Well the only real issue I've ever had with international students, is that a vast majority of them aren't here to learn. If they were brilliant, they would have ended up at some Ivory League uni in the US or at the presitgious chinese universities (of which there are quite a few now).
Uni...
Funny you should mention "sheer volume" because well that is what hedge funds do.
Personally I think trading shares to make money is a real waste of time unless you have hedge fund / trader at an investment bank level funds and all day to watch the market and make trades.
The amount of...
Think of uni as branding. Your own branding. As you move on in your career you'll have more brands to slap onto it. So thinking of it in that way, the perception of where you went to uni is quite important. Yes all the unis sort of teach the same thing and you need to do well to get a good grad...
If you don't plan ahead the only person who suffers from it is you. School does matter for a whole lot more reasons than scaling. And seriously you're only do your HSC, not that massively important, stop hating on people who will come after you and go study.
Actually there is a trend, notice...
Yay at last someone else who is doing the same thing! I'm doing mine the monday morning, but I'm getting locked up in some room in the office till 4unit is on. So basically it doesn't matter that I've seen it cuz I'm not gonna be able to tell anyone. However its not like an hour is gonna help...
Trials are on at our school now and my history exntension exam is at the same time as the 4 unit maths exam since we are doing the catholic papers. Does anyone else around do history extension and 4 unit maths as well? Or am I the only weirdity around?
I really just depends on your teacher. Our teacher started off clueless but after 3 yeas he is really good now. The class discussions we have are heaps good. But as for workload, the project does take quite a bit of time.
Has anyone done Indonesia for one of their assessment tasks? Cuz I need to do it on Indonesia and was wondering if anyone know any resources which relates to Indonesia's economy.