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Defining moments of uni (1 Viewer)

Raiks

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The first time I played unibar trivia.

The first day of every autumn semester where the girls show their silky legs underneath their sorbet-hued skirts.

On the second day of class as a first year law student, several classmates and I were discussing a possession case that we had read for property. One guy reiterated the holding, which was essentially that possession is 9/10ths of the law. Being a smartass, I replied, "Ah yes, that goes back to the classic case of Finders vs. Keepers." The guy looked at me, then started tearing through his book. "I didn't see that case. Where did you find it? Were we supposed to read it?"

The first time I realised that you can just walk out of lectures with no repercussions.

The first time I walked into a tutorial with a pint of guiness in my hand and realised that nobody blinks twice if you turn up to class so drunk you struggle to walk down the row to your seat without falling down.

The first time I realised that on a campus of 15,000+ people, you can just tell the fuckwit who is disturbing you whatever you need to, knowing that you'll probably never see them again while you are at uni. Yet for some reason, there are those people you always see yet have never shared a class or even talked to, yet you end up just nodding to them in acknowledgment as you walk past them because you just feel weird ignoring them.
 

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Oh yes, turning up to uni drunk the other week was another.
 

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Maths lecture going crazy because someone was using their laptoip in the lecture.
 

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Big VSU protest- relived my dreams of a politically volitile 70s style campus life where we all chanted, marched and stopped traffic, and listened to music at a grassy campus (thanks USyd for providing the grassyness)

First few weeks of uni realizing how much I had to learn.... realizing that there were some things that the people in my classes needed to learn too. I also realized how little exposure to high culture I had in Albury Wodonga lol.

Realizing that it was possible to pass a pass/fail subject without actually attending any lectures.

Realizing that I actually may have picked the right degree for me... or at least one that I am happy to do for the next couple of years of my life.

Realizing how spooky the UTS radio studios are at 10pm at night when you are on your own there.....

Student elections resulting in certain students in humanities singing and doing some weird mime in front of our contemporary cultures lecture

The lecture "So Gay Dance Music Sucks" in Contemporary Cultures 2.... you had to be there it was tops. Also some of the other strange short films and stuff we watched in cultural studies, they were definately interesting.

Some of the prac stuff in journalism... like when we had to go out and do a local area report in Glebe. We interviewed this weird guy who owned a bakery and had a conspiracy against all youth in Glebe.... he thought that the problem was that "young people these days are taught about their rights, and thats where the problem starts". Also this old guy at a pub on Glebe Pt Rd at 10am on a thursday morning... "nothing has changed here in Glebe and I have lived here for fifty years.... I went to that school down the road, it used to be a school but then the abbos took it over, bloody abbos... but nothing has changed here at all, nothing". And trying to hide from doing the plastic bags story on newsday....
 

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> Realising that a HD really isn't everything that BOS members made it out to be.
> Noticing the incredible ammount of very vocal socialist scum at uni.
> Adapting myself to become like the socialist scum.
> Giving presentations filled with communist propaganda to recieve high marks (28/30).
 

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i've had quite a few, especially living on campus and all...

the most recent one was where i was walking to class and suddenly, about 50m away, half of a large gum tree fell down.

puzzled, i looked into the trees to see none other than one of my lecturers, half-way up this tree, he'd just chopped the top off!! i cracked up then. he would've been trimming the tree just so the 1st year sculpture class would get some warm sunshine on their work area! It was so classic.

Oh and for painting and drawing, we go off on excursions every wednesday to paint landscapes, at places like the beach at Newcastle etc., our lecturer buys us afternoon tea and we have a break and chat for like, half an hour or so (there's like 4 ppl in the class tho), it's the best class!
 
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Maths lecture going crazy because someone was using their laptoip in the lecture.
I got yelled at by some weirdo for using my laptop in an economics tutorial :\ That was a defining moment because I just stopped turning up to eco tuts from that point on... my mid semester was 32/35.
 

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>realising how incredibly obvious political science is.
>treating a pols essay as a joke and failing - resubmitting it (and actually doing some research and getting a HD (unfortunately as it was a resubmit it will only ever be counted as a pass meh).
>realising that econometrics (maths) isn't as hard as I thought - but is still hard.
>discovering how much of a wank the 'student-movement' stuff is.
>Getting (mentally) fired up about economics - sad eh.
>Lecturers that could make maths, economics, history and politics interesting (the later two having been boring until this point as they were so easy).

A suspicous number of definning moments....oh well.
 

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Not-That-Bright said:
> Realising that a HD really isn't everything that BOS members made it out to be.
> Noticing the incredible ammount of very vocal socialist scum at uni.
> Adapting myself to become like the socialist scum.
> Giving presentations filled with communist propaganda to recieve high marks (28/30).
Hahahaha

*thumbs up
 

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- Being on camp, and people were so drunk that they were playing strip poker with cows :confused:
- Seeing a group do a major presentation drunk (they managed to get full marks for entertainment).
- Making a plan, a little way through first semester to steal a sheep on graduation and fit it into a boot of a mirage.
- Seeing sheep with blue wool, where they have been spray painted :p
 

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Coming into a 9am lecture realising that you were just at uni no more than 7 hours ago at a uni party.
Finally hating everyone else who catches 891s with you in the mornings on Eddy Avenue. They really need an orderly queue area. Or a sign that says "GET IN THE FUCKING LINE and PREBUY YOUR TICKET"
Realising that your course is filled with ugly chicks. Sorry ladies, but its the truth.
 

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RCMasterAA said:
Coming into a 9am lecture realising that you were just at uni no more than 7 hours ago at a uni party.
Finally hating everyone else who catches 891s with you in the mornings on Eddy Avenue. They really need an orderly queue area. Or a sign that says "GET IN THE FUCKING LINE and PREBUY YOUR TICKET"
Realising that your course is filled with ugly chicks. Sorry ladies, but its the truth.
lol, what course are you doing?
 

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Well that explains it. :p

Realising Architecture was an even bigger wank than I thought it would be. This was upon finding out my design tutor had given me 49.5 for two separate assessments.
Sitting in Coffee Republic of a morning and being able to say hello to at least 10 people on a first name basis before uni starts.
Awesome convos with the guy in CR who's name escapes me
NUTS :D
 

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when your singaporean tutor (for chinese) starts lecturing your class about sex, and starts telling you about a "horrible student i once had in singapore la, she slept with many many boys, now that is vellie shocking to me"

and then proceeds to ask the class if you've had sex yet (in a class of ~15 with only 3 guys), and that you should save it for marriage la, kids these day are so bad la, etc

this same tutor gave me 64 (one mark off a credit) for my final mark, when i'd been getting close to HDs all semester. :mad: (yes i am sure i did not fail my final exam)
 

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Cape said:
- Seeing sheep with blue wool, where they have been spray painted :p
This other school in our town did that to our school sheep one year on muck up day.....
 

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Getting to the point where I could walk up to the unibar past everybody in line and not have to order because the girl behind the bar would see me walk in, wave and get my lunch and drinks ready so I could just pay when I arrived at the counter... I guess the other defining moment was when Bianca, the girl behind the bar left and I had to go back to ordering again.
 

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missing my 1st..2nd..3rd... lecture.
realising that i cannot go on failing cos its going to cost me a hell of a lot later on. (physics cost me 900 this semester!!! and i still might fail it )
lunches in the cafe where we have no intention of doing work and start playing cheat for 3 hours and making hell of a noise
 

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