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Being on the APS gravy train and thinking of doing a JD...

If you have a limited budget I would strongly suggest browsing allhomes.com.au and gumtree and trying to find a room in a sharehouse. It will be much cheaper than a college. Rental prices off campus have fallen over the last year. That being said, if you are keen to live at college, I would...

Except you aren't a lawyer when you finish a law degree. I'd suggest ANU simply because you'll find more opportunities for paralegal work in Canberra, and have a greater shot at finding graduate employment without having to move again. Unless their employment stats tell you where their...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-09/interactive-budget-2013-where-will-your-tax-go/4682404 That pie chart explains everything. Unemployed pensions are around 2.4% of total Commonwealth expenditure. The bulk is taken up by the aged pension at 13.75% and direct middle class welfare at 9%. We...

Yes. Very.

You're accusing someone of going around in circles in a single issue thread that's almost ten years old.

Late reply, but hopefully helpful for people with a similar problem. If you need to reference legal material and your teacher hasn't given you a referencing guide, use this: http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/files/dmfile/FinalOnlinePDF-2012Reprint.pdf. It's used in (as far as I'm aware) all law...

> Implying that the law part of comm/law for grads at IB's isn't incidental. I agree that MC jobs are a good OP, they're the better end of administration work, but realistically, they aren't going to make up for the shortfall when you think about how many law graduates are being pumped out...

From memory the bathrooms at B&G and most of the other Daley Road colleges are unisex. Unilodge is right behind the commerce building, B&G is less than a 10 minute walk away. Unilodge is expensive and pretty grim in terms of social activities. There's a better sense of camaraderie at the Daley...

A few more years and 16 year olds born after I joined BoS will start signing up.

Law is a vocational degree. For people who did law hoping to become a lawyer and missed out, it's a waste, and for people who did it because they could, it's a waste. It's like doing a psychology degree and not practising. There aren't many options for law graduates to use their degrees outside...

Same shit, different name.

Bet you they're just expecting a drop in enrolments so they're proactively lowering the cutoff before supply and demand does it for them. Those two have always doggedly maintained their high cut-offs by accepting a large percentage of their intake after first year as transfers, or through...

You'll be fine.

Bruce > Ursies > B&G (as a third option if you aren't completely committed to catered). Burgmann recruits directly from private schools in Sydney, it's always had a bit of a toff vibe. Ursies is pretty small and quiet, but has a decent community. Bruce is a decent mix of everything. I was at...

It depends on where you land, but the hours are certainly disproportionate to the rewards. There's alot of burn out.

The difference is because of the civil/common law split. Lawyers have a different role in civil law countries which, depending on the field, is usually less intellectually demanding.

You should ask some IT people re: the IT degree. Some people intuitively get law, others don't. In terms of difficulty, it all depends on the individual. Have a read of Moonlightsonata's stickies and some of the other threads. I've been pretty critical of law as a degree choice. There are quite...

This forum feels like an uphill battle sometimes. - A straight law degree might let you swing into a public service job, or into some kind of administrative job. These are non-practicing roles, and once you're in them, you'll find it very difficult to transition into a legal career. As an...

One thing that people also forget in terms of financials is that there's an opportunity cost of 2 - 2 1/2 years to study law, plus an additional whack of $10,000 on your HECS debt if you don't get a job with an employer who pays for your post-degree practical legal education. Law courses are the...