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How To Do An Arts Degree And Not Wind Up In Hospitality
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Sick of Living @ Home? Moving to the City Guide
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Archive for February, 2011
Experience Matters: Ways You Can Make Yourself Stand Out From the Crowd
Let’s say you’ve just graduated and, after a few weeks of partying, you wake up asking yourself the question ‘Now what?’ We can infer two things from this imaginary scenario: - No company had approached you to offer you a job the day you stood off the graduating podium. You didn’t believe that would actually [...]
University “is like a box of chocolates”
Start at the very beginning Meeting new people and starting new friendships can be, for many, one of the scariest things to do. Breaking the barrier between a stranger and a friend is not an easy process but is so rewarding once done. Whether you are a local or an international student meeting new people [...]
I Don’t Like Sushi, Coffee or Redbull- How to Handle Uni When You Hate What Everyone Else Likes.
Remember back in the day… think along the lines of beginning Year 3. Remember how everyone had a Billabong or Roxy pencil case and you wanted one so badly but instead you got the blue plastic one from Woolworths. I remember those days. Every year there was something that you wanted just because everyone else [...]
You May Now Put the Gun Down: Switching Courses Made Easy
It can be a harrowing thought to think that your dream course is not the one for you. That you have spent all these years, maybe even your whole life, thinking that you would become someone who you can now see is clearly not you. This, however, is a reality many new Uni students face. [...]
O-Week 101: A Survival Guide
Orientation Week is where it all begins. The start of your academic life at university is only a week away, but there are a lot of things to do and fun to be had until then. It’s the perfect time to familiarise yourself with a new uni, a new city and make new friends. With [...]
The Essentials for Surviving Your First Week at University
Ok, first things first. Yay! You got into uni! Hopefully you got into your first preference of course, but even if you didn’t, do not despair, I guarantee that your university experience will still be incredible. Whether you come from a large High School or a small one, university can be daunting. Chances are you [...]
Battling Student Poverty: Tips and Services To Keep You Above The Poverty Line
There is a myth that uni students’ lives ooze alcohol, relentless raving and sleep that resembles a coma. Yet, many students struggle to buy their next meal, let alone a pot of beer. Student poverty is more serious than overcrowded sharehouses and homebrand groceries. It causes depression, university dropouts, homelessness and even prostitution. Financial hardship [...]
Melbourne – Something for Everyone
Melbourne is undoubtedly the best city in Australia, and I say this not just because I’m biased… even though I am a little. Sure, Sydney has a Harbour Bridge and the Opera House, but Melbourne has so much more to offer! Once voted the most livable city in the world, its ‘easy-to-use’ grid city plan [...]
Curtin vs UWA? Five real-world reasons why you should not care
Prestige. It’s not just a name of an awesome Christian Bale movie. It is also the thing that drives the tertiary academic system. It determines the university’s place on any one of the uni ranking lists. The more prestige an institution holds, the more students are likely to go out of their way to enter [...]
Adjusting to Australia: The International Students Guide
You might be asking yourself, what is Australia truly like? Is it the stereotypical Crocodile and Shark infested everything can kill you unless your Crocodile Dundee type place, or the laid back idyllic lifestyle with perfect weather and super friendly people everywhere all with rock hard bodies? With a little bit of this and that, [...]
