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I have a friend who does IT at Sydney Uni. He says its very theoretical and I know he is very interested in AI and has done courses on AI there. UNSW and sydney are both good universities. Sydney Uni has a new little appartment complex nearby which is students only and a lot of international students stay there, has its own shopping area etc, very nice if you like that kinda thing
The trance scene in Sydney is decent but when it comes to big events, Melbourne *usually* get better internationals, cheaper. The promoters in Sydney are crap.
Sydney has better weather and much better touristy type stuff. and better beaches |
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| dragonlady |
Hello Alccode,
Another fellow Canadian here studying in Australia. I'm in Perth however, where the trance scene is quite pathetic, but I just want to give you couple opinions.
Melbourne or Sydney - depends on what kind/type of cities you like. I've been to both, and they're both really nice but I definitely prefer Melbourne over Sydney. I think no matter where you end up, you HAVE TO travel around the east coast (Perth is absolutely gorgeous BUT if you don't have $$$ i guess it's ok not to come over here).
With semesters here in Australia, I had to take half a year off in between my Canadian semester and my Australian semester because everything here starts in late February/early March for my course. However, look into if you can do your courses starting in second semester here (from July-November), and go for a year from July-June (July-November and March-June) instead of March-November. This will save you some time and some universities/departments let you enrol in 2nd semester instead of the first semester.
This will coincide with the north American system better, and you're left with 2.5 months over Christmas/summer to work and travel around!
Anyhow, best of luck & I'm sure you will enjoy Melbourne or Sydney no matter which one you choose! |
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| Teknoscaper. |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zerotonin
I'm not sure what ur on about, but Melbourne is Australia's trance capital....
If you want trance come to Melbourne or Sydney, Perth has one or two headliners a year.:tongue2 |
er ? who actually bases where they wanna live on the amount of trance headliners come each year?
you're a tool |
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| Zerotonin |
| quote: | Originally posted by Teknoscaper.
er ? who actually bases where they wanna live on the amount of trance headliners come each year?
you're a tool |
Firstly, I was actually answering Alccode's question.
| quote: | Originally posted by Alccode
Right now I'm considering Melbourne and Sydney. Basically what I'd like to ask is (a) "where is the trance scene," |
Secondly, I was joking about the headliners.
Thirdly, in chew me arsehole. |
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| skware |
| quote: | Originally posted by waXology | quote: | Originally posted by Anomyst
Come to Melbourne and learn the "Shuffle"
Sydney cant dance!! |
melbourne people dress funny... and they smell :P
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hehe, got back to Canberra on Saturday night and went out. A friend told me I dance like people from Sydney. She reckons in Sydney they all dance on their toes due to being mashed as many people into a small space as possible, and in melbourne the dance only side to side, not back and forth.
Anyway, back on topic. ANU has a pretty damn good reputation amoungst international unis, expecially for Computing Science rather than IT or just programming. (I'm at the Uni of Canberra, which is the other semi-decent uni in Canberra :(). They have a strong focus on *nix (Solaris / Linux / ...) and often are quite involved in bleeding edge projects in that area. Canberra is 300 odd km from Sydney and about 600 or 700 from Melbourne so day (or night :)) trips are quite easy. You'll probably find that the cost of living in canberra is cheaper than the bigger cities and the people are heaps nicer and will give you more of themselves and help you fit in well better than the Sydney or Melbourne (well I guess the Sydney TAs and Halcyon crew are tops in doing this too, haven't met many Melbourne TAs). The canberra trance scene is still in it's infancy, but there are quite a few up and comers that are pushing it a little further away from the hard trance that most trance nights see.
If you are coming from a larger city, then you will probably hate Canberra (though you may not), but if you come from a little town, it's definitely somewhere you could fall in love with. |
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