so i don't have time to recount everything, but i may end up doing that
i'm just gonna talk about free stuff...
USYD
i really love usyd atmosphere and the campus. it's so spacious, and flat (compared to unsw) and really nice. and whenever i go there to weather is perfect. it feels less crowded.
free stuff:
- health check
- packaged popcorn
- business breakfast. even though there wasn't a lot a variety, it was still pretty "high class" since they had waiters with food coming around, like a cocktail party. there were also banana bread, yogurt with fresh food, juice etc. and they had really cool showbags! like this thing where you open it up, one side is a calculator, other side is a note pad and the middle has a pen. also a 4gb usb (not as cool as the wrist band one last year which i failed to get) and a multi coloured highlighter. totes worth waking up at 6.30am.
UTS
-ahhhhh so many free stuff
the bus driver stopped write in front of uts from usyd, i bet he knew we wanted free lunch
-free "high class" sausage sizzle. branded bread roll, w/ branded butter if you wanted it, onions and sauce, on a plate w/ knives and forks. line was long, but it moved quite quickly.
-at the entrance we were greeted by branded Paddle Pops, and later went upstairs to have seconds. you literally just observe where people are coming from, and you know there is free food
- free fairy floss and fresh popcorn! there were many outlets so it was quite quick.
- FREE ROCK CLIMBING. EVEN THOUGH IT WAS 8M, IT WAS STILL PRETTY COOL. used my arm muscles ;)
- free jump test. i can jump 41cm. it was really cool. so they had this pole with plastic sticks coming out. you reach up, and they swipe that away. then you jump and from the final height you jumped, they minused how high you can reach. only if you jump 50cm you get a prize, but i just got a lollipop
i went on one of their nanotech lab tours. i just wanted to go inside their labs. it was pretty cool. saw the 10 MILLION DOLLAR microscope. only two in the whole world. and they still haven't finished building it even after a year has passed. the other one in the world is the company who supplies microscopes-lol
UNSW
- in the morning, bus line was sooo long, but bus came every minute so it was ok. the bus was full of asians. the whole uni was full of asians. heaps less white people compared to usyd.
- hada to trek so far for med lecture.
- had blue fairy floss! while waiting in line, had blue smarties and a free iphone speaker. but it doesn't work! i hate it when free stuff doesn't work ))):
- don't really like the campus, feels more cramped. it's sahh long...i used to go unsw every month back in yr9/10, only went to the optometry part...
- free glow sticks and glow in the dark wristbands.
- massive lollipops, had to beg for another one for my bro..
- the fresh popcorn was not seasoned properly, took forever and was only half a bag.
- couldn't find free sausage sizzle. i don't think there was one, they had one for info day earlier in the year, except that day was so much more low scale....
- turned the mining eng wheel of fortune. i got a "hard" question and thus the prize was worth more. i had no idea what the "permeability of ore bodies" are, except the person behind me answered. then the uni person gave me the prize-lol. IT WAS A GOOD PRIZE! got to choose between 2gb usb and keyring. i chose the keyring since it was really cute, in the shape of a mining helmet, and purely made out of the 4th most expensive metal in the world (pewter)
only got a few free pens, i have way too many so decided to restrict myself from getting too many. the adfa march/drill was pretty cool.
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Elisa, you... scab! I couldn't many good freebies at Usyd or UNSW.
ReplyDeleteAnd, there apparently was a free sausage sizzle at the engineering building? And you were meant to say you went to the mining tour or something for that.