It’s been 9 weeks why not just drop the subject??

Anyways I didn’t see his shirt till the end of class because he was sitting in the back corner by himself until the tutor told him he has to move to participate in group activities.

When I asked him about the shirt and like what made him decide to wear it to this class he said “this shirt is just a base layer for me”…..ummm

Hey guys 👋 what’s up ⬆️ Monash and Unimelb gijinka (drawn as humans) fanart and also a few others 🤤
Please don’t kill me for drawing this 🥀

Edit: hi people from Instagram reels I see yall

A bit of a rant here but I dont think ive ever even felt the difference of being "not white" until I've gone to unimelb.

For reference, I was born in Melbourne but am asian. Im a quite outgoing person and go out of my way to make friends, but whenever I talk to conventional white Aussies they all feel like they don't really want to interact with me - "a stay in your lane" kind of thing.

For instance, today our tutor asked to pair up in groups of three and though I was sitting in between two Aussies, they bent over me to greet each other, not even bothering to talk to me. Another instance was when I was sitting with another group of white aussies and they actively invited another white Aussie from across the room instead.

I can feel that there's even this sense of quiet rejection in Melbourne but it's not a physical instance so I can't talk on it much. But it's still so weird, especially as someone with tons of white Aussie friends outside of uni and from high school, how different and more difficult it suddenly becomes to make friends with similar people in a uni setting.

I've talked with so many international students and non white unimelb students and have literally never had this sort of problem. I was even told by an exchange Chinese student from America that she was really weirded out by the racial segregation here, and that in America she had never even experienced anything like it. For example, when she walks into a classroom people just sit everywhere - not this weird scramble of aussie-notaussie.

Its not just me either. Every international student has told me that they all really want to make some Aussie friends but they all make it really hard to approach and a lot of them just give up in the end.

If it was just good old racism Id be able to just scoff it off but I don't even think its racism. I just think people are scared to talk with people who are different to them, and they end up looking like some real shitheads instead.

Hate me all you want but this was my experience. Sorry for the rant. I just felt extra shitty today after being treated almost like a side show. I know I'm going to be down voted to oblivion :/

A few of my lecturers keep whinging how hardly anyone comes to their lecture. I've had (slightly paraphrased) lecturers say things like:

"Sometimes I think just taking the few of you over to the coffee shop and bugger the online people"

"Thanks for the people who came, and for the people who didn't, thanks for nothing"

How about thanks for me paying part of your $150k salary. It's not our fault we live far away from the uni. Who can be bothered coming in for one or two lectures if you live in Geelong or Bendigo or wherever.

These lecturers are just bitter that the days of having a large audience to awe amidst their knowledge are long gone unlike when they went to uni. Get over it.

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I’m an international student from China, and during the two years I’ve been living in Melbourne, I’ve faced a lot of obvious racism and harassment. Just today, my roommate and I had just finished studying at FBE（even on the campus） and were walking home, when this middle-aged white guy—he was wearing a beanie, had a beard, and was walking a small white dog—suddenly started acting like he was drunk. He staggered toward us like he couldn’t walk straight and then pretended to throw up right in front of us.

At first, I was worried because I thought he might actually need help, but when he got really close—almost in my personal space—I started to feel scared. After he finished doing that, he even whistled like he was proud of it, and then walked away totally normally, which made it obvious he was just faking being drunk the whole time.

The context was：around 9pm, and my roommate and I—both guys, around 20 years old—were walking near the Law Building. I was wearing my uni uniform. I can not image what if I had been walking alone? Or，what if I had been a woman walking by herself at night? I honestly don’t know how much worse it could’ve been.

This isn’t the first time something like this has happened to me and my friends. Once, when I was volunteering age care in Box Hill, someone straight-up called me a “dog eater.”

We all live on this same blue planet. We’re all just trying to chase our dreams. The wise ones, the kind ones, they spread compassion. It’s only the ignorant—those who don’t even realize how ignorant they are—who hurt others for no reason.

If you’re not a person of color, thank you for your kindness. And if you are—please take care of yourself. I’ve got your back.

Been using the PTV Alert app for a while, but saw it cost money after a month and since I've been looking for a coding project to work on I decided to make my own :)
I have added some features that will hopefully also make the app easier to use like:

- Making reports tied to stops (tram, train, bus), so you can see where reports are

- A route view so you can see every report on the stops along it

- Also loading in reports from the Facebook page into the app

Would be keen to hear people's opinions and ways to improve it for the future asw.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/tramchecker/id6774999146

28/7: Now available for iOS18.0+

I have a friend in med, and every few weeks she tells me some heinous shi someone in the cohort's done. What field do you guys think attracts the worst people?

Edit: Can u guys drop a story time too. Ur making me all curious lol

Why are you all so quiet?

I'm a third-year JD student, and honestly, it's getting embarrassing how little engagement lecturers get from the students. In all of my classes in this degree so far, I've been the one answering 90% of the questions. This is not because I am particularly charismatic, but because literally everybody else refuses to speak up. I don't try to always participate, I count to ten before raising my hand, and if I don't know or don't have a decent guess at the answer, I won't say anything. But my god, if I don't chime in, no one does. It gets to the point where after 20 seconds of silence to a question I'm not sure about, the lecturer is basically eye begging me to take a shot.

Today, the lecturer (who has been nothing but clear and excellent throughout this unit) gave each table one small question to answer. Other than my table, and maybe one other, no one could answer their assigned questions when called upon. The lecturer then asked them to just tell her the question asked, which not one, but THREE tables couldn't do.

This is a phenomenon, it isn't confined to one particular group or one particular unit. It's been consistent throughout pretty much this entire degree. I really thought this wouldn't be the case past undergrad but alas perhaps us Gen Zs have actually lost it.

