Uni Rambles
These are just rambling posts that will become a little more regular...and then a little more irregular....as the year goes on.
Two days into the whole Uni thing and I`m thinking three words..OH...MY...WORD!!! Everyone is doing their introduction thing...Hi I`m 45 and I have three children and I have worked with blah blah company for 20 years....Hi I`m 56 and my daughter has just had my first grandchild. I have lived in ....for 10 years and before then I was with....doing this work in that country....Hi my name is so-and-so and I have just come back from this place where I designed and implemented national schemes in such-and-such....
when it gets to me.....Hi I`m like totally half your age, like...and I`m a Scorpio and I like totally dig Nirvana. Oh yeah and I have, like travelled around the world and stuff...how cool is the Eiffel Tower at night? Ah the best job I ever had? oh my, I got paid heaps, like fifteen bucks an hour and I had, like my own room and stuff, with these people, who used to smoke drugs and stuff and I was totally not into them at all, but I had my own key for the front door and everything....
...well I haven`t even gone that far yet...what do you say around people with such high credentials as that? And what on earth could you say that would be nearly as intelligent and worldy-wise so as to have any impact on such groups of people...talk about walking in different circles....
Isn`t it funny how you can think, just because of a number, a person will be wiser than you? Have more to say than you? Just because a person is a parent (which I think is the most admirable job in the world by the way....you deserve some letters and stuff after your names I reckon, like a doctor or lawyer or something!!! And when your kids get to teenagers you need medals and fully paid exotic holidays.... around the world....with free bar tabs!!!) does that give them more credibility than a non-parent? So what is the measure of intelligence? What makes a person wise?
Gulp....how to throw yourself in the deep-end girl !!!!
Two days into the whole Uni thing and I`m thinking three words..OH...MY...WORD!!! Everyone is doing their introduction thing...Hi I`m 45 and I have three children and I have worked with blah blah company for 20 years....Hi I`m 56 and my daughter has just had my first grandchild. I have lived in ....for 10 years and before then I was with....doing this work in that country....Hi my name is so-and-so and I have just come back from this place where I designed and implemented national schemes in such-and-such....
when it gets to me.....Hi I`m like totally half your age, like...and I`m a Scorpio and I like totally dig Nirvana. Oh yeah and I have, like travelled around the world and stuff...how cool is the Eiffel Tower at night? Ah the best job I ever had? oh my, I got paid heaps, like fifteen bucks an hour and I had, like my own room and stuff, with these people, who used to smoke drugs and stuff and I was totally not into them at all, but I had my own key for the front door and everything....
...well I haven`t even gone that far yet...what do you say around people with such high credentials as that? And what on earth could you say that would be nearly as intelligent and worldy-wise so as to have any impact on such groups of people...talk about walking in different circles....
Isn`t it funny how you can think, just because of a number, a person will be wiser than you? Have more to say than you? Just because a person is a parent (which I think is the most admirable job in the world by the way....you deserve some letters and stuff after your names I reckon, like a doctor or lawyer or something!!! And when your kids get to teenagers you need medals and fully paid exotic holidays.... around the world....with free bar tabs!!!) does that give them more credibility than a non-parent? So what is the measure of intelligence? What makes a person wise?
Gulp....how to throw yourself in the deep-end girl !!!!
Did you realize you'd still be in college when you were 50-something with grandkids and already impressive jobs?
I guess the moral to extract from it all is that the learning never stops, and you're never too old or too young, too experienced or too inexperienced, to seek education.
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i didn't know you were a Scorpio, ya poor thing lol
see i love things like that... go against the grain, you stand out more, so ya best not be shy, not that i think you have to worry about THAT lmao. As far as wiser goes? let me just tellya gerl, you've taught this mum with 2 kids, STACKS...
~Lily
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I'm ageless and I might just as well not have three children and two grandchildren.
I'm interested in your Uni rambles as I like walking around diffferent Uni campuses and then I can add that Uni to my CV whatever that is.
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I'm sorry but I can't go too early in the morning or when it's dark, I can't skip meals and I'm too busy or it's too hot or wet in the middle of the day but it sounds like a great idea.
I love rambling.
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I've done a couple of things at uni and still feel the same way...I always assume the person next to me has done more, will be better than me, more sucessful etc etc. I'm trying to work on those thoughts though, cos how do I know those things? I don't, I'm just assuming!!
