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where do you go to university/TAFE, and what do you do?

Why do I study? What else would I do! :)

(Bachelor of Arts)

Studying is great for many reasons:

-You get to learn about heaps of stuff you would otherwise have no idea in. The stuff which a Bachelor of Arts teaches you is absolutley amazing. This same stuff makes for excellent conversation amongst friends and older people. Talking about morals and philosophy and history etc is fun.

-Exchange Programs! Monash is sending me to a college in America which costs $18,000 US dollars a semester, I pay a little over $4000 AU plus plain ticket, plus Monash gave me a $1500 Scolarship. YEEEEEEEEE HAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

-Contacts. You want em, you got em, university is full of em! I've made a few friends, met some girls, and worked closely with lecturers. Lecturers and tutors can become your friends, they help you and you help them.

-Avoid a real life! If I were to get a job (i allready have a part time job, but I mean a real full time job) i would have a terrible job. I work in a factory and pack boxes (no offence to box packers out there). Since getting into University, I have taken up research work with a friends mum who works for a Hospital. This is much more enjoyable than packing boxes and picking orders 8 hours a day!

-Experiences. Well studying in the USA will be one. Becoming good friends with people who i would have never known is another. Going on excursions and trips that the Uni offers is also a good way to meet new people, experience new things (i'm going skiing this year!!!) and find yourself in situations you would have never otherwise been in.

However, through all this goodness, I am facing a dilema. I finish in 18 months. I have the marks to switch into any double degree and am aiming towards Law at the moment but am unsure. I would rather study Law at Melbourne Uni. hmmmmmm, decision time.....

CA:)
 
Another bit I just remembered today. Sometimes the course fees play a part in what you can choose to study, eg is it full-fees only or HECS or something like that. I've had friends who wanted to pursue a certain course, but then had to give it up in the end because the final costs were just too much.

Although the best one is the one you can go on an exchange program ;)
 
BA dbl maj Politics and international studies and Media studies.
It's pretty much what it sounds like. On the media side of my degree i've been tending to focus on more practical units, to balance the somewhat theoretical nature of politics, and to give me a fighting chance in the media industry when i finally get out of uni world.

I do it because i want to do something socially useful with my life. OK, not quite as useful as being a doctor or engineer, but it's the only skill that i can really contribute: a passion for disseminating information about the world. And journalism, (the profession this degree will hopefully break me into) is the best way for me to practice what i preach.
 
Bachelor of Nursing

Right now i'm studying for a mental health exam, which will be on in about 12 hours. Fuck, i dunno, dellusion/illusion/hallucination... theres very little difference in the meanings. Actually, the whole meanings of words in psychology inter-twine with one another. It's crazy 8(

I'm so confussed, i need sleep, need to relax.. i want this week to be over. 5 exams in 5 days *cry* Why can't i have a better mechanism of coping with stress?????????? :( :(
 
*bump*

i'm an arts student. yes, laugh you may, but at least i'm learning about the stuff i like, and i'm still actually planning on having a career, so i'm hoping it'll work out okay. i'm entering my fourth year (i fucked up a few subjects in first year) of a cinema major, with media and philosophy minors. haven't been able to do any philosophy stuff lately (this year or last) though, as we only have a certain amount of subjects, and i just couldn't viably fit it in.

why? well, because since i took my first year of cinema classes (in first year, and i took them mainly because i liked the idea that we got to sit and watch films and call it *work* - though it actually proved soon to be work...i hated it at first!), i've pretty much fallen in love with films. i love everthing about them, and uni has actually opened my eyes to the arthouse - i'd probably never seen a non-hollywood movie in my life before i started at uni.

i love it. secondary to music, film is the thing i'm most passionate about, and because i like writing, it just seemed stupid *not* to continue on with that as my major. media i like because of the social analysis side of things mainly, as the writing seems kinda secondary, and philosophy was great for the same reasons. i just like to do stuff that makes me think, challenges the mind and all that - and these are the subjects which seemed to cover the broadest range of material, and made me think the most.

hope you're still going well apollo :)
 
Nice bumpo there dood - I filled in my subject entries oh-so different to how I predicted i would this time last year

During the last year, biology just died for me... as much as I loved it, it just became... boring

So I'll stick to chemistry. Organic chemistry in fact. Just cant get enough of it, as stupid as that sounds :)
 
I finished my degree, this year...

My friends who started a month earlier, and so are currently working say that they dislike this career as it is boring as fuck and you really dont know what u are doing... Basically they say its fucked!

Hehe... ive studied three years to go into a job that im going to hate... but these are the breaks. I suppose its all about getting a stable footing and this is probably a good way to go at it.

I dont really care about the job that much, I suppose its the experience that is worth its weight in gold.

Just seems a little hard to get hyped up about!
 
Originally posted by Queen Beat
I dropped out of a business degree after 18 months. I'm hoping to go back next year to do a Bachelor of Ancient History with a diploma of education. Anyone who knows me will understand that this is a much better choice of course.

And remember hon, if your really hate what you initially choose to do you can always transfer. It may seem like a waste of time but in the end it will be the right decision.

