A open letter…

Dear First Year (and some Second Year) University Students,

Welcome to university. There are a few things that I feel you need to know before we get any further into semester.

1. You are no longer in high school. No one is going to hold your hand. Suck it up.
2. Your tutors are overworked, underpaid graduate students. They have better things to worry about than whether you got question 7 b) right. Look it up in a textbook, (you will find them in the library. That’s the building with all the books in it.) or google it. Only then may you annoy your tutor.
3. Don’t ask stupid questions.
4. If you do ask stupid questions, don’t argue about the answer.
5. Don’t ever tell your tutor about their research. They know far more about it than you.
6. We don’t give a toss what academic awards you won in high school. They mean nothing. NOTHING.
7. Ditto your ENTER score.
8. No, there aren’t answers to the tute problems. Stop asking. Stop whinging when we say no.
9. No, there aren’t answers to the past exams. Be glad that you’re allowed to look at the past exams at all. Stop whinging about it.
10. Your tutors do not set the exam. Stop asking what is on it. We have the same copy of the syllabus. Your guess is as good as ours.

Yours sincerely,

A Tutor.