Just wandering if anyone will be attending QUT this year? I am just starting at QUT with an IT degree and I wanna know what QUT is like, or this degree I am doing.

Either way, I am looking forward to it, I have been told QUT is more hands on than the UQ IT degree.. I hope so. I get bored quick!
hehe

I did IT at QUT (after a 2 year stint in the Engineering/IT double degree mind you :) It was pretty good, but don't expect it to be all hands on. I've made this point before, but Uni isn't really supposed to be about learning the latest tech and what-not. Anyway, yes, there is a fair bit of practical stuff anyway.

I've been offered a place this yr to do Law Part Time as well, still dunno if i'm gonna take it.

yeh, we need more lawyers

Well i'm doing Education at QUT...and the news says that we need more teachers.

Yeh thanks trog, I figure from personal experience that we need more lawyers with a decent clue on the technology front, hence my interest. Hey, I might hate it after a semester, what have i got to lose ?(apart from a heap of money thru HECS :)

hehehe, i am trying to work out, which would make more money, an IT person or a lawyer..

I'm hoping the two combined ;)

There's a glut of IT professionals in the employment category, so if you're thinking of doing a course for IT thinking it will get you a job.... Bad Move

The only thing there is constant call for anymore is C++ programmers.

just some info for you jobseekers

ill just finish school first

SIf music isn't a million times more interesting then all that other s***...

Haha, not entirely true Einstein, but yeh, the IT job market is slowing down thanks to a general economic slowdown.

Bottom line is, if you are good at IT, there should be plenty of jobs out there for you, even more so if you have a degree.

Anarot, whatever, I got bored with doing music in high school. Each to his own

yeah... even i got a job and i didnt finish a year of uni :P

Even nats got a job as an IT god, and he hasn't finished his degree!! all hail god nats!!

p.s - nats, have u made my program yet?

One thing about uni, go to the first lecture of every subject, its cool they tell ya what your gunna learn and u get all your syllabus details and s*** (and its a bludge).. other than that, buy some text books and study at home, uni is overrated :) id go to 1 lecture a day for an excuse to hang around with my mates the rest of the day...

thats how i got through first year science, wasnt a good habit to get into though, cause now i have to actually attend 40+ hours a week and theres no way around it :)

first yr science u can get away with it because most of it is yr 12 and bumped up a little
but after that u preety muc have to attend alot more

thought u were gonna study Masturbating - Advanced Techiques guardian?

I'm going to make a generalisation here, but (in my experience), most of the good IT jobs aren't really that interested in whether you have a degree or not, but more so in your experience and how well you know your s***. I suppose if it came down to two people and was really close, a degree might make a difference, but really its how much you know and how well you know it. I dont have a degree of any sort and I've landed three IT jobs just based on my skills and what I knew.

More and more you will see in job applications that they asked for people with experience and know blah blah blah, but less and less are actually asking for degrees.

Maybe so, but I had f*** all chance getting a job straight out of school as a code monkey, and besides, Uni really is the best time of ur life :)

code monkey = geek

so you're saying i dont even need to finish to year 12 ?

I agree with anarot.
music is heaps better (that's if u like it and are good at it...)
i hope to be goin to the CONN after yr 12..
become a preformer/teacher

CONN ?

LAN Admin = overgrown help desk weenie

hehe if u think uni is the best time of your life, try dentistry

whos the LAN admin?

I declined a position in IT/Laws at QUT in favour of IT at UQ. I hope I'm not gonna regret it.

I did hear a lot of people in favour of QUT over UQ when it came to IT. And yeah, for the same reason, it's apparently more practical.

Chose UQ because the course, with its extra year, supposedly covers broader topics. Grounds and facilities, as claimed, seem very nice too.

Stereo, what do you mean study masturbating?? I TEACH it! i am chancellor the wankas college for wankas.

hehe

What DO you do then Gluchie? Aside from being a $2 dorrah gigilo of course :P Heh, do you DO IT? :)

most of the time i get paid to sit at home and own maxe in q3 all day ;)

ps. 2 dollar dorrah eh?

please by all means go and waste your time at uni, become one of the masses to graduate thinking there is going to be a job for your educated ass at the end of those long years at uni while myself and other code heathens take the jobs you want because we have that thing you don’t find at school something that you cant get a scholarship for or buy your way into.
we have more experience !
i didn’t even finish school but I now work for a university.
when i applied for the job they didn’t ask if I had a degree they asked if i new how to tie my shoes,
as it turns out I wear Velcro shoes so it wasn’t
even an issue. if you don’t know buy now why your at uni then let me tell you it’s the countless ditsy woman doing those leisure management degree’s that keep me coming back and if you can learn abit from uni then sure but remember that no employer likes more then to hear something fresh from someone with initiative.

PS: good luck with IT and remember uq has more ditsy chicks doing leisure management J

Exactly correct! I was once told by someone "I don't care what bits of paper you have, I only care about what skills you actually have." Not a truer (that a word?) word spoken if you ask me. You can get all the degrees you want but nothing makes up for actually knowing something.

I'll stick to commenting on programming @ uni, since that's all I know...

I'm a firm believer that there is some stuff at uni that is incredibly hard to learn yourself - unfortunately most of it is what many programmers find tiresome. What I'm talking about is design principles, software development cycle, that sort of thing. These are things that I, as someone who would like to improve his chosen trade, find important to learn about.

While I dont think uni does a particularly good job of 'teaching' you programming (that's something u just have to learn yourself, imo) there are many other useful things to learn, and that's why I'm still going to uni despite already working in IT.

I did IT at JCU for a year, liked the lifestyle up there.As people have said, the piece of paper is not the "be all and end all", but it can help push you over the line in tight decisions, so i thought i would go to a nice campus.
After one year i changed to tech theatre...now i am looking at my thesis which will be "computerised lighting system in theatre applications"
The lecturer decided that with my background, it would be perfect and a good way to drag the whole department into the computer age( not the stone age they are in now, you know actors)