When earning a Bachelor of Arts (Communication) degree in UWA, you have to choose a major to follow. Which is good. Because I can choose what I want to do. And it's also confusing. Because I have so much choice!
It's not as confusing as the pure Bachelor of Arts degree I suppose, where you have to choose four majors in first year and then take two of those in the second year.
Anywho, the majors I found in the prospectus (which coincide with the ones I'm considering)are as follows:
Anthropology- the study of past societies, their religion, culture, landscapes etc etc, basically their lifestyles and how they survived. A good one to take if I wanted to be very general.
Archaeology- the one I'm dying to take right now, but am not so sure if I should. Involves the study of remains, old architecture and fossils. Has a practical element to it which I like, but I guess I can't really be digging up graves for the rest of my life can I?
History- basically the study of revolutions, the fall of regimes, and is basically just modern history, something like what I do in school.
Ancient and Classical History- the study of Greek and Roman history. I am a little wary of this one, because it pretty much limits job choices to caretakers and curates.
Psychology- helping people overcome mental illness. A good one to take in case I ever decide to become a psychologist and don't want to have to repeat uni! But I'm not really as into it as say Anthropology.
Political Science and International Relations- also a good one to take, considering how important politics and international relations is.
European Studies- generally, a study of Europe. Tres importante if I want to be a journalist in Europe, but I am not so sure, and am very much torn between this, Anthropology, Archaeology and Asian Studies.
Asian Studies- generally, a study of Asia, which is also important seeing as what giants India and China are becoming. Plus as an Asian, I would probably have an upper hand in being able to operate in Asia. Again, I am torn.
There were a lot more, such as Industrial Relations, which sort of falls under Marketing and Commerce, but generally, these are the majors I am considering. Some of them I find to be a little useless in the real world, ie Classical and Ancient History, which I sort of learn in my spare time anyway without really needing to take a university course on it too. So basically, I'm really only looking at Asian Studies, European Studies, Psychology, Archaeology, Anthropology and Political & International Realtions.
Advice on any or all of these are greatly appreciated. Especially if you are out there working in the real world and should happen to know something about one, or some of these majors. =)
Mishy <3
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Monday, 9 June 2008
-The End-
OF EXAMS!!!
And just as I used to do in Year 7/8 with my mates in Malaysia: I'm freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Well, for the next today and tomorrow anyway, but that's good enough for me. =)
Today has been excessively rainy today. It began at about 1am this morning in a perfect gale outside my window and progressed into an unbearable storm by the time 7am came around. It's currently 5pm now and although the rain has stopped, the clouds still remain and it still looks like it's going to rain. Bah humbug. South Africa was never like this. Johannesburg had the most perfect weather- raining in the summer and raining in winter so that it remained a perfect combination or both cold and dry or hot and wet.
Yes, I still miss Johannesburg weather.
I started work again recently last Saturday, and it's been crazy. It's been quiet, but at the same time pretty busy. Maybe I'm just out of touch from working after exams and all, but in a way, it's nice to be back. Even though I dislike having to go to work at 8.30 in the morning. At least at school I could get there a relax a bit before class started, but with work, it's get there, start working. I don't like the rushed atmosphere I guess.
Word of warning to anyone who decides to get a part-time job: it's not all as it seems, and it usually isn't that much better than school, even IF you are getting paid for being there. Working in a supermarket is absolute terror because you're usually on call all the time whenever you're in the supermarket, and working in retail shops, ie. like me, gets boring after a while because there's only so many places you can walk around to. I pretty much have the grand selection of: the lottery counter, the post office/cigarette counter, the stationary section, the card section and the office. I am able to walk through ALL of these sections when I do vacuuming. Which isn't as great as it's made out to be. Generally, it's a boring job. Unless of course, you really love doing the lottery that much.
But on to happier thoughts: Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!
Mishy <3
And just as I used to do in Year 7/8 with my mates in Malaysia: I'm freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Well, for the next today and tomorrow anyway, but that's good enough for me. =)
Today has been excessively rainy today. It began at about 1am this morning in a perfect gale outside my window and progressed into an unbearable storm by the time 7am came around. It's currently 5pm now and although the rain has stopped, the clouds still remain and it still looks like it's going to rain. Bah humbug. South Africa was never like this. Johannesburg had the most perfect weather- raining in the summer and raining in winter so that it remained a perfect combination or both cold and dry or hot and wet.
Yes, I still miss Johannesburg weather.
I started work again recently last Saturday, and it's been crazy. It's been quiet, but at the same time pretty busy. Maybe I'm just out of touch from working after exams and all, but in a way, it's nice to be back. Even though I dislike having to go to work at 8.30 in the morning. At least at school I could get there a relax a bit before class started, but with work, it's get there, start working. I don't like the rushed atmosphere I guess.
