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Otago HSFY chat - archive

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nzmadhamster said:
Gday, is there anyway of knowing whether or not you qualify for the Rural application?
I applied for it under slightly optimistic circumstances, and I was wondering if there's anyway of knowing if they've accepted it..?
Might help making the next month a little less stressful haha.
Cheers
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I'm afraid the only way you'll know that you qualify for rural admission is if you meet the criteria listed on the website.
So that's if you've spent a significant proportion of your life in a town with a population of 20,000 or less.

Last year they sent an email out to those who applied under the rural admission scheme to confirm which schools they had attended. But this was only after health sci was over. I think they look at all applications, so you don't have to worry about your application not being considered. But at the end of the day you must meet the criteria.
 
marsupial said:
I'm afraid the only way you'll know that you qualify for rural admission is if you meet the criteria listed on the website.
So that's if you've spent a significant proportion of your life in a town with a population of 20,000 or less.

Last year they sent an email out to those who applied under the rural admission scheme to confirm which schools they had attended. But this was only after health sci was over. I think they look at all applications, so you don't have to worry about your application not being considered. But at the end of the day you must meet the criteria.
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Ah, sweet as, thanks. I do meet the criteria, but I was just wondering if they confirmed it or anything. Guess not.
Thanks
 
Happy Birthday GG! :D
 
I miss Simon already :'(

edit: OH GOD HIS ENDING SPEECH WAS SO INSPIRATIONAL I'M ALMOST IN TEARS
[OFFTOPIC] not even sarcastic (ok maybe a bit but I love Simon[/OFFTOPIC]
[OFFTOPIC]Happy birthday GG! :D[/OFFTOPIC]

wtf 4pm bioc.. not even sure anymore
 
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Since it was the last day of class for you lot, now seems like an appropriate time for me to wish you all luck in your exams!
Now is the time to start: panicking, powering through the No-Doz, plotting ways to mass-eliminate the competition, sacrificing goats/children/virgins to the Gods of health-sci, etc.
 
Why am I feeling a sense of melancholic nostalgia from reading "last lecture of health sci"? I remember my last lecture, and how naively relieved I felt that it was all "finally" over. Looking back now, I miss those days more than anything I've ever known - probably sounds quite loner-ish, but honestly the feeling of community, the sense of a clear defined purpose, the drive to beat your competition, the routine-ness of it all (going to lectures, coming home to study hard and 'outcompete' everyone), constantly meeting new people at labs, even the aesthetic quality of being in a large lecture theatre. To think that 4 generations of people have had this exact experience and are now moving on with their lives, never to return to that large, spacious, vibrant theatre (St davids), never to feel the same pressure of competition, and all the while foolishly rejoicing in that loss as they leave that theatre for possibly the last time in their lives while the next generation eagerly waits to enter. Just remember one quality that will be more difficult to maintain than any other as your progress through uni and eventually enter the real world - youthful idealism.

*mature sigh*

EDIT: quite fitting that this is my 500th post.
 
I'm extremely happy to (almost) be past the competition, the need to know every single small detail. Health science takes everything good about learning and overshadows it with the blanket of ceaseless competition. There's no time to stop and appreciate all that you're learning, everything is just about rote learning this list and that pathway.

I'll probably look back on it with rose-tinted glasses as well, the sense of community is brilliant and I've made some really great friends, but overall the course to me is pretty soul-sucking.
 
lulwut said:
I'm extremely happy to (almost) be past the competition, the need to know every single small detail. Health science takes everything good about learning and overshadows it with the blanket of ceaseless competition. There's no time to stop and appreciate all that you're learning, everything is just about rote learning this list and that pathway.

I'll probably look back on it with rose-tinted glasses as well, the sense of community is brilliant and I've made some really great friends, but overall the course to me is pretty soul-sucking.
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Hmm, you're right about not being able to appreciate what you're learning. I think I just miss the drive of being a midst the competition, feeling that my actions are purposeful, rather than the memorising-things-as-quickly-as-possible aspect. That I definitely don't miss.
 
lulwut said:
I'm extremely happy to (almost) be past the competition, the need to know every single small detail. Health science takes everything good about learning and overshadows it with the blanket of ceaseless competition. There's no time to stop and appreciate all that you're learning, everything is just about rote learning this list and that pathway.

