good luck with exams everyone...

[jamie]

it's exam time for pretty much everyone around the place at the moment, except for those lucky people who don't any this semester...

so good luck to you all...i had my first one today and i think i've discovered a previously unknown talent for writing complete BS and making it sound like the right answer :) it's only taken me 4 years of uni learn how to do that, lol, i wish i'd picked up on it sooner...

and i hope everyone's archery isn't suffering too much from study, i know mines gone out the window lately :(

[andrewf87]

I am 2 down with 2 to go, one tomorrow and one on tuesday. After that, a month of holidays ...
ohhh yehh

[jamie]

pfft holidays what's that, mine are being taken up by a stupid prac, i swear i'm going to be living on bread and water cause i have to take the time off work as leave without pay, sucks big time :(

[Hannah]

Thanks! I only have one more to go, but it still isn't for nearly two weeks!!!

[dbjac]

well you guys are all lucky. I have had 3, and have 4 more to go. Yes, thats right, i have 7 exams... 7!! i hate uni.

[Archangel]

Thanks, one down and two to go. My project is keeping me well busy in between them though...

[jamie]

i have 7 exams... 7!! i hate uni.

how did you manage that? how many subjects are you taking? :confused:

[Normie]

:D big fat 0 exams this semester :D

different for the next tho :(

I've already finished, not due back until 26th July :D

[dbjac]

how did you manage that? how many subjects are you taking? :confused:

i some how managed to pick 3 subjects with two exams each... only doing 4 subjects...

[Normie]

i had my first one today and i think i've discovered a previously unknown talent for writing complete BS and making it sound like the right answer :)

my fav teacher once told me "if you can't beat em with facts baffle them with bull$hit" it works too :D most of the time....

[Flehrad]

Yay for being a PhD student, no exams! Woot.

We had 1 undergrad turn up on Tuesday for training, as it is study vacation week right now....

I'm expecting a lot less in the next 3 weeks lol.

[andrewf87]

my fav teacher once told me "if you can't beat em with facts baffle them with bull$hit" it works too :D most of the time....

LOL thats classic, thats all the knowledge you would ever need to pass an english exam

[Hannah]

LOL thats classic, thats all the knowledge you would ever need to pass an english exam

Or an Arts degree (which I am currently doing and quite enjoying!)

[jamie]

Or an Arts degree (which I am currently doing and quite enjoying!)

done one of those, great fun they are...
what are your majors? i did archaeology and ancient history

[Hannah]

done one of those, great fun they are...
what are your majors? i did archaeology and ancient history

Looks to be turning out to be an Anthropology and Politics double major...but we will see.

If you have already done an Arts degree and still at uni, what are you doing now?

[jamie]

Graduate Diploma of Information and Library Studies

In short becoming a Librarian

[Hannah]

Graduate Diploma of Information and Library Studies

In short becoming a Librarian

That sounds very interesting (honestly)...I never knew how one was to do that! You learn something every day ;)

[Normie]

Or an Arts degree (which I am currently doing and quite enjoying!)

in one of the mens toilets at Adelaide Uni there is (or was) a sign above the toilet paper that read(s)...

"BA's, please take one"

lol.....

[Hannah]

in one of the mens toilets at Adelaide Uni there is (or was) a sign above the toilet paper that read(s)...

"BA's, please take one"

lol.....

LOL, I wish the government saw it that way - maybe then I wouldn't have to pay ;)

Seriously, though, they are quite beneficial and in a lot of cases really encourage thinking beyond the confines that someone is used to. In my humble opinion, as much as they are 'crapped on' (apparently literally, according to the author of the grafitti above...) they are really beneficial...but then, I would say that given I am completing mine currently :D

[dbjac]

...arts. nearly as a bad as engineering haha, but lets not start the inter-faculty war, im sure we all get enough of it at uni...

[Hannah]

That certainly wasn't my intention...apologies if it sounded that way!

[andrewf87]

...arts. nearly as a bad as engineering haha, but lets not start the inter-faculty war, im sure we all get enough of it at uni...

