I'm about 3/4 the way through finishing my second masters at Macquarie University, and a PhD is looming on the horizon. My main area of study is early medieval European literature, although I also tutor (part-time) distance education undergrads in English literature (17th-18th century). I study through distance education, since I also work full time.
I was a really wild child through high school, and although I finished in the top 3% in my state I never went straight to university. I was supposed to, I was accepted into the Sydney Law School but I never made it. I settled down about five years later, got a full time job, and studied through distance education.
Due to the nature of distance education, I picked and chose the classes I wanted to take from a dozen different Australian universities, so I've completed classes from Curtin, RMIT, Macquarie, Griffith, UniSA, and the University of Sydney. I never got the whole university "study together, live together" experience. I couldn't tell you the names of two people from any of the classes I've ever taken. I never even went to my own graduations, I got the certificates posted to me.
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