Of Academic Advisors and Cupcakes

I recently found out that someone I know will be reading this, which gives me a bit of a strange feeling - no longer am I simply pouring my heart out anonymously!

Anyway, this post is going to be about academic advisors at uni.  I had a chat the other day with another friend (second year electrical) who had just been to see an academic advisor to plan out the subjects she'd be taking over the course of her degree.  It's a fairly complex art...

I didn't go to an advisor at the start of first year, because I already knew what subjects I was going to take.  And looking back, they weren't bad subjects to choose.  I mean, I wish I hadn't done PHYS1001 & 2, because now I've decided to major in computer science, and I still have to do MATE1000 and ENGG1010 (which I'm taking this semester).  But if I hadn't done physics, I wouldn't have known I absolutely can't stand physics, would I?


But now I'm having a little trouble sorting out my subjects by myself, and I've been thinking of going in to see someone at uni.  I've had a draft plan for a long time, since before I started uni (yeah I'm keen, shut up), but this semester I realised things don't always go according to plan.  Take METR2800, for example.  On paper, it would have worked out perfectly to do it this semester.  But for various reasons, I didn't.  And now I've messed up my entire plan and I can either struggle through alone or...

Seek professional help!  And there are a few major reasons I really want to take this option:
1) I want to go on exchange next year, second semester;
2) I'm doing a dual degree, which means I have a weird course plan anyway, plus two final year projects; and
3) I've been putting off mech subjects until I've done ENGG1010, and now I'm not sure how I'm going to fit them all in!

It's not as easy choosing subjects as it is in high school.  Back then you just picked your favourite subjects from a list and bam! you were set for two years.  Uni requires juggling prereqs, and not having too many project courses at once, and subjects only taught every second year in the summer semester if the first day of June was a Tuesday...


Also, we had our Robogals cupcake stall, and made twice as much money as we were expecting.  Which is all I'm going to say about it, but that's awesome!