I haven't read this entire thread yet, but I have noticed alot of posts bashing LKW. Just gonna drop in my 2 cents.

I'm a student there as well - doing Creative Multimedia. Joined mid-2006. Now, as a uni, I wouldn't go as far as calling LUCT horrible. They have their bad moments (especially the management), and yes, some lecturers aren't exactly up to par. Then again which uni doesn't have stuff like that happening? Every place you go will have its pros and cons, and it's the same with LUCT.

Some bad apples to ruin it for the rest of us - I've met my fair share of terrific lecturers, people who know their field in and out and share their experiences with us. Same goes with foreign students. There are alot of hardworking people out there, but you also get the typical douchebag that shows up to class late and stoned, go clubbing the same night and then begs the lecturer for an extension. About the whole drug issue thing - yes, its around. Choose your friends wisely, stay out of trouble and you'll do fine.

As for places to stay, my only advice is stay the **** out of Desaria. Terrible management, useless Internet service, its noisy and dirty. I stayed there during my first semester (foundation year) when Desaria was brand new - in fact, I was one of the first few people to set foot in there. It was a very nice place. But at the end of my 5 months, I packed up with my friends and moved to Cyberia. A huge improvement (by Cyber standards). Public transport is easily accessible, food is plenty, and its much more livelier. Plus there's a monkey swinging around too - no kidding.

Lastly, to everyone who are taking art related courses - be it animation or graphic design etc. and complaining that you haven't learned anything useful - buck up. I know you're paying a lot of money and you are expecting to get your monies worth, believe me I feel the same way too. But you can only look so far to get all the help you need. Put more effort into your work, and improve yourself (occasionally you might want to play the suck up card and be nice to your lecturer ).

Nobody is going to be able to teach you every single trick in Photoshop. Nobody is going to teach you how to achieve realistic renders in 3Ds Max. They are not going to be there every step along the way.

It's art.

People are going to look at your portfolio, your skills, your talent and hire you. I have friends who are ex-LUCT students who are an extremely talented bunch. They're doing quiet well for themselves. All I'm saying is that you may not learn much at uni (my photoshop classes were a joke really, but I did pick up some useful stuff), just try to get what you can out of it and help yourself. Only you can do that.

EDIT: F*** me, I'm so sorry for the huge wall of text.

This post has been edited by Carbon: Jan 15 2009, 04:34 PM