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I highly recommend you do. It's a lots of fun and you meet new people who you'll know throughout your time at uni. I can't anything else, everything else has been mentioned above. Then again I'm a SciSoc exec and I'm not the most reliable source on SciSoc events. :P

I'm surprised he made a comment about education, since he spends half of his public life trashing the Labor Party. Truly a reprehensible human being.

University tends to bring out the radicalism in student politicians, so the leftists are more left and the right-wingers are more right than in the real world. If you're indifferent to student politics, then try not to look them in the eye when they're campaigning and if you are interested...

Bachelor of Science (Neuroscience)/Bachelor of Arts (History) III

Re: Would Australia be a better country if George W Bush was Prime Minister of Austra We already have a George W Bush. His name is Tony Abbott.

If that's what she used to be, then she's strayed far from socialism. She's been pushing Labor further to the right like her predecessors before her.

Re: Do you believe the govt should set a minimum quota for women on boards? I'm convinced that Sathius005 isn't real, but actually a neoconservative simulation algorithm based on the right wing leaders of Australia with the purpose of creating threads for its own sake. How else can someone be...

Not to mention the transportation costs of shipping planes full of asylum seekers to and from the offshore processing centres. Fuel costs a lot these days, you know. I always notice that libertarians have this strange morality complex, that everything the government does is immoral on the...

Did someone say 'goddamn commie'?

USyd has a WAM calculator for these types of problems. http://sydney.edu.au/science/cstudent/ug/wam.shtml

I'm not even a Trotskyist. The test makes me look more extreme than I am. :(

You are a Trotskyist. 3 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 6 percent are more extremist than you.

Got a lecture tomorrow. Going to be fun copping abuse from the picketers when I know some of them from the left-wing groups. :)

You're meant to have the textbook. They would've said that you don't need it, but for HBOnline you actually need it. So the best way to study is by reading the textbook.

I think it's encouraged. I remember one of my lecturers urging us to go to as many lectures as possible in the name of academic stimulation.