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Join Date: Mar 2011
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I am in my first year of uni and I love the social life (living on residence) but hate the essays with passion and the course doesn't feel progressive or like its going anywhere. permanent works seems much more appealing at the moment.
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: adelaide
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My daughter felt the same way. She applied for a uni exchange and ended up in Canada and loved every minute of it, on & off campus. She now has her degree and I feel is a better person for doing it. The exchange was for 12 months and unisa paid for her airfares only.
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Country Vic.
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What vocation?
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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good luck but make sure you know why your going ,m if its boring and unprogressive it's either not for you , or its a claytons course heading no where . good luck and getted sorted so you know if your wasting your time or not . |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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Depends what you are doing mate. I'm in 2nd year of mechanical engineering and its only just starting to interest me. The first year of any course will be pretty general and hence be boring. Hang in there
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seriously though mate , i guess that would be a very hard course with a specific aim /or approach . it would take a special kind of person to do it . political bureaucracy would be demanding. like a race without a finish line . and when you find out how it really is it can be very disheartening . certain people can be intereted in this . others cannot . but an interesting field non the less. |
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Ipswich, Qld
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I was...until I changed my degree...since that point, smooth sailing.
Assignments are part of uni life - the further you get, the harder they get, the worse they get and the more mundane they seem - and then you get your degree... The key is to make sure you're intrinsically motivated from the outset of your units (as opposed to extrinsically)...it will make life a whole lot easier knowing you're doing it because you WANT to, and not because you HAVE to... Just what I've found anyway ![]()
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ballarat, Vic
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I do need to switch course, too bad its 4 weeks in to semester 2, so my hecs debt will likely have about $10,000 worth of waste on it.
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Not if you utilise what you've already studied, there'll be some kind of cross-over somewhere (depending on what you decide to switch to), you may be able to get RPL's...what uni are you studying with anyway?
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Location: Ballarat, Vic
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La Trobe uni in Bundoora, think I want to switch to accounting
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: SE Vic
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Yep sounds like you need to re-evaluate your course selection. If you are finding the subject matter boring you're not going to enjoy the occupation it ends up putting you in.
Sezzy is right, and has swallowed a dictionary, you need to know where your hard work is taking you and where you can apply it. I got my mech engineering degree almost 10 years ago now (geez I'm getting old!) and luckily part of my course involved 12 months work experience in the middle, so that when I came back I was reinvigorated and motivated knowing where the results of my hard work will take me. Up until then I was failing subjects routinely and had a barely passable average grade. For the last 3 semesters after I came back from work experience I had a high credit / distinction level average. Unfortunately I had such crappy grades from my first 5 semesters I only ended up with a pass average but I still got my degree and am working in the field I wanted to. Anyway my point is try to visualise how you can use what you are learning, it helps to put thing into perspective. And if you dont like what you see (in your visualisation) then it's not the course for you.
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Northern Suburbs Melbourne
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I found Uni wasn't interesting till 3rd/4th year. But I still felt that it was more a degree factory then anything. I guess I would have preferred a system were I could have worked for a company part time as well as going to uni. Probably would have made it better.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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People often dont realise that once in uni, its a back door to degrees you couldnt get in in the first place. With the politics, its not about who is right etc, although Im sure there lots of that being discussed but thats just a means to an end, its about understanding the process and the why of **** that happens. Dont worry about it making sense, just get your head around the notions or general concepts, ie: dont have an opinion about it, just learn it and youlld keep your grades high. Alternatively, look at your opinion and how it fits, and then make sure youre justifying them with the concepts taught at each lecture. You dont have to be right, you just need to demonstrate you get what they are teaching and can apply it. Chin up, dont see tomorrow, see the future. Oh, NEVER PUT OFF STARTING ASSIGNMENTS AND READINGS ETC, NEVER FALL BEHIND. If you have, dont keep doing it, its hard if not impossible to catch up, but at least dont fall further behind. Dont forgo the semester, at least give it a good shot from here on. Accounting, lol. I started in that, ended with a double degree in law and accounting. You'll love Company accounting, allocating costs one department of an organisation imposes on other departments. It seems to defy all the rules and techniques of the previous learning on accounting. I struggled to get my head around it. |
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Ghetto, SA
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I'm at tafe with a fulltime work load. I find the hardest thing for me is getting the motivation to do something. I'm in IT and we don't actually get lectures. Our lecturer just sits and waits for our questions. I'd give anything to have a lecturer instructing the way through each topic rather than watching crappy video's and reading 50 pages of text word by word, incase you miss something.
I'm falling behind and really need to knuckle down as I finish up in december. |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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![]() Way back when, I wasted time in Uni. IT degree, first year was full of crap that I had no interest in doing and was very general. Had to do Law, Accounting, Maths as it was a general stream of a Business degree. It wasn't until the 2nd year that you actually got to choose your fate and the classes that actually interested you. Eventually dumped the degree for a full time job (this was more than 20 years ago, mind you) as the lecturers were useless and our choices were things like COBOL. ![]() Uni has beneficial courses (like Accounting) and largely useless courses (IMO, like IT) and if Accounting is the way you want to go, apply for a transfer. If some of the courses you're doing now are also included in the Accounting degree, stick them out. |
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Join Date: May 2010
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Sounds like you need to change courses mate, if you want to stay at uni and you really don't think it's for you, make an appointment to go and see a course adviser and work out what your options are. Don't let your grades slip in the meantime.
I'm a 3rd year and have always found the course I'm doing at least a little bit interesting and engaging, even in first year, although I've always struggled with readings. I'm reasonably confident that it's the right degree for me and am getting excited for honours. Hopefully once you slot into a degree you like, you'll feel the same way.
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However, this is not to say that UniSA is awesome at engaging students who do not commit to full time study and on campus education (i work full time and study part time in my own time... and a little at work)
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I did IT @ uni and it was an absolute waste of time.
Sure it's nice to have a degree, no one can ever take that from me, but no one will ever ask me to write an essay on why a server has gone down, they'll just want it fixed, ASAP!
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1st year sucks. 2nd year sucks.
3rd and 4th are alright. Basically….if you want to degree in that particular field, get it done. If not, switch now.
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I'm looking at doing online Uni studying an IT degree just so I can further myself in my current job but not committed to starting yet as there are too many things in my life that are up in the air so I can concentrate on the job at hand.
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Townsville
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assignments? lectures? studying?? faaarrrr! glad I didnt go to Uni
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: SYDNEY
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WELL DONE EVERYBODY . it's great to see people aiming high . my advice . keep it up , and apply it to your future career, make it work . it wont fall in your lap , and is a waste of time unless you make it work , anyone doing a degree because they have nothing else to do , shows a lack of interest and is probably wasting their own time . so find the right course , if your not happy switch , but have a goal at the end . cheers to all.
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ballarat, Vic
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Thanks everyone for your insightful input. I will be changing course for sure as I am very disenchanted with it so far, just worried baout getting the grades needed for a transfer as it is hard for me to do well if I don't enjoy the current subject...what a dilemma
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I did 3 and a half years of my Engineering degree before I quit in 2005. I have got 1 semister left to do. Uni turned me off the whole industry. I now work in a completely different industry and it was the best thing I have ever done. Do not get stuck in a course that you will hate and wish you had never done.
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