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Title: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Visionz on February 28, 2010, 04:23:02 pm
In the Uni section I think it'd be good if each uni had a sticky with info about the uni, pics of the campus, all that cool stuff. Might convince some of us to go there.
I spent half an hour reading up and looking at pics of UoM. It looks amazing. Better than Monash so far.. (prove me otherwise monash kids :P)
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: *ryan777* on February 28, 2010, 04:30:15 pm
monash might not be as pretty, i admit, but we have a much much larger variety of courses and options
do you want to be at a slightly nicer campus for just 3 or 4 years, or spend the rest of your life knowing you are more qualified with a double degree?
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Noblesse on February 28, 2010, 04:33:39 pm
monash might not be as pretty, i admit, but we have a much much larger variety of courses and options
do you want to be at a slightly nicer campus for just 3 or 4 years, or spend the rest of your life knowing you are more qualified with a double degree?


Undergraduate degrees are serious business.

lol
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Visionz on February 28, 2010, 04:39:17 pm
monash might not be as pretty, i admit, but we have a much much larger variety of courses and options
do you want to be at a slightly nicer campus for just 3 or 4 years, or spend the rest of your life knowing you are more qualified with a double degree?


Campus is a factor in uni selection. Especially when you dont particularly fancy any specific course. Its not as though you'd be getting a substandard degree at UoM anyway.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: IntoTheNewWorld on February 28, 2010, 05:04:08 pm
Monash is better than Melbourne because it has a proper IT faculty.

I can't think of anything else really. If only the buildings weren't so incredibly ugly.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: *ryan777* on February 28, 2010, 05:05:55 pm
Monash is better than Melbourne because it has a proper IT faculty.

I can't think of anything else really. If only the buildings weren't so incredibly ugly.

its so true....
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: TrueLight on February 28, 2010, 05:10:45 pm
the looks of buildings on the outside doesn't really matter

thats what vacations are for
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: QuantumJG on February 28, 2010, 05:27:28 pm
I went to UoM for a chemistry excursion and got a tour around monash's chemistry building and found that UoM's chemistry building's facilities were much nicer. I would probably say the same with physics, but I didn't get to see Monash's maths building.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: appianway on February 28, 2010, 05:32:50 pm
Monash's physics building feels like home. I've spent so much time there...

That said, I don't think I'll be going to Monash.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: herzy on February 28, 2010, 05:33:34 pm
*Shrugs* i think monash actually offers BETTER degrees for many courses. i've heard physics is better at melbourne, but i know definitively that monash offers the best chem department in the southern hemisphere.
i went to enrollment and o'week at monash and melbourne and monash was much more fun. seems like a much better vibe, more community feel and students got involved and heaps of free stuff.

that said i suppose melbourne has pretty buildings. and a fading reputation. and good locality.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: herzy on February 28, 2010, 05:34:33 pm
that said, in reality if melbourne kept offering double degrees (and became more selective/exclusive/competitive again) i probably would have gone to melbourne. which would have been a shame, cos i think i will have more fun at monash than i would have had at melbourne.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: crappy on February 28, 2010, 05:49:10 pm
Monash Engineering   >  Melbourne engineering


Monash has double degrees!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: kendraaaaa on February 28, 2010, 06:01:15 pm
Monash gave me free booze.

/thread
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: dejan91 on February 28, 2010, 06:10:32 pm
Melbourne gave me many free booze.

Thread continue..
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Gloamglozer on February 28, 2010, 06:13:05 pm
I reckon, UoM commerce > Monash's commerce though. 

But I could be biased, I dunno.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: /0 on February 28, 2010, 06:13:19 pm
I've walked around the ANU campus a fair bit and it's really beautiful. There are large stretches of grass and open spaces to relax at. There is also quite a bit of wildlife, like ducks, parrots and other birds, and you can walk fairly close to them without them running away. Can't think of a better campus to live at.
The buildings don't look that flashy, but they're pretty decent - anyway is that really important? However they are constructing a massive new science facility which is gonna be awesome.
As for the quality of the degrees... well, it's only the national university of Australia.


