Do you recommend doing a workshop and practical back to back? I have to do a practical and workshop either back to back from 10am to 3pm or have a giant 3 hour gap in between the two. I'm wondering if anyone would be able to give some tips as to which option would be better? Personally, the 3 hour gap is more appealing to me because there is a break (and it's just during lunch time), but I also don't know what to do at uni for 3 hours apart from studying
Depends on you.
In terms of what you can do during the 3 hr break:
- meet up with group members for group projects and friends, socialise
- go do activities with a club/ society
- check out the services on campus
- get your daily exercise in
- eat lunch (pretty much a given), but you could also buy and eat lunch from the campus restaurants (which takes about 5x longer due to queues at 12-1:30pm)
- chill and relax at one of the recreational libraries (if you’re on Clayton campus, the Manga Library and SURLY are pretty laidback)
- if you find a job/ volunteer on campus, work/ volunteer
These are all things I used to do or recommended to others. Sometimes something as simple as finding a seat to have lunch at was a 10-15 min event in itself, so 3 hrs might actually fly by pretty quickly.
Note: I only had a short commute to/from uni, which meant staying was a lot more viable as an option. So, do factor your commute into your decision. Some people also just don’t like staying on campus for long, so depends on how you feel.