How I Survived My First Year

Yesterday I received an email form a uni staff on behalf of Student Experience team sort of thing, offering me a participation on telling my story of how I survived my first year as a Masters student. My story would then featured on a new app being developed for Masters students starting in 2016. It appeared to be a recommendation given from one of my lecturers to ask for my participation. I happened to build a connection with this lecturer and we had a bit of a talk about my study experience and life as an international student in Melbourne. I was, of course, excited to receive such a recommendation and an offer and therefore I immediately agreed to participate. However, in order to participate I must answer this following questionnaire.

I have been racking my brain trying to get my story out but I have yet come up with anything so far. As a lone survivor, I understand that I have to make my story encouraging for the new students. The problem is, how do I make a good story of many disappointing group works, countless of all-nigther combined with heaps of RedBull to successfully navigating the classes and assessments in the course that I'm a part of? And my final tip/thought is something sounded like a grumble of international students only hang out with peers from the same background and miss the opportunity to improve their English. Surely, these new students didn't pay tens of thousand of Australian dollar to being told off by me.

Well, hopefully I come up with something sooner than later. In the meantime, I'm going to bed and get my beauty sleep.

Until next post

Nearly There

Hey, it's nearly a month since my last post. It's Spring already in here, by the way. The weather is somewhat changing frequently everyday but I've managed to survive so far, although I fell sick a few times too many within a couple of months.

In regards to my studies, as I've told you that this is my last semester in uni so I've been busy as usual. In fact, I've just completed my last assignment tonight. I'm a few clicks away from submitting it and a proofread and that's it, I'm done! Now I need to only focus on the exams.

We're in SWOT vac at the moment, which is one week before final exams period. I have lots of revision to do considering I didn't do it since Week 1. It means I'm going to squeeze down the 12 weeks of material into one week of revision. And that is for each subject of two that are going to be examined. (Shikes!)

I have to be honest that due to the heaps of assignment load, I completely neglected one subject, that is Auditing and Assurance Services. This is the least favourable subject for me. It's not that I dislike the subject, but the assessment grades weren't up to my standard due to the lack of coordination in group work (more reason to hate group assignment). Considering this situation, I am therefore going to need all the power in me to beat this up.

In overall, I've been doing great this semester with the other two subjects. It means I still have high hopes for High Distinction in those two subjects. Fingers crossed that I'm going to nail it.

Until next post.