No one really knows what it means to be a university student. That’s what makes it fun! For many of you, university life is your first truly independent moment; a mix-n-match adventure where what happens on an hour-to-hour and day-to-day basis is entirely up to you. With that said, here’s a rough draft of what …
Author: Nikola Jokanovic
What jobs are available on campus for students?
A big misconception many students take into their first years of tertiary education is that study and a career are two separate, black and white things, one happening only after the other. Oftentimes, in our topsy-turvy world of today, the opposite is true! Learning continues well after tossing the graduation cap, and with tons of …
Left in the (last-minute) lurch: avoiding assignment procrastination
We’ve all been there. Every single one of us. Don’t lie. Across all degrees in all universities, in all fields and faculties, there is one thing that unites the common student: our bittersweet love of procrastination. It’s the cornerstone of the uni student stereotype – 10 pm, leaning forward on the couch, leftover Thai on …
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Five Reasons to Attend Open Day
Open Day isn’t just for university newcomers and HSC-hustling high schoolers. With Open Day rapidly approaching on Saturday the 25th of August, and with 2018 marking NewSpace’s first ever Open Day, it’s worth coming along and getting a rare glimpse of the very best UON has to offer on display, regardless of whether you’re three …
What is Microsoft Teams, and why should you use it?
Most careers are built on collaboration, and in uni world this translates into the oft-dreaded ‘group work’. Any uni student will tell you this: working by yourself in our connected, collaborative day and age is truly rare, and working in groups can sometimes be a pain. Whether it’s working on five different platforms for five …
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Casual Work: Your guide to getting that side-hustle happening
University life is like one big hustle made up of lots of little hustles bundled together. The study hustle, the social life hustle, the health and wellbeing hustle, the oversleeping hustle, Netflix hustle, etcetera. Your working life during university is one of the most important side-hustles there is, and also one of the most difficult …
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Study Jams: Should you listen to music while studying?
It’s taken me three years of unproductive library bludges and mile-a-minute deadline scrambles to realise that half of the studying game is ‘getting in the zone’. Some spend their whole degree searching for this elusive state of mind, where all else melts away except you and your 1315-page Constitutional Law textbook (rare to say the …
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