First Year @ Uni 101
The high school formal is long gone and schoolies is becoming a lingering memory. Now is the time to stop watching day time soaps, get off the coach and prepare yourself for life as a uni student. Before the anxiety of making new friends and the dread of finding your way through the maze of [...]
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Taking a Gap Year: Coral Spot
When I arrive in Mexico on the GVI conservation project, I was allocated to learn 50 odd species of coral. I had the coral book and a good memory, I mean, how hard could it be? Hard. It took me 4 tries and hours of study to finally pass the coral test, and once that [...]
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Survival Tips for the Frugal Student – Part 4 Entertainment
Do you wake up in the morning feeling like P-Diddy or have the urge to brush your teeth with a bottle of Jack? As students, we might feel like rockstars from time to time, but many of us don’t have the millionaire status to maintain the lifestyle. If you’re like me and enjoy a good [...]
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Taking a Gap Year: Mexican Memories
When I told people I was going to learn how to dive and collect coral and fish data off the Yucatan on the Caribbean coast of Mexico, everyone would always oh and ah. I would shrug, diving can’t be that good, right? Wrong. It can. In fact, its my favourite activity in the world. When [...]
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Taking a Gap Year: Coral Spot
When I arrive in Mexico on the GVI conservation project, I was allocated to learn 50 odd species of coral. I had the coral book and a good memory, I mean, how hard could it be? Hard. It took me 4 tries and hours of study to finally pass the coral test, and once that [...]
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Survival Tips for the Frugal Student – Part 4 Entertainment
Do you wake up in the morning feeling like P-Diddy or have the urge to brush your teeth with a bottle of Jack? As students, we might feel like rockstars from time to time, but many of us don’t have the millionaire status to maintain the lifestyle. If you’re like me and enjoy a good [...]
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Studying in Australia: Obtaining a Visa
The idea of studying in a foreign country can be very appealing: different language, different culture, different education system, different lifestyle. All these things can be daunting, particularly adapting to a new language and way of living, but these obstacles are all easily overcome. Choosing a course and destination are also tough decisions, but, once [...]
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First Year @ Uni 101
The high school formal is long gone and schoolies is becoming a lingering memory. Now is the time to stop watching day time soaps, get off the coach and prepare yourself for life as a uni student. Before the anxiety of making new friends and the dread of finding your way through the maze of [...]
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First Year @ Uni 101
The high school formal is long gone and schoolies is becoming a lingering memory. Now is the time to stop watching day time soaps, get off the coach and prepare yourself for life as a uni student. Before the anxiety of making new friends and the dread of finding your way through the maze of [...]
Taking a Gap Year: Coral Spot
When I arrive in Mexico on the GVI conservation project, I was allocated to learn 50 odd species of coral. I had the coral book and a good memory, I mean, how hard could it be? Hard. It took me 4 tries and hours of study to finally pass the coral test, and once that [...]
Survival Tips for the Frugal Student – Part 4 Entertainment
Do you wake up in the morning feeling like P-Diddy or have the urge to brush your teeth with a bottle of Jack? As students, we might feel like rockstars from time to time, but many of us don’t have the millionaire status to maintain the lifestyle. If you’re like me and enjoy a good [...]
Taking a Gap Year: Mexican Memories
When I told people I was going to learn how to dive and collect coral and fish data off the Yucatan on the Caribbean coast of Mexico, everyone would always oh and ah. I would shrug, diving can’t be that good, right? Wrong. It can. In fact, its my favourite activity in the world. When [...]
Survival Tips for the Frugal Student – Part 3 Travel
Travelling, we all do it! Whether it’s to and from uni, to the pub, a backpacking trip around Europe or a relaxing fun filled break with friends. So it pays to be in the know on how to do it on the cheap! Here are some tips that you can use, both at home and [...]
Taking a Gap Year: Seeing Kids be Children
Friday is art day in GVI’s school in Santa Maria, Guatemala. Art day means smiles and mess. Glue, glitter, paper, paint, everywhere. Earlier that week I was building a stove in the home of one of the girls in Clase Uno. But as a stove building I only spend my lunchtime at school, and don’t [...]
My 2nd Gap Year with GVI
September 2010. Its raining and I’m on the train to class, and as usual, I’m running late. I get a text from a friend. “You’ve won!” What? I won? No way! I stop myself from kissing the little old lady next to me. Best. Day. Ever. What had I won? A year of volunteer placement [...]
Up In Smoke: Should Smoking Be Banned on University Campus?
There are few places smokers are able to light up these days and future bans in Australia are going to prevent smoking on any university campus. Gone are the days where smoking used to be fashionable and cool, now the health risks are gruesomely displayed on packaging and warnings through advertising are inescapable. Western Australia [...]
The Importance of Taking a Gap Year (From a Student’s Perspective)
January 2006. Somerset England. I’m 17 years old. Its raining, and I’m crying. I’m on the phone to my Dad trying to decide what to do with the rest of my life. It was that time of year. UCAS had opened and I was due to enter my university applications. I was prepped to be [...]
Survival Tips for the Frugal Student – Part 2 Food
It’s halfway through the week and today I’m buying lunch. I order my food, take out my wallet and with a shock, realise that all I have is a $2 coin and a free drink coupon. With a sense of dread I think that someone has stolen my money. I think back to the past [...]
