How to ace your first year in tertiary education? You have just finished Year 12. You did the best you could in your exams and are enjoying the summer break without a care in the world. Before you know it, it’s February (or wait, is it March already?!) and your first semester of University is just around the corner. What’s the best times for classes? How do I get there? What do I need for class? All these questions race past your mind and answers seem very hard to come by with this kind of thing. Well, we got your back. Here are 5 tips to crush uni life.

The prospect of a New Year can be both exciting and daunting. On the one hand, you have the opportunity to ‘start afresh’ with a positive mindset and a commitment to being your best. On the other, the very same situation can leave us feeling lost, directionless or flat because we’re either unsure about what to focus on, or overwhelmed by a never ending list of things we want to accomplish.

Much research would also suggest that the most important factor to our wellbeing is our relationships. So when we were/are asked to physically distance ourselves from one another, there’s no surprise that this has/had a negative impact on the way we feel and function.

In a job market more competitive than we’ve seen in years, what can tertiary students or recently graduated students (grads) do to maximise their chances of landing a dream job?

Being an international student is no easy feat, and can sometimes be misunderstood. Moving to a different country on your own, adapting to, and surviving in a new environment, living away from loved ones, learning a new language, grappling with financial strains - these are just several experiences international students go through.