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Juggling Life and Study in Session 3

Session 3 doesn’t have to mean choosing between study and summer fun. Emily shares practical tips, time-management tricks, and must-have essentials to help you balance work, holidays, and study without burning out.

My 2026 Study Resolutions

You made it through 2025! Now it’s time to set yourself up for a stronger year ahead. Brooke shares practical, realistic tips for creating achievable study resolutions, building better habits, and approaching university life with clarity and...

What I Learnt This Year

Charles Sturt student Olivia looks back on 2025, a year shaped by challenge, growth and resilience - a reminder that transformation often happens quietly and unexpectedly

Journey of a School Leaver VS a Mature-Aged Student

Our journeys into university are all unique from knowing what we want to study at 16-years-old to discovering a new career option as a 29-year-old. Remi compares her experiences as a school leaver to those of Alex a mature aged student exploring how...

My Placement Experience with StreetKind

Alyssa reflects on her incredible and unpredictable placement with StreetKind - a community support organization. An opportunity that pushed her far beyond the comfort of classroom simulations. Through tough nights, confronting situations, and...

Surviving Clinical Placement

Rural placement has a way of humbling you fast, especially when you run into a patient at the supermarket after examining them that morning. But medical student Harvey tells you how in rural places , the kindness, honesty and community spirit make...

Breaking Stereotypes: From Disability to Doctorate

This International Day of Persons with Disabilities, meet Dr Chrissy Antonopoulos: a Charles Sturt graduate whose journey from exclusion to PhD is breaking stereotypes, challenging unconscious bias, and showing the impact of true accessibility and...

A Guide to Studying Medicine

Starting as a medical student and feeling a bit lost or overwhelmed? Third year student Harvey gives you his top tips to stay on track.

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