In the January offer round you have been offered:
418201 Bachelor of Applied Science (Medical Science) - full-time or part-time at Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point Campus.

You must respond by Monday, 22 January 2007.
Your offered course is currently listed at preference 1.

Finally in the right degree after a few years :)

It appears no-one really gives a s***.

lol

i got into my preference 1 at uq.

Good luck to all the youngins.

I'm going to apply for late entry into Psych. Been doing it through Arts but it's easier to get into Psych now (third year) than at the time for honours...

It appears no-one really gives a s***.

Keato wins the thread.

Yee my transfer from arts at uq to business at qut was accepted.

haha but then when you only need a gpa of 3.5 to get into business I'm not really fkn surprised :p

greazy got into biotech! hoooooraaaaaaaay

He is developing android super soldiers in the name of allah :O!

Yee my transfer from arts at uq to business at qut was accepted.

haha but then when you only need a gpa of 3.5 to get into business I'm not really fkn surprised :p

Haha, you got a gpa of 3.5 in arts. What's even more funny, is that QUT accepted you with a failing grade from UQ:Arts.

No... that's all that is required to be accepted into business.

Good to see you can read. I think that's usually required too.. :p

Chub I have a friend who is her 3rd yr of that degree and she said it is an uber hard degree, and she got an OP1 !

So prepare yourself for some pain.

is this the same degree people normally do before they go into medicine?

Damn... ahh well, may as well try then die wondering.

you can do any degree before going into medicine, but obviously the more science/medical related your degree is, will help you in the first year courses of med.

I'm 90% sure you have to do something sciencey related. I don't think you can go from law to medicine, no matter how well you go on your GAMSAT.

I'm 90% sure you have to do something sciencey related. I don't think you can go from law to medicine, no matter how well you go on your GAMSAT.

Bollocks, I know a decent whack of people that went from law to medicine... I even knew a guy that went from arts to medicine.

No... that's all that is required to be accepted into business.

Good to see you can read. I think that's usually required too.. :p

I've done gradumutated!

yeah it's any degree, and you can get into medicine

I got into my first preference

batchelor of applied science (human movements)/ batchelor secondary education.

ehh i'm finished uni and have been for a while. working on my bachelor of applied cash money now

Just dont do IT at QUT.

Waste of time.

edit: bit off the topic, but anyone able to still use their QUT email after graduation?

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batchelor of applied science (human movements)/ batchelor secondary education.

What university?

If I don't accept this offer, I will probably be in the same classes as you :)

oic!
Well that's pretty snazzy then. I wonder why I thought otherwise :(

why would you not accept it, it's your first pref + you said you're finally in the right degree after years?

the university for the real world.

Just dont do IT at QUT.

Waste of time.

Almost all of the guys who work at Boeing with me either graduated or are studying IT at QUT and they seem pretty competent. Of course, they all work hard.

working on my bachelor of applied cash money now

I'm doing Postgraduate studies in moneymaking.

In the January offer round you have been offered:
228652 Bachelor of Multimedia - full-time at Griffith University, Nathan Campus.

got into this after being at tafe for 1yr and having a yr off. dont know whether i will take it or not tho. Going from working friday-sunday at the family and doing nothing during the week to uni during the week and assignments and lectures and work on the weekend = gaybar :(

Have to flip a coin and see if i need another yr off haha

That's why you scab off centrebludge, don't work and live like a hobo.

You have no money but you got all the free time in the world.

I just play guitar and MAME all day ftw!

i love listening to post grads whinge about how tough the real world is and working 5 days a week at fulltime hours after spending 3 - 4 years of living the uni life.

i love listening to post grads whinge

I spent 7 years finishing off an undergrad degree, and I've been working full-time over a few of the holidays, part-time during semester.

Working is so much easier and less stressful than study. You go home, grab a beer and no more work commitments till the next day.

As opposed to uni when you go home, permanently stressing about take-home tutorials, assignments, study and exams. You rarely get to unwind, unless you do an easy degree or just aim for a pass.

good point, i was referring to this who do "easy degrees".

