Advice/WhatToDo/WhatNot for 1st year UNI ppl

[dejan91]

However if you are going to Monash and are a girl (or a Scottish guy...), do not, I repeat, DO NOT ever EVER wear a dress or a skirt unless it's long and heavy.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Lol is it because Monash tends to be a windy place (hence why you recommended "long and heavy")?

Oh, and probably the best way to act, dress, etc etc is to be yourself, because at the end of the day the friends you make are going to be the one's who accept you as the person you are.

[jejak]

Best advice I can give re: this - there will always be someone, most likely a lot of people, who will be smarter than you at uni. Don't let it discourage you. Marks aren't the be all end all.

Also, university standards are a lot higher than high school. For example, a 76 is a very very good score (upper end of Distinction) while in high school it probably would only have been a B or something. So don't compare your uni marks with your high school standards.

Thanks for the info re: university standards - I will bear that in mind. Unfortunately my course at ANU requires an HD average to avoid academic probation, but at least I now know which range of scores are considered "very very good" etc.

On the "there will always be someone smarter than you" - yes, I realise that logically this must be the case. Usually I don't beat myself up about it - it just takes some effort to stay in the right mindset. Thanks though.

[ReVeL]

However if you are going to Monash and are a girl (or a Scottish guy...), do not, I repeat, DO NOT ever EVER wear a dress or a skirt unless it's long and heavy.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Lol is it because Monash tends to be a windy place (hence why you recommended "long and heavy")?

Haha I was wondering what this comment meant too.. But yeah that makes sense. Guess theres a lot left to the imagination at Monash haha..

[ninwa]

Lol is it because Monash tends to be a windy place (hence why you recommended "long and heavy")?

Haha I was wondering what this comment meant too.. But yeah that makes sense. Guess theres a lot left to the imagination at Monash haha..

Yes >_> it's perpetually windy at Clayton... the Menzies building is a giant wind tunnel

[rhjc.1991]

Lol is it because Monash tends to be a windy place (hence why you recommended "long and heavy")?

Haha I was wondering what this comment meant too.. But yeah that makes sense. Guess theres a lot left to the imagination at Monash haha..

Yes >_> it's perpetually windy at Clayton... the Menzies building is a giant wind tunnel

Reminds me of what happened at my Adelaide interviews ... the girl in charge asked, on behalf of interviewers, for all girls wearing skirts to keep their legs together because it had caused a problem the week before and the interviewers were complaining.

True story

[Eriny]

I rock up to uni in jeans, t-shirt and jacket. Lots of people seem to be constantly having a contest called 'who is the most indie?' and it looks like they got dressed in their grandmother's dark closet. If you like that sort of thing, then that's acceptable too.

[ninwa]

then that's acceptable too.

no it's not

[dejan91]

I saw a guy at Melbourne Uni wearing flowerprint fisherman pants (and drinking goon..)

[TrueLight]

Lol is it because Monash tends to be a windy place (hence why you recommended "long and heavy")?

Yes >_> it's perpetually windy at Clayton... the Menzies building is a giant wind tunnel

lol yep!! i was just going to mention that

[QuantumJG]

Uni sounds really scary

I know!! I'm terrified. Not so much the academic side, but more how to conduct yourself in academic and social situations. And what kinds of standards and formats you're expected to maintain.

Just be yourself at uni. In social situations try to be out going and in academic situations 'DO NOT' question something they have said that seems to challenge them, my friend did this and had an epic fail. Also in tutes don't answer questions all the time, but make sure you contribute so you actually get something out of a tutorial.

Actually, on a very superficial point: if someone could weigh in on the dress code, that would be awesome. I'm assuming it's just casual, not smart-casual (whatever that means). But I need info, info!

Go in what ever you want to. But please DO NOT come in a suite as you look pretentious. On hot summer days I will go in a T-Shirt and shorts, normal days t-shirt or long sleave shirt and jeans and in winter I will wear a jacket, long sleave shirt and jeans.

But my friend is trying to make a trend where on a particular day, once every year he comes in a suit (He is doing Actuarial studies) and I'll find out the day and come in a suit. Mind you he had a lot of people looking at him weirdly, but it should still be fun.

Mind you I have seen people wearing the Mexican sombreros and all the other Mexican attire come into my programming lecture to sing "the Mexican dance" during prosh week.  

[Edmund]

Raymond Priestley at UoM is also pretty windy too...

[minilunchbox]

Raymond Priestley at UoM is also pretty windy too...

It was so windy on Open Day last year. We just stood there because we couldn't even move against the wind so we had to wait for it to pass.

[QuantumJG]

I saw a guy at Melbourne Uni wearing flowerprint fisherman pants (and drinking goon..)

Yeah that's pretty common.

Soon you'll see people wearing stuff from Woodstock and smoking joints. In my engineering workshop I can remember asking my group if the people running it would be okay with me eating my lunch, I turn around and see someone drinking a beer.

There can be quite a few weirdo's on campus.

[*ryan777*]

I saw a guy at Melbourne Uni wearing flowerprint fisherman pants (and drinking goon..)

Yeah that's pretty common.

Soon you'll see people wearing stuff from Woodstock and smoking joints. In my engineering workshop I can remember asking my group if the people running it would be okay with me eating my lunch, I turn around and see someone drinking a beer.

There can be quite a few weirdo's on campus.

wtf....to think most of these ppl had to get 90+ for these courses.....

[QuantumJG]

I saw a guy at Melbourne Uni wearing flowerprint fisherman pants (and drinking goon..)

Yeah that's pretty common.

Soon you'll see people wearing stuff from Woodstock and smoking joints. In my engineering workshop I can remember asking my group if the people running it would be okay with me eating my lunch, I turn around and see someone drinking a beer.

There can be quite a few weirdo's on campus.

wtf....to think most of these ppl had to get 90+ for these courses.....

Lol!

That is what I thought.