Woohoo! I just accepted my offer back into uni and can't wait to be a student again. While some people consider the fact I dropped out of uni a big waste of time, I really have to disagree. I wasn't suited for the business world and there was no way I could see myself making a career for myself in that field. So why continue paying for a course I have no interest in? This time off has helped me refocus and realise how lucky I am to be going to uni. These days I see it as a privilege and not a right. It's a pity I couldn't come to this realisation when I was 18. ;) Yay! Bring on the history nerd.
 
I am now, for sure studying psych as well as completing my current degree.

Fun fun :)
 
well since my post on the first page i've had another turn around and am actually going to go back to what i originally wanted to do since i was ten lol and thats my b/teaching and b/arts this year (continuation of it anyway) I'm really looking forward to going back to it now that i have that sorted and feel it's my calling :)
 
Well I've now finished my Chemical Engineering degree and have decided that instead of hitting the job market that a doctorate is calling, so I'm heading back to do a PhD in Chemical Engineering :)

3 1/2 more years between me and the real world is all good :) and at the end I get to be called Doctor ;)

CB :)
 
Hooray, I can finally post in this thread.

When I finished school in 2000 I got accepted into my first choice - a Bachelor of Network Computing. I deferred it "indefinitely" to go and do other things like drink lots and have babies. I'm SO glad I did - I would have finished my course by now and presumably would be staring down the barrel at a network or sys admin job, which is not what I want to be doing at all.

Anyway, in July I decided it was about time I went back to uni. So I applied again and got offered my first preference, w00t. I'll be doing a double degree - Arts/Business (Mgmt) - and I'm so so excited :D

Why? Because.. well, my parents have both been management consultants for a fair chunk of their lives, and I grew up around like, organisational development, strategic planning and team building. It became ingrained into me, in a way - I associate "job satisfaction" with a whole lot of management buzz-words. And I love what my parents do and always thought I'd end up doing something like it. And I love learning about people and the way they work in organisations and groups (hence my taking Sociology as part of my Arts degree). I'm also fascinated by the business world - finance, economies, marketing, structural stuff. It's my own private millionaire-in-training porn.

As for why I'm doing a double degree.. well, I'm also an English junkie and I love learning for the sake of learning. So while I become the next Richard Branson, I'm looking forward to also taking literature and journalism to keep my schooling sort of balanced.

Oh, and I also wanted to go back to uni so I could get a new desk, which I'm going to do tomorrow. Hooray new desk!
 
I studied computer technology, changed to electronics. After working part time in both medical and electronics industries, i landed a sweet job as a technical officer for a massive biomedical device company. Now they are going to pay me to go to uni and study science, hopefully in a biomedical field. i liked engineering, but my brain is more geared to science, if you know what i mean.
 
Double degree for me, in 5th Year of Bachelor Education (Secondary/Bachelor Applied Science (Health Sciences) at Deakin Uni. It is only a 4 year course but I defered for 1 semester and due to a less than impressive pass rate in recent times for some mega boring education subjects I'm still there and will be for maybe 18 months-2 years! Not a bad effort hey finish a 4 year course in like 6 years!!!
I really enjoy teaching and pretty sure thats what i'll end up doing - teaching secondary PE and Health & Human Development. Good thing with my course is that through smart subject choices I can work in health sector, as school teacher, personal trainer, could be over-qualified gym instructor. Or even with bit of extra study branch off into sports psychology which is so mega interesting to me but employment is quite limitted. School teaching is the way to go with 13 weeks payed holidays a year and hours of like 8:30am-4:00pm!!! not a bad lifestyle.


Beech out
 
Well...

I've got 20 credit points left(half a semester) and I've got a degree in Software Engineering.

If anyone wants to give me a job for reasonable pay ( I don't expect anything else yet) and somewhere I only have to work 4 days a week then give me a message. I'm pretty good at what I do and learn new stuff pretty damn quickly so I can fit in anywhere. I'm very good with people and work just as well in groups as a monkey or a leader.

Any ideas?
 
I'm currently studying a Bachelor of Commerce at UNSW. I have about 1 year to go.

I started off doing Engineering, hated it, wasted about a year and a half at uni, then took a year off.

Went back to Commerce at the start of 2002, and really enjoyed it. I was definitely far more ready for uni than I was originally, and I had a little bit of drive to get me through all my subjects.

As boring as Commerce sounds, I enjoy studying Accounting, although I am pretty sick of my other major, Finance (although I only have one subject left in it).

Any other UNSW people out there?

bRAVEheart
 
I'm into my second year of Professional Writing, obviously I'n not in it for the money otherwise I would have chosen something that may ear nme some.

No, I study writing because I am a good liar who is full of fanciful stories.
 
Bachelor of Commerce, second year... Why? I guess it sounded good at the time.
 
Bachelor of Commerce (Banking) / Bachelor of Social Science (Politics), Third Year... why?
Because i'm a person ruled by my possessions, I feel I need a well paid job to fulfill my wants.
I've grown up in a VERY comfortable lifestyle (thanks Mum and Dad =D) and thus feel inclined to continue to live as such in the future.
Call me whatever u feel, it's good to be yourself, but it's also good to feel financially free.
=D
Just my opinion... as always.
PEACE
 
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