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Uni starts come Monday and its gonna rock.

Went on a tour with my mates. Everything is going to be awsome minus the amount of study required. ^_^

There's discount shops, a cafe, a Uni Bar, a gym, and 24 hour labs. ^_^

The uni bar is awsome too, it was only $3 for a Bundy draught or $10 for a jug of it! =o A JUG! That's like 6 drinks, and its OUTSIDE happy hour! ^_^ !

Not to mention its right in the middle of the city, so can walk to train station and shops etc easy. Plus, there are good looking chiks wherever the eyes go. ^_^

This is gonna be awsome.

(ask me again in seven weeks when I'm stressed out from exams, and a different answer may result... <.< >.>)

wait...there's a bar on Campus? just remember, your parents sent you there to get an edumacation, not get falling down drunk every night.

LoL.

My parents didn't send me anywhere. Here the education is entirely up to the student. We become an adult and fully self responsible at age 18. Which is end of secondary school basically. I'm now 20, turning 21 in Jan.

And yes there's a bar on campus, oh god yes. ^_^

liberator wrote:wait...there's a bar on Campus? just remember, your parents sent you there to get an edumacation, not get falling down drunk every night.

Parents wouldn't know much about uni, then...........

AFAIK the Ozzie system - like the UK - doesn't have the same ludicrous fees as the US. I remeber talking to a Norweigan bloke about it (he was studying at Adelaide and spent a gap year studying at Strathclyde in Glasgow. Very odd arrangement. Nice bloke, though).

Anyways, we're more able to self finance. Even if i'm still about 8 grand in the hole for student loans.

When I graduate in 2 years, I'll be ~20k in debt.

Hopefully I'll be able to land a job making more than that, though...

Good luck to you, may life grace you with a bundle of happyness.. and endless study!

lol, thanks Hunter.

Well the Uni fee's can and are fairly high, I think my course is about $3k a semester for 3 years (presuming I don't do an honours or phd).
But the government gives you the loan interest free, and you only have to start making repayments when you begin earning more than around $30k a year.

It is a pretty good setup overall. Well, here in QLD anywho, but there is always room for improvement.

Over here, we get a standard grant of around 350 euros a month, if you live out of your parents home, and pay your own insurance. That isn't enough to send you through uni on it's own, though, so most parents do pay a bit extra for a student, and some people have a job. If you graduate within 10 years or so, you get the money free, otherwise you'll have to pay it back.

You only get this deal for the standard study duration, mostly 4 years, but quite a few uni's require a five year programme. You generally get the last year in too, but if you have to repeat a year, you need to find some other source of income.

You get a public transport card for either weekdays or weekends thrown in for free, so you can choose wheter you want free rides during the week, and a 40%discount in the weekends, or the other way around. Great for visiting parents, or traveling inside the city.

You think thats high, you wanna save up to study abroad.. Thats expensive.

3k is not expensive, compared to what it could be.

Hell, try studying at a school in another state in the US, and your tuition is instantly doubled. And some of those schools charge ~5k for tuition alone, let alone room and board (which is where my financial woes are coming from. I can afford tuition easy, it's the living up there that costs a fortune.

Living up where? New England?

Scottish Uni fees are £1,000 (ish) a year for ungergraduate courses, but the payment is IIRC deferred until you are earning a certain amount.

Sparhawk wrote:Living up where? New England?

Living at the campus. NY isn't technically New England...

True.

Grug wrote: The uni bar is awsome too, it was only $3 for a Bundy draught or $10 for a jug of it! =o A JUG! That's like 6 drinks, and its OUTSIDE happy hour! ^_^ !

b#stard. I've been trying to get a bundy tap installed in our tav for months now. I suppose it makes sense that you guys'd have one being a Queensland uni though.

$10 jugs is awesome though.

Liberator wrote: wait...there's a bar on Campus?

You don't have one?