what's the social life like at UTS? (1 Viewer)

[ahen]

i hear lots of things about how the place is pretty boring and of course its appearance...but what's it REALLY like?

 

[Huratio]

There have been many threads like this in the recent years..

Here are a few:

So i choose UTS over USYD or UNSW:
http://community.boredofstudies.org...ey/131759/so-i-choose-uts-over-usyd-unsw.html

Student Life: UTS vs USYD:
http://community.boredofstudies.org...y-sydney/129936/student-life-uts-vs-usyd.html

 

[jemsta]

social life is indeed pretty good...theres a few hang out spots that you could go, ie market city or chinatown etc
if you feel like exercise you could always go qvb
but i dont think uts has the course you wanna do

 

[ahen]

ah i see,
thanks

 

[ahen]

social life is indeed pretty good...theres a few hang out spots that you could go, ie market city or chinatown etc
if you feel like exercise you could always go qvb
but i dont think uts has the course you wanna do

no not the psych course but i'm also considering communications so i might go there for that

 

[kami]

What you must understand with UTS social life is that there is pretty much none - its the city social life. Unless you're really involved in clubs and stuff you won't have much thats specifically geared to UTS.

One of my friends who also does my course is really involved in the clubs and socs etc. and constantly goes out to parties and gets laid every other day because of his intense involvement. So it depends how much you put yourself out there I guess ... just don't expect social opportunities to come to you - go to them.

I also don't think much of the intra-course social life either ... but then again I'm feeling massively antisocial right now, so take that as you will.

 

[lil_star]

It sucks big time! That is the only aspect I hate about uni life at UTS. I am 4th year now and I really regret it .

 

[201055]

Union bar's not so bad either

 

[kami]

I'd disagree completely with the things you've posted Musk.

The social life isn't anything to do with how competitive the faculties are - its also foolish to list International Studies separately since it can only be taken as a double. Everyone is already linked to another faculty.

Law is also probably the most social course at UTS - they have camps, parties, mock trials, a society all to themselves and they all do fairly similar subjects.

 

[Logistics]

I'd like to think the social life is what you make out of it. If people come to UNI go to their classes and go home straight after it obviously they will say social life is crap.

I myself am not involved with any of the societies, I have a number of friends that I met in my first year and make new friends every semester. We always do something, which is sort of a problem because I don't get to attend all classes lol.

I enjoy my time at UNI and there's things to do as long as you stick around and make friends.


That's my 2c for now

 

[kami]

does not equal to

Yeah it does - life doesn't have to be all that social in law to be more social than in most other faculties. I disputed the fact that law was less social than everything else in UTS - I still don't think it'd have a fantastic social life.

1. International studies is a very close group as seen with many ppl i know that are doing it so i do regard it as that

1. They don't start doing anything related to International Studies until second year - any friends they carry over from that year will be from their main degree.
2. In 08 there will be 7 different majors, previous to this there were about 20 in which the lion's share went to other universities to do their language subjects. This limits interaction between the wider student body of the faculty.
3. The different majors don't share common subjects apart from Social Change - which is a generic communications subject. So there is very little promoting interaction between different majors.
4. Within their exchange year students go off to random universities - they don't go en masse to the same ones. So likelihood of encountering other UTS BA International Studies people is low.
5. They have no international studies subjects in their final year, so again interaction is primarily through their main degree.
6. There is no international studies society and apart from the asiatic cultural societies (which cater more to people from overseas), there is little activity in the foreign culture societies.

So where exactly is this close knit social group meant to spring from?

2. the Law cruise as offered every year was a rip off the Enginering Cruise that remains to to be the origin of all socialising

You should go to 1.25.12 (LDC1) and ill show you how engineers interact

How does that at all enforce your claim that Law is anti-social compared to everyone else? You're saying engineering is very social because of its events, yet laws' social life is crapper than all others in your evaluation because it does the same things? That doesn't make sense.