been to any of the lectures for it, but supposedly they're recorded and there's only 8 so I think I'm going to have a shot at the exam. Means I have a week more of studying though :'(

Oh and Mark (chem convenor) let me get away with not having done lab 8 despite not having a medical certificate, so I'm not going to fail on account of that (yay), just have to pass the theory now....

K888:
Re: doctors close by, have you tried your uni health services? You might also be able to get some recommendations if you have a facebook group for where you live on res. I found my current GP through a rec from my res FB group :)

PhoenixxFire:

--- Quote from: K888 on June 09, 2019, 03:38:47 pm ---Re: doctors close by, have you tried your uni health services? You might also be able to get some recommendations if you have a facebook group for where you live on res. I found my current GP through a rec from my res FB group :)

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Yeah, my uni's health service is where I have been going. They're run through the national health co op (which, despite the name, is almost exclusively a canberra thing) so they bulk bill. They've always got super long wait though.

There's one place nearby that's very well recommended by everyone, but of course they aren't taking new patients. They also have a sister center, but the vast majority of doctors there don't bulk bill (even students :'( which is a bit frustrating).

I know the anu womens dept. has a spreadsheet with places that have been recommended, so i should probably have a look at that. The issue round here seems to be that you either get a well recommended doctor + short wait times or you get a bulk-billing doctor and you can't have both :'(

K888:

--- Quote from: PhoenixxFire on June 09, 2019, 09:29:19 pm ---Yeah, my uni's health service is where I have been going. They're run through the national health co op (which, despite the name, is almost exclusively a canberra thing) so they bulk bill. They've always got super long wait though.

There's one place nearby that's very well recommended by everyone, but of course they aren't taking new patients. They also have a sister center, but the vast majority of doctors there don't bulk bill (even students :'( which is a bit frustrating).

I know the anu womens dept. has a spreadsheet with places that have been recommended, so i should probably have a look at that. The issue round here seems to be that you either get a well recommended doctor + short wait times or you get a bulk-billing doctor and you can't have both :'(

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do you have a healthcare card? I think a lot of places that don't bulk bill are usually willing to bulk bill a healthcare card holder

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