Why do we fall bruce?

Why do we fall bruce?


I realise i am being rather narcissistic here writing post after post about fairly rather pointless material mainly about myself.

So I thought, with all the whingeing that Jiali has poured out over the last couple of weeks about uni course preferences, i thought ill help her out by sharing some experiences about uni and what to expect from the courses most of us undertake. So Jiali, pen and paper, and lets start this epic journey of learning.


Of course, it would be ideal that you start studying quite hard for your college exams. When it comes to preferences, it is preferable that and we do prefer that you get a high mark. Students armed with a high grade average can pretty much do any course they prefer and are not just stuck with a choice between arts and going to curtin (please do not hate me janice and other kids from curtin, im just trying to illustrate a point). Now heres a short list of the courses that fellow kiwis are studying at the moment

1) Commerce
The quintessential course for the asian who loves his rice and and being late for everything. With commerce, you can expect to have mostly average and sometimes rubbish lecturers for your first few semesters. Leading the list of all time failures at the moment is Gopalan ( yes that is he's name) of stats fame and Vincent " i am boring and from malaysia" Chong. Of course, there are benefits to studying commerce. You would have an abundance of friends in every lecture, you get to lecture mostly in the uber convenient locations of social science and arts (maybe not next year when that infernal building gets completed), you would be able to scab notes off your seniors and you actually have so few contact hours that you could easily shop at harbour town. Of course, the content of commerce gets a bit harder as you progress but theres certainly money to be made on a finance, accounting or banking major. And if you decide you just wanna party at uni, marketing and management always welcomes you with open arms.

2) Bio Medical
As the name suggests, this course is mostly about Biology and Medical stuff. The biology part kinda dry. The medical part, pretty dry too. From a completely unbiased view, i objectively think that Bio Medical is pretty dry. But, on the plus side, you get to do biology stuff, and if you're really lucky, they throw in some medical stuff at the end of the day. To summarise all that has been said about this course, the content is mainly biology and medical issues. (if you think about it, why not just study medicine, its bio med, without the biology).

3) Psychology
My learned friend from singapore once extolled to me the virtues of a psych major. The list of greats from this field are numerous but i will list some of the prominent ones. Carl Jung, the intellectual who shared the view that man loved science and logic over spirituality. Sigmund Freud, whom which freudian slips are named after. He too had a bushy beard. This fellow also might have studied the idea of repression in the mind and was said to have had a super ego. Michael Foucault, arguably not a psychologist but was weird enough to be grouped with the super brainacs. Of course, this list is not exhaustive, and there are many more great persons. Bringing it all together, by choosing to study this course, perhaps one might figure out the reasons we pee in our beds at night.

4) Human Movement
Once known as sports science, or just sports, this course has the unlucky distinction of having the building at the "end" of the university. For the longest time, the human movement building was like a legend, nay a myth that seniors told to us freshies. It is some what like the lochness monster. You hear about it alot and it intrigues you, but you don't really want to see it because it would be too much of a discomfort. Enrolling in this course will make you very knowledgeable in the art of nutrition and other very active stuff. Of course, do not enroll in this unit if you do not like sitting in a lecture room that spells like sweat. Also, note that you will be doing alot of active stuff.

5) Law
This is the course with the best faculty club. The blackstone society does make sure its members are fully integrated into the student community. But why study law? Firstly, you will probably make tons of cash, maybe not as much as the investment bankers in the commerce faculty, but enough to get the new model audi tt roadster and maybe a lunch at broadway everynow and then. There will be probably alot of reading to do, more so than you ever thought possible. Also, do not be fooled by movies such as Legally blonde and ally mcbeal. We do not wear copious amounts of pink and or wear ferragamos and carry gucci clutches. We also do not bring midget dogs to the class. We do often however, forget to do assignments. To quote elle woods from a not so famous movie " Sorry sir, i wasn't aware that we had an assignment". At the end of semester, you would be able to name at the top of your head 3 people that make you want to throw things when they raise their hands in class. In summary, law school promises a fun adventure for those who are willing to learn, and read. And i promise, we do not do biology or medical stuff.


Conclusion:
Obviously uni life will be very different from life in canning college. But do take comfort in the fact that you will have alot of friends at UWA. ( again sorry to the curtin readers/ friends?) But whatever course you may choose to take, remember that we all strive to do our best here at this fine institution and that we have bright futures even if we do choose to do biology and medical stuff.
so see you when i see you
xoxo


"so we can learn to pick ourselves up"