Working is so much easier and less stressful than study. You go home and you have no more work commitments. As opposed to uni when you go home, permanently stressing about take-home tutorials, assignments, study and exams. You rarely get to unwind, unless you do an easy degree or just aim for a pass.

Quoted for the motherf***ing truth. That is pure gold.

You rarely get to unwind, unless you do an easy degree or just aim for a pass.

except for say, the 4 months of the year with no uni, or when you are at the pub at 11am on a weekday?

except for say, the 4 months of the year with no uni

Yes, the other 4 months when working full-time.

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except for say, the 4 months of the year with no uni, or when you are at the pub at 11am on a weekday?.

Students who want to do as well as possible usually work over much of those breaks.

Chub I have a friend who is her 3rd yr of that degree and she said it is an uber hard degree, and she got an OP1 !

So prepare yourself for some pain.

I'm in my second year of Medical Sciece, it isnt as hard as people make it out to be. For all of my first year, I had no assignments..

The best way to easily pass, and probably do better is to totally smash your mid-semesters. You have far less to study and they are usually pretty easy. If you get 80-90% (or better) in the mid sems you really set yourself up for an easy 4, with a little extra effort a 5 is easy, 6's if you whip out a few weeks of study before the final exams and 7's if you study an hour or two a night for all of the last sem. (You can compress it down even further if your a good cramer)
For Chemistry 2, I have aced the mid-semester organic chemistry with 100%, that combined with 80% prac marks, I had about 5% needed to pass my final exams. I could have choosen randomly in the multi-choice exams and still passed, it was harder for me to fail then to pass. It fully takes the pressure off and makes studying, at least for me, much easier.


O .. and the chicks, Medical Science is to Chicks as Egineering is to Lads.

I'm 90% sure you have to do something sciencey related. I don't think you can go from law to medicine, no matter how well you go on your GAMSAT.

Bollocks, I know a decent whack of people that went from law to medicine... I even knew a guy that went from arts to medicine.

Yup, all you need to do your MD is to pass the Gamsat with enough, about 65%, go for an interview and have some sort of undergrad degree. It could be history, maths, dynamics of gaming noobness or anything. It is stupid I think.
There are Doctors out there that have very little clue about microbiology and other related topics and only know what they are required to know.
Veterinarians can sometimes know more about the disease process then doctors. Beware of a doctor's prescribed medication when the room is filled with the companies logo...

/end rant
:D

Working is so much easier and less stressful than study. You go home and you have no more work commitments. As opposed to uni when you go home, permanently stressing about take-home tutorials, assignments, study and exams. You rarely get to unwind, unless you do an easy degree or just aim for a pass.

For me it is the otherway around.
I find the whole people dynamics and in-house politics distressing. I prefer the study, it comes easy to me, and you can do it while sinking beers and the brewhouse if you want. Only stressful time for me is the week of an exam. The rest is really cruisy.

That said, where I work is awesome, choose my own hours, unsupervised. As long as I get the work done on time, all is good. Kinda like Uni.

Sounds good Toll :D

Scoobs I got into the course you're doing.

First year Diploma of Multimedia at Yeronga TAFE, then a Bachelor of Multimedia at Griffith Nathan Campus.

Twas my 2nd preference =(

my girlfriend tells me they are doing away with the interview for medicine this year

she was pretty pissed

So what's the deal?

I always thought the GPA was just a qualifier and the weighting was 50/50 to the GAMSAT / interview.

yeah.. they are taking away the invterview, to stream line the whole process i think

well this is at griffith gold coast, dunno if it's all round

No interview means any monkey with a memory can become a doctor. :(

as oppose to anyone that can bulls*** an interview?

Working is so much easier and less stressful than study.

That would depend largely on what degree / job you did/do, surely? I think there's a reason why most mature age students do well at uni - because it's generally a hell of a lot easier than most jobs. When you go straight from school to uni there's much more temptation just to say "nah, i'll go to the pub and finish that assignment later on" (which of course never happens and you end up rushing and screwing it up, etc).

Personally I would love to go back to uni and finish my degree full time. I would s*** it in and it would be alot less stressful than work. Guaranteed.

Hey just wanted to confirm.

The offer is commonwealth supported, unless they specify fee paying right ?

