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My comments before weren't intended to reflect poorly on philosophy at my specific university. From what I can tell, they're a good university for philosophy but I simply find a lot of philosophy to be of dubious value and my views on which philosophy is useful aligns to a reasonable extent with views expressed on LW. So despite the ability of this specific department I find that not all classes cover stuff that I find to be useful.
College in Australia = should be fun ;) Welcome to LW