No you didn't just bad mouth engineering !

[jamie]

far too many archers are engineers, it's kinda scary you know

[Archangel]

...arts. nearly as a bad as engineering haha, but lets not start the inter-faculty war, im sure we all get enough of it at uni...
No not really, we don't have an inter-faculty war with arts - in order to have one, some of their students would have to stop smoking pot in the quad :-)

[andrewf87]

LOL and stop puttin up those posters all over the place

[jamie]

No not really, we don't have an inter-faculty war with arts - in order to have one, some of their students would have to stop smoking pot in the quad :-)

see, don't get that, the whole stereotype that arts students are absolute bums

okay i admit, there were some really strange/spaced out people in some of my ancient history subjects and in the religion and philosophy subjects i did as electives there were alot more, but in the archaeology major there weren't, we had to work hard to pass, over 50% of the subjects were actually science and geology subjects, and they didn't make it easy

and there's so many people these days who actually do arts cause they didn't make the cut for the course thay actually wanted to do, and so many people who do dual degrees with arts because it's the only way they can tailor/specialise their other degree, so i dont think it gets given the credit it deserves

i think for too long it's been marketed as the degree you do when you want to go to uni but don't know what you want to do cause there is so much freedon of choice in it and so has come to be known the 'uni bums course' but it is the only avenue for some courses of study, such as history, literature, anthropology and so on

[dbjac]

whoops

[dbjac]

true, and i dont intend to underrate the course, it requires an ENTER score hear of high 80s, which isnt very common.
But still, the majority are spaced out people, haha.

Andrewf87 said
"LOL and stop puttin up those posters all over the place"

haha, yeh and stop writing crap on the concrete!!

[jamie]

true, and i dont intend to underrate the course, it requires an ENTER score hear of high 80s, which isnt very common.

In QLD with the OP system, to get into Arts it was last time i knew a 7 which is only two below Architecture which i think is a 5 and Law is like a 2 or 3, and so with 25 being the lowest OP score you can get, it's up there pretty high!

[The One]

see, don't get that, the whole stereotype that arts students are absolute bums

I have a number of friends doing arts, and can assure you that they make it quite obvious that they have a lot of spare time on their hands :)

[andrewf87]

A mate of mine from school is doing it and only has 12 contact hours... what a bludger.

[Archangel]

I know a guy doing arts who has been known to complain some days when he has to get out of bed to go to uni - for a 3:00 lecture. My heart bleeds... :-)

[andrewf87]

Oh sounds like a tough life for that uni student getting up at 3pm :???:

[Hannah]

A mate of mine from school is doing it and only has 12 contact hours... what a bludger.

1. I thought the general consensus was that there was to be no 'inter-faculty' war.

2. Just because you have few contact hours, does not mean that you have a lot of time on your hands...I know I am currently studying for one, quite enjoying it too, but struggling with juggling working 18 hours a week and my 'bludging' 8 hours a week contact. There is a substantial amount of reading that needs to be completed - has anyone ever bothered asking a Law student how many contact hours they have? They often have less than most Arts students.

3. Most of the people that I know who do an arts degree (excluding those, for the sake of discussion, who are doing a double degree) are not 'pot-smokers', actually have a brain in their heads, can argue a point very well (so you could have a 'war' with them should you really feel a need) and actually enjoy learning. There is always going to be an element, but from what I know, ALL faculties have this element - it is not just found in Arts.

