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[SoCal]

Originally posted by Lexicographer
My mother told me this story from when she did her MBA. She got the reputation of being an Iron Lady, because she always lectured her groups before they did anything. Considering that she's a CPA with a senior management role in a major bank, and they're a bunch of n00bs who just graduated with a B Comm a year ago, she probably had the right.

Anyway, whenever people were forming groups she would have total control of who could and couldn't join, because she hates people who don't pull their weight. A few times someone didn't do enough work and she submit the paper without putting their name on it (meaning an academic counsel for the guy who didn't work).

OUCH.

That is harsh!

 

[santaslayer]

lexi sounds like a person that inhereted sum of her mothers traitz......LoLz

 

[SoCal]

Originally posted by hipsta_jess
are you serious? you need id just to get into the library? we only need it to use the computers, or to get access to the information common (this big room with lots of computers) after 10pm weeknights...
that would suck!

You know so much stuff about our University. I don't know anything. So we need to show our ID card to use the computers?

 

[SoCal]

Originally posted by Mambomeg
And there is always someone who thinks they know more than the lecturers, mature aged students are particularly bad at this, and often get into arguments that are way off topic, and as stupid irrelevant question in lectures and are uber annoying!!!

That is interesting to note, because I have never heard any of the mature aged students in my classes say a single word.

 

[Ribbon]

Originally posted by bubz
my ex got a * UAI in 2001, and like you said, he's charming and persuasive (lol) and he's got a good job and probably earns more than my dad o__O;;;

ooo that reminds me from my dodgy theory in another topic we had... I know somone who left school in yr 11, and after doing a traineeship he got a fully paid IT job (contract) he then started applying for other jobs (going for a more permanent position) and he got the first job he applied for, which is APS level 5...

My theory, which I will admit is dodge, is that without finishing school and going to uni he will be earning more money than any of his classmates. I am sticking by this based on the IT field only (cos it is impossible to judge earning acropss fields, because, as I said, some are just a cut above the rest) because one of his old bosses (who is now on around 100k) told him how great it was he got the new job because he finished year 12 then did an IT course at uni and it still took him a few years to get to aps level 5 (so going on my theory, he has a 6 or 7 year headstart on his classmates that go to uni to do IT in reaching asp level 5)

Going even more dodge... you could also just take the thoery on face value... he didn't even get a UAI and he makes 4 or 5 times as much as the 99.99ers in his cohort that are still struggling students at uni

As for a uni storey, my torts lecturer is in love with justice kirby and everytime she tells us about one of his judgements she puts his picture up on the overheard (she has done this for a few other ppl too) and has a little drum and gives us a drumroll for the really important cases...

she is also a good laugh talking about her personal experiences (like 'yesterday I went to the shops...') where she feels she could have had an action under tort law... its quite amusing to hear her say it gives her a good laugh to watch how well people behave after the tells them she teaches the laws of negligence at uni

edit: holy crap that was a long post!

 

[SoCal]

Originally posted by santaslayer
lexi sounds like a person that inhereted sum of her mothers traitz......LoLz

Isn't Lexicographer a guy?

 

[Ziusudra]

Originally posted by santaslayer
so anyway, putting all the legal crap aside... the girls still thought she was correct, so the tutor takes out the constitution and corrects her.....this took like an hour to settle, and she still isnt convinced???????

Lol. There's just no correcting tutors sometimes, they know their stuff. In English tutorials, it's best because then we can offer our own viewpoints on a particular poem or story, and it CAN differ from the tutor's viewpoints. But in fact finding tutorials, it's hard to argue with the tutor about the facts.

 

[santaslayer]

alright...HIM

 

[santaslayer]

Originally posted by Ribbon
ooo that reminds me from my dodgy theory in another topic we had... I know somone who left school in yr 11, and after doing a traineeship he got a fully paid IT job (contract) he then started applying for other jobs (going for a more permanent position) and he got the first job he applied for, which is APS level 5...

