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hopendespair · Dec 30, 2005

Hello Everyone!

I am so excited about coming (I am CERTAIN that I will!

) to MAC.

I will be studying Accounting. Something that I have wanted to do for a while, after hearing about it from family members.

I want to know what I can expect in some of the subjects (or are they called "units"?) in first year. What about the general atmosphere in the uni...What is there to do on a daily basis?

Thats all for me.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Tin-Tin (Tina)

iambored · Dec 30, 2005

Oh, how exciting, someone to lighten me up, you're... excited??? Congrats, I love the greeny grassy laid back feel of the uni, welcome

glitterfairy · Dec 30, 2005

HELLO!

Being up this late you're already halfway there.

Anyway:

Your COURSE is your degree. Eg B of Accounting
Your UNITS are the "subjects" you do in each semester, eg ACCG100. You can find out more about the exact units you'll be doing in the Macquarie 2006 Handbook, now avaliable online.

I'm not an accounting student so I can't go into detail about your course, but Uni life is nice... MQ has a really nice relaxed, laid-back sort of atmosphere. It's generally leafy with lovely lawns, and the size of the uni means you never really have to rush to your next class.

Also we have a decent food court. Good food is appreciated.

AsyLum · Dec 30, 2005

Welcome

http://www.handbook.mq.edu.au/programofstudy.php?edition=2006&code=ACCG03

That would be your likely program of study.

As for the uni itself, it is laidback and friendly, there isnt really a hustle and bustle to the place, and is relatively slow and easy going.

There are daily things on at the bar, and Macquarie Centre is only a short distance away.

hopendespair · Dec 30, 2005

iambored said:
Oh, how exciting, someone to lighten me up, you're... excited??? Congrats, I love the greeny grassy laid back feel of the uni, welcome

LOL!

I found school to be a MASSIVE web of control (Thank you advanced English!). I cannot wait for the freedom of University life. (I just hope that those brochures did not lie).

glitterfairy · Dec 30, 2005

iambored said:
...I love the greeny grassy laid back feel of the uni

glitterfairy said:
...MQ has a really nice relaxed, laid-back sort of atmosphere

AsyLum said:
...As for the uni itself, it is laidback and friendly

Either great minds think alike, or we've all been brainwashed. Asy votes for the latter via msn!

iambored · Dec 30, 2005

It's a lot more free than school, you don't feel like people are always checking up on you, you do things in your own time (i.e. maybe never

). oh, and the last minute is your best friend

glitterfairy · Dec 30, 2005

hopendespair said:
LOL!

I found school to be a MASSIVE web of control (Thank you advanced English!). I cannot wait for the freedom of University life. (I just hope that those brochures did not lie).

I wouldn't take them at face value. I'll admit that Uni is a hell of a lot different to regular school, but it's not really a birdcage with an open door either. But for the most part, I greatly prefer it... it becomes much more part of your life rather than the whole wakeup/school/hmoework/sleep kind of deal. You'll probably go out a lot more whilst at Uni... even though the workload might be the same as during the HSC! hahaha.

We only need Passes though

Cyan_phoeniX · Dec 30, 2005

hopendespair said:
Hello Everyone!

I am so excited about coming (I am CERTAIN that I will!) to MAC.

I will be studying Accounting. Something that I have wanted to do for a while, after hearing about it from family members.

I want to know what I can expect in some of the subjects (or are they called "units"?) in first year. What about the general atmosphere in the uni...What is there to do on a daily basis?

Thats all for me.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Tin-Tin (Tina)

hey Tin-Tin (groovy name

). Welcome to maq. Your right, the subjects are called 'units,' you usually do 4 units per semester.. and each unit is worth credit points (usually 3 credit points).

I dont do accounting, but i can tell you that the general atmosphere is great... the campus has quite a lot of space (and we have a lake and the world famous family of ducks

). Everyone is friendly and it is snob-free. I still havent met any snobby people and most people are easy to talk to. I was originally going to go to usyd, but i am very glad i ended up going to maq.

the uni has a lot of stuff. I good library, lots of places to eat (not to mention a massive shopping centre 5 mins away), newsagents, hairdressers, bank. and heaps more.. you may meet someone from bos at orientation day as a few of us are doing mentoring and mentor-leader (the people who will show you around).

you picked the right uni!!

