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Summary
Of
gaol Even the twelve hours I had, I didn't have to attend, you know
it wasn't compulsory except for three of the tutorials. You decided
for yourself if you want to go, if you think it's worth it. Well,
I
It
go a lot in first term - and suddenly bang, it's the end of term,
got three essays due and a test. And my tutor picks this time to
_ . me that I'm supposed to be doing two hours in the library for
every hour in class.
Anna
(a Science student): It wasn't so much the timetable that surprised
me. In fact if you count all the lab sessions as well as lectures
got more classes now than at school. Twenty-three hours. It's the
Fact that you're on your own. I mean I know the teachers are still
there and the demonstrator will have you in a prac. if you stuck
on or show you how to do an experiment. But if you don't do work,
that's your decision. They leave you to plan all your own
work.
books in each for correction, the teacher would come round and ask
you why keep at you till you did it. Here it's not the teacher's
problem if don't do work or get good marks - it's yours.
This
new way of life brings freedom, therefore, but it can create other
pressures.
David
(an Economics student from Hong Kong , who completed his last two
years of high school in Australia ): I live in a Hall where I do
own cooking. It's much cheaper than the residences where they provide
meals, but I have to allow time to buy food and for cooking : :leaning.
Also, I can cook proper Chinese food and not eat Australian
food which is all right for some but not my stomach. So it time,
but I prefer it.
But
perhaps the biggest problem of all comes from the sheer size of
modern urban universities. Helen, a country girl beginning a degree
in Science, reflects this view:
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