Why am I doing this again?
please give me your hilarious anecdotes and horror stories about going back to uni as an adult so I might feel less bad about this choice.
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The first all nighter to complete an assignment is a bit of a novelty as an adult. A bit of a throw back to the old days.
The rest are balls and ruin your week. Avoid at all costs.
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I’ve just survived a group assignment that included a reach around circle jerk of massive proportions where we had to give each other feedback, and then give feedback on the feedback we received.
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So ive started attending tantric…
Ohh not that “adult” education.
My bad.
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I did an MBA at Monash 12 years after getting my Science Degree. I felt so old, but it did not take long to get into the Uni life style. Monash was not a social as Melbourne Uni and there were many more students from China, but made some good friends and enjoyed the experience.
I worked more collectively with this group and I helped them with the Marketing and Management subjects and they did all my Engineering and Computing stuff.
The only horror story was that Prof Alan Fells was our economics lecturer and he is the most boring bloke in the world. Too many nice younfg ladies around as well, and not sure Mrs Fox the second actually thought I was studying. She was happy when I actually graduated.
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I did a masters in my late 30s.
Sat at the front of the lecture theatre so I could hear the lecturer.
Had one of those 5 tab binder books, everyone else had a laptop.
I found writing essays and my thesis fairly straightforward given the work I do. Juggling full time work, young children and study was a challenge. Probably made me focused to completing assessments as I didn’t have the time to procreate.
I found studying many years after completing bachelor degrees really rewarding and enjoyable. My kids saw life long learning in action.
All the best with your studies.
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I didn’t have my glasses on anth thought the thread was about Adult entertainment. How disappointing.
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Also did a masters in mid thirties, with little kids, in Covid while working full time.
It was all fine except group assignment. Fark them to hell.
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Thank god I did my post-grad stuff before I had kids. But I did my course by distance online in my early 30s, back when it was just starting to be offered. Had only email support from lecturers, class chat room. Really wish I could’ve been on campus attending my classes.
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Group assignments exist solely to reduce marking by the assessors.
For example, why correct/assess 35 individual assignments when there can be 7 groups of 5 meaning only 7 assignments to deal with?
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Just wait until they bring out the Butchers Paper and Markers.
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I started as an undergraduate at 32, at a time when I finally had the commitment to do it properly (after my somewhat aimless 20s). Got 1st class honours and went on to do a PhD, which I finished at 42. Met many great people, had a lot of fun while also working hard at studies. Age should be no barrier to education, but I’m sure it’s challenging if you have kids and a big mortgage etc.
Relocating from Melbourne to Qld helped, as I needed to separate from my old crowd in order to focus.
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I did a Masters in my 40s. Enjoyed a lot, although most of my assignment work was completed between 11pm and 1am given full time work and kids. In many of the classes (particularly the later classes when grad diploma students were no longer there) I was one of less than 3 students turning up to class. Developed good relationships with the lecturers, including doing some work in my remaining spare time rewriting some undergrad classes). In a different world which didn’t devolve into Covid and have a few other issues Id probably have looked to go into a PhD to continue some research that we’d done, but the world went a bit crazy and all of a sudden we were 3 years down the track and I’d forgotten everything,.
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First year of psychology in mid 2000s as a “mature” student, and I was not doing particularly well with the work/study balance. One topic in particular which I can not even recall the name of, I had neglected for the entire term. Scraped through on the tutorial attendance and a couple of assessments, but the exam counted for most of the mark.
I am not a person that copes well with “good enough”, and was hoping to progress to honours or masters after my degree, so I was anxious in the extreme about needing a certain mark, and thinking that I would have to work my ring loose just to get a pass.
I hadn’t attended a single lecture, but recordings were available, so I cleared my calendar for the two days before the exam to essentially do the entire course over 48 hours.
The afternoon of exam eve, my sister calls to tell me a friend has fallen ill so she has a spare ticket to some old grunge band called “Pearl Jam”… That night. The night before the exam.
I had not been thrilled with the progress or quality of my cramming, so after a solid hour of angsty deliberation I decided to be responsible, prioritise my studies and future, and forgo the ticket.
I listened to a total of 30 hours of lectures, 15 the day and night before the exam, some of them twice because I wasn’t that pleased with my retention. I listened to zero hours of Pearl Jam.
Exam time rolls around and the majority of the questions are a complete mystery to me. Which, once I figured out I had studied a semester of material for a course I pulled out of instead of the one I enrolled for, made sense.
â– â– â– â– head.
Apparently Pearl Jam were insanely good.
I spent weeks in a funk about not going and completely bombing a subject. When my results were posted I didn’t even look for a few days.
My result?
96%
To this day I don’t know if I’m angry or happy about it.
The lesson here: Always go to Pearl Jam.
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Oh yeah, actually that’s probably the biggest difference between undergrad and postgrad for me.
Undergrad I’d be cramming things last second on the train in. Postgrad I’d be so prepared that I stopped studying for exams 3-4 days before sitting them.
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Changing careers and being in uni now all I can say is good lord the group assignments are painful.
Also the level of some the teachers is deplorable, they want to be there less than students I had one last semester that happened to give every student the same grade for an assignment.
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The best advice I can offer is if you leave things to the last minute, they only take a minute.
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