Bluetrait

Well today was a very interesting day. I decided to go to the Sydney and UTS UNI open days. First place was Sydney. I rocked up there at about 10am and went to listen to the talk about Information Technology; well it was very bad/uninformative and boring. But I saw a friend from primary school (some of you may remember the house at Scotland island that I had the news years eve party. That was his house). Any who so it was nice seeing him there. Didn't expect to see him, although it would be cool to go to the same UNI. But I don't think I'll be going to Sydney (more in a sec). So anyway I went to the quadrangle and talked to some of the lecturers and uni students, which was far more interesting than the talk. So that was nice. I so met up with Kylie there (max was with us too). I saw quite a few kids from school too.

I looked at a few courses.
Computer Design (half arts course and half software design)
Computer Science and Technology (standard computer stuff with a major in a section in second year).

So that was good. The main grounds are nice but the library and the lecture halls weren't all that great.

I then went to the computer labs. I checked out the multimedia centre and the "High Perform Visualization centre" now the visual center was pretty wow. The guy there was showing off a program which took the openGL out puts of a program (quake3 in this case) and spilt it into three sections and rendered it across 3 different computer systems. You could move each section around within a window. Very funky!

He also showed me the UNI video conferencing link that connects many of the UNIs together. The internet connection at Sydney is a 10gigabit/sec connection. Nice huh? All UNIs are connected to this massive backbone.

I then went to UTS where the first thing that I saw was a dell stand! Yes that is right. They give large discounts to students for hardware when going to UTS. So I've got this password and thing to give me some nice discount :) Time for a nice laptop!

I then went to listen to a talk about the IT at UTS. Wow they sold themselves so much better. The talk was fantastic, I found out everything I wanted to know and more. They had DJ's playing music in every building and just the general atmosphere was so much better than Sydney. They also have an 802.11g 54mbit wireless link throughout the whole grounds. Time for some serious leaching! :)

The courses here are:
General IT
Business + IT
Maths + IT

So I think I'll do one of those. UTS has some really great stuff and the feel of the place is just much nicer than Sydney. They also have better buildings ;p They even have computer shops IN the UNI! Sweet!

There is also lots of different clubs, ranging from social things to hardcore programming and computer stuff. w00ting. So yeah, it looks sweet.

I also went to see The Bourne Supremacy which was a good movie.

Next week is the UNSW open day so I'll be going to that too. Although I think I'm set for UTS.

UNI looks kick arse!