(And there's plenty of free booze at the Hall parties)
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: herzy on February 28, 2010, 06:24:01 pm
...but you have to live in canberra. sorry, someone had to say it.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: TrueTears on February 28, 2010, 06:28:49 pm
...but you have to live in canberra. sorry, someone had to say it.
or board there..
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Cthulhu on February 28, 2010, 06:33:46 pm
Monash has double degrees and Melbourne is discontinuing their engineering. This year was their last year for new engineering student intake. Also "The Melbourne Model" wtf is up with that shit.

Monash is better than Melbourne because it has a proper IT faculty.

I can't think of anything else really. If only the buildings weren't so incredibly ugly.
Monash has a fucking Synchrotron across the road!

Monash's physics building feels like home. I've spent so much time there...

That said, I don't think I'll be going to Monash.
\o/ lets hang out.
Wait what?
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: TrueTears on February 28, 2010, 06:35:39 pm
haha yeah fkn synchrotron ftw!!!
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: appianway on February 28, 2010, 06:38:46 pm

Monash's physics building feels like home. I've spent so much time there...

That said, I don't think I'll be going to Monash.
\o/ lets hang out.
Wait what?

I've spent quite a bit of time in the Monash physics buildings (trust me...), but I don't think I'll end up going to Monash next year. Might though. :)
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: /0 on February 28, 2010, 06:41:42 pm
...but you have to live in canberra. sorry, someone had to say it.
or board there..

meh, everything happens at uni anyway, you barely need to go outside
uni makes up for it all
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: herzy on February 28, 2010, 06:46:56 pm
melbourne model is designed to make money. anyone looked at the price of a post-grad degree at melbourne? (which you would need, having got some quasi-useful undergrad degree under the melbourne model)

not that it's really about the money for the student, and once earning it'll seem insignificant, but heres for reference:
science/law at monash: 5 years x ~$6000 = $30 000
Science at melb + JD (law) at melb = 3 years x ~$3 500 + 3 years x $28 800 = $96 900

... assuming you get CSP (%50 of students)

sooo yeah three times as much profit for the uni, one extra year for the students.... inefficient AND expensive.

btw synchrotron ftw...
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: herzy on February 28, 2010, 06:47:38 pm
...but you have to live in canberra. sorry, someone had to say it.
or board there..

meh, everything happens at uni anyway, you barely need to go outside
uni makes up for it all

isn't that lucky :P, cos if you DID go outside... not a lot would be happening
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: QuantumJG on February 28, 2010, 06:48:18 pm
Monash's physics building feels like home. I've spent so much time there...

That said, I don't think I'll be going to Monash.

PhB at ANU?

Melbourne gave me many free booze.

Thread continue..

Is the free booze only beer? I hate the taste of beer
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: herzy on February 28, 2010, 06:49:18 pm
beer, UDL, depends who's giving it out
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: methodsman on February 28, 2010, 07:00:38 pm
Monash is better than Melbourne because it has a proper IT faculty.

I can't think of anything else really. If only the buildings weren't so incredibly ugly.
Does UoM even have an IT faculty?
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: QuantumJG on February 28, 2010, 07:03:21 pm
/0

Bachelor of Philosophy (Hons) - Science @ ANU
Semester 1 - Ordinary DEs and Advanced Vector Calculus   \  Thermal Physics   \   Quantum Mechanics   \   Modern Chinese 3   \
Semester 2 - Partial DEs, Fourier Analysis and Complex Analysis   \   Electromagnetism   \   Waves and Optics   \   ?   \

Your physics course accelerates you guys by so much! I don't get to do complex analysis until next year.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: crappy on February 28, 2010, 07:04:59 pm
This thread is going to end in some kind of horrible debate. I can feel it hmmmm
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Noblesse on February 28, 2010, 07:09:47 pm
This thread is going to end in some kind of horrible debate. I can feel it hmmmm

I wouldn't so much as call it a debate than petty name calling.

At the end of the day, both Monash and Melbourne are well recognised universities, sought after by employers and both virtually unknown to anyone outside Victoria, let alone the world.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: crappy on February 28, 2010, 07:14:21 pm
This thread is going to end in some kind of horrible debate. I can feel it hmmmm

I wouldn't so much as call it a debate than petty name calling.