Now please...if it makes you all feel better about yourselves feel free to continue, but I am sure there are more worthwhile past-times that exist...maybe archery??? :confused:

[Marcus]

1. I don't count, I didn't go to uni.

2. Engineering and science students have as much homework as Arts students but with subject matter based on reality.

3. Yes but they can only argue from the side of an ideaist and not a realist or extremist which is far more interesting. ;)

[StevenB]

try a 48hr work week with 0 contact hours and a full time study load

and for point 3, no they can't

[The One]

2. Engineering and science students have as much homework as Arts students but with subject matter based on reality.

Someone who understands!!! :eek:

[andrewf87]

1. I thought the general consensus was that there was to be no 'inter-faculty' war.

2. Just because you have few contact hours, does not mean that you have a lot of time on your hands...I know I am currently studying for one, quite enjoying it too, but struggling with juggling working 18 hours a week and my 'bludging' 8 hours a week contact. There is a substantial amount of reading that needs to be completed - has anyone ever bothered asking a Law student how many contact hours they have? They often have less than most Arts students.

3. Most of the people that I know who do an arts degree (excluding those, for the sake of discussion, who are doing a double degree) are not 'pot-smokers', actually have a brain in their heads, can argue a point very well (so you could have a 'war' with them should you really feel a need) and actually enjoy learning. There is always going to be an element, but from what I know, ALL faculties have this element - it is not just found in Arts.

Now please...if it makes you all feel better about yourselves feel free to continue, but I am sure there are more worthwhile past-times that exist...maybe archery??? :confused:

1)I wasn't trying to start an interfactulty war it was just on topic so i mentioned it .
2)I wasn't saying that all arts students are bludgers but i was just giving an example of what i beleive isn't a massive work load.
3)I am sure they aren't all pot smokers and they do have a brain but its just a common sterotype that us engineers use to dis' arts ppl :D

[StevenB]

like the sterotype that all engineers are pissheads

[Marcus]

You suck up Andrew, just tell her as it is. :lol:

ALL uni students drink heaps regardless of facilty and then brag about it afterwards like it makes them cool or something.
People with jobs don't give a crap because we can buy better booze and drink when we like. :p

[andrewf87]

People with jobs don't give a crap because we can buy better booze and drink when we like. :p

But people with jobs dont have snags to go with there booze now do they :P

[StevenB]

You suck up Andrew, just tell her as it is. :lol:

ALL uni students drink heaps regardless of facilty and then brag about it afterwards like it makes them cool or something.
People with jobs don't give a crap because we can buy better booze and drink when we like. :p


I don't think my work appreciates me going to the pub during lunch for a few schooners with lunch;)

but I can afford to buy the better stuff, and don't need to stick my head in a bucket of urine for a free resches real

[Archangel]

People with jobs don't give a crap because we can buy better booze and drink when we like. :p
What? Most people with jobs can't drink when they want, a lot of workplaces take a pretty dim view of it. Whereas students really can, our lecturers wouldn't care if we turned up pissed to a lecture - they certainly don't when we skip them for the pub crawl.

I can't argue on the better booze thing, except that you live in Victoria and they can't brew beer for sh#t there :-D

[Marcus]

That's why we drink South Australian beer

You should work in the places I have, beer was out by 10am.

[SBR]

Marcus is right, in my job every friday from noon onwards its a business lunch in the city with an open bar tab.

[Archangel]

Fair enough, it's just not the case for everybody... 10am is pretty impressive though, where were you working? :-)

[Marcus]

Fair enough, it's just not the case for everybody... 10am is pretty impressive though, where were you working? :-)
High end computer stores.
Sales meetings were at strip joints.

[The One]

they certainly don't when we skip them for the pub crawl.

That statement may have held more sway if you had actually skipped whatever it was for the pubcrawl this year... :mad:

[Zoe]

You think your workplaces are wild. This one time, at my work, this guy had to skull a beer if he couldn't recite pi to 100 decimal places, and like, he only made it to 98, and he had to drink the WHOLE beer, oh OMG it was soooo funny...how we all laughed...and yeah...*coughs*
(bet they don't have wild fun like that at the Bureau of Meteorology)

[Clare Barnes]

You think your workplaces are wild. This one time, at my work, this guy had to skull a beer if he couldn't recite pi to 100 decimal places, and like, he only made it to 98, and he had to drink the WHOLE beer, oh OMG it was soooo funny...how we all laughed...and yeah...*coughs*
(bet they don't have wild fun like that at the Bureau of Meteorology)

Can I assume this was a yard of beer? ;)

[Archangel]

That statement may have held more sway if you had actually skipped whatever it was for the pubcrawl this year... :mad:
I was going on pub crawls when you still weren't allowed to drink! It's hardly my fault that I actually had some work to do this year - unfortunately while my lecturers are pretty easy about it, my project supervisor would be less than impressed if I ditched him to get pissed!

