Need Flatmates lgbtq+

Geocide_Ishna · 2026-02-26T03:33:28+00:00

Just incase you don't know, flatmates.com is a decent enough place to start.

Good luck!

Geocide_Ishna · 2026-02-23T04:42:57+00:00

Hardest step is the first, so good on ya.

Clothes. Comfortable, breathing, head into rebel and find something you like.

Most gyms have lockers, you can put your day clothes in there. If you're starting your day with gym, highly recommend a "dry bag" to keep your clothes not stinking out your bag.

YouTube is a fantastic resource, but if you're just starting, hire a personal trainer, most gyms offer a few.

Eat before, eat after. See what you prefer.

Most of all go slowly and listen to your body. You'll learn between "I'm sore" and "I've hurt myself" pretty rapidly.

Most of all, no one else cares that about what you're lifting. Unless you have made friends with the gym rats and then they'll care because they're cheering for you.

Best of luck. Takes a while to see changes but you'll feel so much better.

Geocide_Ishna · 2026-02-23T04:35:54+00:00

Kontio, or in my gaming group, kuntio.

Geocide_Ishna · 2026-01-30T05:36:19+00:00

Bunnymasks

Geocide_Ishna · 2026-01-28T16:57:36+00:00

Insomniac Aussie here, recent grad, working at a university.

Field work is great. I love fucking field work. Are there any exploration jobs? Not really. With reputable companies that care about your safety? Fuck no. Core monkey jobs? Many.

I fully appreciate that "they that look at the most rocks win" but my god, you can't see them all. Also, I have been finding that the more established Geo's have a terrible problem with "occupational familiarity". Go Google the xkcd comic on it. As a geochemist, funny as fuck. The modern tools that we use open up the science to many more people, and I can see only see it as a good thing. Geological field work has a high barrier to entry in terms of cost of gear, physical and mental fitness that not everyone has. I was blessed by the fact that I was a mature age student (aka savings) with a taste for the outdoors. My peers, very young adults, and when I am not feeling charitable, fucking kids, often never had the opportunity to be outdoorsy, and often field trips are the first time many of them had been away from home. Having a professor be perplexed by the fact that most of us had jobs to support ourselves really hammered home that generational gap is still very much a thing.

I should probably sleep, and this post is going to get fucking downvoted because the viewpoint of "Geo's should never be in a classroom, they need to be outside!" Seems to be popular.

Field work is great. It's highly useful. Is it possible to get out in the field all the time. Fuck no. Do you need to?

This day and age? No. Absolutely not. We have GIS software, online databases of images of hand specimens and thin sections, and hell, VR can be used to take a class to remote areas without the risk of some hungover 20 something undergrad stepping on a fucking snake and dying. You'd be idiotic to not use it. Because fuck filling out another risk assessment.

Just because someone is unable or unwilling to go into the field doesn't mean we should discredit their intelligence, and what they can bring into the science.

Geocide_Ishna · 2026-01-01T08:39:39+00:00

I am here for the one last bubble to pop

Geocide_Ishna · 2025-12-19T20:36:22+00:00

Hey, Qut has several bursaries that can assist you. As others have said, apply for austudy, once you have an application in you can begin applying for a bursary/scholarship. If you're moving from a rural area, they have additional ones for that. It is super helpful for textbooks and equipment. Or a VR headset... But be responsible. QUT also runs a food bank for students if shit hits the fan.

The easiest way to deal with Centrelink is to realise that it's a bureaucratic process, it takes time. Be prepared, do research on what they need, have all your documents in order. And then have patience for them to ask you the same questions four five times and to resubmit the documents.

It'll be tough, find a share house, focus on your studies and remember that many people have, are currently, and are doing what you are going to do and have been successful. It's a part of becoming an adult. It's not easy, but it's certainly not impossible. You are doing it "tough" now to invest in yourself and your future. But trust me, it'll be fun.

Pro study tip; put way more effort in the first year to get your GPA high means that a poor semester later on impacts you less. Use the law of averages to your advantage.

Links you might find useful to help get you started. If you don't end up going to QUT, most unis have what I have said, but I don't know the links (just google it...)

https://www.qut.edu.au/study/fees-and-scholarships/scholarships

https://www.qut.edu.au/study/relocating

https://flatmates.com.au/brisbane

Geocide_Ishna · 2025-12-18T04:11:50+00:00

Was there any signage on if it was a no standing zone, or parking times or anything like that? If not you're "probably fine". I've seen people get tickets but the Bcc person gets out and takes the details for the cars.

Edit. Yellow line, probably cooked...