I got an offer into 753001, is that commonwealth supported ?

That would depend largely on what degree / job you did/do, surely?

Well as I already hinted, if you're doing an easy degree or just aiming for a pass .. you'll have an order of magnitude more free time and less stress than a student who is trying hard.

When I started off my study with I.T, I found it very easy to get high marks with very little effort due to previous experience. I actually spent most of my days skipping class to play Quake3. No stress, no worries.

Fast-forward a few years, studying Engineering .. much more difficult. Actually have to study to even pass and give up lots of free time to achieve more than that. Always stressing, always worried, always low on free time.

In comparison, work is work. Unless you do weird shifts or are on call 24/7, you can leave the day's worries behind you as you're driving home at 5pm.

Someone help me!

First year Diploma of Multimedia at Yeronga TAFE, then a Bachelor of Multimedia at Griffith Nathan Campus.

Kharak, my housemate’ (Xyzzy) brother did (just graduated in fact) Multimedia at GU. If you want, message me and I’ll put you in touch with him.

I think there's a reason why most mature age students do well at uni - because it's generally a hell of a lot easier than most jobs.

You can make study as hard as you want it :) I know what I was doing in my final couple of years at Uni certainly wasn’t easy, although it was extremely fun.

I’d guess that most mature age students do well at University because they go to uni to achieve something. Unlike many kids who enter university because their Mother wants them to.

Someone help me!

The best advice you could do is to phone up the people who offered you the course and get them to tell you.

That would depend largely on what degree / job you did/do, surely? I think there's a reason why most mature age students do well at uni - because it's generally a hell of a lot easier than most jobs. When you go straight from school to uni there's much more temptation just to say "nah, i'll go to the pub and finish that assignment later on" (which of course never happens and you end up rushing and screwing it up, etc).

That's the reason I'm doing good now. I f***ed around too much, ended up with a rape GPA and leaving uni.

Got a job, realised that the grass is much greener on the other side... knuckled down so I won't have to work some dips*** job ever again.

yeah i left school and worked as a painter for 2 years and knew i wasn't going to do that forever, so i decided to start studying and you're so much more motivated to do it after working for a while, compared to all the little s***s that come straight out of school into tafe and just complain they don't want to go to tafe and complain that want their holidays rather than working

i'm not starting a drafting job on monday ^_^

I'm pretty s***ty at UQ atm, they're messing even more with their Software curriculum. Two of the four subjects I'd signed up for this semester have been dropped, after the final subject timetable was released. These two third year courses, one of which I was actually looking forward to, has been replaced with COMP1900 - Internet Access and Information Retrieval (or some s*** like that). Unimpressed. I'm thinking I might just take some random electrical eng., physics or maths courses to fill my credits, but it makes me give up my major Software major...

anyone doing that new gaming and media entertainment degree at qut?

swatvac/exams is the worst thing evar
i hated those times with a passion

what they are required to know.
Veterinarians can sometimes know more about the disease process then doctors. Beware of a doctor's prescribed medication when the room is filled with the companies logo...

GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY.

What a crock of s***. I'm sorry, but in all my years of QGL ignorance, this takes the f***ing GAY CAKE.

AND SORRY BUT SERIOUSLY

batchelor of applied science (human movements)/ batchelor secondary education

if you're gonna be TEACHING kids, it's BACHELOR, not BATCHELOR.

I never even knew cakes had a gender, let alone a sexual preference :(

Veterinarians can know as much, if not more about pathology then doctors... IN ANIMALS.

It's like apples and oranges... the anatomy and physiology can be miles apart.

I think there's a reason why most mature age students do well at uni - because it's generally a hell of a lot easier than most jobs.

I disagree. From what Ive seen its because:

a) they are paying it up front
b) they are there to learn
c) they are occasionally looking for career changes, and don't want to have to work their way up from the bottom in a new industry, so they need as much knowledge as possible.

And from the 20 or so mature age students Ive been involved in group work with, I dont think I have ever heard any of them say once that uni is easier than work, generally the opposite.

