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    Employment... or lack thereof.

    Yeah. Who else desperately needs a job yet can't find one in Wollongong? My previously hard-line stance against telemarketing is waning. Eh.
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    Reality Bites

    Love it, hate it, discuss it here. I love it. Just finished watching it, I love that final bit. "Please don't let him drink and drive." Watching it this time I noticed for the first time that in the scene where Vickie tells Lelaina that she's now the manager of the gap, they're stoned, and...
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    First day of semester

    Dear SOLS: fuckyoupleasegodiedon'teverdothattomeagain!kthxdie So how'd everyone's day go? Mine was brilliant. Except not. SOLS sent me a message saying I had to go to the creative arts lecture theatre today at 10.30 so I did, only to find that MY course meeting thing wasn't until tomorrow...
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    Tutorial enrolment

    Do some subjects open for tutorial/seminar enrolment later than others? Because I've just been fixing up my timetable, and I've only been able to enrol for ONE subjects tutorials, the other three subjects all say they require me to enrol for tutorials or seminars, but when I went to the...
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    sewing/craftiness

    Anyone else into sewing? Or crafting stuff in general? I just got a sewing machine for Christmas, and even though I've never sewn before I've been getting really into it. I've made a handbag, a messenger bag, a hat, some hair things, and I'm working on a shirt and a skirt. I also have been...
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    O-week

    I am tossing up whether it's worth going to o-week. What does everyone else think? I started a different uni course at a different uni last year, and I went o week, and hated it. I found it boring and unnecessary. But at the same time, I suspect that this is when people will make most of...
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    Anyone done or considering doing a TESOL course?

    Has anyone done, or is anyone considering doing a TESOL course? It's basically a course that enables you to teach English overseas so that you can travel and work at the same time. I've been considering doing it for a while now, and was wondering if anyone else out there had any advice or...
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    When transferring...

    are you meant to go through UAC or apply direct to the university? I just applied through UAC, but I was on the Wollongong uni website and found something that mentioned applying directly to the uni to transfer. Or is applying directly to the university just another option? This is...
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    Maureen McCarthy

    Anyone else a fan? I've been really getting into her books lately, I read "Chain of Hearts" a few years ago and thought it was boring, but I re-read it recently and loved it. And now I'm reading "Queen Cat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life", which I'malso really enjoying. They're all sort of...
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    Semester 2 subjects?

    What subjects are people doing this semester? I'm doing: ENGL102 ECTW124 THEA111 ABAR103 (as an external student cos of timetable clashes... blah.)
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    Leaving/transferring?

    Is any one considering leaving UNE or transferring to another university? I know I am. I got a mid year offer to go to UWS and now I have no idea what I should do. What would you guys do?
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    How many BOS people you met so far?

    How many BOS people you met from the UNE thread so far? I've only met Ash/Ashleet and Nathan/natrap cos they're in my psych class, and Matt/Mojoman cos he lives at Duval too. And I've seen woohohoohoo from a distance.
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    Leaving Friday

    So this is it, tomorrow (technically today, since it's past midnight) I'll be driving to Armidale... we'll be spending the night in a motel and spending Saturday "moving me in". (I don't know why we're not just going to drive up on the Saturday or something like normal people, my mum made the...
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    Late round offers

    I just got a late round offer for a Bachelor of Arts at UNE. (I'm not going to take it though, I'll stick with B Communications at UNE... I think...) Anyone else get any late round offers?
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    Movie acquisition thread

    Ok, so I'm yoinking this idea from the Literary Acquisition Thread in the reading room... What movies have we all been buying (or acquiring through "other means") lately? I'll start... in the past two days I've gone movie crazy! I bought -Spirited Away on DVD -Ginger Snaps on DVD -The...
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    Not updating my post count

    So the past few days I've posted heaps, and I've noticed that my post count is only like 133 or something, when it should be much higher. My post count was 129, and I've posted heaps (for my standards) over the past few days, but only like 4 of those posts have been recorded. What's up with...
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    The Official UNE MSN list

    I was just thinking that since a lot of the people who post in this forum are going to UNE we should talk on MSN or something. Edit: I don't go there anymore so I removed my MSN address. Sorry kids.
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    Advice on course at UC?

    UC question OK, I was looking through the courses supplied by UC, and I discovered a course that sounds great: Bachelor of Communications majoring in Creative Writing (http://www.canberra.edu.au/courses/index.cfm?action=detail&courseid=376BB). The UAI cut-off is 76, which should be fine...
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    Did everyone who applied for the Principal's rec get in?

    So the title kinda of sums up my question... did everyone who applied the Principals Recommendation thing get into the University of New England automatically? Because I haven't heard of anyone who applied for the SRAS thing and DIDN'T get in... Just wondering...
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    LEAST favourite book?

    What's the worst book you've ever read? I think for me it was probably "The Collecters"... it was about this grasshopper society that was supposed reflect humanity or something, but it was just boring, and lame. There was even grasshopper sex scenes "He spread her delicate wings and she...
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