My baddie ABG girlfriend broke up with me because I joked that UNSW isn’t the number 1 uni. She said I was a disgrace.
What do I do now? Pls send help for my broken heart
I said what I said
Genuine question because I’m feeling so lost right now. I’ve applied for a bunch of graduate programs but I’ve been getting rejected after the online assessments or video interviews. On top of that, so many graduate programs are only open to Aus or NZ citizens and I’m an international student. So that rules out a lot of opportunities from the start. Outside of grad programs, it feels like there are barely any true entry level roles and almost every job I look at wants previous work experience. I’ll be done with my studies next month and I’m still completely clueless about what I’m supposed to do next. At this point, all I’m doing is applying for jobs every day and it’s honestly becoming really frustrating. On top of all the academic stuff this has become another huge stress.
For those who managed to land an entry level finance role, how did you do it? Any advice would be really appreciated.
Hi everyone I am currently a high school student doing HSC this yr, but atp i am kinda lost in choosing which degree i should do. My strong suit is Maths and I actually really enjoy problem-solving. I am also interested in the finance but English is not my first language so I am afraid i would not stand out in approaching with clients. Any suggestions for which degree should i learn and i am looking for one that can’t be replaced by AI and have decent job prospects?
I’ve been in Sydney for 3 years as an international student, and I’m wondering how realistic it is to land a job (or combine jobs) that gets you around $58k AUD a year.
From my experience, it's enough for a stable life in Sydney, but is it actually achievable with entry-level jobs?
Would love to hear your thoughts.
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She should really go after the administrators who allow this to happen in the first place as well.
Transcript of Senator Mehreen Faruqi:
The Four Corners exposé revealed that in just one year, universities spend $1.8 billion of public money on consultants.
When university councils are stacked with corporate appointees and conflict of interests are rife, it’s really no wonder that billions of dollars of public funds are lining the pockets of private consultants.
So this is not surprising, but it is actually shocking that so much public money is splashed on consultants while staff and students suffer under unfair conditions, under heavy workloads and under higher and higher fees.
University VCs who are paid obese, obese and obscene salaries have been all too willing to sign the check and implement the neoliberal corporate agenda of their consulting buddies. The corporate university model has resulted in $50,000 arts degrees, courtesy of the disastrous JRG scheme.
It is a model that has turned higher education a public good into a market for profit seeking firms and austerity obsessed executives, even though they are very happy to walk away with bloated pay packets.
The Labor government is tinkering around the edges and that is not going to cut it.
The system’s decay of consultant capture and a ruthless corporate culture needs a complete overhaul of governance, of accountability, transparency, of funding and fees and the evidence provided by NTEU staff and students, very bravely, again and again has been damning. So shout out to all of them.
University staff and students should be running [the education].
Youtube link of this video from 8 Apr 2026: https://youtu.be/O0N4CTtEvF4?si=-BnC2nAxxOwqqRbP
Other Links:
The Four Corners documentary and exposé referenced is this: Universities $1.8 billion consultancy spending under wraps | Four Corners Documentary.
There are news articles about the scandal, like from ABC: Universities' $1.8b spend on consultants and contractors shocks experts and politicians
With a heavy heart I gotta announce that the #1 banner has been taken off.
So my flatmates and I split like 4 different subscriptions between us, Netflix, Spotify, gym membership, one of those meal kit things. And it's always a mess. Someone forgets to pay their share, someone doesn't realize a free trial ended and got charged, and by the time we actually sit down and sort it out it's like two months of back and forth in the group chat.
Anyone else deal with this? How do you guys actually keep track of shared subscriptions with roommates without it turning into an argument every month. Do you just use a shared spreadsheet, split it manually each time, or is there something that actually works.
Also kind of curious how many subscriptions people are even paying for at once, feels like it creeps up without you noticing until you actually add it up. Even when I didn't have flatmates I swear I kept forgetting all my subscriptions...
I've been to both, and currently studying at SC and the staff are all helpful and great, the vibe on campus is supportive and friendly. Plus I can just finish class and go to the beach.
Unlike my experience at UNSW where I had to deal with rude staff, stuck up classmates and general poor service all round.
So glad I made the move!
There are many people who only gets aronud 6 ~ 7.5 hours of sleep, but they can function well without problems??
Like in social situations, when talking to people, they don't seem to be tired at all, in fact some looked energetic and even enthusiastic.
