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I have encountered someone who starts at 9am and finishes at 8pm once a week...

I live on campus, so I spend 7 days a week at uni. :p As for days with classes, this semester was 4, next semester is unknown but probably 4 as well.

Well... if you haven't been told that your place is absolutely certain, then just be prepared in case you don't get in. Hope to see you here next semester!

I'm at Ursula Hall (aka Ursies) myself. Bruce and Ursies are the best colleges in terms of academic performance, so I'm sure there'll be plenty of people who can help you with any issues. Have you actually received your offer for Bruce yet? I wasn't aware that Semester 2 offers have been sent out.

I'd say you need to improve a bit if you want to get 70. Certainly you need to get into the top half of your courses. At the moment I'd guess you'd be looking at somewhere in the 50s or 60s.

I'm fairly sure that nowhere in the ANU uses norm-referencing, but then again each faculty and lecturer can decide their own rules so it could happen in some courses.

Welcome to ANU :) As Joshua said don't worry too much about any of this - there's support services available here that can help you with whatever problems you're having. You will need to have reasonable English skills, but of course if ANU has offered you a place you'll have already passed the...

I'm doing BA/BSc, this semester POLS1002 (Intro to Politics), PHIL1004 (Fundamental Ideas in Philosophy), COMP1100 (Intro to Programming and Algorithms) and MATH1115 (Maths and Apps 1 Honours). Next semester I'll be doing POLS1003 (Ideas in Politics), POLS1005 (Intro to IR), COMP1110 (Intro to...

It's sort of a good thing living in a regional area with no decent universities - that way you're forced to move, and if you're going to move to Sydney then you may as well move to Canberra or Melbourne if there's better uni options.

That makes sense then, although at least in the case of a single-person class it seems slightly unfair.

I've heard there's some sort of special policy for classes with 1-2 people - of course there's no official source for that.

I love being able to write "AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ACT 0200" on the back of my letters now. :D

So there was the totally smashed up car in Union Court today with police around it. It somehow didn't hit me that it was one of those community outreach activities; instead I was thinking how the heck could anyone have crashed like that in Union Court...

Or the next Secretary of DFAT ;)

Which doesn't always mean they're good teachers - but of course you get bad teaching in every educational institution, no matter how research-intensive.

Master of Arts (IR)? I think it'd be more comparable with Bachelor of Arts (International Relations).

Last MATH1115 lecture ever, and it was so boring I resorted to getting out my phone and using the WAP version of Facebook.

Hey, we only bring it out because hardly anyone outside Canberra seems to even acknowledge ANU's existence :p

Scaling-wise, none of those three subjects are particularly great. If it has to be out of those three just do what you're most interested in - scaling won't be much of an issue if you do well enough.

I doubt many students could easily understand, say, MX2 if they're going just off textbooks.