Errr... Um... Sorry?

It is with a heavy heart that I post this blog...

Firstly - I found out indirectly through a post grad student at murdoch that I had offended A LOT university staff, for this I humbly apologise, I mean things like "I sleep though lectures" in humorous contexts and I apologise for whom has been offended by these claims, or any direct insults to staff workers on campus. They all do more important stuff than me (I"m an undergraduate with little chance of doing post grad - so I'm nothing special. But I do want to complain that the only way my blog can improve and not offend is though commenting and sending me emails directly. i WILL read these and edit out offensive material.


BUT COME ON, offending staff? A first yearer? in a blog FOR the uni? Without being "Banned from the network"?? You gotta give me some sort of cheer for that.

Secondly - I will reinterate on the statement to comment on blogs, not just mine but any blog you read. Bloggers have huge egos that need to be maintained. Rating system, on the uni advice page you are encouraged to rate on the blogs. I'm going to admit this now. The best blogger wins some sort of prize, I dunno what it is, none of the bloggers do, encourage them to keep blogging, cause your going to get a new load next year.


Speaking of next year, by now you might have seen you TER. Creepy, huh.

If you did well congratulations, sit back, and get the life that you lost in the last two years. It will still be waiting (You're probably going to lose it again when you go to uni so do with it what you can.

Students who did not so well. I'd like to let you in on two secrets. After this no one really cares about you TER. Number 2, my TER. 66.2 . There you, pretty poor, the lowest ever TER for my computing course had been 70. I felt screwed. That I failed at life. But no, one STAT test (Yes, I sucked that much) and I get a nice big letter in the mail. Never give up hope. If you don't get into uni, get into TAFE. ANYWAY YOU CAN, its a simple three year course, I hop, step and a jump into uni.


Yes it's a long way round, but you can still get there, easily,

So vote, trash me in comments, then sign up to be a first year blogger and I can laugh at you.

Please note: This will not appear correctly on the murdoch site cause i'm specky and use a bit of html. So FAIL all the guys who made the murdoch uni advice page.



P.S. Murdoch tech guys, can I nick the code which makes my blog appear on the uni advice site?

Thanks,

The management.


Graffiti Of the Week.

YOUR ALL FAGOTS <---- use "Faggots" to suggest homosexuality, rather than fallen foliage.

LOL.

One Post. One Year. One incedent involving a lampshade. I don't really want to talk about it.

Well, it's been a year, and now its time for the obligatory wrap up post.

Well, theres been this uni that I have attended occasionally. And it's been quite good, Curtin students know it as "uni-for-people-not-good-enough-for-a-proper-uni", I know Curtin as "People-who-are-unaware-that-their-networking-program-is-10-years-old" Enough with the slander, lets get to the real problem, those freakin' Notra Dame students. Or at least, let me suggest some reasons to go Murdoch and why I go there.

Murdoch uni, is a great uni, you'll get a degree out of it, which is pretty important for a uni, its a pretty nice campus, with some good walks and views of trees and scrubs if your into that sort of thing, and its a natural preserve for Quenda species which are a cute little fuzzy animal related to the Quokka

It's got a chiropractic facility, and don't worry, students don't go in there till they're in their 5th year so you will come out with a fully complete spinal cord and sometimes a free tap! And before you say "That was a terrible joke, spinal taps aren't funny." Well to that I say "It goes up to ELEVEN!!" And if you say "I don't get it." then you're very hard to please and you should go somewhere else.

It's got a library, at the beginning of the year, I said this was good for hide and seek.

Kevin, if you can read this, you can come out now... It's not funny any more....


It's got the Ref, which Geiger rating has not become significantly higher than what it was at the beginning of the year. And it has Demon. Energy drinks vary from place to place, normally odd ball brands you can only seem to find in one place are the best. This my friend, is that oddball drink. Not only does Kababulous provide Kebabs, it now quenches the other requirement of adequate sustenance. Demon cola, tastes like coke, but its like getting a feeling you get when you are told an assignment is due at midnight that you didn't even know you had.


Wait a sec, maybe that was just find out about 106.. nevermind. Its awesome.

My personal experience this year has been great, meet some random people, went to some great lans, woke up in a shopping trolley, haven't even begun to talk about what I've learnt at uni.



PEOPLE CURRENTLY DOING SCHOOL READ THIS.IT GETS BETTER. STICK WITH IT. IT'S WORTH IT.

It's hard, and there's a big change, you suddenly not really cared for by anyone, your on your own, but that doesn't mean you don't have support there from the teaching and learning centre, or the bunch of Friends you get (cause they're in the same boat)

So you have put up with my bad spelling, bad grammer, bad jokes and geek references and I believe you deserve something for that, you deserve to do the same.

THAT'S RIGHT!! Get into Murdoch and become A FIRST YEAR BLOGGER. You won't get a shiny trophy or any self-respect, but you will get the chance to tell people about uni, and about all the problem YOU FACE!! That's right YOU COMPLAIN, YOU SCORE A FREE YEAR LONG PARKING PERMIT... WIN/WIN!!

