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There are so many posts asking about the best course - gonna jazz it up a bit. What is the worst course you've taken and why? (e.g., the workload / lecturer / etc)

But I am currently procrastinationmaxxing and god damm is it addictive.

Hey all,

I’m looking to befriend a murder of crows (because assessment procrastination is real). Where are there usually crows? I usually see individual crows around the UQU complex area but I haven’t noticed any murder of crows around (I only go to campus twice a week).

A murder of crows = A group of crows. I know — bird people have funny ways of naming a group of birds haha

I have just received my marks for a philosophy essay (1st year) and received less than 50% of a mark because they thought I used AI to generate it. I can't even describe how frustrated I am right now. I've always had a strong disdain for AI use and never used it once in making that essay. I feel humiliated because it seemed like all of my effort towards that essay was thrown out the window simply because my writing style looks AI (which is just bs and this is the first time I've gotten this with all of the essays I've written in the past). They didn't even mark my essay based on the rubric, they just gave me a flat 47 because of this.

I'll appeal for my mark obviously but I just wanted to go on here because of how ridiculous this is to me.

Yeah, that's right. I am talking to you. 🫵🏻

Go do that assignment you've been procrastinating for last 2 weeks

my friends outside of UQ and ones who stuck around since high school and even coworkers seem to not have much trouble dating. i know these things appear easier than they are, but i'm talking even finding someone to get into a talking stage with, my bar is low

honestly I just want to meet new people!

I've only had one talking stage ever (not to be 'boo-hoo', just for context), but my friends have had plenty, kissed people, and some have been lucky enough to date. I know yall dont know my life story but could I be being too picky? all the guys and girls i was interested in didn't reciprocate - i think maybe 5 or 6 people?

but they all did want to stay friends with me or think I was a nice person. I'm still friends with 4 of them. so I think it's safe to say I'm not not an option?

am I just unlucky? how do you guys meet new people? help!! lol

(note: I promise I don't spend all my days pitying myself for being single lol!! if it comes off that way it's because that's the whole point of this post. I thought advice might be good so I can improve upon myself and increase my chances of meeting someone that makes me happier than I already am)

This subject has been a pain in my ass to no end. I'm doing mechanical engineering and the course profile said I could do MATH1051 or MATH1071, and since I qualified for 1071 I picked that option. terrible mistake. this class has kicked my ass to no end and I super ultra failed the hurdle. I should've known better when they offered to let us swap to 1051 in the first few weeks but my hubris wouldn't let me. Since then I've just been trying to get through so I can drop to 1052 next semester. Unfortunately, it still hasn't worked out.

From what I've found, if I can do reasonably well on the rest of the assessment I could get a supplementary exam to bump me back up to passing? I'm not sure how this works. Considering my situation, what do I do? Keep going and see if I can make that work or forget about it for now and focus on my other courses which aren't half as bad as this?

Hey guys what should i choose living on campus or off campus if on campus which hostel to choose help me.

In 2024 students of the university of Queensland protested against UQ having ties to Israel and a centre named after Boeing (I think thats the one it was) but despite the university held a historic vote to ask students wether or not they should divest from Israel I haven’t heard anything about change. Mind you this vote that was held had like ten people vote against it after 1500 people were in attendance at the vote! AND I STILL HAVENT HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT PROPER CHANGE! I would like to attend UQ as they’re the only Uni who offer the course I want to take but I don’t think I can give 5000 dollars to them if they haven’t implemented any change.

Thoughts? Or perhaps they have implemented change I couldn’t find any info about?

First year engineering student and i feel so damn lonely :(

Joined clubs, went to events, networked, made so so many new friends but none of them feel like a friend to me. It's like everyone else already has close friendships and I feel so isolated. I wish I could restart from O week again.

I have always looked forward to having a friend group in uni. Meeting and talking to new people is easy, but i have yet to have a friend i can talk to casually or hangout with after uni and i feel empty with how surface level most of my interactions are. It's gotten to a point where it's starting to bother me

I do reach out to some people after befriending, but everyone is so busy, or they're already close with their friend group so they're straight up uninterested. I'm confused if something is up with me, i could make friends easily in high school but in uni? It's so different...

Please tell me I'm not the only one feeling like this too.

I'll start: A Star Wars club.

Edit: also, an etymology club, if anyone other than me would be interested lol.

hi. I woke up 8am then told myself i needed a little nap. Now i woke up at 10am, no uni for me i guess. i want to eat some gyg guys, can we pool $0.25 each? thanks guys

hi. its tuesday, i woke up and had an up and go. today is not a day for uni. i'm going to watch youtube now. I'll take replacement classes whenever i wake up at 8am. okay thanks, bye.

I know there are major cities in the world where there is a stark lack of wild animals, compared to Australian cities like Brisbane where you will find Koala's lizards bin chickens birds ducks doves etc just walking into classrooms, walking about, co-existing with people its just so comforting we live in a place where this is natural i can't imagine a city with no animals in it

I’m doing the excel of BISM1201 saw it as a hassle so I did it with my friend and apparently it’s a solo thing after I finished most of it like I’m really paranoid but am I fucked in a way with academic misconduct? ;-; first year first sem so idk what’s gonna happen

Hey. I've got an assessed class I have to go to today. That's not good isn't it guys? Okay I have to go make my bus, bye guys! P.S. I've got a date later today what should I wear? 🤔💭

I got tired of manually calculating grades in Excel every semester, so I made a tool that does it properly.

You can upload your transcript (or enter subjects manually) and it’ll show:

• your current GPA
• weighted assessment breakdowns
• what marks you need on remaining assignments/exams to hit your target grade
• assessment calendar view so you stop forgetting things exist until 11:59pm

Basically removes the “surely I’m passing” delusion before finals hits.

Link: uqgpa.com hopefully it saves someone from the end-of-semester academic panic spiral 😭