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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3705 on: February 20, 2021, 02:40:43 am »
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When students from high school know what they want to do in the future, why not go to study for that job straightaway? For example, if you want to become a doctor/nurse, then why not go and start studying about medicine?  And for those who want to become architects then why not go and study all about it (math, sketching etc)?

My first reaction is just "What's stopping you?"  Some high schoolers do study more about the body and other medicine related topics in their spare time.  Some spend a lot of time sketching and read about architecture.  I did programming in my spare time in high school and ended up a software developer.  And that pre-existing experience and knowledge helped immensely when I actually got to Uni and studied it formally - I do believe I got a better education because I cared about it and because I was prepared to get the best out of it.

But I think what you are asking for is not a hobby as an extra, but removing some other parts of the existing formal education and replacing them.  I think that's more of a problem.  Take me: I'm a fairly straight maths-science student.  I hold a software engineering degree, and work with co-workers who almost view bad spelling (not a software dev strong point) as a badge of honour.  If I could have done less humanities and more math/science or software I probably would have.  And yet I'm pretty sure I've referenced the humanities part of my Year 12 more recently than I've referenced the maths or the physics.

Those are just random factoids, but there's a bigger picture.  As Sine says, life is about more than just what you are qualified for and what you work in.  But so too is the workplace.  One important thing frequently talked about is "soft skills".  You can be technically brilliant and still not achieve much if you need to work with others and can't.  Also, different people have different areas of knowledge, different things they know and don't know, and make connections between different areas of knowledge, both in work and in life.  An overly narrow speciality doesn't help with that.

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Finally, people take time to mature, and people change.  Some people have a dream career from relatively early on and stick to it (I'm actually one of them).  Others find that it's not what they expected, or that they develop new interests, or that they really need to do something very different.  That will be harder to navigate if they have committed to that path earlier and have fewer other options.

My parents encouraged me to focus on getting a vocational qualification as quickly as I could.  I (mostly) enjoyed university and had a full-time professional job in an area I loved before I was 21.  There are a lot of advantages to that, but looking back I can see that I was technically skilled but still had a lot to learn, and may have been better with a little less laser focus on qualification and a little more life experience.  Pretty sure if I'd somehow been able to accelerate it to full-time job by, say, 18 I would have thought it good for me - but actually it wouldn't have been.
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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3706 on: March 01, 2021, 10:19:39 pm »
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how is it already march
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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3707 on: March 01, 2021, 10:58:23 pm »
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The word welcome baffles me.

The definition is an instance or manner of greeting someone. So you would always say "welcome to ...." or "Welcome, welcome come on in" etc.

I get stumped with it's use in you're welcome..... It doesn't make sense. How are you using a greeting word to reciprocate after getting a thanks from someone? It comes across like "you're invited" but it's no problem/ no worries/ happy too, it's weird.
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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3708 on: March 02, 2021, 08:32:55 am »
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how is it already march

feels like we should just be starting March 2020 amirite

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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3709 on: March 02, 2021, 06:10:00 pm »
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The word welcome baffles me.

The definition is an instance or manner of greeting someone. So you would always say "welcome to ...." or "Welcome, welcome come on in" etc.

I get stumped with it's use in you're welcome..... It doesn't make sense. How are you using a greeting word to reciprocate after getting a thanks from someone? It comes across like "you're invited" but it's no problem/ no worries/ happy too, it's weird.

To be welcomed is to be invited, yes in the sense of "welcome, come on in" but also in terms of "you are welcome to ___" ("You are invited to ___"). From that I'm guessing it goes:

"thank you"
"you're welcome (to receive/ask for this)"

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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3710 on: March 02, 2021, 09:11:47 pm »
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feels like we should just be starting March 2020 amirite
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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3711 on: March 03, 2021, 01:05:41 am »
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Maybe we should just accept that time marches on? :P
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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3712 on: March 03, 2021, 07:43:06 pm »
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Maybe we should just accept that time marches on? :P

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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3713 on: March 07, 2021, 09:35:03 pm »
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Pop music sounds better from 9pm to 2am
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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3714 on: March 08, 2021, 08:24:07 am »
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Pop music sounds better from 9pm to 2am

I'd contend that its value ceases entirely at 11pm, by which point we should all be tucked up and asleep
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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3715 on: March 08, 2021, 09:49:37 am »
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Deakin has the best one person study booths. Change my mind.
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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3716 on: March 08, 2021, 04:55:12 pm »
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Deakin has the best one person study booths. Change my mind.
I need photos!

There's this cool spot in a Monash building that is kind of a small hidden/enclosed study area and it's so nice! Except I just checked and it's full of people :'(  , but here's a photo from when it was empty! (although I think it looks better irl than my photo). I like how the seats are kind of into the walls, it feels enclosed/protected. The best seat isn't even in the photo because i'm sitting there but it's like a padded hole in the wall you can kind of retreat into a bit more than a regular seat haha.

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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3717 on: March 08, 2021, 05:20:56 pm »
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I need photos!

There's this cool spot in a Monash building that is kind of a small hidden/enclosed study area and it's so nice! Except I just checked and it's full of people :'(  , but here's a photo from when it was empty! (although I think it looks better irl than my photo). I like how the seats are kind of into the walls, it feels enclosed/protected. The best seat isn't even in the photo because i'm sitting there but it's like a padded hole in the wall you can kind of retreat into a bit more than a regular seat haha.

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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3718 on: March 09, 2021, 09:47:00 am »
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I need photos!
I don't know how to put in photos and this one doesn't do it justice but https://deakin.libcal.com/space/43641 this space is what I'm talking about. The seat itself is quite deep and just right. Beautifully sheltered.
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Re: The Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #3719 on: March 10, 2021, 11:15:23 pm »
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Is being left/right handed have anything to do with people's preference to park on the left/right side?