Starting uni

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Hi there, welcome to the first ever edition of the Reach Out pod cast, my name is Sarah and I am a Reach Out youth ambassador.  On the Reach Out forums we have noticed there’s a whole lot of talking going on how ever it is your fingers that are doing the talking and your eyes that are doing the listening.  We thought it might be worthwhile to do some real chatting with people in the Reach Out world.

So today we are going to talk to some people who have had to move away from home to go to university, being that’s it’s the start of a new year many of us are experiencing fresh beginnings.  New things are almost always scary and Pat, Alisha, Alison and Ashley share how they tackled not only going to uni but also moving away from home for the first time.    

My names Ashley and I am doing a business degree majoring in human resource management.

My name is Patrick Sulivan. I am a second year human resource management student.

My names Alison. I am studying a bachelor of business major in economics.

My names Alisha and I’m studying maths communication.

Boy: Some of the tough things about moving to Brisbane was um... moving away from immediate family, um... change in culture I guess from a small country town to the hustle and bustle of the city and just moving away from close friends.

Girl: Ahh... since moving in here I have learnt that you kinda have to rely on your self and you learn that you can do things on your on instead of always asking for help even though its good to ask for help sometimes you kinda learn to be self sufficient.

Girl: The worst thing about moving to Brisbane the first time was that I’d had never been here on my own before I had never caught the train, I didn’t know how to catch a bus um... just navigating my way around lots of people, public transport, having no friends, (laughs) just having no idea.

Girl: I moved to Brisbane a year ago, I came from Noosa on the Sunshine coast.  I didn’t really know too much about Brisbane before I moved here I’d been to Queen’s Street mall to go shopping a few times and that was all I knew.  The first time I caught the bus around Brisbane it was pretty scary I didn’t know where I was going and you get to know your way around eventually and I know all the back streets now and the quick ways and the buses to catch.
 
I would say be careful about who you move in with so its good to have house mates that aren’t really, really close friends and so then if there’s problems its not like your wrecking a friendship as well as a um as someone you live with and also just to get out and have fun and don’t be scared to try new things and meet new people.

Boy: Take time to adjust and don’t judged it in your first three months cuz it does get better.

Girl: The only advice I can give to other people in the same situation is to persevere um... it just takes a lot of effort and a lot of time to settle in so don’t give up or go home or anything just stick with it- it gets better.

Girl: Always ask for help if you need it don’t be afraid.

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Sarah: Next up we have an interview with Tamara who’s job it is to actually organise O week Tamara was on the job when we scored the interview so here’s some words of advice from her.

Tamara: O week is week zero of uni so it’s when all the first years come onto campus um... there’s lots of faculty specific orientation, information days as well as um... there generic BBQs held on some campuses just depending on what uni you go to um... it’s a time for the first years to start and socialise together get to know each other and um... get to know their campus while there’s not a lot of other people there so it’s a good way to suss out where everything is.

Tamara: I expected uni to be much, much, much harder that it really was (laughs) um I don’t, I guess I had high expectations of um you know pressure from lectures but I mean I believe uni is open to everyone and everyone can do it no matter how intelligent they are, lecturers are always there to help you and there, there friendly and it just makes life so much easier and its not a scary place like most people think it is its actuality quiet a friendly environment where you can learn and socialise and meet new people it’s quite exciting.

Sarah: and if you could do uni differently what, what else, would you have done at uni

Tamara: Um probably get more involved in some of the social aspects of uni, I guess like I made really good friends with a group of people who I went to uni with but um we use to always socialise out side of uni there wasn’t much um socialising with, within the uni times you always use to go out afterwards I think getting involved in clubs and societies and recreation would have been a good idea.

Sarah: So Tamara do you have any advice for someone who’s about to start university?

Tamara: Don’t stress it’s all good (laughs) its fun I, I reckon everyone who leaves uni then misses uni life it’s a good place to learn I definitely would recommend uni to anyone and I don’t thing people should be scared its going to be to hard for them because there’s people there to help you and defiantly get involved in social events cuz its if you don’t you’ll miss out it’s a once in a life time opportunity.

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Sarah: That brings us the end of the first Reach Out podcast it was short it was sweet but hopefully it will only leave you begging for more. Join us next time for our podcast on our topic of alcohol, don’t forget to log onto reachout.com.au and tell us your ideas about what we should be chatting about. See you later.

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