UNI LIFE: 5 Things I've Experienced

Starting university is daunting, challenging and down right painful sometimes! But it's one step forward to reaching your goals. So, in the six months that I have spent at UQ, here are five things that I've learnt on my journey.

1. UQ is a big and confusing campus!

Every day is a new adventure, especially when you don't know where your going... UQNav is a nice invention but no first year can rely only on the app!

2. Public transport is long and extremely painful.

Queensland transport really needs to step up their game. Spending an hour and a half on a train is annoying at the best of times but after a long day at uni, with a train full of people, its uncomfortable and exhausting. Only three and a half years to go, yay!

3. Time management is the key to success!

As an over-achieving student in high school, I always used to finish assignments weeks before the due date. This has not been my life in uni. Starting assignments three days before the assignment is due doesn't work, something that I am slowly learning!

4. Everything at uni is expensive.

The course itself. The food. The cost of transport. Textbooks. Laptops, the list goes on! Nothing more needs to be said.

5. The grades that you get don't define who you are

Doing a journalism degree, I have found, you have the opportunity to change lives and impact people. A bad grade in the first semester of uni shouldn't define the type of person that you are, or what your passions in life are. There is always time and room for improvement, things take time, learning life skills doesn't happen over night!

So in six months, these are the most important things that I've learned.