Category: Student Life

Late night chats, 3AM toastie-making and wild house parties are some of the highlights of living under one roof with your best mates. It can also be the cause of ultimate friendshipicide.

As cliché as it sounds, time spent travelling can teach you a lot about yourself. It helps you learn and grow, and puts you in situations that you never thought you’d be able to cope with.

Taking a gap year can give you the real-world experience you need before settling down into work or study. A gap year well spent will give you the freedom to develop your subject area, travel and earn a bit of cash along the way too.

Anxious students hunch over their laptops navigating between tab after tab of a million career path websites. Others immerse themselves in binge watching, binge eating and binge ignoring the problem altogether. But what if you don’t want to pay a monthly subscription to procrastinate?

Obviously the whole point of uni is to leave with a shiny degree. But what else do you gain from your time in tertiary education?

The National Student Survey (NSS) is aimed mostly at final year students and seeks to gather opinions about their course, institution and overall experience. It's meant to monitor the quality of universities across the country and identify those areas which require improvement.

September’s come around again.

50-70% of first time students experience homesickness during their first few weeks. So why not bring a bit of home to your new digs?

Whether it's because of overindulging in “uni life” or because your loan didn’t stretch far, debt is a situation many post-grads find themselves in. And it isn’t exactly an unexpected situation.