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how was your first day at uni? (1 Viewer)
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There were lots of men with knives hiding in various corners, and demons waiting in the toilets. You also had to wear garlic at night, lest vampires came out to attack you. The lecturers sniggered as they dealt out the first lessons, and the students packed the lecture halls, huddled in fear from the outside world. The tutors sat on their asses asking us how to solve the questions, and failure to answer meant excution. The classrooms have chairs with claw marks all over them and one had to watch his back to ensure others didn't steal his books.
/bullshit
Aight first day was a matter of getting to lecture on time, while all the other students who made it late sat on the staircases cuz they missed out on seats. Plenty of "oh hai wats ur name" and lulz.
A few weeks later only 3/4 of the students who showed up on day one continued to attend lectures
maybe, it could be different from ur perspective.
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Aight first day was a matter of getting to lecture on time, while all the other students who made it late sat on the staircases cuz they missed out on seats. Plenty of "oh hai wats ur name" and lulz.
A few weeks later only 3/4 of the students who showed up on day one continued to attend lectures
maybe, it could be different from ur perspective.
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i got food poisoning in my first week of uni. i shat a lot....
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Lost.cheney31 said:
By the way, make new friends as soon as possible during the first few weeks of uni to develop a fixed friend circle as your chances of fitting in and being friends straight away reduces with time.
Make more friends and then realise that during the second semester some come and go because of different subjects and timetables.
Wow, are you highly uncharismatic or something?Forbidden. said:
I make new friends all the time, at different functions and events (and lectures, though i get my serious on then
) and it's just a matter of striking up relevant conversation. You can make new friends in tutorials even in the last week, it's really not that difficult, esp if you offer to help them /each other (assuming you have the required intelligence which fenris does not).HAHAHA you sound like you strategically position yourself in the first weeks to 'latch onto' other friendship groups, to find a sense of belonging. Too bad there's few onions on the sausage at your engineering meat fest.
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I'm quite selective and LOL and holy fuck you stole that from somewhere because it's become a cliche. Metaphorically and literally I have a balance of onions and meat at a BBQ when both are present.Bobness said:Wow, are you highly uncharismatic or something?
I make new friends all the time, at different functions and events (and lectures, though i get my serious on then
HAHAHA you sound like you strategically position yourself in the first weeks to 'latch onto' other friendship groups, to find a sense of belonging. Too bad there's few onions on the sausage at your engineering meat fest.
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Well of course it's a cliche, because it's true (less females study engineering). You cannot 'steal' cliches by virtue of the fact that they are predominantly used (of course you don't study law or copyright, so i'll forgive you there).Forbidden. said:
Anywho, if i was a girl i would not want to hang with you. Heck, as a guy i wouldn't either. Good luck with life though, i'm really not trying to antagonise, just challenging a couple of your questionable actions and advice - as a first year you still have not experienced the full spectrum of uni life.
LOLZ at ur imagination....darkwolfzx said:
about the friend topic..
none of my friends got the same interest as me (electrical engineering) so unfortunately i think i have to be on my own on the first day
i heard that you do lectures with ppl from different years so they are all mixed.. is that true?
and i dont really like onions on my BBQ btw ..=...=
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Some failed and have to wait until next year because their course isn't offered in summer session.cheney31 said:LOLZ at ur imagination....
about the friend topic..
none of my friends got the same interest as me (electrical engineering) so unfortunately i think i have to be on my own on the first day
i heard that you do lectures with ppl from different years so they are all mixed.. is that true?
and i dont really like onions on my BBQ btw ..=...=
Or, it depends on their program guide, e.g. ELEC1111 is a 1st year elective for Electrical Engineers while it is a 2nd year elective for Mechanical Engineers.
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how could u not like onions on a bbq....cheney31 said:LOLZ at ur imagination....
about the friend topic..
none of my friends got the same interest as me (electrical engineering) so unfortunately i think i have to be on my own on the first day
i heard that you do lectures with ppl from different years so they are all mixed.. is that true?
and i dont really like onions on my BBQ btw ..=...=
and i was one of the 2 people from my grade in highschool to go to UNSW. The other person is doing engineering and I only see him every now and then around the uni.
Soo, I had to get to know people. Just don't be a shy person. Shy people never get anywhere in life. If you're good at talking about random things, you'll make friends no sweat.
But unfortunately I kinda secluded myself (not sure if that's the right word) from others. Eventually I began opening up.. but i do have a general phobia of talking to random people.. But i'm overcoming that slowly but surely.
