By now, I’m sure you have received countless emails and letters from UON, full of information on the new study experience you are about to begin! Within these would have been information on O-Week (Orientation Week) at the University. In my experience of studying abroad, O-Week was a great way to get to know the …
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Who says you can’t have a social life while you study?
There are so many ways to meet and hang out with new people, see different places, and learn outside of the classroom at the University of Newcastle. UON Global supports engagement programs that are run by International Engagement Assistants who are students just like you! Some programs are targeted at newly arriving international students, such …
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Your Support Services Checklist
Coming to a new country has its challenges. If studying alone isn’t enough to handle (!), you also have to know information like where to find things around campus, public transport, finding somewhere to live, building new friendships, perhaps learning a new language, and managing your finances (just to name a few), all the while …
Undergrad vs. Postgrad study – what’s the deal?
Undergraduate → graduate → postgraduate. Those are the ‘ranks’, if you like, that you can climb through your university life. A lot of us come to uni straight out of high school, while others take a ‘gap year’ or spend some time in the workforce before taking on tertiary education. Either way, if we have …
The fine (and frustrating) art of referencing
“Referencing is the best, most enjoyable part of any assignment… ” (No One Ever, 2018, p. never-ever). Referencing. Your favourite thing in the world, right? I know – I get it – referencing can be tedious. Taxing. Tiring. It’s either the final challenge at the end of an assignment, or the perfect-productive-procrastination-pastime when actually doing …
Navigating Addiction: Cigarettes & Vaping
Apart from the mix of accents and frostbite-y cold, my ‘culture shock’ while on Exchange in Manchester last year, consisted of the strong smoking-culture amongst its students. It appeared to be a habit everyone inherited out of high school (or college, rather) – something less common in my experience studying in Sydney and Newcastle. The …