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I may just come down this week, it really depends on work though and whether they pay me or not, if I do plan on coming down I'll let you know cause I'd get lost going there myself.

too easy maaaaang

Lowballer 31 ness means yes I had 1 kenda cheapo tyre on it. 3 week wait on KU31s so just took anything that was the right size lol.

Urgh. Not even 31 owners are that dodgy :down:

If you had bought my tyres you'd have 2 matching ones to put on...

Ugh got f**kloads of uni stuff to do this weekend so will probably just watch it while I'm doing some assignments. Gaids.

Gaids

Urgh. Not even 31 owners are that dodgy :)

If you had bought my tyres you'd have 2 matching ones to put on...

Gaids

This 31 owner is that dodgy :down:

you know whats really gaids? Bathurst, and its even gaidsier when you are physically at the event, all of bogan kind in the one place at the one time.

I'm looking forward to the rule change for it though. Especially if Nissan, Toyota and Audi etc get in on it. Will be much better then.

:);)

Scarnon mangs. Workday halfday win finish at 12 sposed to start at 7 but got here at 9.

Sounds good. I'm looking forward to a 7-1ish on friday...

This 31 owner is that dodgy :down:

I'll forgive you if you put the mismatched pair on the rear <3

you know whats really gaids? Bathurst, and its even gaidsier when you are physically at the event, all of bogan kind in the one place at the one time.

Pretty good for a day of TV/drinking though. But it will get switched off as soon as the F1 comes on.

I'm looking forward to the rule change for it though. Especially if Nissan, Toyota and Audi etc get in on it. Will be much better then.

Yeah that will be good, needs more jap and euro

The bogans will revolt though

f**king winrar.

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Dear UDB316 Students,

I refer to my email on this Monday regarding the extension of deadline for Assignment 2, we consider a large number of students will be away during next week mid-term break, and also some of you have technical issues encountered in regard to the use of CostX, we decided to further extend the submission date for Assignment 2: Cost Plan (Part 2 – Final Cost Plan Report) (30% weighting) for one more week. The revised deadline for Assignment 2 submission is now the 8th October 2010 (Friday). Please ensure you submit your assignment by the due date to avoid incurring any penalties for late work.

We are currently finalising the marking of Assignment 1, and you can get your marked Assignment 1 from Assignment Minder around 5th or 6th October. We are sorry for the delay but please understand that it really takes us a while to complete marking for 150 reports and files.

Thanks

Regards,

Johnny

UDB316 Unit Coordinator - End quote

Original due date was today lol.

So you guys remember Johnny? I just got another surprise announcement lol.

Dear UDB316 Students,

Based on the porblem of late return of marked assignments and alsorequests from students, we decide to further extend Assignment 2 deadline to the close of business Wednesday, 13th of October 2010. Please note that no further extension will be granted - this is the 'final' deadline of Assignment 2.

We hope that all of you could incorporate the comments from assignment 1 into your Assignment 2.

Regards,

Johnny

This guy is a f**king joke. Ends up giving another extension because it took them 6 weeks to mark our first assignments. So all the retards at uni complained that they couldn't finish the second assignment without the feedback from the first. This prick just keeps f**king me over with his moving the goal posts. I'm still handing mine in tomorrow cus f**k this guy. ;)

I spent a lot of time today considering going back to uni to complete the 10 subjects that would give me an ecology degree in addition to my environmental management one, reading that has made me think hard about how much I hated uni when i was there and has almost put me off lol

Uni is just the complete opposite of what I expected. I hate the lecturers and the students some days I just want to burn it down. Down to the ground. I don't think I could ever do any more uni shit after this is finished.

TESTING DOCUMENTS DONE!!!!

Well, drafted anyway. On to some real work tomorrow :)

I am sure I have killed at least 17% of my brain cells while doing those documents ;)

So you guys remember Johnny? I just got another surprise announcement lol.

This guy is a f**king joke. Ends up giving another extension because it took them 6 weeks to mark our first assignments. So all the retards at uni complained that they couldn't finish the second assignment without the feedback from the first. This prick just keeps f**king me over with his moving the goal posts. I'm still handing mine in tomorrow cus f**k this guy. :)

I like your attitude.

I spent a lot of time today considering going back to uni to complete the 10 subjects that would give me an ecology degree in addition to my environmental management one, reading that has made me think hard about how much I hated uni when i was there and has almost put me off lol

I am quite sure I could get many more degrees with just as little effort as I got the first one. However, I hated it so much I doubt I will ever go back to Uni.

...That said, if they give me any more testing documentation to do I might bail and go back to uni, best of two evils...

Uni is just the complete opposite of what I expected. I hate the lecturers and the students some days I just want to burn it down. Down to the ground. I don't think I could ever do any more uni shit after this is finished.

;)

Uni is just the complete opposite of what I expected. I hate the lecturers and the students some days I just want to burn it down. Down to the ground. I don't think I could ever do any more uni shit after this is finished.

Yep I hear ya, couple that with the fact I was broke the entire time I would mark it as one of my lifes low points, though picking up was easy so I guess that was an upside.

I am quite sure I could get many more degrees with just as little effort as I got the first one. However, I hated it so much I doubt I will ever go back to Uni.

...That said, if they give me any more testing documentation to do I might bail and go back to uni, best of two evils...

I hate it too, but in my case the average ecologist is charging out at $150 - $200 an hour. Hence the delema

Yep I hear ya, couple that with the fact I was broke the entire time I would mark it as one of my lifes low points, though picking up was easy so I guess that was an upside.

I hate it too, but in my case the average ecologist is charging out at $150 - $200 an hour. Hence the delema

I haven't had to suffer with the being broke part of uni. While I never have any money I still earn a fair bit more that my other uni mates. The other end of the stick is all my other mates work 15 - 20 hours a week while I do 40 while uni is on and 60+ when uni is on holidays. Trying to cram in 4 or 5 subjects worth of assignments and still work 40 hours a week is a challenge I never want to do again.

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