Education Abroad Student Blog

It has been a long time since my last blog entry. I haven?t disappeared in the Australian outback but time has just flown. Time just flies when you're an exchange student and you spend a semester abroad. At least that's what I experienced while studying in Melbourne as I always wanted to do so many things, see so many different places that it was obviously just impossible to fit everything in a day's 24 hours. Moreover I had mid-term exams, as well as classes to attend; which can get busy too, sometimes; especially at the end of semester, when one deadline follows the other.  [Read More]

Hallo zäme,

Today I am writing to tell you something about what it feels like to be  an exchange 'Student' (capital S) at the Swinburne  University of Technology, and in the Faculty of Human Life and Social Science in particular. In fact it is now two weeks since classes begun, and this means I am starting to get an idea of what 'uni as an exchange student' may look like, and which are the differences  between the classes here and at home.

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Hallo to everyone,

I'm Jessica and this is my second entry on the swinburne Wanderer.
Now I have arrived in Melbourne and I spent the two weeks before the beginning of the classes of semester 2 with settling in, orientation activity, exploring the city and of course partying! ;-)

I have choosen to live on campus, in a multishare apartement and therefore it has been really easy to get used to this new environment, because I found a lot of other exchange and international students, but even Australian ones, who live on-campus and share the same situations, eventual problems and necessities as I may; and one of the first things I've found out is that the fastes and easiest  way to solve a problem is to ask for help. Just ask, someone will know what to do!

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Hallo!

My name is Jessica and I am writing to tell you about what it feels like to be an exchange student in Melbourne-Australia, at Swinburne University of Technology.

"Hallo" is not a mistake, as you might think, it's rather an attempt to introduce myself as I am used to. In fact I am Swiss; therefore I am used to speaking Swiss-German. But I could have even said "Salve" and "buongiorno a tutti" because I live in Italy, where I'm taking my degree in International Communications at the University of Foreigners of Perugia (which is the "heart" of Italy, right in the middle). 

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