Surviving Law @ QUT

The first year experience of QUT law students

Hectic: characterised by intense activity, confusion or haste.

 This week has been incredibly busy for me. I studied hard, worked hard (got a pay rise :) ), and caught up with friends. Today has been such a mission that I’m still awake writing this post because I still haven’t wound down from the day and my brain is still buzzing. Tonight at work this middle aged man came in and sat down by himself at a table. I took a menu and some water over to him and he had dozens of books, papers and articles spread all over the table (reminding me very much of my desk at home). Turns out upon some interesting conversation that the man is a professor and the author of several books, one which is coming out very soon. Funnily enough being a professor and all he was interested that I was a law student and we talked quickly (there were lots of other tables and not many waitresses) about ethics. Honestly, it made me feel quite important as this professor was interested in my opinion and was listening intently to what I had to say.

Another note: I have recently found out that many of the waitresses at my work are studying law. One of the girls is doing first year law at QUT also and one of the managers is a third year law student at UQ. So I guess I hit the jackpot, if I have any problems I have multiple resources to help me out..I hope everyone else has started to make some good friends/already have good friends or generally know people doing the course because I’m finding it extremely helpful to bounce my ideas off other people.

Good luck everyone with the emergence of the third week!

March 9, 2008 - Posted by samcopeland | Social, personal and family life | | 5 Comments

5 Comments »

  1. Hey Sam, that is so cool that you have all those resources at hand. I was talking to a second year student and he said that making sense of the course really came through talking to other students. You can really multi task.. work earn cash and study group at the same time. good luck.

    Comment by faithval | March 10, 2008

  2. Its great finding others who do the same thing, I have a friend in 2nd year law at QUT and one in 3rd Year law, plus a friend that graduated and is working as a lawyer!! hehe. Lucky. So many of us law girls are waitresses..
    xx

    Comment by keira08 | March 10, 2008

  3. It’s the third week, and I still don’t know what’s going on. Cool!

    Comment by Josh | March 10, 2008

  4. Yes, I feel extremely tempted to take lollies and cookies to work in bribe for my friend’s third year expertise.
    I’ve seriously thought about getting a job during the day but I find that if I am going to study my best effort is made during the day because reading such dense material would generally make me fall asleep at night. I also like getting tips, they always make my night. Do you girls find that the tables that drink alot of alcohol always tip best? We always try to encourage our customers to drink more so they become more generous.

    Comment by samcopeland | March 17, 2008

  5. Get with it Josh. I find that if you’re always reading something then you’re right on track!

    Comment by samcopeland | March 17, 2008


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