First of all, congrats for graduating! Did you apply for graduation here or in Aus? I'll finish next sem. Dunno where to have my grad. Prolly in Aus xD


Same case here. I did engineering a levels. Now I'm doing pretty well in 3rd year.

It's easy if you come from a background with a reading habit. You just need to have a habit of reading, good writing skills, read widely, have an interest in one of the various fields in business/commerce... and be a little bit smart. And all Ds and HDs will come your way

Basically, study smart and don't get distracted/lazy to go to class. That will be your downfall (as i experienced in first year).

Advice from a "Pass" grade in year 1, currently performing with a "High Distinction" grade student

Yo.

The room has everything you need. You can go there almost empty handed.

2 bedsheets and a pillowcase (and pillow) provided. Also, if you get Normanby House, 1 quilt provided. Other Halls, 1 blanket provided (pokey pokey 1 )

You'll need a quilt/thicker blanket for autumn/winter/cold days in summer. Unless you LOVE 10-15 degree temperatures

Oh yeah, bedsheets/pillowcase you can change every week. They have bed linen services every week. Every Tuesday starting from 6.30pm till 8.30pm.

Anything else, please ask. If I don't come, please PM! ;D

Signing off,

your halls of residence consultant.

LOAL

All Halls have their own kitchen.

All floors have their own kitchenette.

Kitchens (are common areas which are NOT located near rooms. can be separate building on their own or a connected building near the common room AKA living area)

- Have electric stovetops/hotplate cookers
- Have lockers (don't worry, you'll DEFINITELY get one unless you fail to write your name down during orientation)
- No fridges
- Cooking EQ and cutleries not provided (you bring your own)
- However, there are certain people (usually locals) who will just leave their cooking stuff there and are kind enough to let everyone use it. These are called "common" equipment. Usually people use liao, never wash properly.... then the locals just wash them before using them again. Usually too disgusting for me to contemplate using.

Kitchenettes (are located on your floor usually damn near the rooms)

- Have 0 or 1 or 2 fridges
- Have 1 sink
- Have cupboards to keep your personal stuff


Fun tip 1 : Having a cooking group is fun and cuts your cost down like crazehhh.

Eating out WILL cost you $6-$15 for a simple meal. Food will be around $6-$12. Drinks will be around $3. Depends on your eating habits.

Cooking for dinner costs me $0.50 ~ $6.00 (per person) depending on what dishes we cook. Chinese cooking freaking easy.

Rice, 1 soup, 1 veg, 1 meat/egg/tofu/beans (for protein) - this is what my cooking group usually cooks (4 of us in the group).


This post has been edited by Grimm: Jan 25 2010, 09:12 AM

Yup you do need to submit a withdrawal form to withdraw from Monash Sunway to declare that you are NO LONGER a student in monash sunway

Your WES units will not change throughout the course. What you have taken will remain. You will be doing a totally different ENROL - manually - in Clayton.

Missing the few days in orientation is ok... but I seriously suggest you attend orientation if you want loads of friends. That is where most people bond and form their groups/clicks. After that it might be hard to enter groups. Orientation is where everyone is new and you can get to know their personalities/hobbies/traits through the various games/activities/outings and visitations-to-each-other's-rooms-and-getting-to-know-them-personally lol.

Its okay to be moving in the 24th though. I myself will only be going back on 28th, but thats ok coz I am not allowed to join the orientation anyway

You can tell me your name, and I'll try to get you a locker if you want. Oh... but i'll need your room number and hall name too =/

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Added on January 25, 2010, 9:14 amYou are right. You will be enrolling manually in Caulfield. You have to bring your CoE and stuff. Students services center building A caulfield campus. The shuttle bus stops right there, you won't miss it.

This post has been edited by Grimm: Jan 25 2010, 09:14 AM

Nah, you can get em. They're cheap. Like seriously cheap, if you get them from Asian shops. But I'm sure they're all from China. Non-stick material might come off easily. I think I have plenty of it in my body already

Yeah, I always make sandwiches for lunch! Yes, try to stay off the expensive drinks too. But sometimes, you just can't resist that bloody pearl milk tea/bubble tea shop that is right smack in the MIDDLE of caulfield campus.

You sound a little bit like Chuck...

@ ostangel and Adri@n

A$ 3.50 if i'm not mistaken?

They got damn nice ones too. Haha. It is one of the best in fact... I know a lot of students tar pau 3 or 4 cups to take back to Clayton or wherever they stay (those who live out of Caulfield).

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Added on January 26, 2010, 2:49 pmWhere was your conditional offer to? You mean Bachelor of Biz and Commerce in Sunway? Don't worry lah, they will still take you in.


