The Debut (Jim)

Hello All:
My name is Jim Li. I am a first year law student. NIce to meet you. I was borned in China, came to Australia since 1998, August. I live in Preston and attended Reservoir District High school (normal public school). I am a normal teenager who loves sport and comedy, etc. I got into Melbourne through hardwork in vce. teachers and my family also helped tremendously to get me into Melb uni. I have to say it is excellent generally studying at Melb uni. I will try to give you an insight of uni life. THis week i will focus on STUDY EXPERIENCE. (i am aiming to write an interesting weekly blog re. my experience AS A FIRST yr uni student)

To begin with, let me try to unravel the key to study achievement, according to my understanding.
Firstly i set up a goal in yr 12 to work my hardest. So i did and organise my time mostly to study. (put in the effort, u’ll get the reward.)
2) Use some study tech to improve efficiency, eg active learning, critical reading, etc. Check out this site. It is great resource. Melb uni has amazing resouces by the way.

www.services.unimelb.edu.au/llsu/resources/study/estudy.html

3) From what i see: try to get involved in study competitions, eg maths, chess, science etc. I met Tian ( He got 99.95 last yr in Uni high), he told me he got trained in those activties. His maths skill is awsome, he got 49 for Spec maths. Not to forget, He worked hard too.

Returning now to my course, i pick law because i found it was actually very very interesting! Prof Ian Malkin presented this law sample lecture during UNi open day. I got captivated. So it is, Worthwhile to check out OPEN DAY.

I am very happy that i made this decision to do law as i participated in the orientation programs and really enjoyed the experience. Now i can blow the myth that melb uni sucks at providing service to students as well as ppl are stuck up, away!!. I’ll tell you Melb uni is so fantastic. Just to name a few, staff, esp the transistion staff are extremely friendly, student societies (huge num. of clubs) are cheap to join and so fun to participate. Everyone i met are amiable too. Basically my activities involve meeting people at food function.

Though there ARE NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES TOO. Uni is big in terms of physical dimension that u need a good skill in map reading. I got lost a couple of times, feels pretty forlorn.

Another THING: (JUST IN MY LAW falculty), the culture is pretty demoralising to my hard working philosophy. Nothing against the senior representative students from the law society, they are really friendly but they love partying. They are not really committed to study and think it is not important to study hard. So this put me off for a day or so. But then i talked to my high school teacher and my relatives (still keep in touch with my ESL teacher, MS bland, she is my mentor and the best teacher i ever had, btw u need to talk about ur problem with people, it makes u feel better) , i realise it is important to work hard to get a good understanding of ur subject, so u get a good grade, then it’ll be easier to get a job, etc.

Last advice: Dont be a sheep following the culture, make ur own decision.
See u.