So add some lolz, add some truth, and lets start a whole new season of graffiti of the week that actually comes out weekly... Or not.

Seriously, very rewarding experience.

So what will happen to this blog, may post some random stuff on it, will post the new lot of first year bloggers URLS when they get put up and maybe some of my second year stuff when it comes around, meanwhile, there may only be the occasional post till March, about what I've set fire to now.




NOW MY FREINDS, ITS TIME FOR THE GRAFFITI OF THE YEAR.

Well, these are from all round the place

Nominee #1:

I JUST ACCIDENTY THE WHOLE URINAL CAKE! WHAT SHOULD I DO?
Use an action verb

Nominee #2:

Thank you! But the toilet paper you need is in another castle!

Nominee #3:

I paid my taxes and all I got was this stupid graffiti wall!

Nominee #4:

Push button, Receive bacon.

Nominee #5:

FIGHT APATHY, or don't

Nominee #6

I miss the internet

Nominee #7

No Zombie is safe from Chicago Ted.

Nominee #8

http://static.mmoabc.com/my/k/n/o/ckout/2008/2/2//1201985766985.jpg

Nominee #9

The cake is a lie

Nominee #10

Move during the day, they can't go out in sunlight!!
That's Vampires MORON.

You know what, I'm going to stop here, they've just turned into gamer jokes.


HAVE A GOOD LIFE... KEEP WEARING PANTS.... Yeah, that didn't make any sense, but none of the blog did, so it's okay!


http://www.lifelounge.com/content/viewrelated.aspx?id=7834&page=0



W00T!!!

END.

And now a word NOT from out sponsers, as well as the five stages of the end of semester!

Let me first apologise for the huge gaps in between blogs.. it's just.. the blogger outline said "Update at least weekly"and that made blogging sound like hard work, so, just like uni assignments/study, they were put on the back burner.

Ah, Week 15, a time to take off the shrink wrap of those "Required" text books flick through them, and then wonder if you should know any of it. Exams are always been odd to me, for 11 weeks you hear "Now we're going to learn this new topic", then al of sudden "Do you remeber this topic, you're going to need it for exams." WHY is the human mind designed so that in a three hour period you are frantically trying to compose a cascade style sheet and you need to know what they are and how to use them to progress in your course, yet, for no reason at all you quote all the words to "The Pina Collada Song." Which brings me to...

The Five Stages of deathexams

1. DENIAL. Noramlly occurs about between week 1-13, associated with statements such as "exams are weeks away" and "Oh, it's okay to sleep through this lecture again, I mean, the sleep is better for me." Denial maybe visible at the beginning of week 14 with the statement "Oh I can't wait till exams are over, THEN I CAN PAR-TEY." This is only present in students in their first semester.
2. ANGER. Starts between Week 12 and Week 15. WHY THE F--- HAVEN'T I BEEN STUDYING EVERY WEEK LIKE I WAS TOLD TO. This stage is normally the first time this semester that any student studying advanced english will use a colloquism.
3. BARGANNING. This usually is one of the first times that an average student will go directly to a lecturer or tutor, in order to try and get free marks, usually met with limited success.
4. DEPRESSION.  Kicks in during the all-nighter during a time* which can be calculated from the time since the last break and the amount of red bull consumed/remaining.
5. ACCEPTANCE. Anywhere between 48 hours and 5 minutes untill the exam comensment time, there comes a time, where the brain goes through a proccess (much like the one of blacking out a painful memory.) of releasing morphine and endorphans into the blood stream, the student relaxes and, not quite audible to the human ear, says "Ah, let's just wing it."

This proccess has been altered to other university events such as before assignments and before results, but it has been proven that before exams is the time when it occurs in the most students

* Mathmatics students who still need a PHd topic can study this... please... it's for the greater good!

But hush now, exams will soon be over, the unit guide, soon forgotten in a blaze of glow sticks and various chemicals (even if they're only Glucose, Saturated Fat and Sodium Cloride.) and as the music starts up and the only thing you can think of is "crap its 

link href="../CSS files/CSS.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"", well I got question 3 wrong...."

Good Luck to everybody doing exams of some sort and remeber,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HohpvGeLw70

Meanwhile grafetti of the week comes from the library...

"If you want a good time call 9455 .... <--- if you want THE time call 1900 912 000"

Halfway between the University and the Stars.

Well, I didn't really explain myself very well last post, and thought if any bloggers wanted to also have their URL burnt up in some distant atmosphere, I should tell people about it

The site is http://intospace.org/

on there you can pay a bit for your logo (more money means more interstellar advertising! And you know what they say about advertising to niche markets! (It pays off)) Currently their doing a promo where blogger do a bit of talk about the project in a post (Hey, THEY'RE SENDING YOUR BLOG INTO SPACE! Give them a bit of credit. It's going to double my audience!) So in this absurd internet state when advertising is become more crea-buyflanduffyflan-tive and everybody has become a demographic AND a billboard. It's great to see that advertising is become more livable, now it's more subliminal advertising the product and doing a really creative medium

So, seriously, write a blog, get a photo that has something that ET will phone home about, buy a few seats to make it stand out and be glad that even though you might not see colonies on the moon or on mars, you'll see product placement on a satellite.

http://intospace.org/

Graffiti of the week (you thought i'd forgotten hadn't you?)

