Today was a big day. Not only did I have my usual 8:30am start, I also had my first tutorial for COML. But that's not important. Today was also the careers fair for Law and Accounting. Neither of which I'm really into. But still, it meant chancing my arms for Econ jobs and getting free pens, candy a red bull and of course, as the title suggests, some jandals.
The jandals were something I had to double back for and then I had to talk to a lady about Accounting prospects. This is the beauty of asymmetric information. She knows what I tell her. I told her the truth, that I'm a second year accounting student who got off track from going abroad. I just neglected to mention that Accounting sucks and I would consider a career pooping razor blades over one of Accounting. We talked for a while, I listened to her speech and then she gave me jaffas, mints and jandals. Of course it goes without mentioning the amount of bags and informational material to go through.
(Rant starts here, don't say I didn't warn you)
While these are appropriate trinkets to come see what they're about and I was there to look for career prospects it was a lot better than the efforts of Grosvenor who offered me an unchilled can of V to sign up with them for Kiwi Saver. Oh and the offer of donating $15 to VUWSA (Victoria University of Wellington Student Association), an organisation that I hate. We're led by a hippy who has ties to communist ideals and cried in 07 when detained by a female cop for being too rough on him when he whinged at Helen Clark for not being able to afford incense and rent. Or what ever commies do with money. I heard he's doing 100 level courses just so he can be enrolled and assume the position that 5% of the student population votes for. I'd almost run just to disband the student government.
On the surface all I see the our student government does is complain annually when the university looks to raise fees by 5%. 5% is all they're allowed to do without permission from the Government. Which usually doesn't happen across the board. So it becomes mostly an annual 5% rise. They then campaign for free education every once in a while, which is about successful as me campaigning for the Earth to rotate in the opposite direction. Something else will often happen, such as the scrapping of the film studies program, leading to more half-assed protests and then when that will fail attention will then shift to how incompetent they are and how finances were mismanaged, such as when they spent thousands calling a psycic hotline.
Too sum up what I think happens in student government. Knee jerk reactions with half assed amateur efforts and being a bunch of clowns who account only to themselves. Maybe that asshat Lucas was right about changing things up, if only for the wrong reasons (Being he is an asshat).
I'm sorry. This really went off tangent. I think I'll continue this as a seperate post.
Picture sourced from salient magazine. No idea if I'm allowed to use it, but here's credit to them.
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