It’s exam time! [Cue Jaws theme, strobe lights, distant screaming] What if I told you that stress can be good for you?
Let’s be honest, becoming a student and morphing into a steaming, booze monster is something of a stereotype. There’s not necessarily anything abnormal here,…
Do you have a Personal Brand™? I don’t mean preferring Nintendo to Xbox, your penchant for Converse All-Stars, or having Google tattooed on your…
Here we are, knee deep in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Technology is not just something we use, it is increasingly intertwined with every aspect…
At the time of writing this, I’ve been off campus for well over four weeks and I’m terribly depressed. Not because my marks were…
The first few weeks of uni are a pretty exciting time. This excitement, however, is often tempered with a good glob of terror and…
Tri 2 is over for another year. Time to forget the last trimester ever happened, cleanse your pile of notes and study debris with…
The assignments are piling up, the coffee jitters are starting to affect my handwriting and I can feel the hot breath of exams on…
The paths we travel to arrive here are as diverse as we are. For every high school high achiever, for whom university study was an expected next step, an accepted reality, there is a student who greets university life as something of an anomaly. UON has an inordinate number of students who are the first in their family to attend university. People from working class, marginalised and disadvantaged backgrounds mingle happily with the more traditional student body, largely due to UON’s hugely successful foundation studies programs: Open Foundation, Newstep and Yapug.
There’s something about second semester that just doesn’t feel right. Regardless of how organised, prepared and motivated I am at the beginning, how much…
We’ve all read ‘Group Work’ in the course guide and made this sound. When the group work bogeyperson rears its revolting head, try not…