What other fun/social stuff is there university (1 Viewer)

[Hivaclibtibcharkwa]

im looking forward to joining clubs/societies in university. What other things are there.
Are there university run events or parties?

 

[icycledough]

UNSW definitely has a lot of various societies and clubs you can join into through ARC, the student organization program. Events and parties are organized both within specific courses (for e.g Business, Science, Engineering, Medicine, etc) or as a whole, where other universities can also join as well. The most recent example was something called the White Party Cruise (though that doesn't seem like it will be happening anytime soon, lol)

 

[yanujw]

How good is the club/society scene at usyd compared to unsw? Is there room for student leadership oppurtunities at usyd?

 

[jazz519]

The societies are kind of dead at the moment ngl due to the covid and being unable to organise any events in person. But probably after restrictions decrease and things go back to normal eventually, that will fix itself. There are lots of societies on a whole range of different things such as types of sport, societies based on the faculty or school and nationality. The uni doesn't really run the events other than the things like Open Day, but more so it's left up to the individual societies on what they do. In those they will have their own parties or gathering events

 

[azizcuber]

woahh ur cracked

 

[Katsumi]

There are events and parties that you generally go to as a first year and then never consider attending again.

 

[nourished.]

There are events and parties that you generally go to as a first year and then never consider attending again.

This.

 

[BLIT2014]

There are events and parties that you generally go to as a first year and then never consider attending again.

Yeah Toga parties especially.

Otherwise I used to enjoy going to Trivia at the Uni pub.

 

[blyatman]

There are events and parties that you generally go to as a first year and then never consider attending again.

Even the first year is overly ambitious. Didn't even make it the first month before I gave up lol.

 

[Hivaclibtibcharkwa]

There are events and parties that you generally go to as a first year and then never consider attending again.

why's that?

 

[Katsumi]

why's that?

Its just a first year thing really. Once you do the drinking/partying/socialite thing for 12 months, it gets old.

 

[addictedtobubbletea]

hypothetical scenario -

The societies are kind of dead at the moment ngl due to the covid and being unable to organise any events in person. But probably after restrictions decrease and things go back to normal eventually, that will fix itself. There are lots of societies on a whole range of different things such as types of sport, societies based on the faculty or school and nationality. The uni doesn't really run the events other than the things like Open Day, but more so it's left up to the individual societies on what they do. In those they will have their own parties or gathering events

send thoughts on taking a gap year to let covid blow over, so we can get a ~proper~ uni experience??

 

[jazz519]

hypothetical scenario -


send thoughts on taking a gap year to let covid blow over, so we can get a ~proper~ uni experience??

Not worth sacrificing one year just for a proper experience. The uni experience in Australia is not really all that you might think it is. There are societies and events but it’s not as wild as it may be made out to be in movies or other countries like America. Most of the events run aside from the parties are like chill meetups mostly focused on meeting people and making friends. This is partly due to most people don’t live on campus or close so a lot of students just straight home after class because the tranpost might be in excess of 1 hour, compared to other countries where you might live on the campus. So although it might be annoying not being able to engage in the events straightaway even if it’s for purpose of just making friends you have a degree that goes for like 4 years, so you have plenty of time to do this. Societies are still doing events online so you can still meet new people and make friends if you really want to

Other thing is that usually the purpose of a gap year is for doing some productive like going travelling or getting a job full-time to make money if maybe you can’t afford the uni directly. Those things are probably limited by the covid as it’s unlikely you will be able to do any travel, so basically you would just be sitting at home for 1 year.

 

[Hivaclibtibcharkwa]

Not worth sacrificing one year just for a proper experience. The uni experience in Australia is not really all that you might think it is. There are societies and events but it’s not as wild as it may be made out to be in movies or other countries like America. Most of the events run aside from the parties are like chill meetups mostly focused on meeting people and making friends. This is partly due to most people don’t live on campus or close so a lot of students just straight home after class because the tranpost might be in excess of 1 hour, compared to other countries where you might live on the campus. So although it might be annoying not being able to engage in the events straightaway even if it’s for purpose of just making friends you have a degree that goes for like 4 years, so you have plenty of time to do this. Societies are still doing events online so you can still meet new people and make friends if you really want to

Other thing is that usually the purpose of a gap year is for doing some productive like going travelling or getting a job full-time to make money if maybe you can’t afford the uni directly. Those things are probably limited by the covid as it’s unlikely you will be able to do any travel, so basically you would just be sitting at home for 1 year.

Why don’t people live on campus

 

[jazz519]

Why don’t people live on campus

People do live on campus, but that is mostly international students or people who the uni is very far away from like other states or rural areas. It costs too much. Trying to pay $300-400 a week a rent and then all the other bills straight of high school, very few people going to be able to afford that. Not really cost effective if you can just spend 5-10 dollar a day instead on opal and just travel there instead

 

[Hivaclibtibcharkwa]

People do live on campus, but that is mostly international students or people who the uni is very far away from like other states or rural areas. It costs too much. Trying to pay $300-400 a week a rent and then all the other bills straight of high school, very few people going to be able to afford that. Not really cost effective if you can just spend 5-10 dollar a day instead on opal and just travel there instead

How come people do it in America then?

 

[jazz519]

How come people do it in America then?

Can't really answer that as I don't really know much about american unis or culture

 

[BLIT2014]

How come people do it in America then?

Lots of Universities have it compulsory for first years in America to live on Campus.

 

[addictedtobubbletea]

How come people do it in America then?

Some countries have the culture, and dont mind paying extra for the living on campus experience and to gain independence

 

[Hivaclibtibcharkwa]

Lots of Universities have it compulsory for first years in America to live on Campus.

Wtf seriously? Why