At the end of the day, both Monash and Melbourne are well recognised universities, sought after by employers and both virtually unknown to anyone outside Victoria, let alone the world.

Monash has international campuses, so it would be known outside of Victoria.

haha I couldn't resist
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: appianway on February 28, 2010, 07:31:10 pm
And apparently the international campuses have a pretty bad reputation...

I'd like to go to ANU, but if I stay in Victoria I'll probably end up doing the science scholars program at Monash.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: herzy on February 28, 2010, 08:40:02 pm
science advanced with honours students (monash) get a common room and microwave!! jealous already... i can't do science advanced/law double degree... sigh....
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: taiga on November 16, 2010, 10:55:05 pm
Monash has indian spice stores within close proximity to campus.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Mao on November 16, 2010, 11:41:42 pm
Monash has indian spice stores within close proximity to campus.

Monash has an asian grocery ON CAMPUS. :P
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Gloamglozer on November 17, 2010, 06:34:23 pm
Monash has indian spice stores within close proximity to campus.

Monash has an asian grocery ON CAMPUS. :P

Oh yeah.  UoM has a grocery ON CAMPUS.  :P
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: MuggedByReality on November 18, 2010, 12:34:29 pm
 I was at LaTrobe for a year. Achieved sweet FA there...*but* it is irrefutably the best uni in Victoria - if not Australia - if not the world, because......

 1. The coffee (at the best cafe at LaTrobe) is better than at that UniMelb place on Swanston St.
 2. So is the focaccia
 3. There's a good deal if you buy both 1. and 2.
 4. If you arrive after 5.pm, sometimes you can get one of 2. for free.
 5. The espresso machine has stickers that are very funny. If you're a leftie. (Which I was, at that point in time.)
 6. You can get a nice Nasi Lemak for $3.50
 7. There's a moat, lots of trees and several green spaces. Sooo much more of an attraction than Umelb's pretty sandstone buildings. I mean, if you're gonna be old, be, like, at least 600 years old.
 8. Preston Market is nearer than the Vic Market is from Melb or Monash.
 9. Rabelais is better than Farrago or Lot's Wife. (So opined someone writing in Rabelais.)
10. However slack you are with your uni work, the interminable tram journey on the 86 Line leaves you feeling you can justify treating yourself when you get to Brunswick St.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Mao on November 18, 2010, 02:25:57 pm
Monash has indian spice stores within close proximity to campus.

Monash has an asian grocery ON CAMPUS. :P

Oh yeah.  UoM has a grocery ON CAMPUS.  :P

Oh yeah. Monash has a wind tunnel ON CAMPUS. :P
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: herzy on November 18, 2010, 03:03:54 pm
did anyone mention A SYNCHROTRON
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Gloamglozer on November 19, 2010, 07:28:07 pm
Monash has indian spice stores within close proximity to campus.

Monash has an asian grocery ON CAMPUS. :P

Oh yeah.  UoM has a grocery ON CAMPUS.  :P

Oh yeah. Monash has a wind tunnel ON CAMPUS. :P

Oh yeah.  UoM has a toilet cubicle in the physics building and on the toilet paper dispenser it reads, "Arts degree here" with an arrow pointing down to the paper.  And wait for it...  It's ON CAMPUS.  :P
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: /0 on November 19, 2010, 07:55:19 pm
Monash has indian spice stores within close proximity to campus.

Monash has an asian grocery ON CAMPUS. :P

Oh yeah.  UoM has a grocery ON CAMPUS.  :P

Oh yeah. Monash has a wind tunnel ON CAMPUS. :P

Oh yeah.  UoM has a toilet cubicle in the physics building and on the toilet paper dispenser it reads, "Arts degree here" with an arrow pointing down to the paper.  And wait for it...  It's ON CAMPUS.  :P

lol that's in our physics building toilets too :P
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Edmund on November 19, 2010, 08:34:22 pm
Monash has indian spice stores within close proximity to campus.

