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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 1073574" data-attributes="member: 5328">[PLAIN]Re: [OT] Higher Education here I come![/PLAIN]I studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of New South Wales in the early eighties, Economics (with side orders of statisistics and extra economics) at the Australian National University in the late eighties, and scattered bits of vocational/postgrad stuff at Monash University and the ANU (again) in the nineties.Best approach?1. Learn in class, goof off out of class. Learn out of class if you have to, but never goof off in class whatever the temptations. There is plenty of time to chat up attractive members of the appropriate sex, joke with friends, and doodle in notebooks outside of lectures and tutorials.2. The textbook is usually a better reference resource than lecture notes. Some people learn best by writing notes. If you are not one of them, concentrate on listening to the lecturer, watching was is written on the board, and thinking about the material during lectures. Don't take copious notes just because it seems to be expected: only if you need the notes because there is no textbook, or if you find personally that writing the notes helps you to remember.3. Ask for explanations of what you don't understand. My experience is that lecturers never minded if I stuck my hand up during a lecture. Perhaps I was a pet pupil, but my theory is that they were glad to have the feedback about where their explanations were not perfectly clear. If you are embarrassed to ask a question in the middle of a lecture, go down to the front at the end and ask then. Or ask as the next tutorial.4. Learn continuously through the whole term. What you cram in a week you will forget in a week. What use is that? And Swot Vac is a bad time to try to find help with points that you find difficult.5. Read more than just the set reading.6. Get old exam papers from the library or archives and study them so that you will know what sort of thing to expect.vii. Live on campusviii. Enjoy the social life. Never again will you be surrounded by so many young, intelligent, carefree, attractive people, with such a variety of interests, as you will be as an undergrad. Joke with the pretty ones, sleep with the ones with senses of humour, and don't take anything too seriously.ix. Change your crowd to suit your character, don't change your character to suit your crowd. A big university with a complete range of faculties and high entry standards will include kindred souls for almost any type of person you are likely to be. Find them, and they will be great friends for life. Don't squander this opportunity by wasting your time with fashionable prats, and disguising yourself in such a way that your kindred souls will not find you.x. Most important Use condoms as though your life depended on them, which it does. Drink moderately (which is fun), but never so much that you vomit (which is never fun) or can't remember what you do (which might or might not be fun--you'll never know because you won't remember). You don't know me, so you can't tell that I am not a socially-conservative fuddy-duddy: but though I think that recreational drugs ought all to be legalised, I would never actually take another one myself (other than a little alcohol), and I tell you that you would be best to leave them alone too.The gaming was first rate on the universities I attended. The most numerous and most various communities of gamers I have ever come across. And as an undergrad you will have more time for gaming and world-building than you will have again until you retire. People with jobs work forty-hours weeks. People with careers work sixty-hour weeks. And you probably won't be able to retire as early as I did.Be on the lookout for someone nice, and express an interest early. It is more difficult, and less likely to be taken as flattering, to suddenly approach a person if you have been ignoring him or her for months than within three days of meeting him or her. Besides which a lot of the prospects will be paired off by the middle of first semester.I have lots of fun stories, but most of them are discreditable to me, or would shock Eric's grandmother, or are off-topic, or (usually) all three.Regards,Agback</blockquote>

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