Word of warning to anyone who decides to get a part-time job: it's not all as it seems, and it usually isn't that much better than school, even IF you are getting paid for being there. Working in a supermarket is absolute terror because you're usually on call all the time whenever you're in the supermarket, and working in retail shops, ie. like me, gets boring after a while because there's only so many places you can walk around to. I pretty much have the grand selection of: the lottery counter, the post office/cigarette counter, the stationary section, the card section and the office. I am able to walk through ALL of these sections when I do vacuuming. Which isn't as great as it's made out to be. Generally, it's a boring job. Unless of course, you really love doing the lottery that much.
But on to happier thoughts: Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!
Mishy <3
Friday, 6 June 2008
Fueling Outrage
It's the sensation that's been gripping the world. We hang on to our seats every night, gazing at the news, hoping - praying, that the change isn't too great. It affects us all. It affects the economy. It affects every bit of our lives. Will it go up? Will it go down? Not likely, but is there even the slightest chance that it will at least stay the way it has been for the past week?
I am, of course, refering to the fuel prices of today. And it is, yes people, an outrage. The only word I can actually come up with for prices like these.
In Malaysia, the fuel has increased drastically by 70sen. 78 sen, as I am told by a source who was actually there at the time to read the newspapers. I am only a spectator, suffering very much the same fate in a different country. Malaysia's petrol prices normally stay quite low- when the price increases do happen, they normally happen every month or so, and usually only in about 1-2sen increases. Unfortunately, the government can no longer afford to keep the price so low, and as a result, a backlash has occured. I can already forsee the end of many governments at the end of their terms, and all because of these fuel prices.
In Australia, the price isn't as low as it is in Malaysia. The government doesn't really try to keep things to the absolute minimum, as in a country like this where Australia can't naturally produce it's own fuel, it would be economical (and political) suicide to keep it so low and then have it spring up on us like a rebellious kangaroo. I think both the government and the opposition can agree on this much. What does happen though, is that prices fluctuate everyday, depending on the index figures at the end of the day. This then gets posted up on the internet, proclaimed over the nightly news and printed in every newspaper possibly found to inform as many people as possible. My mom keeps one ferocious eye on all of these [while using the other on us unruly ones], and as soon as she loses faith in the price ever going down and finally decides to go and refuel the car- the next day it goes down. XD I find this a little funny the way it happens week after week, but these savings of about 20 cents a litre every week really can accumulate. Especially for someone whose life savings all happen to unfortunately be in RM.
Personally, I believe that there's just not enough fuel and too many people. In a world like this, we're becoming too dependent on cars. Nobody walks anymore. And who can blame us? We are [naturally] a lazy civilisation. We try to find a gazillion other ways of doing things. It's both a curse and a blessing. The world is more efficient, and it's more expensive. It's becoming smaller- an 'easier' place to live in, and infinitely more crowded and dirty.
You know, I haven't really been thinking about driving too much. In fact, if I had started earlier, and not been lazy during the holidays, I could have been half-way through finishing my practice hours for my L plates. But after this- do I really still want to go driving? People are buying smaller engined cars, or are just not driving at all. [well, in Australia anyway, in Malaysia, I can hardly blame anyone for wanting to drive] Still, this is something to be thinking about. It'll affect us - and the generations to come - for a long, long time.
Mishy <3
I am, of course, refering to the fuel prices of today. And it is, yes people, an outrage. The only word I can actually come up with for prices like these.
In Malaysia, the fuel has increased drastically by 70sen. 78 sen, as I am told by a source who was actually there at the time to read the newspapers. I am only a spectator, suffering very much the same fate in a different country. Malaysia's petrol prices normally stay quite low- when the price increases do happen, they normally happen every month or so, and usually only in about 1-2sen increases. Unfortunately, the government can no longer afford to keep the price so low, and as a result, a backlash has occured. I can already forsee the end of many governments at the end of their terms, and all because of these fuel prices.
In Australia, the price isn't as low as it is in Malaysia. The government doesn't really try to keep things to the absolute minimum, as in a country like this where Australia can't naturally produce it's own fuel, it would be economical (and political) suicide to keep it so low and then have it spring up on us like a rebellious kangaroo. I think both the government and the opposition can agree on this much. What does happen though, is that prices fluctuate everyday, depending on the index figures at the end of the day. This then gets posted up on the internet, proclaimed over the nightly news and printed in every newspaper possibly found to inform as many people as possible. My mom keeps one ferocious eye on all of these [while using the other on us unruly ones], and as soon as she loses faith in the price ever going down and finally decides to go and refuel the car- the next day it goes down. XD I find this a little funny the way it happens week after week, but these savings of about 20 cents a litre every week really can accumulate. Especially for someone whose life savings all happen to unfortunately be in RM.
