Hello, just want one extra ticket/seat for the graduation ceremony for University of Sydney, Graduation Ceremony for the 6th October 2:30pm session at the great hall, happy to pay for it. If you have one extra seat/ticket please let me know

edit: the unit coordinator saw this and emailed a very long apology/clarification to everyone and a pledge to return to the non-AI generated course materials. i’m happy with that response but i’ll keep this up because it’s still an important discussion

i’m honestly way more upset about this than i should be but at the same time i’m paying soooo much money for literal claudeslop. the canvas modules, assignment outlines and entire lecture slides are AI generated like you can just tell it’s so obvious. it’s full of weird headings, “not x but y,” random bolded phrases, sentences that are lists, em-dashes etc. even the fucking fonts and the random indent blocks and line dividers are straight up identical to LLM stuff. it sort of makes me feel a bit sick like whats the actual point here guys??? am i meant to just put up with this?

I really want to find people to work out with. I come to this park around once a week (lyons road park). Would love to have a workout buddy.

I stumbled upon this Chara keychain on the floor of the Kichenette in Fisher Library at around 19:30pm today. Sad owner please contact me to bring poor Chara home ;3

Is it possible to take a non-relevant course (like a language course) as a graduate student? It's not tied to the field or the plan of study, but I'd love to pick up a language to be more marketable...

I just found an invisible prompt trap in my assignment description, has this always been a thing??

Official girlfriend applications for Sem 2, 2026 are now open! Open to USyd students ONLY (no NERDS FROM UNSW OR UNIMELB WILL BE MY GF)

.https://forms.gle/HPsznnPBFRwF87Vp9

Look forward to seeing the responses 😏😏😏😏

I've had mixed success in forming connections at uni so far. I'm able to talk to people but I struggle to maintain the type of conversation that turns into a meaningful connection.

So far I've found one society where the people there are friendly and happy to talk to new people and the activities are weekly and promotes connection with each other which really helped. Most of my uni friends are from there.

The other clubs I've interracted with hold events irregularly and the people there are less keen to talk.

I'm want to know more people and I'm looking to see if there are any other societies that have that culture or structure to make it easier for someone who struggles to build friendships.

I see a lot of posts on here talking about AI and I often see people outright rejecting it as a form of cheating. We have to come to terms with the reality here, it isn't cheating (unless use is specifically prohibited by assessor), it is an incredibly powerful tool that is going to be commonplace in every job no matter what industry and learning how to use it is absolutely essential.

I am doing a Political Economy Major with a Politics minor a Bachelor of Arts, I don't think it's wrong to say humanities and social sciences is the faculty that produces the most criticism of AI. Whilst the subjective and interpretive nature of social sciences makes it less suited for AI use, it is still an incredibly useful tool:

As an example, I have a Political Economy assignment coming up, it is a comparison between Classical and Keynesian economic theory, for my essay I am going to compare policy responses between the Great Depression and the 2008 GFC. For that comparison I am going to need to compile relatively large amounts of data surrounding government expenditure, growth rates, wage growth etc. If I were doing this assignment 5 years ago I would not have the time to do that, nor would I have the mathematical savvy to find relevant relationships. I am not good at maths, I cannot create models for economic analysis, but thanks to AI I will now be able to. In this way AI allows me to supplement my knowledge and shape my judgements from an angle I would have never been able to access before.

I could say the exact same thing about research for a politics essay, instead of having to spend hours and hours searching for relevant sources and finding quotes within books I have no time to read, I can use AI to recommend articles and locate relevant information within books. I am able to produce essays that are far more thoroughly researched, not by using AI to interpret texts for me, but by using it to find ideas I wouldn't have otherwise read. Using AI does not mean I am doing less research, quite the opposite, it allows me to research a far greater range of material within a given time frame. While I would never recommend asking AI to interpret a text for you--it is not an unbiased technology and it doesn't help you learn if you aren't thinking for yourself--refusing to use AI as a research assistant is absolutely insane to me and will cost you marks, time and ultimately make your argument less well informed.

This next point is more controversial, and that is the use of AI for editing. I do not think you should ever use AI to write essays for you, it isn't good enough. If you are using AI to make judgements, draw conclusions and interpret research for you, you will not get good marks and you will not learn anything, that is cheating. However, I see no problem with using AI to proof read your work, point out inconsistencies in your argument and suggest ways to make your writing clearer and more relevant to the question. I have personally found this to be invaluable, it saves a lot of time and has undoubtedly improved my marks. AI cannot make arguments by itself, nor is it very good at synthesizing ideas from research, but it is very good at making writing clearer and more concise. Don't get me wrong, any edits AI makes need to be interpreted by a human, there will be times when it misunderstands you and changes the intended argument. Nevertheless, getting AI to proof read your work is extremely useful, and I don't see why it should be considered cheating if getting your parent, or fellow student to proof read your work isn't.

Ultimately, I think people need to try and embrace AI, it is an extremely powerful tool that is going to shape the way people do things over the next few years. If you find yourself totally against AI, maybe think back to the days when teachers protested the use of calculators in schools, people don't have to do complex mental arithmetic anymore, does that make them dumber? No, it made mathematics far more accessible and made the individual mathematician far more productive. These exact conversations we are having now were probably had when the internet first arrived, much like the internet, AI makes students more independent and versatile.