Maybe the mature age students from my school are different

michael wants to party all the time, party all the time, paaaaaaaaarty allllllll the tiiiiiiiiime

if you're gonna be TEACHING kids, it's BACHELOR, not BATCHELOR.

...

Holly: I am Holly the ship's computer with an IQ of 6000. The same as 6000 PE teachers.

Veterinarians can know as much, if not more about pathology then doctors... IN ANIMALS.

It's like apples and oranges... the anatomy and physiology can be miles apart.

Humans are animals, and you will find that most diseases a human can get an animal will also have something with a similar process.

I don't really get what your referring to with your apples and oranges statement, but humans and pet species have extremely similar anatomy and especially physiology. Most vets who go on to do med are usually quite bored for the first few years as they are just repeating the same stuff. Heck a lot of our teachers come from Herston.


I think those changes imposed on med are rather unfair. They should have at least given a three year warning before implementing thin. I know a few people who haven't been trying their hardest as an uber GPA was not necessary for entry. Now all of a sudden they have no chance of getting in. Sucks to be them.

lol, i like sport.

not spelling.

sorry to ruin your day nubbin.

some basic english helps though

anyone doing that new gaming and media entertainment degree at qut?

Will be interesting to see how that turns out, most of the creative industries @ QUT seemed to have nfi on courses, i know a fair few people that are doing fine arts animation either left or are thinking of doing a post grad after, + student tutors is always a s*** option.

lol i was waiting for nubbin to come in an destroy toll's comments:O

Yup, all you need to do your MD is to pass the Gamsat with enough, about 65%, go for an interview and have some sort of undergrad degree. It could be history, maths, dynamics of gaming noobness or anything. It is stupid I think.
There are Doctors out there that have very little clue about microbiology and other related topics and only know what they are required to know.
Veterinarians can sometimes know more about the disease process then doctors. Beware of a doctor's prescribed medication when the room is filled with the companies logo...

I think you'll find there's a reason that they accept people from all sorts of backgrounds. Most doctors who I have heard talk about the topic are quite adament that they need people doing med from different backgrounds...

If you work full time and have three people individually say "Have that report on my desk by this afternoon!!!!", when you get to University and the lecturer tells the class "Here is your assignment, it's to declare a few variables and write a function to assert prime numbers, oh and you have 6 weeks to do it in" life becomes a lot easier.

I just finished my first year of IT last year, and I did well not because I am an intelligent person, but because I've learned to deal with pressure and procrastination.

I see other kids around me fresh out of school and I pity there attitude towards learning. It's sad to see them missing out on what should be a fantastic experience.

My advice to school leavers would be to take a year or more off until you really know what you want to do.

^not a bad suggestion. I actually enrolled in an Arts degree because I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I sure as s*** didn't want to work full time. Ended up being awesome for me. While spending years trying to work out what I wanted to do, I notched up a degree that I'll have for the rest of my life, and was lucky enough to score a job in the field that I was studying.

Now I'm back at uni studying psych. I hope that I'm always studying something for the rest of my life cause learning is fun:p

What did you study inside your BA Billy and how did it help you?

lol i was waiting for nubbin to come in an destroy toll's comments:O

Of course she would, she's a Doctor ;P

Aye, I agree it is good to have doc's with differnt backgrounds. Vet Docs are the best :D

Maybe the mature age students from my school are different

The one lesson I’ve learned since graduating is that our degree kicked ass.

If you work full time and have three people individually say "Have that report on my desk by this afternoon!!!!"

Has that actually happened to you? I normally know weeks in advance when my reports are due, unless of course they are briefs or something that you can whip up in an hour.

I can’t recall the last time anybody said anything like that quote. Unless I’ve known about it for weeks and they are just reminding me that they need it that afternoon.

when you get to University and the lecturer tells the class "Here is your assignment, it's to declare a few variables and write a function to assert prime numbers, oh and you have 6 weeks to do it in" life becomes a lot easier.

What’s that in, first year first semester? Assignments don’t stay that easy forever.

I just finished my first year of IT last year,

Oh, it probably was :P

The reality of the workload depends on what University, Program and Course you are doing. I’ve had courses I could blink and finish the work and I’ve had others where I have devoted my life for 13 weeks to complete it. Actually, in many of the courses I did – along with simul – I’ve dedicated the entire 16 weeks of semester (13 weeks of coursework, 1 week swotvac, 2 weeks exams) to project based subjects … and I’ve done a lot of them.

