Well last week university offers came out, and I have to say I'm not too happy...

From the main university I applied to Monash University, I was offered Visual Arts and Education... that was my 7th preference!!! Not what I wanted at all, it was very disappointing, espcially since I had all the prerequisites for my business/ecomonomics courses I applied for at the top of my preference list. If I had recieve this offer about 3 months ago I probably would have happily accepted it with excitement, but within the last month I decided that I want to focus soley on business as a career, and wanted to be an economist, wanting to do a Commerce/Economics course, majoring in economics and finance, which seemed really appealing to me. But I wasnt offered any business related courses, even though I had results far better than required...
With such a poor offer, I rang the school careers lady, she was useless, pretty much told me, that my maths wasnt good enough, and should give up. So I rang the university directly for 2 days, with no success, people I rang had no idea what I was talking about, they didnt know what my level of maths was. The only sort of answer I got was your maths is being reviewed, and might revieve a 2nd round offer. So it doesn't look good....

I also recieved an offer from ANU (Australian National University) in Canberra, for Asian Studies(chinese)/Commerce. It was a bit of a nice surprise, but at the same time unexpected. I had decided a while ago I wasnt going to go to ANU unless I wanted to do Chinese with Commerce, which I sort of decided I didn't want to, but I could do it. So its seriously worth considering because its my Commerce offer at the moment. The only problem is I hadnt considered going there, and dont really have the momey on such short notice to move states just for uni. I roughly need $1000 just to set up accomodation, and $500 for starting fees, I think $2000 to be safe... at the moment I only have $450... but am working, but I will be lucky to have $1000 within the next 2 weeks before I would have to move up to Canberra.

So its a bit of a waiting game again, this time for 2nd round offers, on the 4th and 5th of February, which leaves me very little time to decide and organise where I'm going to uni, thats if I even get any 2nd round offers, because there is no garuntee that you will get a 2nd round offer, because they are the courses that are remaining from 1st round.

So its a very stressful time right now, because nothing is certain at all, I have no idea where I'm going to end up or what I will be studying. Its a juggling act between the 2 uni's... its jsut so frustrating because the universities arent overly helpful if at all. To make things worse today was enrolment day for my visual arts/education course at Monash, but I enroled online so I assumed I didnt have to attend, because it was very hard for me to attend, because it started at 9:30am, and I have to travel 2 hours by train to get there, meaning I would have to leave by 6:30am, and I had finished working at 1am... so it would have killed me. So I rang the faculty today (because yesterday was a public holiday..how convinient) and the person I spoke to wasnt very helpful, saying I should have attended in person, even if I had enroled online... so no help there because there was someone she said I should talk to but she wasnt available at the time. So I don't know whats going to happen... I also checked my ANU accomodation status, apparently I'm being considered for accomodation, and will be made an offer if something becomes available... so thats not helpful

Nothing is going my way in relation to university... which annoys me, because I did really well in high school, and "should" have gotten into anything I applied for easily... and friends who got lower marks have already gotten into their 1st preferences easily...

On a better note, I started working, I have my first job! I started working at Subway 2 days ago, and going through the training, although I'm working late shifts its ok right now, coz I need money incase I have to move to Canberra... tommorow I have to work to 2am, so thats going to be interesting.

Sorry about being really negative but I'm really frustrated with these things...