INTRO10001

The trains near my house never arrive on time… but this post will.

Between begging for public transport to arrive and finding a classroom tucked away in the most isolated corridor, I certainly could say that there were times in life when things were more straightforward.

Although – to be entirely fair – no one said that uni is easy (a sentiment that especially resonates with STEM majors), and oh my am I glad to have left my VCE days behind me.

The first few weeks of uni have been more than busy but rewarding – it forces you to savour the little things in between your hours of pre-readings, lectures, workshops, tutorials and practicals.

A quick nap in the Beanbag Room of the Rowden White Library never did any harm…

What am I doing here?

As a STEM major, I probably lack some of the artistic vocabulary and articulation one would associate with fellow BA and BMus or really any non-STEM students.

It also doesn’t help that the public impression of my academic populace are glass-wearing nerds submerging themselves into formulae, graphs, differential calculus, biochemical processes, and debating whether particles are truly particles or really just waves (yes! This is true! Search it up).

But, after having a taste of editorial experience spanning from my high school leadership, I must confess that I’ve taken a liking to these wonderful concoctions of letters and words on a page – and I enjoy them all the more when they help people to grasp an idea, concept, theory, etc.

I certainly don’t want these (partially) useful articles to resign themselves to a corner of the internet left untouched by humans, which is why I hope that in the coming year, our team of linguistically gifted Jaffies will help revamp this diary to influence more and more people! So current and prospective students alike can get an idea of what UniMelb life is like (information that I personally found lacking during my transition from HS to uni).

About me

Okay, here’s probably the part that’s more relevant to the title of this article.

I’m Isaac (a sentence I’ve said a million times during O-week) and I’m a first-year Bachelor of Science student. I have no idea what major I’m going to do but it’s most likely going to be on the health sciences side.

Outside of uni, I play guitar (especially Texan blues… oddly specific), enjoy watching F1, cooking, and have recently taken a liking to fishing (despite not living anywhere near a body of water).

I really like planes, trains, buses, cars – or anything mechanical that moves in general.

I wouldn’t call myself a knowledgeable about them though… I just really like looking at them

If it weren’t for my fervent, personal distaste for a mathematics-based career, I probably would have become an engineer.

Oh and cats. I really like cats.

I hope that we’ll be able to grow this amazing editorial tradition around UniMelb! I look forward to sharing with you all my journey at this great institution, advice to succeed in uni, and my general ramblings (which those with lesser fortune may encounter).

– Isaac