general UNSW chit-chat (14 Viewers)

[karoooh]

My internet is slow, so I have no patience for Google right now. Anyway, what can anyone tell me about withdrawing from a course after the census date and academic penalty? Do I need to go see a counsellor or somebody else to seek advice or get them to write me a letter to hand into the course co-ordinator?

And what, in hindsight, looks better on a transcript? A withdraw fail or a fail? Do they even come up differently on our transcript?

 

[Vylen]

My internet is slow, so I have no patience for Google right now. Anyway, what can anyone tell me about withdrawing from a course after the census date and academic penalty? Do I need to go see a counsellor or somebody else to seek advice or get them to write me a letter to hand into the course co-ordinator?

And what, in hindsight, looks better on a transcript? A withdraw fail or a fail? Do they even come up differently on our transcript?

Im not sure about what you mean about these counsellor stuff...

But they do come out different on your transcript.. F for well, normal fail... NF for discontinue without penalty and i think DF for discontinue with penalty (yea, odd gradings)...

so i would think a withdraw fail (before census date) would look better than any of the others on a transcript since you're not actually graded.... plus NF grades mean that the course does not count towards your WAM... if you fail a course it will count and drop your WAM considerably

edit
DF grades do count towards WAM (i'm not sure how though)

 

[xprshn]

oh wow... hi vylen. your awake at 5 am ?

 

[Vylen]

oh wow... hi vylen. your awake at 5 am ?

its what happens when you get sick, then mess up your sleeping patterns to make up for sleeping long hours

 

[wrong_turn]

i reckon its all about being a uni student =P

 

[disko]

does anyone know how long your unipass/uniwide will work for after your last semester?

 

[Dumsum]

[maths]2(x-x_0)(y-y_0)=\frac{(ax+by+c)^2}{2ab}[/maths]

This IS the equation of a parabola. Can anyone with elite algebraic manipulation skillz please put it in a form that proves this?

 

[Iruka]

You remember quadratic forms from linear algebra?

 

[Dumsum]

Nevermind, I remembered the [maths](ax+by)^2+cx+dy+e=0[/maths] form of parabola, it's easy to put in that form. It's been too long.

 

[Iruka]

Yeah, Sylvester's law of inertia. It's the same thing.

 

[Omie Jay]

yay i saw wrong_turn on the train today.

 

[missanonymous7]

yay i saw wrong_turn on the train today.

and I spotted you again today, talking briefly to some nerdy-looking chick in a black jacket.

 

[wrong_turn]

haha go omar =P

"the black jacket girl"

 

[Omie Jay]

and I spotted you again today, talking briefly to some nerdy-looking chick in a black jacket.

yea saw u too

and ur friends with black jacket chick too!

 

[missanonymous7]

yea saw u too

and ur friends with black jacket chick too!

...this just confused me. You do realise I am the 'black jacket girl', amiright?; or did you think I was talking about enthused? (because I wouldn't call her a 'nerdy looking chick').

(Bloody internet.)

haha go omar =P

"the black jacket girl"

lol?

 

[Omie Jay]

oh i thought u were talking about enthused, lol. i thought the 'nerdy' bit was sarcasmically referring to her.

my bad

 

[missanonymous7]

oh i thought u were talking about enthused, lol. i thought the 'nerdy' bit was sarcasmically referring to her.

my bad

No, it was literally referring to meee. my bad for having a bizarre way of putting things.

 

[wrong_turn]

go the black jacket girl with omar kekekeke~

 

[Omium]

I thought i saw Omie Jay today....

However it wasn't him

 

[Omie Jay]

I thought i saw Omie Jay today....

However it wasn't him

you're missing out