Category: Social, personal & family life

  1. I can’t stress this enough

    Hunched upon my bed (terrible posture) at 10:41 p.m. in the night, I realized what I want to write about.   Stress. I’d like to think that I’m good at managing stress. But others refuse to agree. It’s debatable, okay? Life is an amalgamation of various sources of stress. I can’t explain how, but everything […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2019/09/19/i-cant-stress-this-enough

  2. Dear Diary, here’s my resume boosters

    Hey hey everyone! Sorry, it has been so long since my last post. Right now my life is like a cauldron and its brewing with 3 assignments per week, 20 contact hours and 12 hours of part-time work. Nevertheless, I’m here (finally) to discuss what I do in my spare time. But beware, this is […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2019/08/26/dear-diary-heres-my-resume-boosters

  3. don’t worry, be happy

    There’s something that I want to use this platform for more than anything, something that is really important to me – opening up the discussion about mental health. As a high school student I both dreaded and yearned moving to uni and starting anew. I’d moved around a lot, so I wasn’t too keen on […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2019/08/18/dont-worry-be-happy

  4. Veterinarian? Sociologist? Dancer? Hmm

    ¡Buenas tardes! I’m Nicole, a Jaffy (Just Another Fabulous First Year) Bachelor of Arts student, though if I’m being honest I should probably tell you that this is my third degree, officially Mature Age now. Yes, I have an addiction and it is called Learning. *sigh* The path to where I am now hasn’t been […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2019/07/10/veterinarian-sociologist-dancer-hmm-nicole

  5. Dear Diary, It’s Me

    Hey there fellow readers, I’m here to roll out the red carpet and introduce myself as one of the new first-year writers for the Jaffy Diaries. As my first semester of university is coming to a close, I figured that instead of buckling down and studying for exams, I would sit here and write a […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2019/05/28/dear-diary-1

  6. New Semester, New Opportunities (Jess)

    Welcome back everyone! I’ve been meaning to write a new post for a while, but as things do, they got super busy (We all know the drill). Like I’m sure most of you did, I took full advantage of my break to relax, to refresh and to ultimately prepare for another jam-packed semester ahead. I […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2018/07/24/new-semester-new-opportunities-jess

  7. Arriving in Melbourne: my POV + feeling isolated

    No preparation could lead me to the big city life, especially not for a small-town girl. I was wedged in the middle, being neither an international student nor an Aussie one, but a Kiwi. My arrival “No expectations”, I said, “They inevitably lead to disappointment.” Yet, subconsciously, I presumed the arrivals area of the Melbourne […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2018/04/15/arriving-in-melbourne-my-pov-feeling-isolated

  8. ChannelFluffy Episode 1: Let the Adventure Begin! (Anita)

    Greetings from Unimelb! (Lies, lies. But since this is the official Unimelb first year blog, hmmm I guess I’m not wrong) Hello there! My name is Anita and along with Kat and Tessa, I’m one of the first year bloggers for 2017. Like all the other bloggers have done, I would like to take this […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2017/04/22/channelfluffy-episode-1-let-the-adventure-begin-anita

  9. Routines

    Pretty much 3 quarters of ‘First Year’ has passed for me, and things are gradually becoming more stable. From locating lecture/tutorial spots to awkward hours on-campus and sleeping time, life in uni gradually becomes… normal, though some of it not in the way I want to.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2016/09/06/routines

  10. With a Little Help from My Friends

    Studying as a Jaffy first-year student is not easy. From the expectations to listen and understand most, if not all the lectures, the assignments that you have to hand in before its due (and the notion that you’re still working on it creeping up to you everyday until you hand it in), and the readings/problem booklet/quizzes […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/first-year/2016/05/10/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends

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