College at the University of Western Australia
Differences
-Class is not arranged in a predictable pattern. Unlike the states where a class would be on Mon Wed Fri at 1:00PM, classes are at different times on different days and sometimes the lecture is not given every week. My Human Movement course is on Monday at 10AM, Wednesday 10AM, and Thursday at 1PM while the lab component is every other Tuesday at 9AM. Except for the lectures given on Mondays and Thursdays, my classes are in different places. And that is only for 1 class! It takes a while to get use to remembering when you have class and where your class is located. It took me 4 weeks. HAHA. I already embarrassed myself twice for going to the wrong class. The first time, I walked into a class that was having a tutorial filled with a 20 Asian students. A tutorial is a small class where students from a giant lecture are divided up so they can discuss what they learned. I was a little weirded out because I did not remember having that many Asian students in my lecture. The class seemed to have already started so I figured I was late and just took a seat in the back of the room. Once I took a seat, the teacher stopped the class and looked at me. She asked me, “ Are you okay?” I just stared at her because I did not think she was talking to me. The whole class turned around and stared at me. The tutorial leader asked me again if I was okay and I gave her a weird look and told her I was fine. She told me that I was in a private class and that it was some art class on who knows what. I wasn’t really listening because I was too embarrassed. I left right after. ARGghhhhhhhh.. sooo embarrassing. The second time was when I went to my Human movement lab and my teacher did not call my name so I raised my hand and asked him why. Once again I was the retarded girl having an one-on-one conversation with the teacher in front of a classroom of students. I found out my lab was only every other week and that I already did my lab the week before. URggghhhh… I’m so lame.
-There are no general education classes. Students study courses for their degree from the beginning. Students think it is very strange that I am taking 4 different classes from different subjects. I am taking Intro to Drawing, Human Movement, International Relations, and Population Nutrition. Its really cool seeing the different types of people in my classes. My intro to drawing class has a lot of artsy fartsy people. They have cool hair and they put their clothes together in ways I would never think of but it looks good.
My human movement class has a lot of HOT athletic people. At first I was a little overwhelmed with the amount of good-looking people but it does not phase me anymore. HAHAHA My international relations class has a lot of intelligent looking students that wear more business like clothing but that is just a generalization. My population nutrition class reminds me of any other class back in the states. There is a good mix of people so I cannot really give a general description. I feel like the underdog in all of my classes because everyone has already taken similar classes and actually have a strong interest for the subjects since it’s their focus of study. After a while, it gets tiring pretending to know what you are talking about. BLahhhhhhh. Oh well, I shall prosper!!! -Living in the dorms is not common. Most of the Australian students commute to school. The average travel time is around an hour! That surprised the crackers out of me. I will never complain about my 10 min bus ride to UCSD ever again! Anywho, the dorms are usually filled with international students. I love getting to know different people from different parts of the world. It’s an eye opening experience.
Australian School terminology
Tutorial (tut)= discussions
Uni = college
Units = classes
College = dorm
Pictures of UWA
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