I'm considering studying psych @ MAQ, but am unsure where I want to go career-wise. perhaps your stories and plans could help me get an idea whether a psych degree is for me or not. Could someone maybe shoot me in some possible directions? I'm leaning towards something research-based, clinical etc. but still not sure. Any input?
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Christ, i understand that you want to know what you're in for and be informed but maybe you should just sit down and actually reflect yourself for a bit? Or better yet, wait till you start your degree, then see if you like it. No one is going to give you the decisive 'yes' or 'no' answer of whether it's for you. Furthermore, it's pretty ludicrous to sit here and try to decisively figure out which career/sub-set of psychology you will go into when you have never studied the discipline yourself. I know this may come off harsh but you seem to be in need of constant reassurance about what you want to do and seem to change your mind every couple of days. Instead making a new thread for every single little question that comes into your head (half of which could be easily answered by taking some initiative and checking out the university website) i think you need to just chill the fuck out and really have a good think about what YOU want based on what YOU like and are good at, not other peoples stories. And if after that you still don't know, like 90% of all other first years, just chuck yourself into a B. Arts and test the water to see what you like, you'll realise pretty quickly whether psychology is or isn't for you.
I take your point, but I think you may be being a little too harsh. The problem is I would rather not "dip" into a pure BA. I like how the Bachelor of Arts (Psych) at MAQ gives me 10 units of electives. So I could try that. However I have for a while now also had an interest in doing law. If I got the ATAR for Bachelor of Arts (Psych) / Bachelor of Laws at MAQ that would cover all bases, except for the fact it is short on electives (only 2 units). Do you think I would be allowed to do that degree with 10 electives i.e. take 6 years instead of 5? I've heard people taking longer than usual to complete their degrees isn't unusual and I think that would suit me.
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Most combined law programs will have very few electives if any at all, you do get to pick some elective law subjects in your fourth and fifth years. If you want to take extra subjects just out of interest and they are within the ambit of your program, then the enrolment system should let you (if not, I suppose you can contact someone and fill in a form to let you do this). Doing extra units for your own interest is fun, and will let you explore more subjects of your interest and would probably mean that you end up at uni for slightly longer, depending on how many extra units you want. (If you still want to finish within the 5 years, you can consider doing them in Session 3/Summer School which lets you do 2 units - so over the course of 5 years and suppose you do 2 units each summer = 10 extra units and still completing within 5 years).
Lots of options available, just have a think about it all
Seriously, you're going to fail university, give up now.
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Fanning the flames, nice.
Thanks for that. I'm not totally sure about law so I may end up doing psychology which has flexibility for electives.Most combined law programs will have very few electives if any at all, you do get to pick some elective law subjects in your fourth and fifth years. If you want to take extra subjects just out of interest and they are within the ambit of your program, then the enrolment system should let you (if not, I suppose you can contact someone and fill in a form to let you do this). Doing extra units for your own interest is fun, and will let you explore more subjects of your interest and would probably mean that you end up at uni for slightly longer, depending on how many extra units you want. (If you still want to finish within the 5 years, you can consider doing them in Session 3/Summer School which lets you do 2 units - so over the course of 5 years and suppose you do 2 units each summer = 10 extra units and still completing within 5 years).
Lots of options available, just have a think about it all
Gotta to something other than ilectures
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Why do you think that doing a BA prevents you from studying law? Or Psychology?
BTW I think what Asylum is trying to say is that university is all about taking initiative and working independently. No one is going to hold your hand, walk you through things and tell you what is or isn't better, what you should or shouldn't do. While it is good to ask questions, it is also good to try and seek your own answers first, which you seem to have an aversion to.
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Firstly I didn't say what your questions suggest. Secondly from what you've said I'm not sure whether you want to be in this forum answering questions. If you feel I should work things out for myself, which I'm in the process of doing anyway despite what my several questions may suggest, then don't respond.
You are free to ask questions Politic, that's exactly what this forum is for. I just think you should take some initiative and try and do a bit of the research yourself first. A lot of the questions you're asking are right there on the Macquarie website.
Not trying to be offensive, just my view of where they're coming from.
Not trying to be offensive, just my view of where they're coming from.
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This is what i am saying. Don't take it personally politic, it just get tiresome when questions are asked that could so easily, and often more accurately, be answered by a quick browse on the website.
Also, I'm just genuinely interested in what you think the named degrees offer you that the BA doesn't.
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This particular question was subjective. If people think I should find answers elsewhere then the strongest message you can send me is none at all. However it is just outright unhelpful and counterproductive to turn this thread into argument like it is now.
Look at the original question - it was a subjective question that originally had little to do with Macquarie and its website. I'm frankly sick of your scepticism. You can't on one hand try to bag out the question and on the other try to sound genuinely interested in what you falsely believe is the question without sounding hypocritical and unhelpfully argumentative. This is not a thread on BA v. specialist BAs. If this is going to be your approach, I think we would both be happier if you didn't post here at all.