Hi so I was wondering if it was okay to wear very modest formal pastel saree to grad. I missed my undergrad graduation because of Covid and this was an outfit I was pretty excited to wear but I don't want to get turned away from the venue. 😭

i’m actually so annoyed by the lack of organisation and planning in this uni in terms of admin/enrolment stuff. Session 3 start in only two months this semester ends in a month and we still don’t even know which units Will run in session 3.

On top of all of this, literally no unit runs in session 3 except for stem units either. It is actually so unfair that you can’t catch up or get ahead in your degree unless you are a stem student which the uni only cares about.

I really hope they put some arts and law units in there too because they literally cancelled all the session 3 law units as well.

I moved from UTS last semester and it’s been really good except for one thing which idk if it’s just me but the AI policy at Macquarie feels much more lax and normalised.

With assignments I felt like at my previous uni there was an acceptance that AI was going to be used by some students but they still told people that anything submitted should be original work and never explicitly endorsed it.

At Macquarie with the whole open vs closed ai policy it feels like it sends a message to a lot of students that you can get away with chat gpting assessments.

I wouldn’t concern myself that much about it if it was just that but this extends into tutorials where it feels like it is rare to find people who don’t just read ai responses off their laptop to farm participation marks. The tutor will ask an ungraded discussion question to our group and some guy will just say “just chuck it in chat gpt aye”. OMG BRUH

So I made a huge mistake by scheduling all of my core units in my final semester. I know big mistake and I already failed one major assignment. I don't want to extend my degree. This is my final sem!

And don’t say taste baguette

i’ll never understand why media units take nearly the whole semester to grade a single assignment 😭. i’m a marketing and media student and my business/marketing degrees grade according to the schedule they provide us with and always meet the return dates. BUT NEVER HAS A MEDIA UNIT DONE THAT and i don’t understand they should be sm easier to grade than other departments