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Semester 2 ROUND UP
It's time for a round up of everyone's university subjects/HSC subjects/Post-grad research. This will be useful as a warning/advertisement for future possible enrollees. So I would love whoever to tell me about your courses. You can write just a ranking/grading or multiple symoposiums, it's all good. These aren't all mine, most are from people who told me about their course and I wrote it up for them.
Maths - "Statistics" (USYD)
What a hideous course. The lecturer was such a mother stereotype, as in if she came to the lecture in a dressing gown and hair curlers I wouldn't bat an eyelid... assuming I was awake. She'd often berate the lecture hall as if we were one 1000-legged, 1000-eyed child with a definite gender crisis. It doesn't help that she wrote the textbook we had to buy and was crucial to the course ONLY for the tables in the back. She implored everyone to buy it, even though it was a badly organised steaming mess of bad design and tonnes of political correctness in the names of the people in the problems. There were also some really gross problems..
D-French - "Beginners French" (USYD)
I loved it and I'm missing it already. I mainly loved it because my lecturer/tutor was so adorably French with all that famous European tact. If you did badly in a test, she's let you know she was disappointed. She was FIERCE and I never say that word. Tutor bias aside, the course it structured very well.
A
Commerce - "Accounting 1001" (UNSW)
DIE ACCOUNTING DIE DIE DIE YOU AND YOUR LITTLE DOG
F
Art - "Life Drawing" (COFA)
Quite interesting, especially the nude models. Another one started coming around to all the artists to look at her own naked body on the canvas. It was cute because she was naked the whole time, i'm surprised more of the men didn't grab for something because she's was near-literally BURSTING off the page. One of them, who had a really good figure got so bored sitting still in a bean bag that she fell asleep. What a lazy ho!
A-
Engineering - "2nd Year Mechatronics" (UNSW)
I despised this course absolutely nothing was clear. And if you asked the lecturer for help, his thick Filipino accent would reply "Just employ the foundations". He was consistently condescending as it gloss over all the difficult thinking with "You'll see it's very simple, just use the foundations". The only plus side was that whenever he had an example he'd say "Let's take a look", it was totally his catch phrase, except he said it with his accent like "Lets tekkelek".C
Maths - "Life Sciences Alegebra" (USYD)
Damn compulsory unit. 8 am lectures, which I soon found out they preserve purely for 1st years. Life Sciences Algebra is called that because it's supposed to be practical. The only way I could see its practicality was if some deranged mass-murderer kidnapped me and made me solve linear programming equations on a snuff reality show.
C
English - "Inventing Modernity" (USYD)
Uni english is SO much better than High School english. Yes, all the uni englishes have names like this. Next year there's one called "Imagining America". These courses prize themselves on the fact that their names are verbs that allow you to 'create'. In other words, you latch on from a seemingly insignificant language device and stretch it out like it's a condom and you're making a tyre. It bordered on philosophy some of the time but it's actually quite interesting. In uni english you read/discuss a new text every week as opposed to high school where you spend two months looking at the same thing, after which the guy in the corner still laughs at the incestuous links to Emily Dickinson's name.
My tutor also didn't give very helpful feedback at times.
B
Linguistics - "Language and Social Context" (USYD)
Loved it to death. The lecturer looked and sounded like Sharon Osbourne but that took nothing way. Such a compelling subject! Though it is full of a lot of wankers and who need to shut up.
A+
English - "Language, Image and Power" (USYD)
Hilarious! Every so often the tutor would just go off and rant about John Howard. It's a very grammar heavy course which means not much room for creativity. However.. it took something as tiny as a reference to Happy Days and he'd be off. It started small.. but gradually his voice grew and started moving around pointing fingers and fictional points. I say this because the rants were he best part because they were so predictaible and funny, ignoring them the course was crap.
D
Art History - "Modern Times: Art and Film" (USYD)
It was ok. If you want to meet girls, do Art History. If you want to meet girls, do Philosophy. If you want to meet girls, do Sociology. If you want to meet boys, do Engineering. I like that the lectures were in Eastern Avenue Auditorium, but I didn't like a lot of the bullshit that the course entailed. I mean... sometimes you just want to scream out WHO CARES while you look around and everyone else is nodding and writing notes crazily. I don't know, I suppose it was okay, you can just basically say anything and it's right but at the same time it makes you feel like you're completely wasting your life.
B-
Psychology - "Psychology 1002" (USYD)
Ah psychology. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's not. The guy who ran the course was so irritating, always talking about X-boxes with his whingey, balding tone. Content wise, it was a lot more scientific than the first semester which I don't mind but a lot of people were complaining that there wasn't enough 'relatable' material. The first year psychology final exam is 100 multiple choice questions which is tedious and irritating since there are usually about 3 responses that seem near identical.
B+
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