What are you studying? Congratulations, I'm very happy fot you. I really enjoyed being at uni
PS I love Nirvana too. After dinner on Sat night we had a dance at my local dodgy pub and they played Nirvana and I was transported back to the 90s. It was fantastic. I sang and danced most of the night and could barely talk when I got home...but it was all worth it....
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*hehe* it had to be done! I reckon one day I will be one of those 50 year olds studying something new and some young 'un like me will introduce themselves in the same way...and I will point them over to this page on Orble and say, 'YOu see I know how you feel. Welcome'
Hiya Lily gerl,
ah yeah beware the wrath of the Scorpio(n) *lol* 'poor thing' indeed...imagine what it is like having to live with...gulp....yourself!!!! I`m learning from ya wise wun
Hi katyzzz
oh there will be loads more rambles to come never you fear that one :0) see the whole part of the course is to learn not to ramble...but sometimes old habits die hard....perhaps by rambling here I will leave the intellectual stuff for Uni....intellectual stuff??huh??? ah yes take a walk with me...not early, nor late, nor any of the meal times...are you free on weekends?
Hi Tracy,
Ahhhh it`s bad isn`t it? There were some more people today doing their intro`s and the gulps got even deeper......I mean I can talk to older people that`s not a problem...but I get frustrated when I cannot communicate intellectually...it all sounds so good in my head...when it comes out...blah blah blah...don`t you wonder how your thoughts can be so different to your words? or your writing? drives me NUTS! I need a megaphone installed on the side of my head so I can just turn up the volume there and it can come out directly
your party sounded like great fun...next Orble Party...Nirvana is going to be headlining girl I;ll join you up on the table
cheers all, hope you are well
ash
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Damn well my physics lecturer recommended a $130 book, it would last two years save for the fact I'll only need it for one. On the plus side it's hardcover and comes with this fat book with lots of questions to work your way through... the only catch is the anwers aren't proivded, why not? Because it comes on a CD for the tutors... OH! So now were a bunch of highschool kids who'll cheat ourselves by using the answers.. Damn it man, whats the point of a book with 500 pages of problems for you to solve if you don't get the answers with it? I mean it's not like I'm going to lie to myself and pretent I can do it all, I'm smart enough to know I'll FAIL the exam if I do that. sheesh.
*sigh*
Then theres the whole issue of finding part time work, though I'll probably drop that fruitless pursuit for something that'll fit conveniently between my timetable.
Anyway, my lecturers didn't introduce themselves the way yours did, they just jumped right into the course structure and all with a little bit of intro into who they were and a quick run through their academic lives.
Go uni, for irrelevant subjects you are forced to do!
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What makes a person wise?
Well I could go my usual route and say something like
"2 heaped stablespoons"
and
"...the wheres, whats and whos..."
but...I won't.
I think you'll find that these
Ash...rock on...
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I dunno about the 50 year old uni people, bit lamo to think you can tower over 20 year olds when they should be the left out ones!
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..welcome back from wonderland... you 'look' like you've been on the mountain devil ride and need a Majito or pina colada? *lol*
I have to laugh at this post, becuase it was the other way around for me. I was in amongst a classroom full of youngsters, a third my age. I was the only 'mum' and I felt like they were all patronising me (including the teacher) when I had to present my 'bit.' Yoiu know : "awww she's so old, give her credit for trying..." *still cringing*
I am so surprised to ehar that there were so many older people. If it's the uni I'm thinking you would be attending... well I'm surprised? I shoudl have gone there *rofl*
Plod on, thinking of you,
Lilla ...
PS you're educated now.. well almost *joking* what does 'rofl' really mean? Humour me, I'm an old thing...
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gags...loudly....thanks for the positive feedback.... *lol* don`t worry I have been to Uni before so know what to expect...just been a while since I finished my Degree so takes a little getting used to...getting back into the swing of things...once I get my head around the work load I will be A for AWAY
Good luck with your studies....
