University Life - your perspective?

[adznight]

And despite popular theory - I don't spend ALL my time whoring forums

Uh huh, Right-o tiger :wassup:

[Mr. Oizo]

i dont like it one bit.. driving 2 hours to monash isnt my idea of fun...

especially coz i gotta get up at 6am

but i only do one subject hehehe

[Mr. Oizo]

hey dark what subject are you doing? is it an "enhancement study"? i did enhancement accounting last year....

yep..

im doing

CHM1011 and CHM1022 as enhancements..

its not that bad tho.. coz i dont have to drive up there all the time, only when my schools facilities are too shit to do the prac experiments there .. lol

[xRHETTx]

I know a few people who did uni subjects in year 12 and they all got marks of 95-100. Its coz uni is so much easier than year12. dark im sure youll go better than you think up against all those uni students who just drink all the time.

[Mr. Oizo]

I know a few people who did uni subjects in year 12 and they all got marks of 95-100. Its coz uni is so much easier than year12. .

hehe... so far its really hard.. i hope to get 96 for my TER...

dark im sure youll go better than you think up against all those uni students who just drink all the time.

hahaha.. the only difference there is... im still in year 12

[Guest INASNT]

dark u aint gonna go into IT are you?

[Mr. Oizo]

gladly.. no

hehehe..

although.. there is a lot of money in IT, i want to get into Biomedical Science

[Guest INASNT]

There are way to many people in IT and alot of em dont know shit either!

Going for the big bux job hey?

[adznight]

There are way to many people in IT and alot of em dont know shit either!

Going for the big bux job hey?

Amen to that, I work in IT for a hardwaresoftware sales and support company and I tell you what I could have half of the jobs of our clients in-house IT co-ordinators, they are dumb as dog sh*t. It is far to crowded now.

[Guest INASNT]

Thats because of those computer power training courses that tries to teach people who have never seen a computer before to be tech's in a few months and them get them a job when they really dont know what they are doing.

And then on the other hand you get the computer geeks that do a 2 year tafe course with a fancy name which teaches you basic stuff and then they get jobs trying to sort out problems they wouldnt have a clue about.

[Mr. Oizo]

heh... i think when you call up tech support.. it sorta proves the point that they are just knobs that did a 2 hour training course on how to use a computer..

[Guest INASNT]

try ringing up dell tech support, the call goes to india, enough said!

[Mr. Oizo]

try ringing up dell tech support, the call goes to india, enough said!

haha.. same with HP (i think) and also telstra... lots of companies do it because it saves the money on employment costs, and they can give ppl jobs over in india

[Guest INASNT]

it took me 2 hrs to try explain to 1 of them that i could not drive from cairns to melbourne and drop my laptop off.

[Mr. Oizo]

it took me 2 hrs to try explain to 1 of them that i could not drive from cairns to melbourne and drop my laptop off.

hahaha

[sammus]

i saw a documentary on that! they teach them american slang too... it was about telstra doing it i believe.

[funkymonkey]

lol funny thing is, most techies in india are attending or have attended MIT, which amongst other things is ranked number 2 in the world for IT degrees, and number 1 outside the US. If any of them were to come over here to work, they would not only know more than us, they'd also be much more highly qualified than most of the managers running around in the IT industry.

But, by the same token due to oversaturation, there is no room for them to come over here, and thus they work in india in callcenters...

[Guest INASNT]

lol funny thing is, most techies in india are attending or have attended MIT, which amongst other things is ranked number 2 in the world for IT degrees, and number 1 outside the US. If any of them were to come over here to work, they would not only know more than us, they'd also be much more highly qualified than most of the managers running around in the IT industry.

But, by the same token due to oversaturation, there is no room for them to come over here, and thus they work in india in callcenters...

Theres are about 5 Indian PLC programmers working at the building joining ours on the new PLC Holden Engine plant in Adelaide. Its a sub division of my company.

I was getting a coffee in the lunch room and started talking to one of the guys and he asked me how long i have been in aus, i said 20 years. So i asked him the same question and he said 1.5 weeks, of which 1 week he was working!!

They may know their IT stuff but know farkall about geography of australia

[kenny_lim]

F*** uni!

advice tho: dun go overboard partying(heheh..yah rite..)...go to classes (esp. if ur an international!!!) make friends with the smart kids in class... dun matter if they're geeks or loud or whatever... long as ur passing everything have as much fun as u like...i found out the hard wayyy....not like yr12 at all... couldn't party my b*lls off and pass everything.... n 1st years a bludge...get all the partying out of ur system then!!!

PS - seeing everyone else (friends and peeps) graduate and still having 2 yrs to go is..... feels .... f*cked. keep passing aite!!!!!!!

can't believe i found my fails funny then... bloody st*ner......

PS - i think the right course is directly linked to ur motivation.... been doin accounting for 4 years now...and am only going into 2nd yr... sheesh

all the best mate, have fun!