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How often generally do students at uni get to go on outings or excursions?...........has anyone gone somewhere cool?
 
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How often generally do students at uni get to go on outings or excursions?...........has anyone gone somewhere cool?
Bio students at Macquarie spend a week out in some random swampland.

If you're doing Ancient History/Science/Archaeology at Macquarie, you can also go on an excavation over seas. :D
 

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not really exciting ...went and did prac for a couple of hours at westmead and liverpool hospital
 

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In law we do placements (although from what Ive read around here UOW is the only law school that do placements), but really, only having to attend 2-3 days a week, you could have your own (arguably more exciting!) excursions on your days off!
 

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as an ag student we do excursions to farms and stuff... although a lot of them take either a whole weekend or all day saturday or sunday... so that kinda sucks but they are compulsory so you don't really have a choice
 

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We got to go to on a camp at Minnamurra Rainforest in first year as part of a subjects work.

For a geology elective that I picked we also got to go to on an excursion to Kiama and Bathurst.

Another subject (which I didn't do), there was a camp for 3 days down at Kiama.
 

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We don't get excursions per se. We do prac...oh, actually, I lie, we had 1 excursion this year...but it was just to another building ON CAMPUS (!!!) to see the 4th years exhibition.
 
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In law we do placements (although from what Ive read around here UOW is the only law school that do placements), but really, only having to attend 2-3 days a week, you could have your own (arguably more exciting!) excursions on your days off!
I think UNCLE do placements as well? From memory, they have some sort of free-advice centre where they send students...

We have several placements as well, but they're units that you take.
 

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In geochemistry at UWS you go on a 4 day expidition in your uni break... to look at rocks down some place near victoria
 

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SweetSeasons said:
In geochemistry at UWS you go on a 4 day expidition in your uni break... to look at rocks down some place near victoria
Luckily I didn't choose that subject :p

Just remembered another 2 excursions.
- Blue mountains and the edge cinema
- Some Aboriginal play at the rocks.

5 excursions in 2 years.
 

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Some subjects that I have done have required us to go to certain areas and investigate an issue firsthand.

Some places that I've done assignments in include:
- Royal National Park
- Ku-ring-gai chanse National Park
- Taronga Zoo
 

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Haha, 'excursions'. Sounds so...primary school.

You can do a legal centre/advocacy placement as a subject if you study law. And contrary to an earlier post, virtually every law school has this.
 

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My first day as a "student doctor" was an all expenses paid trip to the zoo. Later that semester we had rural week, which was a geezer observation trail by day and an ear-bursting pissup by night. Next semester we had various patient visits at a nursing home and a tour of the cardiology unit at our teaching hospitals.

That was first year. More to come.
 

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My excursion was cooler than all your crap excursions. We went to Malabar wastewater treatment plant (aka the sydney poo filter). That and a council meeting.
 
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I hated going to poo farms during high school for chemistry. I went twice. This one time, someone threw a rock into the rock pool we were walking over on a platform, the poo splashed up and got my friend.
Funny, yet unfortunate

*shudders*.
 

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A few of my friends got to go on a weekend trip to the beach for Resources, Environment & Society.
 

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