Category: Politics & current affairs
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Thank you,2020
Time passes so fast and we will soon say goodbye to 2020. This is a special year. In this year, everyone confronts unprecedented challenges that could not have been imagined. But, this is life, full of unexpected things. The only thing we can do it to adapt. Once we have learned how to adapt, we […] -
Life's Small Ironies (Yan)
This may be my first year at university, but last year when I still lived in Sydney I visited the University of Sydney a lot because, well, I was a nerd like that. One time, I was there for students election week. There were campaigners everywhere and I just thought they were just so annoying, […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2014/09/04/lifes-small-ironies-yan
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I just feel like saying things on the internet is a bad idea. (Victoria)
By which I mean people on the internet will make you want to punch them and yourself in the face to get away from it. So I’m a massive Whovian, right. Like, I am so incredibly keen for the 50th anniversary and for the Twelfth Doctor and it just makes me so happy to think […] -
Complementary G-string, anybody? (Simone)
I’ve been trying to come up with some costume ideas for the Arts Bookworm Ball, and so far, all I’ve thought of is that if I were a guy, I would totally be dressing up as Mr Darcy – he’s the ultimate bachelor (clearly! But maybe I wouldn’t know this if I was a guy?), […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2013/08/27/complementary-g-string-anybody-simone
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Tuesdays are my day off. (Victoria)
Sitting in my room convincing myself that now I’ve finished season to of Torchwood and my make-up and had lunch that I’ll finally get around to my English assignment and I can hear the march down Swanston. The thing is, I’m just over Australian politics. I remember this close to the last US election I […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2013/08/20/tuesdays-are-my-day-off-victoria
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A view from the streets (Kiryll)
After a hiatus that saw me suspended from action and breaching every code of blogger practice, I have returned. One test done, one essay submitted to the black hole of Turnitin. Uni is certainly here to stay and its routine has ossified. From that, I decided to bypass the academic chronicles and spoke to my […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2013/04/13/a-view-from-the-streets-kiryll
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I wanted to quote the Eulogy Song but none of the best lines were appropriate. (Victoria)
Yes, I was one of those people who loved the Chasers’ Eulogy Song. I bring this up in light of the whole UMSU/Thatcher celebration debacle. For those who don’t know what’s going on you can read the UMSU statement here and a Farrago piece on the matter here, but basically UMSU put forward a motion to […] -
When I grow up…. (Adeshola)
As a University student hoping to become a journalist, I’d like to think that print media is far from ‘dead’. Ironically, though I type these words to be published on a blog. Most recently was the Fairfax saga in which it was announced that hundreds of jobs would be cut from newspaper giants ‘The Age’ […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2012/07/30/when-i-grow-up-adeshola
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March 7th, 2011 – Stairs are my new enemy again (Will)
Well what fun modays are, i love them actually :D. Well i love uni soooo much, its soo much more fun then school i think. I love all the people and lectures and tutes (well mostly, i dont like biol much or chem soo far, and i havent had a crim one yet). But anyway […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2011/03/08/march-7th-2011-stairs-are-my-new-enemy-again
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ELECTIONS!
This week at university we had student elections, which were excellent in displaying the power of pamphlet tagging. And while you can despise each particular person for intruding on your day and accosting you every time you go to Union house or the Baillieu (I hate spelling that), you have to admire their determination to […]
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