Well, seeing i'm talking about advertising, I thought i'd bring this up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgnEGIRYC98

so, untill i get banned from the network (for advertising about a website in a blog that's advertising a uni.)

Goodbye

So, you expect me to talk again?

I guess that Uni life has its ups and downs. I mean, any person not going to uni would wonder why a first year student, who's actual effort in uni match that of a cat (that managed to pass first semester) has no time to write a blog. But I did score a parking permit with it, so I may aswell clear out the cobwebs again and add something to it.

UNI:

Uni has gotten harder, the units haven't really, but my selection doesn't mix well (you think if you just pick the remaining ICT 100 units that you didn't do in first semester you'd get a pretty good bag, but it doesn't work like that - seriously, they WANT you to pick up skills that won't actually benifit your degree) ah well. Theres just been assignments and all of a sudden it's week 10 and.. yeah. exam timetables are up. That's scary. But otherwise, unless you want to know about program stacks, routing protocols, languages, problem solving and culture (did i mention i'm ONLY doing ICT units??) or webpages, i guess my only things I can say to you about what's happened at uni is about a fire drill which annoyed all my lecturers, and that vending machine prices have remained steady, the kabab place now does this cola flavoured energy drink and that Robertson Lecture theatre has 90% of the lyrics of the song "Still Alive" tattoo'd on various desks.

OUT OF UNI:

Drunk way to much Master Edge.

Seriously way to much of that stuff.

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But on another note, I recently got emailed by a random that  a group is going to launch a bunch of blogs and logos into space. Seriously, this guy randomly found this blog. Dunno how he did that, but he said "you are a respectable blogger" Thanks! Seriously, this was a big ego boost. He's probably never scanned my page with a spell checker.

So I'm giving them an VERY honourable mention to a cause that is really appropriate for a blog about absurdity. To try and get my silly opioin launch into outer space, where it will float forever, before burning up in another planets atmosphere, really appropriate. Although sending my blog into space sounds a lot like thowing those little cotton bud things at a brick wall, i really enjoy that activity. So thank you strange man for giving the oppotunity for DAUL to become space debris and destroy space craft and anything else which hits it way to fast.

I still haven't got banned from the network, I'm ready to sell out, I may fail a unit or two, I may pass a unit or two,

But untill any of those things occur,

I probably won't post again for a while,

Lachlan. 

back into the groove

It's weird. uni for 12 weeks, pick up great studying habits, 2 weeks of exams, all go really well,

10 weeks off

Forget EVERYTHING.

Annoyingly the past 4 1/2 weeks have been realising that last semesters' enthusiasm has gone, left me to only ponder that success in my previous semester only occured by someone who hijiacked my body to learn "Introduction to Computer Science." The follow up course has been banished from my mind with thoughts of "How am I going to go to before midnight when it is now 2am? Did I remeber to take out the rubbish? What ICT107 Assignment due in two days?"


But now I realise, these are all normal thoughts that I had last semester and it is just my body telling me "you're a uni student, disorganised and possibly unshowered, it is the same as it ever was"

The updating of my blog the day of an assignment, the cleaning of my room in order to avoid an in lab test, the pitiful excuses I come up with of why the fridge was open all night.


It's all back to normal...

And that's the way I like it.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, its back to uni we go...

I wish to apologise that I cannot continue "Around the campus in eight blogs" due to the fact that I have no reason to procrastinate and write blogs. Until next week...

On the 4th of August, the dreaded day has come where we students rush to the bookshop to fight over the last copies of books "Required" (Opened once or twice in class and glanced at during revision for exams at least 3 times.) and occasionally spashing out on the "Recomended" (Found on eBay, and listed as "New and unread" in 17 weeks time.) Our sleep patterns return from the 1am to 11am sleep, to the 1am to 10.50am sleep. In diaries "Parties" and "Nightclubs" get replaced with "Lectures" and "Tutorials" and finally bags are packed with notepaper.

It is at this time that we realise for the next 17 weeks, comes that inconvenient part of student life, known as "being a student." As the completion of first semester joys end like the setting sun, we first yearers know, it only gets harder from here. Second semester means no Foundation Unit, this is all contributing towards your degree now, and you have to understand and pass all of it or otherwise this whole place seems like a waste of time and, well, it all seems very serious. BUT FEAR NOT! People you know are still there, that creepy tutor with the lazy eye is still there and, most importantly, the refectory is still there.


So to all the students, good luck this semester

To all those wanting a longer blog, wait till I have an excuse to write blogs (Last minute assesments.)

And to all those expecting a graffeti of the week, it's right here

Join us, we are the group who will show you the truth, we will show you the world for what it is, and most importantly, what it will become. <-- Bloody MITS.