Hi Dusk,
ah oui oui , zee pashun of zee Scorpio...we are zee lova`s of zee Zodiac, are we not? enter Pepe Le Pew, I bet he is a Scorpio....
ah the recipe of intelligence...always watch where you are going...you never know when a glass door will jump out at you unexpectedly....oh and always swallow the drink after the joke...never during the punchline....
ah well if they don`t find me amazing I will just have to bribe them for all their papers at the end of the year
banana's Dusk, life is just one huge bent banana cake isn`t it
Welcome Anna,
I like the intro things in that it is an ice breaker and it`s always good to get to meet new people...I find people fascinating I do...I guess I just feel a little overwhelmed by my lack of experience...and similar flair of language
Best of luck with your studies
Greetings Lilla,
ah yes please...either will do as long it`s cold
Don`t worry I laughed while writing it because I could just imagine myself sitting there with all these thoughts buzzing around....sinking lower....
When I did my Supervisor training a couple of years ago there was an elderly lady in our class, then jump down to me, then jump down to a bunch of 18 year olds...her and I got on famously...we still meet for drinks....I found I connected so much better with her than I did the younger people...you oldies are not so bad really *JOKING*
It`s actually through Swinburne...their online programme so it`s not classes just online tutorials and pretty much teaching yourself...unfortunately I cannot afford the time to be an attending Uni student so I have to take the next best thing...which according to some isn`t really Uni....but I do PLOD ON...slow and sure....
ah I will pass you on to my grandmother...she taught me what 'rofl' means hehehe funky bird that she is...
thanks for stopping by peeps.....
ash
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stick to it, we are all feeling the 'back to uni' thing at the moment. in a couple of weeks you will be all like 'what was i worried about?' or having a heart attack. either way you would have learnt new things and expanded a bit.
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Good luck with your Uni and thanks for the chuckle
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Plus I know too many people that did, so if I went with the flow, It wouldn't be very indie of me would it?
Tell them you're too old to remember the last Crowded House concert...
Tell them RATM is better than Norah Jones...
I'd believe you.
Am I being sarcastic? You decide.
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I remember when I went to uni for my first degree - we had a few 'mature-age' students on-campus with us, and we used to think they were so wise and smart etc, but now that I'm "their age" and going back to uni, albeit long distance, I realise that it really doesn't make that much of a difference.
I started off getting paranoid about everybody - both younger and older than me. The younger ones (this is a post-grad course) going straight into this from another uni couse and up to speed with how it all works, and the older ones who must, obviously, be so much wiser and older than me.
But when I really think about it, if I'm in the middle and thinking like this, then I'm simply nuts!
Most of us if not all of us are probably all in the same boat, sizing one another up and wondering who our main competition is, but overall we're all starting a new course off together and none of us really knows how anything will turn out.
Am I making sense or just rambling on - it must be the pressure of Uni getting to me already! ; )
Great wisdom you've shared here. I'm not even in Uni, but I can appreciate your insights as they apply to other areas of life.
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Thanks for your posts - sorry about the delay in getting back to you - has been a busy few days...
Hi Stanley,
Wow that bad huh? Well I hope that it gets better as the year goes by...just a suggestion but perhaps you would feel better by getting a job elsewhere....try staying away from MacDonalds though...I can`t imagine that would be too much fun either
Welcome Opto,
never one to go with the flow dude....
you seem to be doing better study than any uni could give you though.....in the books you read, the people you surround yourself with and the info that you share....
see now I feel even older...I had to google RATM...but I do know who they are now that I know what the letters mean....LOL....just a little out of touch there..
'it is often the person who sounds most convincing that is the one that most people believe'.....dunno who said it but my Commerce teacher planted it in my head....
Hi Melissa,
Ah it`s bad isn`t it? I know exactly what you mean as it has been a few years since I finished my degree and I am wondering wtf am i doing?
You are making perfect sense actually not rambling at all. As the week has gone by and more people have been' speaking' I see that regardless of age or life situation we are all in the same boat really and all have the same outlook.
that about sums it up perfectly.
I wish you well in your year ahead...what are you studying if you don`t mind me asking?
Hi Wendi and Tracy,
touche ladies!
have the best weekend, like ever and totally go nuts
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I've just started off doing a Masters of Applied Science in Library & Information Management through CSU via distance education. It's a scary looking name and an even scarier looking start after coming back after all these years and 2 kids later. Not to mention that one of my study packs went for a walk. At least they're sending a new one out for me.
What course are you embarking on?