University Thread

[Hallatia]

is it called "Who's the Boss?"
I haven't ever watched that show, but I saw the episode of Community when Abed took that subject and the answer is Angela

 

[BDR]

I have an idea it will just be watching Simpsons episodes all day. I may be disappointed

 

[Didgi]

Choose a sports/events management type thing. I fail to see how that couldn't be fun.

 

[BDR]

It isn't, trust me. Sports Management was horrendous. Although as a former law student I assure you there are many horrendous mind numbing subjects in your future pal.

 

[dogslife]

First year subjects are boring as batshit

 

[Hallatia]

I enjoyed nearly half of my first year units

first year phil subjects are fun because with a good enough teacher, every class turns into one big argument about one of those super fun philosophy questions. Ethics is even more fun than regular philosophy because people get really passionate and fired up about it, and my ethics lecturer just had this way of bringing it out of people

 

[miguel de cervantes]

For you budding uni students, heed my advice: like at high-school, the majority of what you learn will have been forgotten five years out of university. I have courses on my transcript I don't even remember taking, let alone what we actually learnt in them. The key thing to get out of university is the capacity to learn on your own and to know how to find and adapt resources to the real world problems you will encounter. Don't worry too much about your marks. Concentrate on assignments where you are employing the aformentioned skills. Do a good job on them and you can present them to your future employers as solid evidence that you can work, rather than just presenting a number out of 100 in some course they don't know anything about.

 

[Hallatia]

arts degrees are more valuable than others in terms of what you actually get out from them education wise (employability is overrated, but employers have begun to recognise the value of arts educations)

 

[Marshall_magic]

First year subjects are boring as batshit

Agreed, basically if you've studied that area in high school you would go close to passing the exam before the course begins. They exist to bring everyone to the same level (so you understand the skills and concepts you learn in the second year), and also to weed out the dummys.

I studied Accounting/Finance whilst my mate started at the same time doing Media, and after 2 years decided to add Commerce to it (and do a double degree). When I had to help him with a few of his units, I saw just how simple the stuff was compared to the third year stuff I was doing, yet the first year subjects have failure rates of around 40-50%, whereas the third year ones barely go above 10% (except for the Tax unit I had to do, which was up around 50% as well, and considered one of the hardest undergrad units the university offers in any department). To me that gives an indication of how many people throw the towel in after a year because it just isn't right for them.

 

[Hallatia]

don't about 40 to 50% of first year students drop out before the end of the year? I'm pretty sure that has something to do with it

 

[Hallatia]

I miss undergraduate uni. You could turn in utter crap and be forgiven for it, you could even pick and choose what assessments you want to complete and still pass. It didn't even matter that much whether you passed, you could always repeat units that you failed. They only thing that was forbidden was plagiarism. You could also put off assessments for as long as you liked, due dates didn't matter anywhere near as much as lecturers pretended they did.

Even one of my economics lecturers who was the most by the books teachers ever gave me two extensions and one of them she forced me to take whether I wanted it or not and that was for an exam.

 

[Twizzle]

arts degrees never really set too many people up for a financially rewarding career

 

[Hallatia]

financially rewarding careers are overrated.
Aaaaand, you don't even need university degrees for those

 

[Garts]

financially rewarding careers are overrated.
Aaaaand, you don't even need university degrees for those

And you know this from personal experience?

 

[Hallatia]

some of the richest people on Earth never even finished high school let alone started university.

 

[Apey]

Bludge subject for next semester is selected: Television Studies

I did Intro to Digital Music Making, using a basic program to mix samples/loops together to make a piece of music... I spent an entire day on each of the 3 assessments (the day before, naturally) and that was it for the course.

Earned myself a Distinction without much time involved.

For you budding uni students, heed my advice: like at high-school, the majority of what you learn will have been forgotten five years out of university.

5 years? I just finished last month and it's all gone...

 

[Garts]

some of the richest people on Earth never even finished high school let alone started university.

I know that, out of all my mates the most financially successful did not attend uni at all. I was referring to your comment that financially rewarding careers are overrated.

 

[Hallatia]

I believe that, but I suppose some are some aren't. Money isn't everything, I think doing any job because of the amount of money it makes you really isn't worth it

 

[BDR]

Arts/humanities classes are exceptionally good for hitting on liberal arty types. That is their main benefit IMO

 

[Mong]

It isn't, trust me. Sports Management was horrendous. Although as a former law student I assure you there are many horrendous mind numbing subjects in your future pal.

Haven't come across any law units I haven't found fun/interesting as yet...

Admin law next semester may change that though.

Actually, it is admin, property and equity so all three may challenge that!!