Monash has an asian grocery ON CAMPUS. :P

Oh yeah.  UoM has a grocery ON CAMPUS.  :P

Oh yeah. Monash has a wind tunnel ON CAMPUS. :P

Oh yeah.  UoM has a toilet cubicle in the physics building and on the toilet paper dispenser it reads, "Arts degree here" with an arrow pointing down to the paper.  And wait for it...  It's ON CAMPUS.  :P

lol that's in our physics building toilets too :P

UoM has an on campus brothel :P
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Russ on November 20, 2010, 11:12:45 am
UoM has a new microbiology and genetics building that was built for the sole purpose of one-upping Monash (it's on campus!)
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Mao on November 25, 2010, 04:47:19 am
Monash has the biggest electron microscope in the southern hemisphere ON CAMPUS. :P
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Russ on November 25, 2010, 06:50:15 pm
<deprecating comment about Monash students obsession with size>
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: enwiabe on November 25, 2010, 06:59:03 pm
<deprecating comment about Monash students obsession with size>

Technically it's the smallest microscope in the southern hemisphere, so it just means we're the *most* secure in that respect ;)

But that's okay we don't expect you UoM'ers to do that kind of "thinkythink" as you call it and understand such complicated ideas :)
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Russ on November 26, 2010, 10:30:20 am
There is no room for "thinkythink" in the Melbourne Model! Why, last year we cut over 200 academic positions, predominantly from the Arts faculty!  At our university, students take their generalist degree and they're damn well grateful for it!
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: herzy on December 03, 2010, 02:48:33 am
SYNCHROTRON!!
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Gloamglozer on December 03, 2010, 03:09:25 pm
SYNCHROTRON!!

But technically it's not ON CAMPUS.  And you can't say that it's Monash's synchrotron.  You can only say "the synchrotron at Monash".
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: herzy on December 03, 2010, 03:31:46 pm
psht
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: chansthename on December 03, 2010, 10:00:05 pm
I love this thread. Also I like the idea that the first post was about.

WRT Melbourne having nicer buildings, I can say that Deakin has even nicer buildings so why don't you melbourne people move there :P?
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: stonecold on December 03, 2010, 10:02:05 pm
I love this thread. Also I like the idea that the first post was about.

WRT Melbourne having nicer buildings, I can say that Deakin has even nicer buildings so why don't you melbourne people move there :P?

Yeah, but isn't Deakin up whoop whoop?  :P
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Gloamglozer on December 03, 2010, 11:18:13 pm
I love this thread. Also I like the idea that the first post was about.

WRT Melbourne having nicer buildings, I can say that Deakin has even nicer buildings so why don't you melbourne people move there :P?

Yeah, but isn't Deakin up whoop whoop?  :P

Depends which campus you're talking about.  Burwood isn't too far away.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: taiga on December 03, 2010, 11:23:56 pm
The word going around is that the children of high up people in Monash are sending their kids to Melbourne :O
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: schmalex on December 03, 2010, 11:49:49 pm
You don't "send your kids" to university. By that age you should be deciding for yourself.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Russ on December 04, 2010, 10:10:54 am
I love this thread. Also I like the idea that the first post was about.

Yeah when offers come out in Jan, I figure I'll recruit some of the UoM people here to write a little introduction for the new 1st years.

Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: /0 on December 09, 2010, 06:43:08 pm
lol Melbourne Uni has an ad saying they're #1 in Australia  :knuppel2:
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: Russ on December 11, 2010, 08:01:04 pm
As measured by the Times Higher Education etc. right?
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: herzy on December 12, 2010, 02:46:23 pm
lol Melbourne Uni has an ad saying they're #1 in Australia  :knuppel2:

so does bond...
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: lynt.br on January 05, 2011, 12:38:54 am
http://worlddebating.blogspot.com/search/label/WUDC%20Results
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: bomb on January 05, 2011, 01:01:54 am
lol Melbourne Uni has an ad saying they're #1 in Australia  :knuppel2:

so does bond...

I think they advertise that they're the Number 1 Uni for law.
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: s2penguin on January 05, 2011, 08:51:20 am
There are so many rankings out there for Uni's.

I think ANU is regularly ranked higher than Melb Uni on most of them though...
Title: Re: Flaunt Your Uni
Post by: physics on January 05, 2011, 02:44:53 pm
fact is ACU isnt on there D: but yet i'm going tha