Thoughts on Uni Courses

when people ask me what i want to do, i really don't know.

ok, so here are some thoughts.
- i've always said i don't want to do commerce, except maybe it's useful in the future...
- i was talking to an ex baulko guy '07, and apparently he got 99th percentile for umat did medicine for a year at UNSW but dropped out, and i was like what!!?? and apparently he got accepted for a college in USA and just went there to do more chem and phys, and going back again to get a PhD and wants to become a uni professor. hey, that's quite cool as well. i want to study overseas, but not for 4 years...he was born that as well, so maybe that's why it was easier to get accepted....i want to go on exchange for a bit! yes, that's on my "wish" list.
- i've always known from the very beginning i would never be a 99.95, so no med at usyd, unless post-grad. but, doesn't that mean you waste heaps more time? like the course there is already 7 years, and another degree is like 3/4 years...
- UNSW med is a tiny possibility
- Oh, i was talking to a friend and she wanted to go UWS to do med since you need 93 (it's only 93 for people living in the west, for other people like me it's 95) but it's UWS...who goes there? i only know one guy who is disable who goes there, i think because of convenience and you don't get that "Uni" feeling like USYD or UNSW has, and it doesn't look good. but uws saves you time, since it's only 5 years, whereas unsw is 6. what if no one employs you since it's UWS? i was looking at it more, and the campus is at Campbeltown...soooooo far away, and you work at blacktown/mt druitt hospitals....sooooo far away. i've had my share of travelling during junior schools, don't think i can stand 1.5 hour driving trips everyday for 5 years (wasting petrol as well) obvs, it's less competitive, like law there is only 90
- I want to go USYD because of it's buildings, feels so magical
- Monash med/law seems ok-ish, but it's alllll the way down there, but it's ranked better then UNSW

enough of med,
- i want to do something chemistry. i've thought of medical science, but it seems "easy-ish" to get in, and it's only 3 years, what if you don't get into honours year? then you can't do anything with your degree.
- Still don't know difference between med sci and med chem (which is only offered at unsw, which seems ok-ish to get in)
- i think psychology has a good atar to aim for, for people who want to for psych. like if you don't get that 98 for unsw, it's not too bad for usyd 97, don't know what the difference is though...but those atar seem like ok aims.
- yeah...i've thought about law, 99.7 usyd no way, and apparently it's hard to get employed, idk, maybe you just have to be smart. only 90 for uws, 98 for monash.
- i like uts since it has a nicer combination of degrees. like med science and law seems good. but as i've said, they only employ lawyers from usyd i think... it would be nice to have a combination of science and law though... but then again, who goes to uts? i like like how other uni's have all those clubs and stuff
-major in chemistry related stuff? unsw has a major in food science. coool! like Heston. will go to his restaurant....one day...before he dies... (as in, it will take me a soooo long to save up money, as i still have other places i need/want to go)
- thought about pharmacy, but you only need 80ish. i always thought when i was younger, that you need high marks, except i don't want to become one of those people just handing medicine over the counter-boring...
- optometry seems interesting since you get to use cool machines. AND I FINALLY UNDERSTAND. some of you don't know, i went to unsw for a research test to see how asian eyeball change while wearing day/night contacts. SO THAT WAS THEIR RESEARCH YEAR. it took more than a year, since we always had to postpone our appointments. but i bet they get heaps of money to do it, cause in the end we received a card, movie tickets, and all our washing stuff was free and we received a good load of that, plus the contacts were free. and the people were 30-ish, so post-grads doing research. how creative do you have to be to think of something to do for research? ahhh, i finally know what they mean by research, yes, you really need to research stuff.

i know i want to help people, maybe science related
my parents say people don't look at your uni's only credentials, but i want a good "uni" experience, which obviously a cadetship doesn't offer, so didn't bother applying, heard a girl in my grade is already accepted, smarttttt....

and i was talking to my careers advisor last term, and she said if you want to go usyd then go, if not then don't bother. apparently, if you want to change from another uni to usyd, all those "credit points" or hard work you did, they all get deleted, and you start from scratch again/beginning at your new course at usyd, and changing courses in usyd is more annoying compared to unsw/uts as you have to go through wayyyy more procedures.

good on you for reading all this (Y)
i've been through/over 5hours of tutoring these past 2 days. catching up on stuff...