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Originally posted by Nyquist_Theorem hot girls with easily corrupted minds = yay!

throw some in this direction, please, corruption is my middle name!

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Originally posted by Ves I don't want o-week to end....

Why do you have a whole week? We only get 1 day.

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Originally posted by Antistatic Why do you have a whole week? We only get 1 day.

nah only three days. But I prefer to be wandering the uni instead of actually starting my degree....

ever since i got back from nz, ive been waiting for uni to start. i get back and all is good bar the elective i chose. i was hoping to cover heart and lung disease, but all we get to do is std's, and thats just a waste of time, but its good to be back

SID! are you doin your postgrad at bankstown?

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Originally posted by Renegade Checking in from another exciting ISYS2048 tutorial. Java can suck my balls.

i didnt know you doing postgrad, cool!

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Originally posted by tachyon i didnt know you doing postgrad, cool!

Nah, still undergrad dude...

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being bored at uni is infinitely better than being bored at work. make the most out of it. fvck it, do post grad. get lecturing. get tenure. that way you never have to get a real job, you get months of holiday a year, and youre surrounded by first year honeys for the rest of your life

fuck i hate working

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN being bored at uni is infinitely better than being bored at work. make the most out of it. fvck it, do post grad. get lecturing. get tenure. that way you never have to get a real job, you get months of holiday a year, and youre surrounded by first year honeys for the rest of your life fuck i hate working

if only it were so easy. tenure at a decent school is very, very difficult to get, and it usually means 10+ years of getting paid peanuts and working your arse off, publishing, teaching, publishing, marking, publishing, filling out research grant applications, publishing, etc.

4 out of 5 recent phd grads in this country are working in areas that have nothing to do with their area of expertise, just to pay the bills. the australian higher education system is headed for serious trouble based on the lack of funding availale to hire decent academics.

HEHE, i didnt mean to imply it was easy

however ive never believed research & publishing (at least within the confines of my chosen disciplines) was particularly difficult. not when compared to, say, the 9-5 office grind. sitting down and doing that kind of work, on your own schedule, is infinitely better than most other situations, imo.

sadly, my hons year didnt go well enough for me to get postgrad scholarships. and now, here i am. grinding away. fuck.

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oh for sure - the lifestyle's good... its just that without tenure the stability is sooo lacking. ive had a few mates get booted/squeezed out not because of their professional capacity but because they rubbed the wrong person the wrong way, and its quite discouraging.

but esp when you factor in the other perks of the job, yeah being an academic is fairly appealing compared to working one's arse off in the private sector. if its not just about money and instead about the whole package - lifestyle, recognition, intellectual stimulation, intellectual freedom, etc, then yeah, definitely a good direction to go in. you could still do a masters by research or a phd part time while working if you're keen.

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Originally posted by Nyquist_Theorem you could still do a masters by research or a phd part time while working if you're keen.

yeah, but im not the angry lil socialist i once was my motivation is lacking!

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