This post has been edited by Grimm: Jan 26 2010, 02:49 PM

+1 for high quality reply

You could do what baoz suggested. Parking in the jungle is not that bad... never had any of those dusty/muddy/insecty incidences before. PLUS! That parking is shaded. Lol. Free SHADED parking, what else could you ask for xD

Or carpool. Many people carpool and meet new friends.

So all your offer letters got stuck? You applied to OZ and Sunway as well?

@ ReaperOfSoul : It will help quite a bit. I took the same thing in Taylors also last time ;D Didn't get so good results and turned to Accounting/Finance for my bachelor.

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Added on January 27, 2010, 2:11 pmYou betul betul Chuck ar? :3

This post has been edited by Grimm: Jan 27 2010, 02:11 PM

There really is no such course in Australia

Clayton has - Bachelor of Commerce. Most of the time, you can only do a 1+2 to get here. For rare cases, you could do a 1.5+1.5. Most units here are different from Sunway.

Caulfield has - Bachelor of Business. You would need to do a 1+2 or 1.5+1.5 to get here. 2+1 is kind of hard, since most of the core units are different from Sunway.

The whole problem is, that the core major units are different from the Sunway campus one.

Gahhh! My bad! I forgot about the other 3 campuses. But people generally want to get into Clayton or Caulfield if given a choice. :3

Anyway yeah, like nokia2003 said - SOME units you took as a core finance major might be only be treated as an elective. This might screw up your plans for majoring in certain fields.

So it is best not to come for 2+1. Many units are different. They have a larger variety of accounting and finance units in caulfield though. Some clayton friends come over to take electives because the choices at clayton are simply too narrow (especially for finance)

Exactly. This is the messed up part about Monash. Clayton and Caulfield campuses are like an upper-tier inside Monash University itself. Its like, they do not cater for the Bachelor of Business and Commerce degree for people from Sunway and South Africa.

Those taking a BBCom can only do some sort of a seamless internal transfer to Australia only to Gippsland, Berwick or Peninsula. In order to get into Caulfield and Clayton these are the things to be met:

1) Higher English proficiency (wth)
2) Higher Math proficiency (wth)
3) Better grades (hmm)
4) You apply as if you're coming from another university altogether - your course name is different, your unit names and codes are different, even if they were the same units, the syllabus in those units might be different and stuff like that.

I know, because I did the transfer. Company reporting AFW2491 (Sunway) and Company reporting AFF2491 (Caulf) had different syllabus, and other units are the same as well.

Can't they just integrate them all into one

And then some degrees only available for locals : Bachelor of Accounting, Bachelor of Accounting and Finance. What we get is Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Business

Huh? Malaysia campus gonna adopt the BCom ah? LOL wei. Entry requirement is gonna be crazy, and Clayton ppl gonna compare results with Sunway and all hell would break loose. Lol.

nokia2003, where are you interning? Wow, 4 days of hols... thats awesome shitz. I'm going melancong to enjoy the final week of hols and OZ SUMMER! lol. Go burn under the sun naked. w00t.

Oh yeah. I forgot I know you. Haha...

Hmm I remember my friend telling me CBA and ANZ kept PUSHING him to sign up under their credit card. I think there's a low cap for students. A$ 500 or 1000 or something.

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Added on February 1, 2010, 8:44 pmAnd yes, there is

CBA, ANZ and Westpac in clayton itself

CBA and St. George somewhere in Caulfield town (and i bet there are other banks on the other side of Caulfield which I have not yet explored)



This post has been edited by Grimm: Feb 1 2010, 08:44 PM

Lol. They won't inform you. How can they when there are thousands of people paying through various ways?

The only thing you need to be sure of is you paid no less than the total amount required, and you got their account number correct. Reference number isn't that important I think.

Anyway, I always save a screenshot and print the receipt out just for reference.

I bought some at 3.16 :<

Was afraid the RBA would increase. I need insider information from people who works in RBA >_>

What are the predictions for the next RBA meeting?

Yup. Depends on what you want to major in. I took Accounting B (acc major) and Money and Capital Markets (fin major).

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Added on March 1, 2010, 11:53 amBtw, I'm back in the Halls of Residences (Clayton).

Any Monashians need help, feel free to visit me in Roberts/Richardson. I'm always hanging around here

Also can meet up with me in Caulfield (my study campus). PM for aussie number and msn. Need any help, give me a holler. This is my final sem, be friendly and you might inherit some stuff

Have fun in Monash!

This post has been edited by Grimm: Mar 1 2010, 11:53 AM

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lolololol.

@ ostangel - I have a few friends in Howitt. Lets meet up and then I can show u ur friendly seniors.

Eyer... btw its so hard to find a part time job on campus now >_>