Category: Politics & current affairs

  1. The Real Life (Yuan)

    What began as a flurry of posts in the beginning of the year has gently trickled down to the occassional update, or in my case, a hiatus for a couple of weeks. Welcome to Uni! Everything stepped up a gear and all those talks about self-responsibilities become a reality nightmare. All those skipped lectures and […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2008/04/29/theres-gotta-be-more-to-life-yuan

  2. Numb (Yuan)

    Initially, I was planning to have some fun in writing down my very relaxing holiday and the things (or the lack of) I managed to get done over that week but sadly, life goes on and things, not always good, happen. Take last Friday, for example. I had my first test. Admittedly, it was only a short […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2008/04/09/numb-yuan

  3. Con/VCA merger, essay grades, and bread (Suzanne)

    So, I got an email from the Dean of the Faculty of Music today, and apparently, the Victorian College of the Arts School of Music is merging with the Faculty of Music at Melbourne University (aka ‘the Con’). Technically, they were both part of the University of Melbourne, but the VCA continued to provide its […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2007/10/24/convca-merger-essay-grades-and-life-suzanne

  4. The Rat Race (David)

    It’s been aaaaaaages since my last post and the only excuse I can come up with is procrastination. Please forgive me? Uni is coasting along just fine, nothing super exciting has happened thus worth mentioning so I won’t bore you. Instead, I will go straight into what has been on my mind lately. To be […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2007/10/24/the-rat-race-david

  5. Right now, I am supposed to be…. (Suzanne) – add your own!

    1. Watching my friends perform in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, because today was closing night. 2. Practising. As always. 3. Making a dent in six weeks behind-ness of law reading 4. Making my concise reference notes for open book law exams 5. Writing scholarship applications for next year 6. Applying for competitions/jobs 7. Calling my parents 8. […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2007/10/06/right-now-i-am-supposed-to-be-suzanne-add-your-own

  6. Ten things I have noticed upon returning home (Suzanne)

    1. My room has been completely renovated and most of the stuff I didn’t bring to uni has been chucked out. 2. It’s the middle of hot, humid, summer here. And the middle of rainy season. Dear cheese, I hate Hong Kong weather. 3. I have gained 8 pounds/4 kilograms of extra mass over the […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2007/06/26/ten-things-i-have-noticed-upon-returning-home-suzanne

  7. A few Facebook groups… (Suzanne)

    …that I’ve joined lately include ‘My education is getting in the way of my learning’, ‘I’ve thought about dropping out of law school at least ten times today’ and ‘Every time you write parallel fifths, Bach kills a kitten’. Now, that last group has absolutely no relevance to what I’m going to talk about in […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2007/05/18/a-few-facebook-groups-suzanne

  8. Can you see an effective advertising campaign? (Zoë)

    Yesterday afternoon I went to see Spiderman 3 (if you liked the first two, you owe it to yourself to go – twas awesome). I walked into the cinema resigned to the fact there would be at least 15 minutes of ads before the movie would start. I settled into my seat, expecting to see […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2007/05/05/can-you-see-an-effective-advertising-campaign-zoe

  9. How do you stop an exploding Commerce building? (Zoë)

    With a well-timed evacuation, I suppose. An evacuation that was very efficient – congratulations and thanks should be offered to those staff involved. I had a Biology lecture in the Copland Theatre this morning, and we had a new lecturer, who was really engaging, running up and down the stairs imitating a jellyfish. I was […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2007/04/23/how-do-you-stop-an-exploding-commerce-building-zoe

  10. Why the Melbourne Model makes no sense to me (Suzanne)

    Finished my PPL essay yesterday, so I’ve decided that I deserve a day of procrastination, even though I have my LMR essay due on Monday. Anyway. This morning, I open the paper, and I find a newspaper article which says that because the uni’s worried about losing talented students after the Melbourne Model switch, they’re […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2007/04/17/why-the-melbourne-model-makes-no-sense-to-me-suzanne

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