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The transition form high school to university (1 Viewer)
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Absolutezero
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They're more expensive than most people expect.
chewy123
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Help is generally readily available. You can email, call, goto consultation hours, or goto peer-tutoring class, or just walk up to the lectuerer/tutor after class. It's just that it may take a little more effort than in highschool, and the help is little less user friendly.
Learning pace will be much quicker at uni, and the material will be much harder and require more thinking to understand. Competition is more fierce and the environment will be more chaotic, so time management is essential. But once you get use to the flow all should be fine.
Learning pace will be much quicker at uni, and the material will be much harder and require more thinking to understand. Competition is more fierce and the environment will be more chaotic, so time management is essential. But once you get use to the flow all should be fine.
You save money by bringing your own if you have a set. You can check the CLB Arc Store (the Arc Store next to the Central Lecture Block, up the basser steps) for what the uni ones look like, and if yours look pretty similar, you're fine.
For your question, you're free to use skateboards/roller skates/scooters on campus. Around 4-6pm you'll be seeing some guys skateboarding down the main walkway if you're on UNSW.
Bicycles are welcomed too!No uniform - you can dress up like you're going out of rock up in your PJs (unless you have labs, as mentioned above)
No daily lunchtimes with your friends - unless you make some with the exact same timetable
A bigger campus - you will probably get lost for a few days. And may have to travel for a loooot longer than you did to school.
Weird names for buildings/rooms - a lot different if you went to a small school
No one forcing you to do homework - apart from assignments, studying isn't actually compulsary for uni. Unless you intend to pass. And don't expect reminders about when your work is due; you'll only get told once.
No one forcing you to show up - some lectures/tutorials take a role call if you need a certain % attendance, but depending on the course you may never actually have to step a foot into uni (not recommended; even if you're half asleep in a lecture, you'll learn more than if you tell yourself you'll read the lecture notes but never do)
Completely different friends to the ones you had at school - you may only see them once a week, and they may live on the other side of the state from you. But you'll generally have a lot more in common with them as you've both chosen the same field to study.
More demanding work - I wouldn't go as far as saying it's HARDER than year 12, but you definitely are expected to learn more in a shorter period than you would at school. I swear some stuff covered in a one hour lecture would be taught over weeks at school
More stuff to do in your free time - Unis often have more food outlets/shops to visit and there's plenty of groups to join that'll give you a wider social circle and the occasional free lunch
All kinds of people - at school you only had people living in your area, your age. At uni there are people from all kinds of nationalities, all ages, and all socio-economic backgrounds. But everyone's really friendly
No daily lunchtimes with your friends - unless you make some with the exact same timetable
A bigger campus - you will probably get lost for a few days. And may have to travel for a loooot longer than you did to school.
Weird names for buildings/rooms - a lot different if you went to a small school
No one forcing you to do homework - apart from assignments, studying isn't actually compulsary for uni. Unless you intend to pass. And don't expect reminders about when your work is due; you'll only get told once.
No one forcing you to show up - some lectures/tutorials take a role call if you need a certain % attendance, but depending on the course you may never actually have to step a foot into uni (not recommended; even if you're half asleep in a lecture, you'll learn more than if you tell yourself you'll read the lecture notes but never do)
Completely different friends to the ones you had at school - you may only see them once a week, and they may live on the other side of the state from you. But you'll generally have a lot more in common with them as you've both chosen the same field to study.
More demanding work - I wouldn't go as far as saying it's HARDER than year 12, but you definitely are expected to learn more in a shorter period than you would at school. I swear some stuff covered in a one hour lecture would be taught over weeks at school
More stuff to do in your free time - Unis often have more food outlets/shops to visit and there's plenty of groups to join that'll give you a wider social circle and the occasional free lunch
All kinds of people - at school you only had people living in your area, your age. At uni there are people from all kinds of nationalities, all ages, and all socio-economic backgrounds. But everyone's really friendly
Dragonangel
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Wow thanks so much!No uniform - you can dress up like you're going out of rock up in your PJs (unless you have labs, as mentioned above)
No daily lunchtimes with your friends - unless you make some with the exact same timetable
A bigger campus - you will probably get lost for a few days. And may have to travel for a loooot longer than you did to school.
Weird names for buildings/rooms - a lot different if you went to a small school
No one forcing you to do homework - apart from assignments, studying isn't actually compulsary for uni. Unless you intend to pass. And don't expect reminders about when your work is due; you'll only get told once.
No one forcing you to show up - some lectures/tutorials take a role call if you need a certain % attendance, but depending on the course you may never actually have to step a foot into uni (not recommended; even if you're half asleep in a lecture, you'll learn more than if you tell yourself you'll read the lecture notes but never do)
Completely different friends to the ones you had at school - you may only see them once a week, and they may live on the other side of the state from you. But you'll generally have a lot more in common with them as you've both chosen the same field to study.
More demanding work - I wouldn't go as far as saying it's HARDER than year 12, but you definitely are expected to learn more in a shorter period than you would at school. I swear some stuff covered in a one hour lecture would be taught over weeks at school
More stuff to do in your free time - Unis often have more food outlets/shops to visit and there's plenty of groups to join that'll give you a wider social circle and the occasional free lunch
All kinds of people - at school you only had people living in your area, your age. At uni there are people from all kinds of nationalities, all ages, and all socio-economic backgrounds. But everyone's really friendly
Very informative. I'm on the excited side now. 
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haha i dunno about 'irrelevant,' but it does help.
biopia
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I think the stairs are fine IMO. Well, most of them are. The big stair case just past international square is the most annoying, but other than that, everything seems fine =]
Although, my high school had a similar number of steps even though they were more spaced out. XD
The exercise is good too =]
Although, my high school had a similar number of steps even though they were more spaced out. XD
The exercise is good too =]
hollyy.
stop looking at me swan.
youre a freak. wheres the international square?
Sokolov
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"fuck i walk 10 steps and im exhausted"Get a segway!
"gotta take the lift"
saw a wheelchair bound guy at the gym doing weights the other day i bet he is better than you.
you peoples are much pathetic pretty much why australia has an obesity problem.
as for lab coat and safety goggles you must get them yourself.
from campus stores or somewhere.
biopia
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It's at the end of the Mall, kinda where the stairs start. The staircase I'm referring to is just before Scientia Lawn.
=]
Dragonangel
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How far do you guys have to travel to uni?
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Lol I have an 8am tutorial on Tuesdays for the whole semester... T_T Are tutorials compulsory to attend to? Are they just revision sessions?