AsyLum · Dec 30, 2005

hopendespair said:
LOL!

I found school to be a MASSIVE web of control (Thank you advanced English!). I cannot wait for the freedom of University life. (I just hope that those brochures did not lie).

In addition, we're all nocturnal and fairly friendly

(with the exception of that dastardly 'mike' character, he's someone you should look out for)

hopendespair · Dec 30, 2005

glitterfairy said:
HELLO!

Being up this late you're already halfway there. Anyway:

Your COURSE is your degree. Eg B of Accounting
Your UNITS are the "subjects" you do in each semester, eg ACCG100. You can find out more about the exact units you'll be doing in the Macquarie 2006 Handbook, now avaliable online.

I'm not an accounting student so I can't go into detail about your course, but Uni life is nice... MQ has a really nice relaxed, laid-back sort of atmosphere. It's generally leafy with lovely lawns, and the size of the uni means you never really have to rush to your next class.

Also we have a decent food court. Good food is appreciated.

Yeah, I have been nocturnal for a while. But it has been purely for pleasure and not business.

Thanks for clearing that up for me. Leafy and a relaxed atmosphere, I like!

AsyLum said:
Welcome

http://www.handbook.mq.edu.au/programofstudy.php?edition=2006&code=ACCG03

That would be your likely program of study.

As for the uni itself, it is laidback and friendly, there isnt really a hustle and bustle to the place, and is relatively slow and easy going.

There are daily things on at the bar, and Macquarie Centre is only a short distance away.

WOW! That is very helpful indeed. But some of those "UNITS" sounds incredelous.

glitterfairy · Dec 30, 2005

iambored said:
It's a lot more free than school, you don't feel like people are always checking up on you, you do things in your own time (i.e. maybe never ). oh, and the last minute is your best friend

Oh gawd, I was crossing off the time in 5-minute slots in my ENGL120 lectures semester 1 this year. So boring. My friend Katie and I would eat Kinder Suprises and play with the little toys inside

I'm such a bad role model, future MQ students please don't copy what I do... "This is just the way I did it. It is not the right or wrong way, however leaning towards wrong way if you want consistent super-high marks..."

hopendespair · Dec 30, 2005

You guys post so quickly....I can barely keep up!

AsyLum · Dec 30, 2005

Haha yeah, unfortunately we still need to do the relevant study

And by the looks of things, you'll have a chance to balance the 2nd and 3rd year subjects with electives, from the fairly wide range of options at MQ

Cyan_phoeniX · Dec 30, 2005

haha. you know, i really must be a slow writer because all these posts were not there when i wrote my first post (i thought i was the first to reply).

See how many people from maq are up this late Tina!!! lol

clairegirl · Dec 30, 2005

accounting = exciting.... how very questionable lol

im just kidding i HATED ACCOUNTING so much when i did it, but in the end its not so bad after u start understanding and that wasnt until the day before the exam for me.

iambored · Dec 30, 2005

So what else do you want to know?

Mqers, go to bed, I can't go to bed if you all don't

glitterfairy · Dec 30, 2005

AsyLum said:
In addition, we're all nocturnal and fairly friendly (with the exception of that dastardly 'mike' character, he's someone you should look out for)

HAHAHAHA!

We're also highly prone to hijacking threads. Even if they're our own, although we're partial to other people's threads as well.

The MQ BOS community is particularly tightly-knit, I've met more people through here than I have through tutes/lectures etc. Often you can even buddy up with a fellow BOSer if you share lectures together or something

AsyLum · Dec 30, 2005

clairegirl said:
accounting = exciting.... how very questionable lol

im just kidding i HATED ACCOUNTING so much when i did it, but in the end its not so bad after u start understanding and that wasnt until the day before the exam for me.

Haha, don't worry i still don't know much about philosophy

glitterfairy · Dec 30, 2005

Cyan_phoeniX said:
haha. you know, i really must be a slow writer because all these posts were not there when i wrote my first post (i thought i was the first to reply).

See how many people from maq are up this late Tina!!! lol

We're so sad... this is the most exciting thing that's happened in my life tonight since Mike and Cyan flamed the troll. *happy sigh*

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