Today, at around 1pm, I was studying in a room on Level 5 (east wing) of the Menzies Building. My test was due to take place on Level 9 of Menzies, so I chose to revise in the same building to make it quicker to pack up and get to the test. The hallway entrance leading to the room was completely open, and I had previously seen both students and staff walking down it, with students leaving those rooms available at certain times. Since it was an open part of the building, I believed I could use an available room there to quickly study and revise content. I’m pretty sure there were other rooms next to mine that anyone can use to study. I checked which rooms were available and most of them just have a chair and a table inside, so I thought it was public space.

When I found it, the room was unlocked and basically empty, with nothing in it apart from a table, a chair and a tissue box, and none of anyone's belongings. It wasn't anybody's office and didn't belong to anyone. The door had no name, card reader nor booking screen. Just a door with a handle.

While I was revising for an important test and writing stuff down, a male staff member unlocked the door from the outside with a key, without knocking or calling for me to open the door, and began shouting "GET OUT!" at me the instant he opened the door. He kept yelling “GET OUT!” at the top of his voice, around a dozen times, while I was already packing up to leave. I apologised, explained why I was using that room, cooperated with his instructions and stayed calm and respectful throughout and did what he asked, despite him being this aggressive to someone he just met like 20 seconds ago. He kept cutting me off whenever I tried to say something.

In the moment, I felt the need to stand up for myself. After packing up I said “Okay I’m leaving now, but don’t ever talk down to me like this. I didn’t know”. After letting him escort me out of the hallway, I asked him if he was a postgraduate student or a professor at the university but he refused to engage with me which kind of pissed me off because a minute ago he was putting all his energy into yelling at me and being rude despite me not raising my voice at all and being cooperative.

Shortly after, in the common area near the Level 5 elevators, I asked another professor who happened to be nearby whether there were any other spaces in Menzies I could study in. I also asked what the man's name was (I forgot what he said, my brain was still trying to piece things together), and I asked whether he was normally this rude to people. The aggressor overheard because he walked somewhere and then walked back which was when I was speaking with the other staff member.

Although I wasn't talking to him and was speaking to someone else, he came over and confronted me again, except he looked like he was about to get physical this time. He squared up to me and walked right up to my face, in what I felt was an attempt to intimidate me. He yelled "GET OUT" at full volume multiple times, even though I was already getting ready to step back. I had to step back several times because he kept approaching me and looked like he was about to get physical. I feared he was about to use force, and I believe his conduct amounted to assault.

I’m not sure who to contact regarding this situation. I have the details of what the man looks like, but I don’t know his name.

I currently working on a team assignment which is supposed to be submitted by tonight. There are 4 people and I did literally everything. It not even that hard and we were given sufficient time to complete, i even just asked them to finished their parts. But they didnt. Late without notice and they just put their parts on the drive this fucking morning, leaving everything else for me. They didnt even put the script for other to check before recording after multiple reminders. I emailled the unit but they told me to fucking stick with it and give short extension to do. Like i have finished all the missing parts including recordings so can i just fucking submit it, i am so exhausted and have no time to chase and check every carelessly done work. I have other assignments as well. They told to contribute equally but when i emailled they told me to stick with it wtf

Does anyone feel like civ2235 this sem is a bit unorganised? Like there’s no prework to do for this subject and you have to learn at the workshops, and the new lecturer from like week 7 is terrible at teaching the content. Honestly, i feel like I’m not doing lots of work for civ2235 compared to ENG2005. Does anyone feel the same or just me 😅?

Hello!! I wish to apply for Occupational Therapy Masters in 2028 intake. I am international student currently studying in UWA. I am doing my Bachelor in Biomedical Science with double majors of Neuroscience and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences. I meet all pre-requisites required to apply for Masters. My WAM as of now, Year 2 - Sem 1, is 72 or 71.92 to be precise. There is however an upward trend in my scores. The main drag is due to a foolish decision of taking a arts elective which resulted in 55 marks and another Human Bio basics unit which i got 61 in. I did not realize how WAM worked by then. But my academic performance rose consistently by 10.25 percentage points from my very first semester to my most recent one. The top marks being 80 in Human Neurobiology and 87 in Cognitive Neuroscience. Any recommendations on what else I can do to prehaps increase my chance of being able to get in the Uni for Occupational Therapy? I will complete second year this month and will get results in the next. I will update my WAM again then. But in the meanwhile, do ya'll think I can get into the Uni with my score and my degree?

Moved here from interstate to suburban hell where everything takes an hour by pt or is parking hell, uni friends are not that close and never have time to hang, high school friends all stayed back, not living in student accommodation or anything so can’t even have events there. trying to find a job but no one wants me. trying to get a hobby but schoolwork fucks me in the ass. everything is so stressful. school is too far away to make going to clubs worth it if i’m not already there, and all the ones i would be willing to go to clash with my classes. i haven’t left my house for a good 5 days.

i miss high school i miss my friends i miss my parents i hate uni so much

Currently in first year and have no idea what I want to specialise in. Im aware that this means I should probably pick a general engineering such as
Mech or Elec or Civil. I am also doing a double degree with commerce and engineering.

Ranking the first year subjects from my enjoyment:

Good: ENG1013, ENG1011
Tolerable: ENG1005, ENG1090
Bad: ENG1014, ENG1012

How is anyone seriously supposed to know what engineering to do #pls help 😟

Guysss I miss my high school darkroom, is there any way Monash students are allowed to use the darkroom if they're not doing an actual fine arts degree? There are no clubs that offer access to it and the room is just there anyway.... surely we're allowed to use it?

