DigitalFortress said:
Hey man thanks for your opinion! It's a shame you know jack shit about the law community at UTS and have automatically assumed USYD law is greater than all else which i'm sure has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that you go there.
No, I was having a go at your proposition that he met a lot more people in his first few weeks at UTS than what he met at USYD. The reason I found fault in it was because you said pretty much asserted that USYD law students aren't social and it's far easier to make friends at UTS. Whilst I'm sure that you will make friends in Law if you go to UTS, I'm also sure that you'll make friends if you go to USYD. When this is simply not so (see a continuation to another one of your quotes)
I'm sure as marketing manager of boredofstudies, computing society director not to mention a 'pro' gamer, i'm sure you get heaps of time to socialise with the 'unparalleled' society at USYD law, lucky because there is no way in hell anyone can be more social than a 'very good' society that organizes camps AND parties.
i) I am no longer marketing manager for bos
ii) It's not a computing society. It's the Commerce Society. Also, I was the Social Director, not the Director
iii) Yes, I do play video games too much, even by my own admission
If you'd like to use the fact that I have a very busy life to assert that I have no social life, go ahead. The things you listed only skim the surface of how busy my lifestyle is. You missed out on listing my numerous prizes and scholarships. My distinction average [and high distinction average in marketing]. My studio manager role for the Sydney Uni Radio Station over the past 2 years. How I'm running for a Union Director's position next year. How I organized Re-O-Day (the 2nd semester O-Week). How I've worked up to 4 different jobs at one time. How a large non-profit organization in America wants to use my advertising and slogan as part of their campaign. I could continue.
Yet, I manage to maintain a very active social life. There'll be more than enough people on these forums who will vouch for me.
Apologies to others, as that was quite a pretentious wank by me.
And I listed one of the reasons for USYD Law students being sociable and close as the society. There are many others. If you think I'm biased towards anything USYD, you are very wrong. I have always pointed people towards UTS-based media & communications/journalism/etc degrees, as they are far superior over the USYD ones. Just like I'll point people at MAQ who wish to do history or management.
Again, approach a USYD law student and ask them to name their friends from USYD. They'll name a hundred who also study law, from different years. They'll also know what a lot of them are doing on the weekend. It really is a close community, which I envy being a Business student (although ComSoc is trying to change that, which we started with our First Year Camp - a huge success, and some bos members attended it).
Hey my cousin making friends at UTS probably had nothing to do with the last 2 years of a law degree having an emphasis on networking but rather, the people at UTS:LAW don't have their heads so far up their arses and/or are eurphorically stumbling around the university at the wonder of sandstone buildings, perhaps with a quick glance to the ugly UTS building. Because we all know how important the look of a building is to the education gained inside it. Obviously the smartest people in the world are teletubbies with their green igloo surrounded by vast fields of finely cut grass and a smiley face sun.
Aesthetics do have a correlation with happiness. I'm incredibly happy going to class at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School as it's so clean, beautiful, technologically advanced, etc. I'm far happier attending lectures than I've ever been at USYD, despite being more interested in some of the subjects I've taken back home. People who live in nicer environments also lead happier lives. There is a lot of evidence for this.
Are you suggesting that the quality of UTS law is better than USYD/UNSW/MAQ law? I won't make an argument for any of these schools, never having studied law, but I'm sure that no one is making a case for pretty buildings being more important than education.
Please tell someone who
cares.
FOAD.
You forgot to call me a n00b. and to go pwn myself to sleep. followed by a ROFL. INternet acronyms = l33t. oh just had a look at your myspace. figures. guess im playing with fire.
