Tim's Bits and Pieces: Education

Compulsory Student Union Membership

TimP — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:03:53 +0200

Wonderful, looks like the Labour government wants to reintroduce compulsory student Union payments for university students. Back to forcing people to pay for services they don't want or need. The student union never did anything useful for me; the only time I was ever in a situation where I might have needed a union, I was forced to join a special "club" as part of being a student, the student union was the actual problem. Sure they called it a union, but it was basically just a special club I was required to join, even if I never used any of their facilities. Isn't the whole point of unions preventing such things? To my mind mandatory union membership is a violation of the very purpose of unions.

As an aside the fact that the student unions lost so much funding as well suggests that the majority of students did not find the student unions worthwhile, so why should they be forced to spend money on things they don't find useful?

Graduation

TimP — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:03:54 +0200

I finally graduated on Saturday; only about six months after my last exam!

I'm back

TimP — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:03:54 +0200

Just a quick note too let you know I'm back. I've been away in Tasmania for about a month now, which should explain the lack of posts :-). I'll do a write-up on my holidays in the next couple of days.

I received my final grades also, and I passed everything with a final GPA of 5.46. Consequently my youth allowance has been canceled and while it means I need to get a job in the next month, it is actually a relief to no longer be reliant on (or answerable too) the socialist welfare system that is CentreLink.

In other news I've had three pictures posted over at Insect Picture of the Day here, here, and here. Unfortunately the link too my blog on these pages is wrong but that is my fault not David Brady's.

Last Exam

TimP — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:03:54 +0200

... EVER!!!!

I completed my last exam this morning, so I've now finished my Bachelor of Information Technology, well not officially, but I'm only waiting on the paperwork. :-)

5.5499999999999998

TimP — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:03:53 +0200

I received an amusing letter from my Uni today, apparently I have achieved a GPA of "5.5499999999999998". I mean come on, no one needs, or wants, to know their GPA to that level of precision, why not just round it off to 5.55 or something?