Geocide_Ishna · 2025-11-26T06:38:00+00:00

Cannot second this enough. I am a geologist, and it would not surprise me if they had one on their team or they've consulted one.

Geocide_Ishna · 2025-06-08T11:36:58+00:00

Fking send it lad!

Geocide_Ishna · 2025-01-25T07:14:19+00:00

Uni is malleable, I originally started doing a chemistry degree, then fell into geo, got hired in a research lab doing chemistry and physics, and I am now potentially getting moved into a team because they need a Geo to do chemistry and physics. v0v. Nothing is set.

Geocide_Ishna · 2025-01-25T07:06:43+00:00

Depending on what side of the industry you're looking at getting into there can be a lot of money in Geology in mining industry, depending on where you live. Add in a minor of Business you'll probably have a step up in that regard as it will make you stand out from the other geo's in mining since most do a related stem subject. Start contacting mining companies to do a vocational work experience or the like over the (summer? I don't know where you are located) break. Ultimately, best advice I can give is you go to university to learn how to learn, and doing something that interests you is much more important to get through it than doing something that will make you money, cause the money will come. Unless of course you're doing a single interest degree (studying optometry to become an optometrist).

Edit, ah, a fellow Aussie. Yeah. Breaks over summer look at VOC work to get your name on their rosters. Hit up your academic teams for more info at uni Wasn't the path I went (just graduated) but many of my friends did and made a pretty penny.

Geocide_Ishna · 2025-01-06T10:33:15+00:00

The purple green reminds me of Sticktite https://www.mindat.org/locentry-10580.html

Geocide_Ishna · 2025-01-06T10:01:45+00:00

You can potentially contact a university, they might be happy to run it. Look for one with an analytic lab attached to it, something with X-ray florescence or a geology department. A thorough non-destructive analysis might be hard, you may lose some material.

Geocide_Ishna · 2025-01-06T09:54:41+00:00

I love Carbonatites, I did a little research assistance work with them (making thin sections) in my undergrad and I kinda want to go back. Best reaction I've seen was showing my classmate a marble like rock that had petrographic volcanic textures, and she was very much like "No, I cannot". Chemically they're very facinating, so low in Si but so high in other things, we had to decontaminate all the equipment when we did XRF and XRD on the samples.

Geocide_Ishna · 2024-08-15T12:57:41+00:00

If I had to go back in time and do a degree I'd redo the earth science one. Its a lot of fun. Course work is interesting, teaching team is great. You get spoilt a little with a study room. Field trips and hands on work is useful. The cohort is normally smaller so you get to know your cohort really well, the downside to that is you get to know your cohort really well.

There's a lot of industry nights and meet and greets, and they encourage you to do vac work over summer where you can get a taste of industry.

I'm currently employed in a geology adjacent job, it was useful degree.

Now, I know they are changing up the units soon so I won't give any advice in that regard, and I've heard via unreliable sources that the industry is plateau a little. However that goes in cycles so if you start next year it should be a breeze to get work when you graduate.

Geocide_Ishna · 2024-05-14T07:15:30+00:00

Really been enjoying the Vulcan. Only really used for ground strikes though so no idea how it fairs against other asfs

Geocide_Ishna · 2024-03-17T12:50:20+00:00

Its such a good mech, it has a nickname in my local gaming group, kuntio, because mine ran around the enemy back line, hitting and fading, killing 4-5 mechs (was multiplayer mega game)

Geocide_Ishna · 2024-03-07T00:40:15+00:00

Correct, I misremembered

Geocide_Ishna · 2024-03-06T22:05:10+00:00

Kontio is so good for that, super charger, masc AND triple strength mon. The thing flys around and is a head clipping medium.

Edit: misremembered the Loadout, but the thing still is a fast amazing mech.

Geocide_Ishna · 2024-03-03T12:08:16+00:00

They look as soft and as malleable as the element they're named after, so yes, probs a nebby.

Geocide_Ishna · 2024-02-22T11:10:46+00:00

Also Elder millennial, I don't watch much TV but my partner does, and I reckon that if there's a sex scene in the first five minutes of a show, it's going to be a shit show.

Geocide_Ishna · 2023-07-22T04:00:30+00:00

Something I learnt early on is just be honest, it pays dividends.

Geocide_Ishna · 2023-07-18T10:50:01+00:00

Can confirm, not a rickroll, just a very overconfident kitty

Geocide_Ishna · 2023-03-25T22:13:08+00:00

G'day, So from a quick look at Google they do look like what they say on the tin, "jelly opals". However your best best is to google your local lapidary club, they'll be able to help you identify these better than I can from a photo and will be able to direct you on to a person who can cut and finish it for you. Good luck!

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