Bec Meier is a Unimelb Adventures contributor. You can follow her on Twitter @latenighthell It goes without saying that a student without caffeine is like a phone without charge; we need it to function. More than that, as uni students we very easily fall into the ‘broke and tired’ category. It’s the trope we all embrace, if somewhat reluctantly. It’s for this reason we … Continue reading Uni coffee and recommendations
Worried about your first language assessment? Trying desperately, for the millionth time in your uni career, to find a way out of doing an oral presentation? Getting to the end of your degree and realising that you’re not confident using the language you’ve been studying? No matter your level, with first major assessments coming up, Unimelb Adventures has some great recommendations for the aspiring multilingual … Continue reading Speak of the Devil – Getting through Language Assessments
Annyeonghaseyo and hello! I know how intimidating and time-consuming it can be to learn a new language, but fret not, for the Language Exchange Club (or LEC) is here for all your language needs! For just $5 a year, they provide weekly classes on languages such as Korean, German and Spanish, to name a few, and you can go to as many classes as you … Continue reading Club Highlight: The Language Exchange Club
A biomedicine student’s perspective It all started on Tuesday 26 February when I and around 300 other nervous first year biomedicine students scurried into the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre for our 9:15am welcome lecture during o-week. I should add that it took me three laps of campus to finally find it, with the Lost On Campus app being my saviour. Surprisingly, I wasn’t as nervous as … Continue reading Our first year at the University of Melbourne
The first week of classes have finally concluded at UniMelb. Libraries and classrooms are once again filled with the noise of methodical clacking of students furiously trying to keep up with their lecturers or tutors and places like South Lawn are bustling with free food and activities once more. At unimelb adventures, we recruited new members of the team for the year and we got … Continue reading Where in the world were the team? A recap of o-week and week one
Looking for something new to do in 2019? Keen to build some connections and join a growing community of writers and creatives on campus? Look no further! The Unimelb Adventures team is recruiting for 2019, and we can’t wait to have you on board. We are currently recruiting for the following positions: Assistant editor Subeditor Writer/Contributor Social Media Manager Social Media team Video Manager Video … Continue reading A-YO we’re recruiting!
In 2015, I met Antonia Yip Siew Pin during Orientation Week. We were both international students with a great interest in performing arts, and it was only natural that we became friends. Three years later, I met Antonia again, but this time I am the audience, while she’s the performer. At this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival, Antonia, alongside her colleague Nores Cerfeda, will perform their … Continue reading The Good Person Recipe
Every time you don’t get enough sleep, you put your body through a decline in health and wellbeing. “I didn’t really think sleep was necessary,” my friend Sophie told me before our Biology exam, “if I could do better in this subject by studying more.” And although she did smash her exams with flying colours, (and I’m very proud of her for that), sleeping so … Continue reading All-nighters: why you might actually be torturing yourself
Volunteering experience can play a key role in our personal and professional lives. We’ve each had opportunities that have helped us in various ways in our respective journeys, and volunteering can be a way to continue the cycle of support for others. James Lynch is a leader in interview skill coaching and the recruitment industry, and Kumari Fernando is the general manager of DOXA’s developmental … Continue reading Finding Value in Volunteering
Disclaimer: UniMelb Adventures prides itself from being a non-affiliated, apolitical publication and this article serves to inform the student population about general elections. This article was written originally for Farrago Magazine and has been abridged. So its Week 7 and you have an assignment due on Friday. You’re rather tired and you just want to go to that regrettable 9am tute you got into because … Continue reading How to Vote for Student Elections Painlessly
You hear about clubs from day one of uni, sometimes even before then at Open Days, O-Week, or through older students. But you never really hear about how they run, who organises these events, and what it’s like being on a committee. At the end of the first semester of my second year, I managed to get a spot on the Arts Student Society committee. … Continue reading Can’t Beat a Club Committee
*as told through GIFs When your grades are still low, and you have no relevant experience, but you still have to be optimistic When you need to make yourself look like a decent applicant When you stalk other people’s LinkedIn profiles for “inspiration” only to realise that they all have their lives together When you realise you need to step up your game and get … Continue reading 12 thoughts you have while applying for internships*
Solidarity between uni students is in the fact that none of us truly keep it together from beginning to end. If you’re managing, email me asap and be my life counsellor please and thank you—I can pay you in homemade dumplings that none of my friends would believe to be fit for consumption—but if you feel like you aren’t, read on. After all, as we … Continue reading 4 things I learned about love, life and the cosmos in my first semester
Abstract Owing to the positive reception garnered by our first venture into the world of scientific studies (Adventures, Unimelb 2018), it was decided that further scientific tests on the conundrums faced by the University of Melbourne student community were indeed necessary. This second instalment aims to continue demystifying student life by empirically ranking several popular study spaces and investigating what makes a study space ‘work’. … Continue reading We tested a bunch of study spaces to find the most scientifically optimal one
Well, it’s time for the dreaded group assignment. Chances are, you fall into one of two categories: Been there, done that, got your resting bitch face ready A group assignment virgin who still believes that human beings are inherently decent (ahhh such naivety) Either way, it’s very likely that at some point you’re going to find yourself with a rather strong urge to strangle some … Continue reading Three steps to not murdering your group-mates