My theory, which I will admit is dodge, is that without finishing school and going to uni he will be earning more money than any of his classmates. I am sticking by this based on the IT field only (cos it is impossible to judge earning acropss fields, because, as I said, some are just a cut above the rest) because one of his old bosses (who is now on around 100k) told him how great it was he got the new job because he finished year 12 then did an IT course at uni and it still took him a few years to get to aps level 5 (so going on my theory, he has a 6 or 7 year headstart on his classmates that go to uni to do IT in reaching asp level 5)

Going even more dodge... you could also just take the thoery on face value... he didn't even get a UAI and he makes 4 or 5 times as much as the 99.99ers in his cohort that are still struggling students at uni

As for a uni storey, my torts lecturer is in love with justice kirby and everytime she tells us about one of his judgements she puts his picture up on the overheard (she has done this for a few other ppl too) and has a little drum and gives us a drumroll for the really important cases...

she is also a good laugh talking about her personal experiences (like 'yesterday I went to the shops...') where she feels she could have had an action under tort law... its quite amusing to hear her say it gives her a good laugh to watch how well people behave after the tells them she teaches the laws of negligence at uni

edit: holy crap that was a long post!

then why the hell am i still in uni doing a freakin 5yr+ course?????

 

[santaslayer]

Originally posted by Ziusudra
Lol. There's just no correcting tutors sometimes, they know their stuff. In English tutorials, it's best because then we can offer our own viewpoints on a particular poem or story, and it CAN differ from the tutor's viewpoints. But in fact finding tutorials, it's hard to argue with the tutor about the facts.

yea EXACTLY.....but these girls with big egos cant stand it when that happenz!

 

[Ribbon]

Rest assured santaslayer, we should both earn more money within a few years of finishing our degrees than the average IT specialist

Having said that, I still rekon it will be 10+ years before my salary ever matches his, but it will get there eventually, and probably overtake it in the end...

 

[santaslayer]

Originally posted by Ribbon
Rest assured santaslayer, we should both earn more money within a few years of finishing our degrees than the average IT specialist

Having said that, I still rekon it will be 10+ years before my salary ever matches his, but it will get there eventually, and probably overtake it in the end...

:uhhuh: YAY!!!!! :uhhuh:

 

[KeypadSDM]

Originally posted by santaslayer
yea EXACTLY.....but these girls with big egos cant stand it when that happenz!

Thinks to all my chem, physics and maths lectures...

 

[Lexicographer]

Originally posted by karnevil
a) they didnt do business studies in the HSC

Should they have? The HSC subjects don't matter nearly as much as the performance in first semester subjects (since they're all designed more or less as an introduction to your field, as well as an attempt to get everyone on the same level).

Originally posted by santaslayer
lexi sounds like a person that inhereted sum of her mothers traitz......LoLz

Originally posted by Merethrond
Isn't Lexicographer a guy?

[looks at "Gender" field under avatar]

 

[KeypadSDM]

Hey the gender thing works.

 

[santaslayer]

Originally posted by Lexicographer
.[looks at "Gender" field under avatar]

woopsy daisy

 

[xiao1985]

Originally posted by hipsta_jess
lol, i know a girl who was in the year above us, got a UAI of like 99.xx and has no social skills whatsoever, probably couldnt figure out how to get to the next town or even bake a cake.

:$ does that make me no social skills??

*starts readin bookz on baking cakes

 

[xiao1985]

Originally posted by bubz
my ex got a * UAI in 2001, and like you said, he's charming and persuasive (lol) and he's got a good job and probably earns more than my dad o__O;;;

and yeah (i don't mean to offend anyone here), most of the asian 4u maths students in my year got >95... and honestly, talking to them is like talking to a brick wall, even when talking in chinese. i'm not saying that everyone who gets over 95 is unsociable etc, but a high UAI doesn't necessarily mean that youre going to be more successful than someone who didn't get a high uai

>.<' pfftt damnit bubz!!! dat's not fair at all. ='(

Originally posted by karnevil
Here's my "I'm an arrogant asshole" complaint

I hate people who ask questions in accounting tutes and make it blatantly obvious that

a) they didnt do business studies in the HSC

b) they didnt do their readings before attempting no-brainer questions

buz study is nto a prereq tho... but i fink askin in tutues are alryte, cuz tis better than askin those blant questions in lectures... if they didn't do readins before hand, den... they r pretty crab...

*thinks

uhm, perhaps i should do my prereadin nxt time i goto tute... =p blehz

 

[santaslayer]

yea.going to a tute wifout reading sucks..

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Part of yesterday's second 'Early Medieval Europe' lecture was virtually out of a sitcom, right down to the canned laughter. [At least on my part.]

We had been told about the Book Of Kells, and the following words were said;
Lecturer-Now, we're going to be showing a video about the Book of Kells later in the semester for you, but its a surprise..
Ooops.