Ok I’m back
And I’m pissed off
VSU is causing it
For those who don’t know VSU is Voluntary Student Unionism and it sucks balls for everyone
Ok so it was pretty expensive for a uni student, but now it’s killing campus culture
I study at UTAS, our union is the TUU and when I first started in 2006, it was alright, the campus I went to held pretty much no social events though. Now in 2009, the place is dead 24/7. It’s like a ghost town. We all most lost the universities student produced quarterly magazine Togatus but we got it back thankfully
Now at the campus I study at still has a few events but it’s also dying off. But with it, it seems that the TUU and UTAS now wants to try every penny pinching exercise possible, and it seems that accommodation is their main target. Now to put things into perspective, if you live in a dorm owned by Melbourne uni (which is RIGHT in the Melbourne CBD) starts at $290 a week. which includes food
For a dorm room here starts $160 (food not included but is supplied and is priced between $43- $100 extra a week), the fear of your room being broken into and parties all night, every night but the plus side is internet and electricity also taken care of
For a room in a share house ran by the TUU between $80 and $200 - doesn’t include food, some do include electricity but most do not, comes with the possibility of slob housemates as well as fighting over bills, having to fork over shitloads of cash for bad internet connections through ISPs, maintenance been done at world record slow speeds and if you have a spare room, having people come through to look at it without notice.
Now in all honesty; where is the incentive for people to stay in Tasmania for university?
The campuses are dead
The accomadation is lack lustre, but you’re paying through the nose for it coz you know that if you go through a real estate agent it’s going to be like having your teeth pulled out through your ass.
What is a uni student to do?
Well a good solution for the unions would be look at how it would be possible to charge a fee, like societies day - you want to join a society? Well you have to member of the university union first, and I don’t mean hahaha u have to pay $250 up front, like have the price of a university membership at like $20.
How would that hurt I mean $20 from a student is better than NONE
Or what about doing a deal with UTAS to supply internet to all TUU houses for a bit extra in rent money, it would make it easier than dealing with ISPs
But what do I know?
Til next time!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
a small mix of things
Hey everyone, may I apoligise for the lack of blogging.
Been busy organising things.
anyway it's friday!
so it's time to wheel out the awesome basket.
http://thatwillbuffout.com/
is in the awesome basket for it's incredibly lolworthy photos of cars
www.gaiaonline.com
it's cool this week because it's halloween event looks pretty awesome
get up stand up's advertisement that sends up the "clean coal" campaign that the Australian coal is running
in the fail basket
The opposition infighting in Australia about the Emmisions Trading Scheme
The treatment of asylum seekers by Australian government.
til next time!
Been busy organising things.
anyway it's friday!
so it's time to wheel out the awesome basket.
http://thatwillbuffout.com/
is in the awesome basket for it's incredibly lolworthy photos of cars
www.gaiaonline.com
it's cool this week because it's halloween event looks pretty awesome
get up stand up's advertisement that sends up the "clean coal" campaign that the Australian coal is running
in the fail basket
The opposition infighting in Australia about the Emmisions Trading Scheme
The treatment of asylum seekers by Australian government.
til next time!
Sunday, October 11, 2009
the ebay blog
I like ebay.
It allows me to buy crap I never knew exsisted or wanted.
It also allows me to get excited about packages arriving in the mail.
It also allows me further down the track to sell the stuff that I no longer want without having to deal with (many) fuckwits which is also an enjoyable experience in itself.
You see, since I was about 10 every so often when my parents got sick of the amount things we had collected over a year we'd either have a garage sale or a stall at the market, where in which one has to deal with people knocking at your door at 5am on a saturday to ask if the garage sale had started yet or whether or not you accept $5 for something that was marked $40, and would most probably see later in the day on their market stall marked at $150.
Ladies and gentlemen, these people are what we call vultures.
They prey on the naive and stupid purely for profit and pleasure
and they piss me off.
So I have no resolved that ebay = not dealing with vultures
therefore making ebay a member of the awesome pile and getting vultures a place in the fail room
til next time!
It allows me to buy crap I never knew exsisted or wanted.
It also allows me to get excited about packages arriving in the mail.
It also allows me further down the track to sell the stuff that I no longer want without having to deal with (many) fuckwits which is also an enjoyable experience in itself.
You see, since I was about 10 every so often when my parents got sick of the amount things we had collected over a year we'd either have a garage sale or a stall at the market, where in which one has to deal with people knocking at your door at 5am on a saturday to ask if the garage sale had started yet or whether or not you accept $5 for something that was marked $40, and would most probably see later in the day on their market stall marked at $150.
Ladies and gentlemen, these people are what we call vultures.
They prey on the naive and stupid purely for profit and pleasure
and they piss me off.
So I have no resolved that ebay = not dealing with vultures
therefore making ebay a member of the awesome pile and getting vultures a place in the fail room
til next time!
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