That’s what made my degree so awesome, s*** loads of f***ing awesome projects. As much as the newblets complain about projects, it’s the only place you really get to put into practice the cool s*** you’ve learned with any kind of safety mechanism,

and I did well not because I am an intelligent person, but because I've learned to deal with pressure and procrastination.

I’d also say that you’re there for a reason other than your mother made you. Going to Uni because you really want to makes a huge difference.

I see other kids around me fresh out of school and I pity there attitude towards learning. It's sad to see them missing out on what should be a fantastic experience.

I’ve said a million times, University is lost on the young.

I see other kids around me fresh out of school and I pity there attitude towards learning

here here

Yup, fully agree with people fresh out of school vs mature age students.
I remember when I was fresh out of school, went to do IT at USQ as I felt it was expected of me. Was totally owned as I rarly went to lectures and whatnot, cost me several thousand too that hasnt been paied off yet :(

6 years later I'm back at Uni, studying what people say is a very difficult course and totally owning it. My intelligence is the same, if anything lower from the dumb stuff I did while attempting uni the first time :D
The attitude is very differnt though, and that is were it really counts.

What did you study inside your BA Billy and how did it help you?

I covered a fair bit of stuff, but mainly went from a double major in Communications to singles in Film and TV and Media Studies.

Most of my classes involved watching movies and TV series. On top of that though there was some pretty heavy theory. It doesn't really matter what you do in Arts, just make sure you enjoy it. It's the one degree that gives you enough freedom to really feel out what else there is to study at uni. If at the end of it you still aren't sure, at least you have an Arts degree, and like I said a degree of any kind will stay with you for the rest of your life;)

sounds pretty emotional billy :p

the problem with mature age students is that they don't realise uni is really about getting pissed, sleeping with lots of different people and sleeping in. study and achieving are actually not seen as important.

the problem with mature age students is that they don't realise uni is really about getting pissed, sleeping with lots of different people and sleeping in.

Obviously you went to the University of Homosexuality. All of the mature age students I know were the ones arranging parties, teaching kids how to drink properly and practically f***ing anything that moved. The hardest part about starting to work again was learning how to wake up at 6am.

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Basically yes ;)

Caught in a lie. Though I have had situations worse than the one described; Where I have had to do far more work than is realistically expected of anyone. Of course the boss has no clue and I'm to young and dumb at the time to appreciate how silly it all is.

I can appreciate it will get much harder, but unlike a younger sillier version of myself, I won't feel the pressure as much. I am actually looking forward to harder projects!

Toll sums up the difference perfectly:

The attitude is very differnt though, and that is were it really counts.

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Obviously you went to the University of Homosexuality.

no i went to UQ, and all the mature age students were tards, asking dumb questions, talking to the tutes afterwards and generally being the biggest suckasses on earth

no i went to UQ, and all the mature age students were tards, asking dumb questions, talking to the tutes afterwards and generally being the biggest suckasses on earth

How would you know what they where like? Surely you should have been drinking beer, getting laid and sleeping all day.

There are a few mature age students who are morons. We had one who was a completely dense software designer who didn't understand anything about design, development or business processes. I hates him.

Out of interest, what degree/major did you do, and have you graduated?

What have you studied Typo?

getting laid

no one from the internet gets laid silly

What have you studied Typo?

Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons IIA) {Information Environments, Interaction Deisgn}.

Edit: both majors are no longer offered at UQ. Which is a pitty, because they were awesome.

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i love the way you put your little honours class in brackets after you listed your degree

a simple field of study would have sufficed

i love the way you put your little honours class in brackets after you listed your degree

a simple field of study would have sufficed

The question asked what I studied, both majors and an additional honours year are optional. So, I was just being specific. I.E. there is as much of a difference between doing and not doing majors as their is between doing doing and not doing honours.

It wasn't like I wasn't showing off, hons IIA isn't something to take off my pants and gloat about.

don't gloat + take off pants, just take off pants