[Zoe]

Can I assume this was a yard of beer? ;)

Ok, ok, so I wasn't being entirely honest....



.....it was orange juice



....and it was 1000 decimal places

[Clare Barnes]

I was going on pub crawls when you still weren't allowed to drink! It's hardly my fault that I actually had some work to do this year - unfortunately while my lecturers are pretty easy about it, my project supervisor would be less than impressed if I ditched him to get pissed!

Perhaps NZ unis have changed in the last 30 years ... or are you not at Otago?;)

[frommy]

With respect to Monty Python, the

[dbjac]

Well i can recall numerous lectures where BBQ's were held out the front, i'd say 90% of the students were actually drinking the beer from the BBQ in the lecture. :beer_drink:

[Archangel]

Perhaps NZ unis have changed in the last 30 years ... or are you not at Otago?;)
No, they don't offer engineering down there...

I do seem to recall someone being conspicuously absent from coaching after the pub crawl though ;-)

[Mike13]

I can't argue on the better booze thing, except that you live in Victoria and they can't brew beer for sh#t there :-D
Bull****. Typical of a know nothing uni student drinker. It's not the location, it's the brewery. Ever tried Mountain Ridge? I used to think SA beer was crap but Coopers proved me horribly wrong. Every state has good and crap beer.
That being said you NZLers brew **** beer.:lol:

[The One]

I do seem to recall someone being conspicuously absent from coaching after the pub crawl though ;-)

I have my priorities!


Just don't tell the coach... ;)

[The One]

That being said you NZLers brew **** beer.:lol:

Quite right! Which is why we do the smart thing and import decent beer, rather than inflicting bad beer (such as VB or XXXX) upon the populace :cool:

[StevenB]

when I worked at Burger King, one of the managers would take $100 from the registers and by a few bottles of spirits for us on a saturday night around 5pm

[CMB50]

Good Beer V Bad Beer
VIC: Crown Lager / Melbourne Bitter
NSW bluetounge Tooheys anything
QLD: ? / XXXX
SA: Coopers / West End
WA: Little Creatures / Swan Lager
TAS: Boags / Cascade



Someone want to fill in the gaps?

[Mike13]

Quite right! Which is why we do the smart thing and import decent beer, rather than inflicting bad beer (such as VB or XXXX) upon the populace :cool:
:lol:
If VB and XXXX are all you're drinking then you're not trying hard enough (although I don't mind VB as a general easy drinking beer).
It's a big country with lots of breweries.
A lot of the "imported" beers over here are now apparently brewed here under license, still with the big price tag though.:(

[StevenB]

Good Beer V Bad Beer
Vic: Crown Lager / Melbourne Bitter
NSW: ? / Tooheys mid strength
QLD: ? / XXXX
SA: Coopers / ?

Someone want to fill in the gaps?


NSW bluetounge Tooheys New

James Squires Amber ale is very good

don't mind VB

[Mike13]

SA Coopers/West End?
I agree, James Squire is good.

[Zoe]

SA: Coopers / West End
WA: Little Creatures / Swan Lager

Fremantle has some great little breweries. Swan Lager is revolting beyond words. My favourite though is James Squire - is that NSW?

[Mike13]

Yeah I think it is.

I was hoping someone on the west coast would enlighten us about the local beers. Cheers.

[CMB50]

Good Beer V Bad Beer
VIC: Crown Lager / Melbourne Bitter
NSW bluetounge Tooheys anything
QLD: ? / XXXX
SA: Coopers / West End
WA: Little Creatures / Swan Lager
TAS: Boags / Cascade



Someone want to fill in the gaps?