Personally, I believe that there's just not enough fuel and too many people. In a world like this, we're becoming too dependent on cars. Nobody walks anymore. And who can blame us? We are [naturally] a lazy civilisation. We try to find a gazillion other ways of doing things. It's both a curse and a blessing. The world is more efficient, and it's more expensive. It's becoming smaller- an 'easier' place to live in, and infinitely more crowded and dirty.
You know, I haven't really been thinking about driving too much. In fact, if I had started earlier, and not been lazy during the holidays, I could have been half-way through finishing my practice hours for my L plates. But after this- do I really still want to go driving? People are buying smaller engined cars, or are just not driving at all. [well, in Australia anyway, in Malaysia, I can hardly blame anyone for wanting to drive] Still, this is something to be thinking about. It'll affect us - and the generations to come - for a long, long time.
Mishy <3
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Semester 1 Exams
The joy.
And, well, to be more serious- the horror.
Exams started on Tuesday and I am officially more then half way through.
My timetable looks something like this:
Tuesday [3rd]- Political and Legal Studies
Wednesday [4th]- English Lit and then History
Thursday [5th]- Human Biology
Friday [6th]- Maths
Monday [9th]- Chemistry
And you know what, this timetable actually does look okay. I have enough time [or I hope I will] to study and rave and rant for chem, and all the essay subjects are out of the way first, the ones which literally tell me what's on the exam before I head in.
Unfortunately, not quite so.
For P&L, I answered a total of 5 questions, and 2 essays, which wasn't bad. Then for Lit, which was the next day, I wrote 3 essays. Also expected. But then I had History after and had to do a document study AND 2 MORE ESSAYS! So in total, I wrote 5 essays, with a document study being the near equivalent of an essay, in one day. Plus I had the two from the day before. I had officially written 7 actual essays and one substitute essay if you want to count the document study in. =)
My hand fell off after History.
If you've ever tried to keep your hand straight out, without bending your fingers, it's actually quite easy. Observe it now: it's not hard. But after the History exam, I tried to straighten my fingers, and they just bounced back into a nice curve. My hand was shaking, and it would not straighten. Potential arthritis patient perhaps?
I had Human Biology today, which was alright. I didn't quite know what hormone the thyroid gland secreted and stimulated, but that was, admittedly, my fault for not studying it- I guessed it though. I think I did alright for the extended answers though, because I drew lots of pretty diagrams and wrote about a page and a bit per long answer. Of course, it didn't quite help that the pain from the essays came back during the long answer questions.
So tomorrow, I have Maths exams and Chemistry on Monday. Oh the joy. Maths is alright, just need a bit more practice today, and for chem, I will need...a multitude of practice? Rats, doesn't help that I have to go to work on Saturday as well...Ah well, just gotta use the time wisely.
Anywho, back to the grindstone...
Mishy <3
And, well, to be more serious- the horror.
Exams started on Tuesday and I am officially more then half way through.
My timetable looks something like this:
Tuesday [3rd]- Political and Legal Studies
Wednesday [4th]- English Lit and then History
Thursday [5th]- Human Biology
Friday [6th]- Maths
Monday [9th]- Chemistry
And you know what, this timetable actually does look okay. I have enough time [or I hope I will] to study and rave and rant for chem, and all the essay subjects are out of the way first, the ones which literally tell me what's on the exam before I head in.
Unfortunately, not quite so.
For P&L, I answered a total of 5 questions, and 2 essays, which wasn't bad. Then for Lit, which was the next day, I wrote 3 essays. Also expected. But then I had History after and had to do a document study AND 2 MORE ESSAYS! So in total, I wrote 5 essays, with a document study being the near equivalent of an essay, in one day. Plus I had the two from the day before. I had officially written 7 actual essays and one substitute essay if you want to count the document study in. =)
My hand fell off after History.
If you've ever tried to keep your hand straight out, without bending your fingers, it's actually quite easy. Observe it now: it's not hard. But after the History exam, I tried to straighten my fingers, and they just bounced back into a nice curve. My hand was shaking, and it would not straighten. Potential arthritis patient perhaps?
I had Human Biology today, which was alright. I didn't quite know what hormone the thyroid gland secreted and stimulated, but that was, admittedly, my fault for not studying it- I guessed it though. I think I did alright for the extended answers though, because I drew lots of pretty diagrams and wrote about a page and a bit per long answer. Of course, it didn't quite help that the pain from the essays came back during the long answer questions.
So tomorrow, I have Maths exams and Chemistry on Monday. Oh the joy. Maths is alright, just need a bit more practice today, and for chem, I will need...a multitude of practice? Rats, doesn't help that I have to go to work on Saturday as well...Ah well, just gotta use the time wisely.
Anywho, back to the grindstone...
Mishy <3
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