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How to make the most of University Information and Open Days
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Why Audio Lectures are (in theory) a Great Idea
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Plan B – What to do if you’re failing Uni or Hate your Course.
May 9, 2012 08:05 -
University: a means to get a career or to study your passion?
May 1, 2012 00:05 -
After the COE: The Definitive Guide to a Smooth Transition to University in Australia
April 25, 2012 09:04
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me - i want to study an arts degree friends/parents - so what job will that get -
Jchan:
This should be an ongoing series dedicated for overseas students. Very good post
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How to Find the Perfect Internship
It is somewhat unfortunate that experience seems to count for everything these days. No longer is it good enough to graduate with a head full of useful and not-so-useful information picked up in tute rooms and lecture halls at university. What employers are really keen for are people who know a little of the practical [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Survival tips for the Frugal Student- Part 1 Textbooks
Students past and present know how migrating from the high school bubble into the wide world that is university feels both emotionally and financially. No longer will mum and dad give you a ride to school or pay for your books (if you’re lucky they still might) and there is no cheap canteen to supply [...]
Melbourne: Vintage Fashion on a Budget
A friend from overseas once made the observation that the people of Melbourne are unique in that after greeting a person one of the first conversations they’ll start will be about the clothes you’ve got on. While I’ve never seen this as being unusual, she pointed out that in no other city she’s visited or [...]
Student Funding: How to Go About It …
In many ways, university is much like any reality TV show – thousands of eager, young hopefuls stream into an institution, willing to overcome a series of increasingly difficult challenges to attain respect, recognition and rewards. Alas, the constant struggle for marks and manuscripts has more than just academic ramifications. Students need to eat, to [...]
4 Deceptively Simple Ways to Boost Your Resume
Make no mistake – writing a successful resume so often means the difference between landing that dream job and missing out. When it comes to job applications, if you’re not first you’re last, so really, logic goes, you ought to do everything you can to make yourself and your skills stand out. But how? Do [...]
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 [...]
“Uno, due, tre”: Learning a Foreign Language
Many people have tried to learn a second language in their past. Perhaps it was that German class you took in Year 7 at high school; it may have been your friend who tried to teach you how to count in French; or maybe you took the initiative to take a Japanese class at your [...]