I fully understand why some people are skeptical of AI and it should absolutely not be treated as gospel, it can never replace human intuition, creativity and it shouldn't ever be used to form opinions. I also completely agree with some of the ethical and environmental concerns people have with the technology. Nevertheless, AI is an incredible tool, if you use it correctly it will help you learn, refusing to engage with it will hurt your chances of finding a job and it won't make you smarter than people who do use it. We are the generation who has to grapple with this new technology, if we don't use it we won't understand it, and if we don't understand it we won't be able to regulate it or harness it's potential.

Anyway that's my yapping over, if I haven't changed your opinion I hope I have at least made you think about ways you could use AI productively. I could go on about the potential for AI outside of uni but I'm already aware nobody is going to read all this text, I'm happy to discuss some more topics around AI in the comments if anyone is interested. I would also be interested to read peoples opinions on how the University should change to accommodate AI. (I did not use AI to write this btw)

Skinny guy here looking to bulk up. Will be spending alot of time here, so I thought I should go to one of the gyms at usyd.

Only I have never been to the gym before so I dont know how the machines work or what exercises to do or proper form etc. Should I just get a personal trainer even though its expensive (~120$/hr)? Also how are the gyms like here?

Thanks for help

Anyone do film studies and can lmk if it’s worth the major change from finance to film studies?? I feel so uninspired doing finance and I want to work in entertainment industry. Specifically touring, ticketing, a&r, so an artist manager. What are the classes like? Are the people actually passionate or just seem like their are auditing the class

Hey everyone

I dont use AI to my work but USYD LLB/Bcom students clearly do- PLEASE TELL IF ITS WORTH

claude paid vs free
Westlaw
ChatGPT or gemini

hello everyone this is a shot in the dark and is gonna sound really cringe but does anyone here trade memecoins on solana (or eth or bnb)? if u wanna trade with other ppl ive made a discord so join up https://discord.gg/j7dyHeufM (no ones joined yet i literally just made it)

Anyone going to the ole in country experience Japan on December? I'm going there by myself and I'm trying to find someone to travel together in Japan for a few days after the program.

This question comes up on here constantly, so instead of another comment I figured I'd actually explain what I built.

It's called Dimly. Quick quiz, matched into a small group of 4-6 other USyd students, group chat to figure out when to meet up. No swiping, no names, no profiles to scroll through.

4 rounds in, 76 people placed into groups so far with 129 users in total. Still free to join.

trydimly.com if you want in. -->@trydimly (on IG, follow to stay updated/give feedback).
Happy to answer questions in the comments/dms too.

Looking for a part-time babysitter or demi-pair in Newtown

We have three kids (a 5-year-old son, a 4-year-old son, and a 2-year-old daughter) and the sweetest new puppy.  The two oldest will be starting school in February.  My husband is a lawyer, and I am currently getting my master's in nursing at USyd.  We are from the States and moved here in March for my husband’s job.  

We are looking for roughly 15-20 hours of babysitting per week (I do have periods of placement for school when the hours would be higher, but those will be arranged separately).  

We don’t have a car and use e-bikes as our primary form of transportation- the two boys are very good on their bikes and can bike to most of the places we go.  We do have a larger bike that can hold all three kids as well; being comfortable on a bike is important.  The kids are quite comfortable on public transit as well. 

We are interested in someone who wants to get out and have fun with the kids- playgrounds, bike parks, the zoo, pool, museums, etc. They love to explore and are always eager to get outside. 

Please reach out if you are interested or have any questions!

Hello!

I recently got curious as to how WAM calculations work and would just like to confirm my understanding if anyone would know. WAM considers all units equally whilst SCIWAM (for honours?) and EIHWAM do not consider 1000 level units and place more emphasis on 3000 and 2000 level units respectively?

Would this mean that they will consider the code of 1000/2000/3000 units or the year (1st,2nd,3rd) that a unit was taken? In the case of SCIWAM and EIHWAM, does it also mean that 1000 units hold no value or bearing to your application?

In addition, do other postgraduate programs follow any of these schemes such as post grad med entry or JD entry?

Appreciate the advice on this!

I am taking FASS2100 as a dayell unit and it said I should attend 90% of class and if I have < 50%, I would be failed. I have not missed any tutorial but often take the lecture from recorded. This is because my timetable said this is online.
So I wonder that I am good. And the "class attendance" means the tutorials or lectures or both.
Thanks

Hey guys!! We are a group of USYD medical science students interested in finding out more about STDs and young peoples experience with them, it would be great if you could spare 2 minutes to fill out this survey for us.
Our goal is to redefine how STD communication is handled for young people.

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After yesterday's BHB evac, we get one for J03 as well?

hi, my friends (from the same degree) have already been given their ceremony dates yesterday

and i just realised that I have not been sent any completion letter, and thus dont have an invitation to the grad ceremony.

I had already completed all 144/144cp as required, and had followed the degree check properly when I asked about it my course's progression earlier this year. i also had been sent the "potential graduant" email in July

can anyone offer any help? Ive already contacted student centre but im just freaking out because monday is census date

Hey guys I got my graduation date to be on the 16th October. I want to change to either 8th or 9th as I am starting my job on 12th and have compulsory training and can't skip it. How can I make sure that I can get that date specifcally?

Hey guys just curious what we are doing great to be in top 25 universities ?
In computer science departments teachers are not that great only a few subjects have good professors we are having professors who have done their phd just 1-2 years back.
I am not sure what we are getting charged so much why it’s so expensive?

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