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Pub Crawls – What You Need To Know
If you’re a fresh young university student, you will soon get acquainted with the term ‘pub crawl’. Most uni faculties and sub-strands (e.g. journalism, psychology, nutrition etc.) organise these social events once or twice a year as a way to meet new people and have some fun. This is a lie. The sole objective is [...]
The Best & Worst of Swinburne & RMIT (As Students See It)
Nikki Tran from Uni Australia (www.uniaustralia.com.au), interviews students from RMIT and Swinburne Universities to find out their opinion about the Best and Worst things at their university.
Cheating: How to Write a Last Minute Essay
The Last Minute Essay I think every student wants to get away with being the self proclaimed genius who doesn’t show up to class, doesn’t do any recommended reading, doesn’t study and still gets a good mark. But you can, you can cheat. (I see those horns poking through your head right now but go [...]
How to Make Friends & Not Alienate People
Like tackling that pesky 3000 word essay, the hardest bit about making friends is making the first move. Striking up conversation looks easy in the movies, but most of the time we’re having a fit of the willies: we’ll stumble over words, sound like idiots, and get sweaty palms (the last thing you want if [...]
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 [...]
Uni Lovin’: How to Make Someone’s Day
‘You are you beautiful,’ the post-it note told me. ‘We want to see your amazing smile,’ said another. I glanced at myself in the mirror. I was in the toilets at uni, right? Not stuck inside Cleo or Cosmopolitan where I’d actually taken their suggestions and written positive affirmations to myself and stuck them on [...]
Moving Out of Home Next Year for Uni? Read This!
So, it’s time to fly the proverbial coop. You may have been given marching orders by your parents, or you may have been accepted into a uni on the other side of the country. Shape up, ship out, the world of co-habitation awaits. House(mates). She’s your best friend. You’ve laughed together, you’ve cried together. You’re [...]
A Day in the Life of an Engineering Student
It’s true: carrying a thick calculus textbook under one arm draws a certain amount of admiration. Or, in some cases, a bewildered look of stupidity. Even so, for the most part, declaring oneself as an engineering student is likely to warrant one of two responses: a casual ‘oh, yeah’ (while the person tries not to [...]
Desire vs Need – Where Students Spend Their Money and How to Save It
Upon entering University you may find that your wallet opens and closes, for things you may need or really may not need. But the thing you need to remember is why? Why are you buying it, do you really need it, and what are the benefits. (Do I sound like your mother? I know, I [...]
To Defer or Not to Defer Uni
In recent years it has become increasingly popular for students to defer their tertiary studies after year 12. There are many reasons for this: to begin with, it may be the only financially viable option for some young people, particularly those moving from regional areas. The high costs associated with tertiary education and independent living [...]


