Is there a "settling in" week for uni?

[dekoyl]

Through high school up until year 12, I've felt that the first week of every semester (or at least year) gets off to a slow start due to people settling in and what not.

Is this the same in uni? Or is it instantly to business and we'll have to hand in our first assessed assignment within two weeks?

[QuantumJG]

Through high school up until year 12, I've felt that the first week of every semester (or at least year) gets off to a slow start due to people settling in and what not.

Is this the same in uni? Or is it instantly to business and we'll have to hand in our first assessed assignment within two weeks?

With uni first year students will usually have an 0-week where uni is portrayed the way Hollywood portrays it (lol - just had to add that). This is the week where you learn your way around campus, make friends and just try to socially settle in (I found it much easier to make friends in uni than high school).

The first lectures (for the start of every semester) are very bludgy where your professor will introduce themself, the course, what's expected of you (assignments, oh no! - jks you'll be fine), what textbook they recommend and then they will go into the lecture material in the last 10 minutes. The first 2 weeks are very slow as students can still change subjects.

Once you go into uni the pace does pick up and you can find it hard to keep up (this is perfectly normal, if you can you already have a great chance of getting 80%). I have a few things in physics and linear algebra I need to revise.

Basically don't stress as thousands of students in Victoria survive uni every year and if you put in the effort you will too. I wish you good luck and you will find that uni is a lot of fun.

[shinny]

With uni first year students will usually have an 0-week where uni is portrayed the way Hollywood portrays it (lol - just had to add that). This is the week where you learn your way around campus, make friends and just try to socially settle in (I found it much easier to make friends in uni than high school).

Congratulations for describing the first week of uni without even needing to use the word 'alcohol'. But yes, expect plenty of pub crawls and such.

[Mao]

Yes there is:

O-week, party week, make friends from all over, buy your textbooks now, finalize your timetable now

1st week, clueless week, make friends from your own classes, manipulate your timetable, rock up to tute sessions you aren't meant to and request time-changes due to LIFE.

2nd week, motivational week, possibly the first social outings with new friends, get a little work done, still all VCE revision

From then on, make it up as you go. The general way to do it is: when you get an assignment, do half of it as soon as you get it. Leave the other half until the night before (this gives you time to "check" your answers with others in your class).

Remember: you are in uni now. No one cares much.

[schmalex]

My friend went into a lecture at the start of the second semester of second year engineering and had a lecturer explain what gradient is

[*ryan777*]

how much of o-week is compolsory?
and is there anything that is just a total waste of time etc?

My friend went into a lecture at the start of the second semester of second year engineering and had a lecturer explain what gradient is

in engineering? wtf lol

[QuantumJG]

Yes there is:

O-week, party week, make friends from all over, buy your textbooks now, finalize your timetable now

1st week, clueless week, make friends from your own classes, manipulate your timetable, rock up to tute sessions you aren't meant to and request time-changes due to LIFE.

2nd week, motivational week, possibly the first social outings with new friends, get a little work done, still all VCE revision

From then on, make it up as you go. The general way to do it is: when you get an assignment, do half of it as soon as you get it. Leave the other half until the night before (this gives you time to "check" your answers with others in your class).

Remember: you are in uni now. No one cares much.

With assignments I usually do the whole thing and then check with friends (one matrix problem caused me to get the wrong answer after heaps of lines of work (turns out I missed a minus on one of my matrices, thank god I checked with a friend).

how much of o-week is compolsory?
and is there anything that is just a total waste of time etc?

My friend went into a lecture at the start of the second semester of second year engineering and had a lecturer explain what gradient is

in engineering? wtf lol

Don't miss O-week it's fun. Free stationery, waterbottles, food, soft drinks and you get to look at companies show off gadgets that are better than what you own. You also have general lectures for advice on how to survive uni and a whole lot of other stuff (finding work, plagarism, etc).

As for the gradient part, hmm... Maths students would have loved to have sat in that lecture. Physicists and engineers are always seen as lower on the food chain in maths than mathematicians. They say stuff like,

A mathematician could always change to theoretical physics, whereas the opposite can't happen.

[*ryan777*]

ive been told o week is fun sooo many times now, but in all my life nothing organised at a school/educational institution or whatever has been all that fun imo

[transgression]

Sucks to be under 18 for o week

[lynt.br]

Sucks to be under 18 for o week

Which is exactly the situation I'll be in...

[minilunchbox]

Sucks to be under 18 for o week

I'll be turning 18 around 3-5 days after the end of O-week. D: I forget February is shorter.

[*ryan777*]

how much of o week requires you to be over 18 tho?

[Fyrefly]

how much of o week requires you to be over 18 tho?

Only pub crawls and such... dw, you'll still have an awesome time without 18ness.
Some of the social clubs give out free booze and no-one is lame enough to check for ID.

[Fyrefly]

Oh, re: OP... I concur with everything said so far.

how much of o-week is compolsory?
and is there anything that is just a total waste of time etc?

Usually only one or two days of O-Week is "compulsory"... but even so, no-one can force you to attend. I would recommend getting as involved in O-Week as you can though... it's your chance to meet so many new people and make a whole bunch of awesome new friends.

[QuantumJG]

Sucks to be under 18 for o week

Or to be 18 and not to have an ID.

I got my L's a few months after my birthday.