Team UniMelb!!! Who is in?

[Stroodle]

Hoping so

Haha, i'm actually undecided on breadth because it's my final choice to make and it doesn't matter that much. Don't want to do a science subject, someone tell me what breadth to pick!

Do same sex. I would if I swung that way
Wish they had an opposite sex desire subject. That only really cute girls and me did.

[Russ]

haha, do sociology of the body

[rustic_metal]

Pick a beginner's language.

[Stroodle]

haha, do sociology of the body

haha, do sociology of the body

That actually looks pretty interesting. Probably heaps more girls in there than in logic too

[Stroodle]

Pick a beginner's language.

Do you know if beginner's spanish is hard? I studied spanish for a year ( can't remember much though) so I'm considering it..

[rustic_metal]

I've heard Spanish isn't too bad at beginner's level. If you're considering it, absolutely go for it. Uni is pretty much the only chance you'll have to properly learn a language without living in the country (teaching yourself is incredibly unlikely to work), so if there's even the slightest chance you'll regret not doing it, DO IT!

I did beginners Japanese this year and found it very hard, given that I have almost no experience with Japanese or Chinese (damn Asian kids already knew what all the kanji meant!). Still, it was very fulfilling and I miraculously passed both.

haha, do sociology of the body

Bah, sex classes. They just try to get you in with the course descriptions, then teach you a bunch of boring stuff.

I remember last semester my friend (girl) got a text from a group member (girl) in her sex class about an assignment. I sneakily texted back a dirty message, then completely forgot to tell my friend about it. 4-5 weeks later my friend is telling a story in a pub about how one of her group members was acting really weird for weeks, then finally confronted her and told her that she was sorry but she didn't return the feelings she'd admitted to in her text. Cue WTF. It didn't click until near the end of the story that I was responsible. 

[rustic_metal]

I thought that there were several different levels for language subjects, the beginners' stream, post-VCE stream and advanced stream so that the beginners' subjects were suitable to those without prior knowledge of the language. But well done Doing a diploma of languages?

By 'beginners' I meant Level 1. The different streams are generally just starting points for people with different experience levels. For people who know nothing at all about it, you start at Level 1 (which most people call 'beginners'). People who did it in VCE start at Level 2 (which we call 'second year'). People who did really well in it in VCE start at Level 3, etc.

And yeah, Diploma of Languages. Just because my degree wasn't long enough as it is! *graduates in 2016*

[Russ]

I remember last semester my friend (girl) got a text from a group member (girl) in her sex class about an assignment. I sneakily texted back a dirty message, then completely forgot to tell my friend about it. 4-5 weeks later my friend is telling a story in a pub about how one of her group members was acting really weird for weeks, then finally confronted her and told her that she was sorry but she didn't return the feelings she'd admitted to in her text. Cue WTF. It didn't click until near the end of the story that I was responsible.

You're my hero, that's brilliant

[Stroodle]

Haha. That's hilarious.

I think I'll skip spanish, pretty sure my workload will be big enough as it is, and I don't really have a natural talent for languages, like so many others seem to.

[rustic_metal]

I failed year 10 French, if that's any indication of my 'natural talent for languages.'

[vexx]

Haha. That's hilarious.

I think I'll skip spanish, pretty sure my workload will be big enough as it is, and I don't really have a natural talent for languages, like so many others seem to.

Spanish is a pretty easy language to learn - one of the easiest for English Speakers. It won't be that much work, just work consistently and should be fine.. I'm probs doing Spanish xD

[Stroodle]

Haha. That's hilarious.

I think I'll skip spanish, pretty sure my workload will be big enough as it is, and I don't really have a natural talent for languages, like so many others seem to.

Spanish is a pretty easy language to learn - one of the easiest for English Speakers. It won't be that much work, just work consistently and should be fine.. I'm probs doing Spanish xD

Hmm, yeah, it is pretty easy to learn (I was able to have very basic conversations after 1-1.5 years), but it still takes a lot of time - for me at least.. All those bloody verb tenses..

[fady_22]

Yeah, under the drop down box where it asks for subject code.

For example, I search MAST10011 and nothing comes up.

I also searched UNIB30002 and it didn't work.

I called them up and they just said to wait for AAD.

Ha. When I called them the girl said to wait for AAD, but then when I told her that the email strongly recommends we do it before then, she said I better do it before then, but I can change it later..

Did it let you search/add them?

I search and nothing comes up.  

Just leave it blank and press search. It'll come up with two pathways: standard and bioengineering. Choose the pathway, and then you can enrol in the subjects you want.

[vexx]

Haha. That's hilarious.

I think I'll skip spanish, pretty sure my workload will be big enough as it is, and I don't really have a natural talent for languages, like so many others seem to.

Spanish is a pretty easy language to learn - one of the easiest for English Speakers. It won't be that much work, just work consistently and should be fine.. I'm probs doing Spanish xD

Hmm, yeah, it is pretty easy to learn (I was able to have very basic conversations after 1-1.5 years), but it still takes a lot of time - for me at least.. All those bloody verb tenses..

If you studied it properly you should have very basic conversations in like a week of studying
Uni will ensure you will know more then just 'very basic', they teach it effectively I've heard, i'm sure you aren't that bad !

[Stroodle]

Haha. That's hilarious.

I think I'll skip spanish, pretty sure my workload will be big enough as it is, and I don't really have a natural talent for languages, like so many others seem to.

Spanish is a pretty easy language to learn - one of the easiest for English Speakers. It won't be that much work, just work consistently and should be fine.. I'm probs doing Spanish xD

Hmm, yeah, it is pretty easy to learn (I was able to have very basic conversations after 1-1.5 years), but it still takes a lot of time - for me at least.. All those bloody verb tenses..

If you studied it properly you should have very basic conversations in like a week of studying
Uni will ensure you will know more then just 'very basic', they teach it effectively I've heard, i'm sure you aren't that bad !

I dunno about that. My friend did spanish at latrobe for 6 months, and was still only learning present tense at the end of it. I'd hardly call that conversational, or even basic conversational, but obviously that's just my opinion.

One of the main things that scares me (along the amount of time I'd need to put in) is the oral assessments..

That's just me though. Other people in the classes I took picked it up really quickly and were able to develop a pretty big vocabulary in a relatively short amount of time.