Updated.

[The One]

Yes, I had heard that Western Australians liked their little creatures.

[Hannah]

Good Beer V Bad Beer
VIC: Crown Lager / Melbourne Bitter
NSW bluetounge Tooheys anything
QLD: ? / XXXX
SA: Coopers / West End
WA: Little Creatures / Swan Lager
TAS: Boags / Cascade



Someone want to fill in the gaps?

Can I take this to mean that there are no good QLD beers at all??? I find this revelation very intriguing!!!

[CMB50]

I just can't think of any. I'm open to suggestions.

[Zoe]

How about the Northen Territory? :bolt:

[CMB50]

Most of the population there drink unleaded petroleum anyway :rolleyes:

[StevenB]

Most of the population there drink unleaded petroleum anyway :rolleyes:


no they don't, have you seen the price of unleaded.

metho is on $2 a bottle.


XXXX gold isn't bad for a mid strength

[mike]

I'd swap the Boags / Cascade one - Boags is rubbish! Cascade is good.

mmmmmmm WA beers. Lets see: Anything by Little Creatures is good, but their new one "Bright Ale" is the best. Matilda Bay make all the good beers - Redback, Rooftop Red, Bohemian Pilsner, the list goes on. Then there is Feral Brewing Company - their White beer is as good or better than Hoegaarden. Basically WA make the best beers in Australia, followed closely by James Squire and Coopers.

**** beers: Swan and Emu.

Fosters isn't crash hot in Vic. Crown is OK, Carlton Premium is better, VB and Carlton draght are good everyday beers!

Possibly the worst beer in Autralia is a toss up between West End and Hahn Ice.

[The One]

Haven't tried it, but New Zealand Lager is supposed to be pretty crap!

[StevenB]

I'd swap the Boags / Cascade one - Boags is rubbish! Cascade is good.


so your from south of Oatlands then?


Boags strong arm is good

and Bluetounge also do an alcoholic ginger beer, very good for dark and stormys

[Marcus]

trust mike to resurface for a beer discussion :rofl:

[Eberbachl]

Good Beer V Bad Beer
VIC: Crown Lager / Melbourne Bitter

Someone want to fill in the gaps?

Bull****.

Crown Lager is crap.

It's just for Bogans on pay day.

The rest of the week they drink VB.

:)

Little Creatures and Coopers are both great.

And no, they don't make any good beer in Queensland.

:D

[StevenB]

that could be there new ad slogan "crown larger, for bogans on pay day".


Actually I would rate heiniken as very expensive VB

[Archangel]

that could be there new ad slogan "crown larger, for bogans on pay day".


Actually I would rate heiniken as very expensive VB
Nope, it's nothing like as awful as VB - few things can be of course.

Still, I have to give you Aussies some credit, at least you haven't sunk to the level of the Americans with Budweiser ;-)

[Mike13]

Have to agree with that. Mainstream US beer sucks.

[CMB50]

Bull****.

Crown Lager is crap.

It's just for Bogans on pay day.

The rest of the week they drink VB.

:)

Little Creatures and Coopers are both great.

And no, they don't make any good beer in Queensland.

:D


So what's you suggestion for best Victorian Beer? It's all i could think of at the time and no one had disputed it so far.
Remember, we're talking commercial beer here....not boutique.



On another note: I just got a 6 pack of Bavaria. Nice.

[jamie]

:pirate:
okay... so i'm never going to start a thread again... they always end up gettin way off topic...
:focus:

[Marcus]

It's normal that when a girl starts a conversation the guy ignoring and talk about beer.

[jamie]

It's normal that when a girl starts a conversation the guy ignoring and talk about beer.

:fist:

where's the smilies that swear at each other?

[Eberbachl]

So what's you suggestion for best Victorian Beer? It's all i could think of at the time and no one had disputed it so far.
Remember, we're talking commercial beer here....not boutique.



On another note: I just got a 6 pack of Bavaria. Nice.

Good point.