I'll probably look back on it with rose-tinted glasses as well, the sense of community is brilliant and I've made some really great friends, but overall the course to me is pretty soul-sucking.
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I'm confused...... how is there a sense of community? To be perfectly honest, I just felt like a number in Health Sci. True - I made some cool friends as well, but I've hardly seen any of them since the end of last year, and the odd one or two I have seen stared at me like a stranger when I smiled at them, which was weird. To be perfectly honest, you get a real feeling of community after health sci. If you go into a professional course, you almost become a family (apart from in Med, where it's your stream rather than class that is your family). But anyway: Good luck Health Scis, may the force be with you and see you in Medschool :-)
[OFFTOPIC]Oh and @koochkooch ! 500 posts! CONGRATULATIONS!!![/OFFTOPIC]
 
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I'm confused...... how is there a sense of community? To be perfectly honest, I just felt like a number in Health Sci. True - I made some cool friends as well, but I've hardly seen any of them since the end of last year, and the odd one or two I have seen stared at me like a stranger when I smiled at them, which was weird. To be perfectly honest, you get a real feeling of community after health sci. If you go into a professional course, you almost become a family (apart from in Med, where it's your stream rather than class that is your family). But anyway: Good luck Health Scis, may the force be with you and see you in Medschool :-)
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It's a bit of an individual thing, some people really experience a sense of belonging in HSFY (I sort of did... of course, not as much as the sense of belonging I feel at the med school or the PASS office these days)... I don't think we should deny that HSFY is sort of like a community in its own weird way...

EDIT: To come back to what kooch was saying, I think HSFY would deliver more sense of community than a gap year ;)
 
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Cathay said:
It's a bit of an individual thing, some people really experience a sense of belonging in HSFY (I sort of did... of course, not as much as the sense of belonging I feel at the med school or the PASS office these days)... I don't think we should deny that HSFY is sort of like a community in its own weird way..
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Well yeah I guess so... in its own very very weird way... and I guess since I didn't stay at a hall that would have made my experience more alienating than most others...
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To come back to what kooch was saying, I think HSFY would deliver more sense of community than a gap year ;)
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True lool, can't argue with that XD
 
koochkooch said:
Why am I feeling a sense of melancholic nostalgia from reading "last lecture of health sci"? I remember my last lecture, and how naively relieved I felt that it was all "finally" over. Looking back now, I miss those days more than anything I've ever known - probably sounds quite loner-ish, but honestly the feeling of community, the sense of a clear defined purpose, the drive to beat your competition, the routine-ness of it all (going to lectures, coming home to study hard and 'outcompete' everyone), constantly meeting new people at labs, even the aesthetic quality of being in a large lecture theatre. To think that 4 generations of people have had this exact experience and are now moving on with their lives, never to return to that large, spacious, vibrant theatre (St davids), never to feel the same pressure of competition, and all the while foolishly rejoicing in that loss as they leave that theatre for possibly the last time in their lives while the next generation eagerly waits to enter. Just remember one quality that will be more difficult to maintain than any other as your progress through uni and eventually enter the real world - youthful idealism.

*mature sigh*

EDIT: quite fitting that this is my 500th post.
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Yeah it's interesting looking back on things like that. I really respect you for your ability to offer this wisdom without seeming patronising or condescending at all, bringing us this new level of self-understanding - dipping your toes in existentialism near the end. Good job bro. My mind is expanded because of what you've shared.
 
Scotty1 said:
Hey, does anyone know the cut-off for Dentistry interviews this year? Or anything close to them? Thanks
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No. The only way anyone can know cut-offs for these things (well, actually you should theoretically be able to get the dent cut-off from the admissions department if you ask. Med is the only one where they try to hush it for some reason) is if you people post your scores online. Which nobody has really done this year.

Obviously there's nobody making you guys post your scores up if you don't want to, but remember that the only way this website has been able to supply you guys with estimations of your chances, is because in previous years other people offered up their marks. Now I don't want to sound like too much of a hard-ass (and obviously this isn't really directed at you, more the MSO HSFY community as a whole), but I do think that it'd be nice if there was a little given back to MSO, a website which has given a lot to a lot of you, so that future year-groups might have the same quality of resources from here as you do.
 
I was under the impression that everyone was going to post their scores in the end of year ranking thread.
In reference to Dent, I got an interview with 58/57/58. The only other people I know who also received interviews have not shared their UMAT results with me, so I'm afraid I can't be any help past that.
 
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