INTENSIVE(S): How was yours?; feedback please!
Posted on April 23, 2012 by ED
Was great to see (and meet you!) the off-campus student cohort over the past two weeks – we hope you had a great stay. How was yours? What should we improve/change etc. Give us your feedback via comments on this post so we can pass it on.
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My intensive school was a great experience. As this is my first year in UNE, I learnt a great deal and gained valuable insight and information. It was great to be able to ask my lecture questions face to face. As fast as the lecture is at replying to my emails i found that I gained more out of the face to face sessions.
Keep up the great work.
Cheers
Fiona
It would have been great to have a more detailed plan of exactly where to find the lecture halls/rooms that we would be using. I spent precious minutes trying to find where I had to go within the building I was in – could have avoided that if we had directions to go by or a map showing individual rooms inside buildings. It was the first time I’d ever been on campus and the nerves were running high as it was let alone trying to find which room I had to be in. Other than that I had a great time and gained so much from being on campus. So it’s a pretty minor issue really considering everything else was fine. It’s a shame that I don’t have to go there more often!
Hi Sherie,
A detailed plan is available from myUNE.
From the myStudy tab select Class Timetables and a new tab or window will open. Just enter your unit code and then you click on ‘Calendar for June Intensive School’. From there a timetable will appear and you click on the particular session and will see the detailed map.
Cheers
Mark
As a FNDN102 student, I enjoyed the Intensives. Even though I attended the 101 intensive, there were still differences. My only ‘whinge’ = can the coffee be a little better?
Keep up the good work, I know that there will be a lot more intensity in my degree course’s Intensives.
I found the intensive I attended to be very useful. It enabled me to check my understanding of concepts very quickly and to see how other students were faring too.
I feel more comfortable about the approaching exams.
Great support and challenge from academic staff.
Appreciate the Insiders’ tips in advance, but still a logistical nightmare.
* $12 weekly car parking, not $10 as per website (does no-one check their facts?);
* no venue details/timetable in advance (BYO ESP?);
* academic carpark %100 full during the day and College carpark %100 full at night (why am I paying $12 again? – it’s a miracle I didn’t get booked for parking on the lawns, or is the booking a threat without substance?);
* endless queues for food & drink and no lunches at College (thank goodness for Centro in town which got all my custom – important when lecturers expect punctuality; do internals queue for 30mins and turn up to lectures with their undrunk coffee too?);
* carousing at night at Colleges, shrieking women and swearing men – till after 11pm at Drummond in 2010, exceeded by Duval this time till after 3am. And this after having stayed in town previously, once even driving in from Guyra every day (where the noise at night from trucks on the highway was astonishing).
Experience replicates April 2010, so nothing actually improves from one Res to the next. I have cancelled plans to attend September Res (just too much wear-and-tear!) and have great doubts about attending my Graduation Ceremony: I fear the logistics will be similar to Res, a combination of misinformation and cramped, “hit-and-miss” organisation..
Cheers
Hi Rob,
I hear you, after 6 years at this external game it’s sometimes funny to see things improve one year then slide the next. I’m appreciative of things like off-campus social trivia nights, although despite them running for a couple of years now I’ve never had the opportunity to make one.
My res this trimester was one of those that unfortunately ran beyond the ‘uni holiday’ into regular class time… this meant that colleges could not house the students in my class, or could only do so for two nights out of four, meaning many were booted out on the Saturday morning.
As for car parking, the problem was exacerbated as we all had to drive or find a lift from town, no option of the easy walk from college. I did my bit and tried to fill my 5 seater every morning but coordination with classmates you have only just met is a minefield, not to mention the fact they are dotted around an unfamiliar town in various motels, or camping.
Your $12 might seem ridiculous when there is nowhere to park, but the bookings are no idle threat. I got hit when the college I was staying in had rented out their dining hall for a private function (without advising their external student residents, aside from a note pinned on the dining room door). For future reference, parking is free on weekends!
But I still enjoy the residential experience. The opportunity to knock over some assessment components with practical activities (debates, presentations) for me takes some of the pressure off, the lecturers are there to talk concepts over, and you get to meet others in the same boat. I would have LOVED more time to get into the library, and I would have really appreciated a reliable wireless internet service at the motel I was at.
But them’s the brakes.
Oh I forgot to mention the efficacy of ear plugs for college stays. Also, if you can’t beat them, join them…? You have the option of calling Safety & Security to complain about the noise, then people will me moved on, 3am is ridiculous in anyone’s books.
As one of those who traveled thousands of km’s, I’m with you, Jessica. I’m still jetlagged after the return trip but agree that the benefits fom exchanging ideas with other sutdents/teachers outweighed the educational benefits from (most of) the presentations. The res school was mandatory, so I went. Not sure I would have missed out on that much had it been optional and I not attended…