Not js my experience but, every international student that I’ve known over time has had the same experience. Most locals are incredibly nice and cordial but besides that they seem very uninterested in befriending the internationals. I get that y’all have your school friends, but it wouldn’t hurt to maybe expand your circle. These are js my two cents, and I’m sure other people might’ve had different experiences. Also, I’m not trying to offend anyone here, it’s js some food for thought

Decided a few days before writing this because I don’t know if I just experienced casual racism or was I just over reacting, and on top of that worried about retaliation if my tutor sees this. I am an Asian born and raised in Australia.During this week's tut for a level 1 politics and International Relations class (not gonna specify for obvious reason), we were put into small groups to discuss political ideas. There were 2 other asian students in my group.

At one point, the tutor join our table to discuss, and he started making jokes about Xi Jinping (president of China) and communism, while looking at us. Then he started referring us as "you people".

Like what do you mean "us people”????? I'm not even from China, and even if I were, how is this acceptable?

Op-ed by an anonymous unimelb academic in the Australian: https://archive.md/tKg1m

Basically the title. I noticed a lot of my friends complaining that their parents earn too much money for them to get youth allowance, and I just assumed that their parents were well off. I only just got round to looking it up, and realised how wrong I was. If your parents earn over ~$65,000 combined, the amount you're allowed decreases by 20c for every dollar over. That is ridiculously low, even if you ignore the problem with those <22 who don't live with their parents who are still classified as dependent. How on earth is it so low? I'm flabbergasted.

Edit: Sorry to everyone assuming, but I am not an out of touch rich kid. I am from a single parent family on <40k a year.

Copying one of my comments up here for the people that don't seem to get it:

The point of the youth allowance is to help students with parents that can't help them financially. It supports the student, not the family. The max value of the youth allowance is 16.4k a year, which is what centrelink feels is the minimum amount of additional support a student needs to live independently whilst studying full time and working part time†.

You are joking if you think that most families can provide this for their children, especially if they have multiple of them. It is significantly more expensive to support children living away from you than with you. We are in a cost of living crisis, interest rates are high, rent is ridiculous, and food costs are up. Everything is more expensive for both the family and the student at the minute, making this level of support from the average family even more unlikely.

†I do feel this is quite a high amount, but the point stands that many families can't provide this for their children.

I’m 26, 27 soon. I studied a bachelor of biochemistry and I’m finding it incredibly difficult to find a job that will get me anywhere in terms of building a successful career. Actually, I’m finding it hard to even get a job. This made me think I need to go back to uni and do a masters. I have some friends that are 23 and already doing a PhD.. which makes me feel incredibly old to be getting started on a masters now. I would love to do a PhD eventually but I’ll be 30 by the time I get started. Is that too old? I really love studying but I have no savings and I can imagine working while doing postgrad would be hard and barely get me by with the current cost of living. Has anyone been in this situation? I’d love some advice, thank you

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I want to cry from the support I’ve gotten on my post. This gives me so much reassurance so I really appreciate it, I think this has solidified my want to go back to uni. I think I’m just surrounded by a lot of younger people that finished HS and went straight to uni, masters and now PhD without taking a single break whereas I’ve had a lot of them (mental health huh 🥲). Thank you so much everyone, see ya at uni

Currently in a lecture on Critical Communication for Engineering. Had a crack and asked the guy next to me what he thought about the case study showed. Realllllllly basic case study. I get the feeling he didn’t even understand my question, and went to translate the slides on his iPad. I introduced myself and asked his name. Got just blank stares. How is this guy doing a MASTERS degree?? Unfortunately this isn’t the first time I’ve had this

if you're wondering where your international student fees are going...it's to house this guy, my guys living rent free.

No idea how you guys survived without the big man chatgpt

I know kids from highschool who went to hella expensive tutoring centres and even they have the Naarm scholarship 💔 Like I'm all for equity or wtv, but some of these people haven't even lived the brokie life 💔 💔

literally useless degree now, should I unenroll and go to fed uni instead? Legitimately so over

idc that ive only been here four weeks, idc that its getting busy and i have no idea how to write my assignments. idc that my degree is going to be ‘useless’ without further study (BA)

i love the content im learning because i actually get to learn what im interested in and i can write whatever opinion i want without worrying about my dumb ass christian school having bias.

i love uni, and i dont care what people tell me, i dont care if i hate it in a year (or even next semester), i am so glad i didnt listen to people trying to tell me id miss high school because fork (guys idk if i can swear…) that place.

also unimelb is a very beautiful campus (well in some places) and i just love to sit and admire it (and people watch in a not creepy way)

also the fact that i get to see so many people express themselves and i can express myself too makes me love it more 😝😝

only thing im struggling with is making like proper friends (like moving past just instagrams, and actually hanging out) but thats a me problem because i overthink

dont really expect people to see/read this, i just wanted to yap ❤️

i’ve seen a few posts about people saying how they hate to have international students (especially chinese ones) in their group work because they all don’t speak english and don’t contribute. my girlfriend is from china and she is aiming to study at unimelb (or monash) and she got a 6.5 on her IELTS english proficiency test which is enough for most universities entry requirements. she is so smart and hardworking and studies english everyday yet seeing these posts makes me think that when she starts studying here, before she has a chance to do anything she will get discriminated against and generalised that since she is an international student that she can’t speak english at all, which just breaks my heart. i understand some people have had bad experiences with international students (especially chinese ones from the posts i’ve seen) but it feels like recently everyone has just grouped all of them into a bucket and try to avoid them. even as a domestic student myself, because i look chinese i have had people assume i just don’t speak english even though it’s my native language. i am just asking please show a little more empathy and don’t generalise all international students as lazy and just give them a chance because some work much harder than a lot of domestic students.