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Zod wrote:

Oxymoron wrote:We also have "lampe de poche" => "pocket lamp"

We call those Fleshlights over here.

I swear I hold on telling off that joke because even I know how terrible it would have been

And YOU had to blow it.

Thanks Zod. Thanks a lot.

Oxymoron wrote:

Zod wrote:

Oxymoron wrote:We also have "lampe de poche" => "pocket lamp"

We call those Fleshlights over here.

I swear I hold on telling off that joke because even I know how terrible it would have been

And YOU had to blow it.

Thanks Zod. Thanks a lot.

lol

Electric torch.

Sam and I are going to Cancon. Australia's biggest gaming festival. Board games, table top games, etc. It's good fun all around.

We're staying with a friend, so we save nearly $200 on accommodation. We're driving some friends down as well, so petrol costs are lessened too. Estimated travel costs are $50 to get to Canberra and back. We're taking our own food in to the building, so that's more for us to be spent on board games and such.

I love feeling like we've saved money like this while having fun.

hahaha oh shit, I didn't even know there was such a thing as Cancon! It sounds awesome!

Maybe I'll go and see you there!

Free entry, and I'll be taking advantage of free wargaming. So feel free to find me and say hi.

I'm trying to make noodles that'll hold in a thermos.

man i am getting conflicting messages on the website as to whether I need to pay/register or not.

Paying and registering is for specific games, its free entry overall.

For example, I'm playing Trek, so I'm registered for that. I'm also going to play a bunch of free participation games like Gettysburg 150 and Race for the Rhine.

If you're up for the Trek card game, I can build you a deck and such.

fuuuck organizing all my courses is a paaaain

i've got to meet very specific requirements and then there are prerequisites (a required course's prerequisite is not itself listed as a required course so i felt BETRAYED) and some are only offered on particular semesters and bleeegh

i wanted to major in two things by clever selection of courses but i'm not sure that will be possible with the compromises i may have to make

I tried being clever with my curriculum once. The workload was just about doable, but the scheduling, oy. You think you have it worked out and then some professor decides he doesn't like teaching after 3PM so he swaps his course and all of a sudden you're triple-booked because you need to go to a conference for another course and then by exam time you discover that somehow they managed to overlap everything.

Tl;DR: invest in a good calendar, get to know the people who set up the schedule

My Facebook is full if people with the same problems.

My problem is my schedule is set, and it sucks. You never really work 8-5 in school, not if you're competent. 10-8, maybe, but not continuously.

so it looks like all my compounded troubles rest on the fact that there's one course that's on the first semester instead of the second, but its preqrequisite is also on the first semester

and i can't do it in the year after this one because there's a course i need to do in both semesters that depend on doing the course i can't do without time travel

all of the most current enrolment material that i've seen thus far indicated that the prerequisite course would come before the course itself so i'm pretty pissed

i'm gonna have to talk to a course adviser, i can't be the only person who's experiencing this

I'm always intrigued by how the Anglo-Saxon school system seems to work.

Seems awfully complicated for no good reason.

it's not a unified anglo system, UK universities at least work totally differently to US ones

it wouldn't surprise me at this point if course advisors weren't available during the year break

this whole situation has me all sorts of freaked out and it should have been so simple

I mean... Why do they even let you choose what course to take ? And what the fuck is that "Major / Minor" thing ?

Here you choose what degree you're aiming for, and go in a promotion where everyone follow all the same courses except for some options when you want to specialize in some different things.

Simple, elegant, efficient.

I mean... Why do they even let you choose what course to take ? And what the fuck is that "Major / Minor" thing ?

look rabid, we all know the real answer here is just AMERICALOL
as always
america
lol

I want to believe

that there are better answers

that the truth does not lie there

to hear that I'd be relieve'

i need a hug

[stamp for one free hug]

Also, 'Soup, as far as I know Zabs live in Australia, so...

The major is a group of degrees you'd be going for. So like at my university there were three different physics degrees and anyone seeking one would be a "physics major".

A minor is a specialisation you can add on where you take a few extra courses, but not enough to fulfill a whole degree. Often it's related, like a physics major with astronomy minor or a civil engineering major with construction management minor.

happens all the time zabs

check with your advisors if it's a scheduling prereq (which means it is just meant to ensure you follow the 'ideal' path) or an actual prereq (meaning you need knowledge from one class in the next)

also sit down with your advisor and map out the rest of your program so you know what you need to take and when

your advisor should be your best friend

Oxymoron wrote:Also, 'Soup, as far as I know Zabs live in Australia, so...

oh shit
well COLONIALSLOL then

Oxymoron wrote:Why do they even let you choose what course to take ?

lol if I was designing a higher education system i'd let ppl choose any courses totally freely and your grades would only be for you yourself

so here's my dream system

1) individual classes are open to anyone who seriously wants to attend. you don't have to enroll in an entire program if you are only interested in a handful of classes or don't actually care about the degree

2) degrees are given to anyone who can prove they know their shit, prolly via a battery of tests including theory and practice; the process might take several weeks. the final exam of a class might count as a degree requirement but you can also just take the tests independently if you prefer (you might be an autodidact or a transfer student or whatever and don't need the class)