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How to Find the Perfect Internship

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 [...]

Y-save? Because you’re a Gen Y

Y-save? Because you’re a Gen Y

Gen Y are smart. I should know because I’m one of them. We are the Millennial Generation or most popularly known as the Generation Next. Whatever they want to call us, we know what’s what. And no, Twitter isn’t the name of a popular band and Facebook isn’t the new term for the personal ads. [...]

Student unions, why join them?

Student unions, why join them?

No doubt you will all get those emails at the start of a new academic year asking you whether you had thought about joining your student union, and probably like most people, you will skip over them without giving them a second thought. But wait, before you hit that delete button, ask yourself, what is [...]

First Year @ Uni 101

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 [...]