r/uwa

Im joining in Feb 2027 for the assured pathway to doctor of medicine and don't know which accommodation to select. Since I am 1st year I definitely want to live on campus.

St Catherine's, St George's, St Thomas More colleges and University Hall are the options I have heard of. Some have meals included, some have shared bathrooms and I don't know which room type is best to select.

Also as an intl student I want to be able to talk to new people so if anyone could recommend the best and most social campus (or personal preferences) it would be very helpful!

Right now, many assessments have some tagline saying that AI is not permitted in this assignment, and yet no-one follows this. I'd estimate the number of students that have followed the AI policy to be at least lower than 30%.

AI has been widely used for four years and UWA still adopts a please-dont-use-it policy and hands the same take home assignment they would have before all of this. I know for a fact that most peoples experience with assignments is just uploading the task sheet ChatGPT, removing the em dashes from the result and then submitting for an easy 80%. Is this really what our tax dollars and four years of our life is for?

To be clear, I'm pro AI. If much of this work can be done by AI better than humans (writing reports especially) end employers will expect us to use AI to do this work too, why are we wasting time with this facade of pretending anyone's doing the work? Assignments need to adapt.

This all just feels like busy work and a large waste of our time.

Almost finished with my BA. So, I got a CSP offer for the JD, but people have been telling me that law is too saturated and it's better to just do teaching instead for stability. Am I crazy to throw away the JD opportunity for a masters in teaching...? I'm not particularly passionate about those two options, it's just something that will lead me to a job.

Hey, just wanted to ask what you thought about the marking for the previous two assignments. Did you feel like it was fair, or did you have any thoughts about how they were assessed? I heard some of the marking may have been done by someone who isn’t the UC for the unit, so I was just curious about your experience.

Personally, I felt like I’d done pretty well on both assignments, but unfortunately my recent results haven’t really reflected that. There were a few areas where I received less marks than I expected, and I’m just a bit unsure about some of the feedback and how certain components were assessed. I have asked for a remark via email but the UC hasnt replied.

Hi all!

I’m wondering if anyone’s taken any decent units in the school of humanities with contact hours in the late afternoon/evening? I’m transitioning to full time work ending at 4.30PM, and I’m somewhat desperate to find classes I can take outside of those hours to fill out my hons/masters coursework.

Strong preference for:
- English and literary studies
- philosophy
- history, or
- gender studies

But obviously mindful that most units have their contact hours much earlier in the day. Interested to hear people’s experience in the past 18 months in particular, but any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry if this is the wrong format for this query; first-time poster here.