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i have several people from my school namely sciences, commerce and medicine but im the only engineershinji said:
.you see, engineering robs us of our lives.
id say secluded.
yeah as you said, random things, once i talked about increasing the intensity of lasers.
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well.. there is a limit to the randomnessof the things you say. If you just go on and talk about the mechanics of a plane to a girl.. you'll lose their interest and they'll be thinking "..w.t.f?!"Forbidden. said:i have several people from my school namely sciences, commerce and medicine but im the only engineer
you see, engineering robs us of our lives.
id say secluded.
yeah as you said, random things, once i talked about increasing the intensity of lasers.
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there is a difference between a casual conversation and study discussion lolz.shinji said:
edit: ive never talked about mechanics of planes, sometimes its movies.
Um, im a pretty social guy, Most people in lectures/tutes are extremely boring and unsocial.Bobness said:Wow, are you highly uncharismatic or something?
I make new friends all the time, at different functions and events (and lectures, though i get my serious on then
HAHAHA you sound like you strategically position yourself in the first weeks to 'latch onto' other friendship groups, to find a sense of belonging. Too bad there's few onions on the sausage at your engineering meat fest.
I remember my first week.
In lectures i would introduce myself to someone and strike up a conversation, and ALL of them would just reply with one word answers.
eg) Me: Hey what course you doing?
Them: Engineering
Me: Oh kewl, so what kinda engineering you doing?
Them: Civil
Me: Ah ok so what subjects you doing
Them : Math
Me: Where you live?
Them: city
Me: Ok.......
Usually people are supposed to reply then ask the same question... creates some fluency. :S Most of the people i talked to in first week seemed pretty unsocial.
I guess i prolly just talked to a lot of internationals....
Labs are the best to make good friends as everyone is casual and relaxed.
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yeahOmium said:
i HATE people who do that. It's like they're not interesting in socialising. I mean, you may not like me but have some courtesy to continue the conversation.. not make us feel like we're boring as shit. =/
God happens to me MANY times! Plus I'm selective. So that pretty much restricts the number of people I get along with.
I once when to some workshop at uni, where they were supposed to be developing leaders & mentors. Yet everyone there was so unsocial-able.
Me: So you live on uni?
Guy: Yup.
Me: Ah at new college?
Guy: Yup
Me: I heard it was nice..
Guy: Yup. Then walks away and talks to his 'own' friends.
Jesus, I don't know how these people even have friends!! Lectures are hard to know people, labs and tuts definitely are the best.
Girls in Science (Especially Food Science) are all a secluded bunch, even if they see you, they don't acknowledge you at all, etc!
I once when to some workshop at uni, where they were supposed to be developing leaders & mentors. Yet everyone there was so unsocial-able.
Me: So you live on uni?
Guy: Yup.
Me: Ah at new college?
Guy: Yup
Me: I heard it was nice..
Guy: Yup. Then walks away and talks to his 'own' friends.
Jesus, I don't know how these people even have friends!! Lectures are hard to know people, labs and tuts definitely are the best.
Girls in Science (Especially Food Science) are all a secluded bunch, even if they see you, they don't acknowledge you at all, etc!
I'm not too social myself, and probably too shy to know people. But when you head into a room with no one you know, it gets pretty hard to know people.
By the time you hit breaks and stuff, people break into their own groups, and you're left stranded, god I was thinking what a loner I was!
Honours students tend to be nicer sometimes. By the time you hit 3rd year, its much better since you see the same faces, etc.
Another time I was stuck with a female student from the same class, bumped into each other at lunch. Yet after I've finished talking (and the same thing --> one worded answers), the girl is literally silent.
Its weird, I've never met someone who relies totally on you to talk about interesting subjects. I'll leave names off since soo many people seem to somehow know me.
By the time you hit breaks and stuff, people break into their own groups, and you're left stranded, god I was thinking what a loner I was!
Lmao, not to mention I tried talking to the guy about 3rd year subjects (he was a second year), but he still had no interest.ominum said:
Honours students tend to be nicer sometimes. By the time you hit 3rd year, its much better since you see the same faces, etc.
Another time I was stuck with a female student from the same class, bumped into each other at lunch. Yet after I've finished talking (and the same thing --> one worded answers), the girl is literally silent.
Its weird, I've never met someone who relies totally on you to talk about interesting subjects. I'll leave names off since soo many people seem to somehow know me.
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LOL internationals.Omium said:
One way conversations.
And speaking of labs yeah,
I was the one responsible for turning all the LCD monitors upside down with a few others in the CSE Labs once.
Otherwise we make friends by copying and learning off each other lulz.
oLOL and I thought I was the type that sticks to his own set of friends only.Rekkusu said: