2009 UoM Students

[brendan]

i have no idea to be honest, the whole financial sector as a whole along with the labour market for acccounting and finance grads are currently undergoing some very significant change at the moment. i've restructured my course a little so that if i want to, i can switch to an accounting major (with CA accreditation) mid 2010 from an actuarial major. in that time, i should be able to make up my mind between accounting or actuarial studies

[hard]

don't you have to be like full on good at maths to do actuarial studies?

gee thanks Hard lol

j/k

oh lol didn't mean it that way, i'm sure 31 in year 11 could be a 40 in year 12 HI-5!

[Noblesse]

i have no idea to be honest, the whole financial sector as a whole along with the labour market for acccounting and finance grads are currently undergoing some very significant change at the moment. i've restructured my course a little so that if i want to, i can switch to an accounting major (with CA accreditation) mid 2010 from an actuarial major. in that time, i should be able to make up my mind between accounting or actuarial studies

Yeah I'm strongly leaning towards Accounting for my career - at least until the economy calms down (if it ever does). Overall, accounting, finance and economics are the only 3 majors I am interested in.

[brendan]

Which area of accounting ?

[iamdan08]

Biomedicine for me next year! 

[brendan]

i have no idea to be honest, the whole financial sector as a whole along with the labour market for acccounting and finance grads are currently undergoing some very significant change at the moment. i've restructured my course a little so that if i want to, i can switch to an accounting major (with CA accreditation) mid 2010 from an actuarial major. in that time, i should be able to make up my mind between accounting or actuarial studies

Yeah I'm strongly leaning towards Accounting for my career - at least until the economy calms down (if it ever does). Overall, accounting, finance and economics are the only 3 majors I am interested in.

i've also been trying to find some time to read this paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w14644

[Noblesse]

Which area of accounting ?

Still deciding, but at the present moment, taxation or financial accounting interest me the most.

[brendan]

seriously, i am gonna just try to pick the biggest bludge subject there is. I dont see the point of wasting my time on learning something else. Just do the subs required for my major, pass them all without spending extra time on my breadth (which probably wont take me anywhere) and walk out with a good masters degree.

ANyone wanna share their views on this?

If so, wat good bludge subs are there?

IMO that's a really poor attitude towards 25% of your degree. The subjects are only a 'waste' if you want them to be. They're supposed to enrich your education and degree, making you not such a one-dimensional graduate. I'm sure if you look hard enough you'll find subjects for breath which can complement and enrich your education.

Naturally for breadth I'd recommend taking Economics subjects as breadth: http://www.unimelb.edu.au/HB/areas/EECONOM.html

mainly that of:

316-101 Introductory Macroeconomics
316-102 Introductory Microeconomics

316-201 Intermediate Macroeconomics
316-202 Intermediate Microeconomics

316-312 Macroeconomics
316-313 Microeconomics

But the following subjects are also good:

800-116 Generating the Wealth of Nations
https://app.portal.unimelb.edu.au/CSCApplication/view/2009/800-116

800-101 Critical Thinking With Data
https://app.portal.unimelb.edu.au/CSCApplication/view/2009/800-101

[dcc]

science

[riadnicolas]

biomedicine

[username]

I've been looking at all the breadth subjects available and I'm interested in the Genetics Health and Society one. But it's a level 2 subject. Am I not allowed to do it  then?

[champorado]

biomedicine

15? Holy shit!

username: There aren't any prerequisites listed, so I'm assuming you'd be allowed to do it. Better make sure at your appointment next week.

[username]

biomedicine

15? Holy shit!

username: There aren't any prerequisites listed, so I'm assuming you'd be allowed to do it. Better make sure at your appointment next week.

Thanks. I was just confused since it said to do level 2 you need to do level 1 blahablaha.

[Edmund]

biomedicine

15? Holy shit!

username: There aren't any prerequisites listed, so I'm assuming you'd be allowed to do it. Better make sure at your appointment next week.

OMG Dont tell me he is 15!!!!!!!

[Ken]

Hey guys do we find out our appointment times with our course advisor on AAD?