Good Victorian mainstream beer?

There might not be one!

:lol:

[CMB50]

Carlton Draught?

[Mike13]

Yep. Good honest draught beer.

[jamie]

how about horse piss? isn't that what they make beer out of? :p

[CMB50]

Jamie....you're cruisin' for some negative rep!

;)


Stop trying to drag this thread back on topic! :pirate:

[jamie]

Jamie....you're cruisin' for some negative rep!

;)


Stop trying to drag this thread back on topic! :pirate:

hmph, i think i should be getting some positive rep to make up for you all running away with my thread ;)

[Mike13]

Talking about beer in a uni thread can hardly be considered off topic.

[andrewf87]

True and its totally relevant considering Monash has green week in about a month.

[jamie]

Talking about beer in a uni thread can hardly be considered off topic.

i've never had a beer since i started uni, and i'm onto my second degree and still haven't had one :P

... but go on... keep going, feel free to discuss varieties of beer, i don't mind, my exams are over now so the thread's all yours... :D

[Eberbachl]

Carlton Draught?

Yeah, Draught is OK in a pot glass.

And gets better and better the more pots you have :D

[Mike13]

i've never had a beer since i started uni, and i'm onto my second degree and still haven't had one :P

... but go on... keep going, feel free to discuss varieties of beer, i don't mind, my exams are over now so the thread's all yours... :D
It was always mine.

[StevenB]

www.aussiepubs.com.au


Victoria - Beer

* Pony 140ml
* A Beer 200ml
* Pot 285ml
* Schooner 485ml
* Jug 1140ml

South Australia - Beer

* Pony 140ml
* Butcher 200ml
* Schooner 285ml
* Jug 1140ml

New South Wales - Beer

* A Five 140ml
* A Seven 200ml
* Middie 285ml
* Schooner 425ml
* Jug 1140ml

Queensland - Beer

* N/A 140ml
* A beer 200ml
* Pot 285ml
* Schooner 425ml
* Jug 1140ml

Northern Territory - Beer

* N/A 140ml
* Seven 200ml
* Pot 285ml
* Handle 285ml
* Beer 285ml
* Can 375ml
* Stubbie 375ml/345ml Varies
* Schooner 425ml
* Jug 1140ml

Tasmania - Beer

* 6 oz Beer 170ml If your an old guy and asked for a beer you would get a 6oz
* 8oz Beer 225ml
* 10oz Beer 285ml If you are a young guy you would get a 10oz for a beer
* N/A 425ml Only for visitors
* Jug 1140ml

Western Australia - Beer

* Pony 140ml
* A Beer 200ml
* Pot 285ml
* Middie 285ml
* N/A 425ml
* Jug 1140ml

[StevenB]

though most pubs around the beaches are trying to go Irish so no schooys just pints

[jamie]

It was always mine.

ha... where's my rep points and i wont contest :P

[andrewf87]

w00t well thats me done with exams :D

[dbjac]

i've never had a beer since i started uni, and i'm onto my second degree and still haven't had one :P

... but go on... keep going, feel free to discuss varieties of beer, i don't mind, my exams are over now so the thread's all yours... :D

They may be over for you, some of use arent as lucky. :(

w00t well thats me done with exams :D
Biatch. :mad:

[andrewf87]

Guess i wont be seeing u at the club tomorrow derek ;) Have fun in that exam, ill just be chillin

[Archangel]

w00t well thats me done with exams :D
Alright for some, I've got one this afternoon and my last on Friday.
Despite me knowing nothing about PDE's or finite differences, I'm posting on AF rather than studying. Sometimes I wonder how I made it this far :-)

[The One]

Sometimes I wonder how I made it this far :-)

Brute force and ignorance, I reckon!

Good luck for the exam

[Archangel]

Brute force and ignorance, I reckon!

Good luck for the exam
Yeah thanks, looks like I'll need it - despite several hours of study, I have learned nothing useful for the exam (although I have reiterated to myself the importance of getting your ()'s right).