This is Uni Life at the moment...

I'm so glad the assignments were over. Just last week, I had 3 assignments - two group ones and one report. Plus an online exam. With the online exam, you could basically log in anytime and do it within a span of a week. I did mine at about 1am on the Thursday last week, so Mary, when you wrote on my message box to ask me how I went... I hadn't actually done it yet. Hee! The online exam was actually tough even though it was MCQs and Short-Answers. It was open book but there was not much time to really check stuff. Besides, it's already submitted and I think I did quite okay.

Well, the assessments are all over for now! The group assignments were pretty OK except that everyone in my group wanted to take charge and so there was slight tension. I have no idea why Macq Uni students seem more competitive and are actually quite stuck-up and snobbish, compared to those at Syd Uni. Yeah, I miss my Syd Uni friends who are open and non-bias and can take in anything. It would be really great to have that kind of crowd at Macq Uni but unfortunately, it's not that way at all. Don't get me wrong - the course is awesome, but the people not so...

Having said that, I've been hanging out with Amanda and she's been an awesome friend. Then again, she was originally from Syd Uni as well. Both of us feel that the Macq Uni students are just ultra cliquish. Hopefully it won't be like that next year. This year, my classmates are all from various disciplines within the health sciences. And as you guys know, I'm on a conditional offer, so my audiology course will only start officially next year, and I am hoping my peers will be nicer, not so cliquish kind of people. I mean, there are cliques at Syd Uni as well, but at least they take time to know other people in other groups... hence the not so cliquish environment, which make courses and uni all the more enjoyable. The cliques at Macq Uni are just so self-absorbed and really hard to get into - it's like either "if you know us from a while back, come hang out with us" or "if you don't know us, we don't really want to know ya"... or "we'll just pretend to know ya" kind of attitude.