bearpooh said:
So you have dropped out of Law ? That is a shame. You sounded really keen on becoming a barrister in your posts after you did a week with a QC.
However, I guess that was to be expected. Mac Uni have a very high drop out rate for Law, in part because of their strange subject structure. I believe that if they had interesting introductory law subjects ( eg: Criminal law, Torts ) in the first semester and deferred Jurisprudence to the third year, they would have a far lower drop out rate. Instead they try to push legal philosophy into minds that are unprepared for it and then wonder why so many of their best students leave law.
It's not really a shame, I'm one of those people that can't do things half-assed, and I feel that if I wanted to do law, I could only do it exclusively without being interrupted by history.
I also feel that I'd prefer a profession in history at the uni, and doing law would be only taken after I'd found that academia wasn't for me.
I thought that the structure would be good; legal theory before legal practice and such? You're experienced, though, so you'd probably know.
My plan is finishing honours, tutoring, an MA or PhD, and starting up a unit in Late Egypt. If that doesn't work, I'm going for grad law at Sydney.
Also, why would Macquarie's drop-out rate have anything to do with me? I haven't tried law yet, and the subjects don't matter... Or were you just taking the opportunity to bag the place out?