Hey all I havem’t posted in a while since I have been pretty busy.

Assignments are starting up with 142 due on Monday, and a number of other things are due. The 142 assignment is only 1000 words though and while I have only done an introduction it should be easy to complete this weekend. I am posititive I have to resubmit the legal citation exericise as well. Despite the guide saying you can use , 52 or at p 52 for pinpoint citations, the correct answer is apparently ,52 which made me get a wrong answer in most of the questions. Good thing you can just resubmit otherwise the 50/50 chance would be rather lame.

Hey all.

Not much happening this week. The same old tutorials and lectures. Easter break is comming up but it isn’t to much of a break since I still have the legal citation and library tasks to do. Sam (another blogger) also scared me and Kiera (also another blogger) by saying she had an assignment due, thank god it was for justice since I think we both were ready to get the red bull out and pull an all nighter to get this mystory assignment done. I rifled through my workbooks and found nothing though. Turns out the rifling was a good thing since it made me realise I had an assignment due on the 7th of April. Another reason why the easter break really isn’t to much of a break afterall.

Almost a lawyer… just a degree away.

Someone in a chatroom asked me today, “are you a lawyer yet”. I said yep I am a degree away. Then I realised I lied. After the degree we have to actually apply to be a solicitor or barrister. It never ends does it lol.

 Well the last week I found out I should of been doing a lot more reading then I have been. Apparently I am not the authority who can say I should just not read that paragraph in that huge contracts A book. Mainly since that paragraph actually becomes important later, even if useless now.

 As you can see this latest post is in a lot of fragments so here is another nothing to do with the above. An entire group was standing outside a tutorial room and I was standing outside too about 10 minutes before it began. I just stood there casually drinking my coke and watching the people NOT go into the tutorial room. No one was in there so I was confused why people were struggling to stand outside holding their heavy bags. After I was done with my coke I decided it was time I wanted to go into the room to sit down so I opened up the door, sat down, and said down the hallway, well I don’t know about you guys but I want to sit down and I welcomed them to join me considering we were in the same tutorial. They all started slowly walking in, not sure if they should or not. I said, and I actually did, “don’t worry you have my permission as a first year student” and they all looked at me kind of strange and then sat down. I figure now I am last pic for group assignment work. Although really they should be thanking me for not letting them stand a moment longer.

Just as the fragments get more irrelevent so does this one, so far as to not have anything to do with uni. I went into dominos and they had a sign up saying large pizzas $3.95. I ordered a pizza on a deep ban base and the young guy who looked in desperate need of money, hence why working in dominos for 7 bucks an hour, said that will be $8.45. Using my legal knowledge I have aquired over the past 2 weeks of law I skillfully reminded him of the sign in a way only a first year law studnet could. It went something on the lines of “hey doesn’t that sign say $3.95″. He told me yea that is from $3.95 so you need to order a classic crust pizza and not a deep pan. I said I thought it was odd that deep pan incurs a $5 surcharge but I opted for classic anyway. The pizza was pretty crap too. It was a bacon double cheese burger pizza. My girlfriend said they were nice from pizza hut, but dominos for some odd reason put mayo on it which pizza hut just doesn’t do. Mix mayo with classic crust and I couldn’t even believe I wasted 4 bucks on it, let alone the original 8.95 that was offered. To make this into a legal lesson to make it somewhat relevent, when I pointed to the sign saying it was $3.95 I think that was then a counter offer, to which he made another offer to me saying if I put it on a classic crust it was $3.95, to which I accepted with an intent to form legal relations. Consideration was made, but personally I believe the act of putting mayo on the pizza is a breach of contract just for being a completely bad ingredient.

First week

Hey welcome to my first blog post. My name is Anthony and I am studying a single degree in Law at, as the name of the blog suggests, QUT. The purpose of this post is to inform others how it feels to walk into QUT for the very first time. While many people would mark the official start as Monday I would like to go back to the orientation.

After the long bus ride, and the 10 minute walk to QUT, on the first day I finally made it in one piece. I made the decision to not bring anything with me but a bus ticket and the clothes on my back (amongst a few modern day essentials such as mobile phones, bank accounts, and everything else needed to survive in the harsh city environment). As I walked in the one thing I noticed, and that I still notice, that a poor soul had set up shop on the left of the pavement. They sold fruit and cold drinks. Why anyone would purchase fruit on orientation day I don’t know but each to his own. Although I have to say walking out of QUT today I did kind of yearn for an apple, maybe it was a smart business plan after all.

I continued up the path and dodged the many advertisers asking for money/support/who ever the hell knows. I walked around a bit and the campus seemed familiar, then I remembered in grade 12 we had a class excursion to Gardens Point.

After some aimless walking I decided I should get my ID card. With over an hour until my next orientation activity started I thought I would be safe joining the line. After being in the line for a few minutes I met a few people and we talked for an hour or so which made the long line seem quite short. I probably won’t see them again but it made the time at least somewhat exciting. I should mention I never even got my ID card that day, although killing time talking and laughing which other new uni students made the hour wait not seem so wasted.

The orientation itself was in a way informative but I could see by the end of the day many people falling asleep or walking out of the lecture room. Naturally though these house keeping tasks are quite boring. I being a patient person though didn’t mind too much. The most informative was the input from the 4^th year students. Unlike the lecturers they can drop hints and tips about how it’s really like to study at QUT.

After the orientation there was a week break before yesterday attending QUT properly for the first time. There was just a lot of information about each subject and just an introduction to assessment and what is expected and all that good stuff.

One thing that got me though about studying law at QUT is that in a number of lectures it was stated that we can’t just have our own opinions and that if we want to state opinions we should go do journalism. One would think we could state any opinion if it was backed up logically. This would be my only criticism so far. Everyone should be welcome to their own opinion, no matter how unethical or immoral it could possibly be to others, so long as it is reinforced with a strong, well reasoned, and logical argument. I think our own opinions are the essence of law. Instead of separating opinions from arguments we should be using arguments to back up opinions.

Well that’s all from me for now. Look for more next week.