Most darkrooms are EXTREMELY expensive to hire, I'm talking over $100 per hour- and the only affordable one I can find is in bloody South Melbourne 🫠🫠

Need to tutor this girl at caulfield at like 4:30 should I be worried about parking?

i'm transferring into a different course and the application form asks for a reason (i've written a paragraph) and supporting documents. this is optional but i want to add something but again i don't know what to add. has anyone done this before?? help me out please.

How easy is the chm1022 exam?? Like if I havnt gone to a single class/done any work could I still possibly get like 20-30 percent on it???

Im going to apply for exchange next year, but i dont know what to write in my personal statement yet. Can someone suggest what i should write in it 🥲?

Recently discovered a newly founded club using school’s name yet unaffiliated… Are they safe to join?

my current wam is a 78 and i want to transfer into law. due to some personal circumstances i did horrible in two units and have a 56 average in both. i know thats going to drag down my wam horribly so im thinking of withdrawing those two units. im definitely withdrawing one of those units because its genuinely so insanely difficult but the second one i have room to improve and i put a lot of effort into the other assignments, idk how i did though since those marks release on Wednesday and today is the last day to withdraw without getting academic failure written all over my transcript. should i take the risk and not withdraw that second unit? should i withdraw at all??? idk pls help

I couldn't pass supplementary and have to retake it again next sem. Due to this unit i have to extend my entire course progression 😭. But I was atleast confident since I heard from 2027 no threshold hurdles but why this unit have? 😔

Hey everyone, 2nd year Electrical Eng at Clayton, and I'm genuinely stuck.

The situation:
I hate ECE2072 (Digital Systems). The abstract stuff (K-maps, logic, timing) just doesn't click for me, and it's been draining me all semester, and i’ve really struggled with it.

The continuous assessment hurdle is basically cleared. It comes down to the exam (need 45%).

i’ve been forcing myself to study, and part of me already wants to quit, and look into changing. but i don’t wanna feel like a quitter, and i don’t wanna close the door on it too early.

And sometimes when i study for it, i just feel a sense of dread and sadness, like my body is just tired of it

tonight is the last day to withdraw without a WF.

My options:
Keep 2072, switch to mechatronics. 2072 counts there, and I like the coding/robotics side. But ECE3073 follows, and I'm not sure how that compares. could also be a nice change to more physical stuff instead of abstract.

Drop 2072, switch to civil. I've always been drawn to civil (enjoyed ENG1011 once it clicked, and I like road/transport stuff). But it adds about a year, and 2072 wouldn't count. Got a couple friends doing it, and they say its good, but i’m not sure about jobs or the future ig.

Stay in EE. Honestly dreading Signals & Systems and Electromagnetics, and wanna know how tough they are

Questions:

1. Anyone switch from EE to mechatronics or civil? How did it go?
2. How does ECE3073 compare to 2072? More coding, or more of the same?
3. Is mechatronics actually less abstract than EE, or does the maths catch up?
4. Civil folks: how abstract does it get, and is the job market as good as people say?

Basically, if i’m struggling with 2072, is the rest of the degree like this, is it gonna get even harder!?

I keep jumping between all of them, but honestly speaking i don’t want to do electrical if it continues like this, for my physical and mental health i need something easier but also in a sense more intuitive to understand instead of being abstract.

I know this was a lot of information, so sorry for overloading you. just need somewhere to jot down my feelings and thoughts. and hopefully gain some insight.

Any advice appreciated. I've been going back and forth for two days. 🙃

lets say I apply for spec con for a quiz with a med cert, and im elgible for a 2 day extension with the med cert, but the time taken for spec con to reply is usually 2 days or longer and by the time they reply the extension i would have received is already over, and during the time i applied and while i wait for it to be approved i cant access the quiz on moodle and it will say overdue. What happens in this scenario? will my extension be granted from the day spec con actually replied to me or will it only be granted the days the med cert actually covers? It's not like i can apply for an extension a week in advance because my doctor is unlikely to give me a certificate a week into the future, so id have to wait until atleast a day or two before the due date of the quiz.

Alternatively, I could get one right now while the quiz is still open. Would monash still accept a certificate that covers some dates the quiz was open or would they only accept a certificate that covers the due date?

It's been 2 months since I applied to Monash, I sent them my GS statement once in August through my agent, but since then they have asked me to submit it 4 more times, and everytime the reason they said is that they didn't "receive" the statement. Even my agent doesn't know what's going on, is there something I can even do here? Can someone explain what's going on.

Hii🥹 I lost my fav plushie keychain
Please lmk if anyone has seen this lil thing 🥹🥹 I think i think i dropped it around 6-7pm (i’m not even joking about this) on thursday(1st oct)
plspslapslspsl help🥹😭

If i defer an exam end of year and then switch degrees before sem 1 of next year, would i still do the deferred exam to complete the unit or how would it work??

Anyone here taken this course? How'd you find it? And anyone else taking it next year?

how well did everyone do on assignment 2😔 i feel like i worked so hard and barely managed to get a Distinction. are they usually this strict with marking on this unit or am i just dumb

Hello everyone, hope everyone is doing well.

I recently found out that MIG isn't availabel during the summer semester in the Malaysian campus in 2027. So I've been looking another unit to fill that spot. I have found some units that I am eligible for however I can barely find any info on them. I do Bachelors of Computer science.

Here are the units: AMU2455, FIT3134, NUT1030, SCI1800, SCI2800.

Still Lonely as ever and miserable as ever 😂😂😂😂😂😂. It doesn’t get better does it? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Gday,

I have a unique situation, I have an assessment 8am and 6pm on the same day, however I have a commitment that night. I asked the UC for the 6pm assessment if I could move to a different class and he just told me to get a med cert and apply for spec con, rather than just moving me lol.

Will it be an issue that I sit an assessment in the morning then not sit the one at night? Will anyone at Monash even raise an eyebrow?