They don't make mistakes during volunteering or any group tasks and are able to stay locked in during study sessions as well.
If you are one of those people, what makes you function so well with only 6~8 hours of sleep? Because I at least need 8 ~ 8.5 hours, and anything under that I feel really tired and need to take extra sleep (so like 9 hours of sleep) the next day.
I wanted to make this post so I can inform other people about what this course is like, as I found not a lot of people talk about it. I will say that I dropped the course before the census date, (like in week 4.) so I’m only basing my opinions on that.
Pros:the teachers are very engaged and they call upon the students to speak in mandarin, and they encourage students to try and speak in the language.
The textbooks and workbooks are good in having a mixture of translating, speaking, grammar rules, and listening to audio in mandarin to ask questions or answer them. This greatly helped improve my mandarin.
Some students in there do know mandarin as a heritage language, so they can help you with the work if you’re friends with them.
If you have some knowledge of Japanese or maybe Korean, there are some things in mandarin that will cross over. I.e san in Japanese means three, same in mandarin.
Cons:
This course was so fast paced. It was at breakneck speed, like every week we had to learn a whole page of vocabulary, sentences, grammar, Chinese characters (called Hanzi) and pinyin. (Which is the use of the Roman alphabet to write Chinese characters)
Keep in mind, mandarin is one of the hardest languages to learn for a native English speaker, so having to learn and remember all of this every week was very hard.
Not to mention the tones and pronunciation being bard to.
Suffice to say, it’s a very sharp learning curve from going to learning the basic tones in week 1 to then writing completely in hanzi for our first mid-term exam in week 4.
There were many students I found in the tutorials who were heritage speakers, which was probably because for them it was a easy WAM booster.
But the problem with that is of course they were going to be at the top of the class with their marks, so for people like me who doesn’t know the language at all I can’t compete. And they really shouldn’t have been in the class. This class was for non-heritage speakers.
Part of the reason the course could have been fast paced is because UNSW has the ten week trimesters so they have to shove everything in a short amount of time and finish the level one textbook and workbook, but it’s too much to do in a short amount of time.
I had a mandarin tutor helping me with the work, and even she said that the textbook and workbook is too advanced for someone completely new to the language. My Chinese friend who is a native mandarin speaker also said the same thing.
Keep in mind I was trying my absolute best to keep up, I had tutoring nearly every day, I did all the work on time, and I showed up for classes and asked questions about what we were learning occasionally. It wasn’t like I wasn’t trying.
So TL:DR a very fast paced course that you had to work consistently on if you didn’t want to fall behind, and the learning curve was very steep to basically immediately read the hanzi. I recommend this course if you have some knowledge of the language or you can keep up with fast paced language courses.
How many of you guys still actually like your highschool friends. I feel like friend groups in sydney stay together for much longer than they should because everyone’s still technically there and didn’t make any close uni friends which is a cycle where no one ends up making uni friends (obviously exaggerating a bit).
I’ve heard that unsw has plenty of activists and the social life sucks because its got antisocial people an all that, I wish to do EE/QE there and I’m in yr12 rn, what is it like for you guys, if you’re majoring in engineering
Why did the seperate multiple choice sheet they gave us only have options a-d but the actual question on the exam paper some questions had a-e. If one of the questions answer was e do you just create/draw an option e and tick it ????
hey i’m a year 12 student attending a gateway school and i want to study psych/crim honours at UNSW but ik i wont get an atar past 90 so will these grades be like okay for at least a conditional early offer (alongside a good personal statement)
C- MODERN C- GEO B- ENG STAND B- MATH STAND B- CAFS
i know it’s not a defined yes or no but anything helps🙏🙏
I used to hold 2 night shift jobs while doing full time uni and it burnt the fuck out of me. My grades were shit but I was still passing. My health however went to shit as I was going days on minimal sleep, pulling all nighters and binging coffee.
This year i decided to completely change everything and dropped both night shifts. I have a morning shift job now (its nothing special, maccas). I work wayyy less than I used to and have more time to do other stuff like gym, play games, cook, and try to find friends. Issue is sometimes i feel guilty, like i should be working instead. I find myself comparing my job, grades, progress in life to others i know and it kills the joy out of things because i feel like i need to be working or something. I know its a shitty habit. It kind of opened my eyes to myself that am not happy with anything maybe i should appreciate things more.
Anyone else relate to this?