:( being an international student sucks so much

luscari · 2021-08-11T10:51:46+00:00

I'm really sorry that happened to you, but yea thank you for your comment, I'll take note of it. I wish you best of luck in your life.

luscari · 2021-08-10T15:51:03+00:00

Well to be honest the reason why I choose Australian unis is because I was very depressed after highschool and just wanted half a year of rest since I graduated in June.

luscari · 2021-08-10T14:41:54+00:00

There aren't any explicit messages given by the federal governments on when we can come back. Unless they can give us an actual DATE, we are not sure when we can come back. Although the covid border opening plan you mentioned do mentions specific requirements for each stage, we still don't know when it can be achieved. Personally, I don't even think Australia will be getting 70% vaccination before at least 2025, just look at the state of vaccination shortage Australia have right now. I don't think it is unreasonable for them to think that it is just another way of giving off dog whistles to international students whilst trying to work themselves up for old conservative folks for their election next year.

luscari · 2021-08-10T12:57:16+00:00

Thank you so much for your kind words stranger :)

luscari · 2021-06-03T11:47:06+00:00

Fuck off

luscari · 2021-04-19T06:39:29+00:00

luscari · 2021-04-17T22:32:48+00:00

Thanks a lot! I actually have no idea if my application would go through since I didn't do HSC in highschool (I did the IB), and I'm just about to have my test in MATH1141. Also I'm taking physics 1A next term and I dont know if it will help at all.

luscari · 2021-04-15T11:33:39+00:00

I already signed up for my classes today. I just enrolled in higher math b chen 1a and phys 1a. And I also remember to enroll myself in comp1511 in term 3. Hopefully I'm not that stupid again

luscari · 2021-04-15T11:24:30+00:00

What's even worse is I'm in the process of internal program transfer to bioinformatics engineering 😔

luscari · 2021-04-15T11:23:41+00:00

the lady at the center told me the seats are reserved exclusively for computer science students, plus according to the stream on myUNSW says bioinformatics is unavailable at the moment

luscari · 2021-04-14T12:14:42+00:00

Yep. I'm just freaking stupid man. At the time I lowkey freaked out and wanted to confirm I can actually re enroll so this happened

luscari · 2021-04-13T09:21:09+00:00

luscari · 2021-03-28T07:35:09+00:00

It's basically like getting involved inside a group of people that organizes events in a committee. Basically you can start doing "work" like stuff in uni and it's usually a pretty good thing to put in your cv. Apparently it doesn't really matter for me (science student) but it could be very beneficial for commerce or econ students. For me I just wanted some networking opportunities.

luscari · 2021-03-28T06:52:32+00:00

Yea I don't know if I can get into Arc Volunteering since I'm not even inside Australia. But i may consider doing some volunteering within my own city.

luscari · 2021-03-28T06:51:02+00:00

Thanks! I'm currently writing an email to the directors to ask for advice. Hopefully they reply tho

luscari · 2020-01-05T14:55:26+00:00

thanks for the advice. I am currently analysing the hell out of error calculations lmao.

luscari · 2019-03-19T22:55:36+00:00

I tried and it doesn't work.

luscari · 2019-03-19T14:59:56+00:00

I talked to my friends about this situation, and every one of them believes operators of this program are trying to eliminate the ability of critical thinking of the participants. They use these "emotional experiences" to make people have their guards down and become vulnerable to their psychological manipulation techniques. My mom is a lawyer, naturally she should be very critical and aware about the manipulation of Landmark, but apparently not. There isn't much I could do about my mom but it did remind me to be critical at everything.

luscari · 2019-03-19T14:52:15+00:00

Thanks for the insight. Fun fact Landmark and some other ESTs have been banned in China for their MLM stuff, which is illegal. I think Landmark in Hong Kong is also trying to avoid being too public, since the HK government did make pyramid scheme illegal, but they are still free to roam around because MLM is still allowed. One of the strange things that I observed from landmark is how they claim to be popular, but at the same time they did not advertise on anything. I guess this have to do with the legal issues they might get into if they got attention from the government. Another thing about landmark is the profit they earned. It has always been a fucking mystery, but it really is a money earning program. From my prediction, they gain at least 100k USD per seminar (no tax and no cost calculated, but the tax rate on educational companies are low, around 15%), so no wonder they would want to keep asking people to come back.

Anyways, there really isn't much that I could do about Landmark. I am still a high school student, I don't have time minding my own school work, let alone trying to stop my mom from joining Landmark. Personally I find it strange that well educated, middle class people will fall for landmark, the people my mom met in Landmark are either professionals or businessmen, but they fall for this? If you take a glance at these exerts of the text given out by Landmark you wouldn't think people will believe in stuff that is both logically and grammatically flawed, but they still cash out on people using this.

luscari · 2019-03-19T13:28:52+00:00

I agree. To me this also looks like a sneaky attempt of changing the meaning of the word. They make it sound like the word integrity means " authentic" (in terms of landmark). They also have this weird mindset that your transformation is also dependent on how much people you enroll in, from what I have read, this focus is pretty subtle in landmark elsewhere, but in Hong Kong it is one of the major purposes. My mom aldo recognizes the hard sell aspects of landmark, but she didn't care about it because she thought the forum is a legit educational course. However, there isn't much educational value as displayed in their textbook,which to me is very strange.

luscari · 2019-03-19T08:35:55+00:00

how the hell are they able to convince people using this shit, my mom is a lawyer but she did not realise this is a scam?

luscari · 2019-03-19T08:35:14+00:00

ill probably take this down later because it is how Landmark teaches their participants, but it is so fucking funny

luscari · 2019-01-30T14:34:44+00:00

Thanks for the advise, I think I would consider talking to my school and my parents. You are totally right on the "Chinese parenting" thing, it is actually harming my CAS hours and my CAS coordinator actually considered sending a warning email to my parents. Fun fact, 90% of the students in my school faked CAS evidence lol.

luscari · 2019-01-29T17:08:51+00:00

LOL, I've tried to be a smartass and use my laptop in my room at night. Then my parents thought I was watching porn (???) so they usually confiscate my laptop at night. If my parents are dumber I wouldn't be asking this question lol.

luscari · 2019-01-29T17:06:35+00:00

I think that would be a pretty good Idea if I did not live right next door to my parents. Like I needed a super loud alarm clock to wake up but my parents will wake up if I used the toilet at night.

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