Posted by alexandra_k on November 12, 2018, at 11:24:16
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by alexandra_k on November 12, 2018, at 11:03:50
don't mind me, it's a cool-down period after yet another year of awful.
a year of jumping through a hoop i've already jumped through because 'we don't recognise qualifications that are more than 5 years old'.
a qualification people only allowed me to enrol in because they thought i was mentally defective and didn't have any hope of getting what i'd said done, done.
people who have dragged their heels all year...
all the scholarships that are advertised...
i don't think they are actually awarded to anyone. i mean that genuinely. i think that they are a sham. a hoax. people think that the university is legitimate because there are scholarships and the like, but i can't find lists of people who were awarded them and / or the name of their project...
similarly with the jobs that are advertised in this country.
i think it's all just designed to waste people's time.
it's all an elaborate hoax.students from auckland got sent an email right before their second semester examinations telling them they didn't make the cut off to get an interview for medicine so their applications had been declined.
the students were upset at the appalling lack of timing.
the university said that they did a future forecast thing and assumed they got A+'s for their second semester courses and even with that projection they didn't meet the cut off.the students (rightly) pointed out that the university didn't see fit to tell them that before they enrolled (and paid fees for) their second semester courses.
that's right. that's just the fundamental lack of consideration and disregard for them all over.
quite a few scholarships say they are 'need based'. you are supposed to make a case for why you need the money (e.g., on grounds of hardship). sometimes they are on the basis of what you plan to do with the money. in all these cases there is no evidence the scholarships are ever awarded to anyone at all. it is just people... data collecting. there are scholarships that require people to write essays... again, no evidence they are awarded to people.
you would think that it would be better if... the university could publish a good journal. if the university could get students to work towards writing for the journal. if the university could showcase the best student work it had...
instead of giving the best student work it has failing grades...
it used to be that you could trust universities to look after their studentts. that's simply not the case anymore. these aren't really universities.
i'm afraid that teh universities here will lose their international affiliation / accreditation whatever it is any old day now.
there's a world directory of medical schools and it says things about the unis here that are false (that one is graduate entry and the other is undergraduate entry -- but they are both mixed entry)... they are 6 year programs (but everyone in the entire university can do all the first year subjects). and auckland organises teh first year subjects so you do biology, physics, organic chemistry, in the first semester and they go through masses of content so fast that it is impossible to do well unless you go into the year knowing most of it already. chemistry, in particular, they give you a workbook but they don't put in the structures or the key words that they actually want you to learn. you are supposed to fill these in yourself in lecture... so the kids in the best residential halls have tutors who give them the content they are supposed to learn and drum in the answers. everyone else... cannon fodder. stick around because they are told they have another shot if they finish degrees in minimum time (which means they can't transfer to another university). but then you have that third year bottleneck...
people overseas will know full well what is happening. all this information is readily available. all the essays stuedetns write and so on is uploaded to this online grading thing...
the developed world knows how badly new zealanders are treated.
we are the gamma babies of the developed world. pickled in alcohol and so on. the developed worlds slaves.
i don't see how i could see it any other way...
people have been dragging their heels all year... all year.... all year...
all my life... what was wrong with me was that i didn't say (with feeling)
for all the things people spouted at me...
'i know you are. but what am i?'
sigh.
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