Will she stick with her double degree? - paigek3’s University Journey Journal

[paigek3]

So hey! My name is Ella so of course, my user name is something completely different. Hahaha, I’ve explained the reasoning behind using not my first name in my HSC journey journal.

I’ve been pretty inactive since compelting my HSC, only popping by here and there but I had a thought last night and realised I’d love to attempt to document my university experience on here, as well as my life post high school.

I’m currently at the beginning of my first job as a part-time Marketing Co-Ordinator for a Marketing company here in Sydney. Previously I had done a lot of Media internships but they were all unpaid so it’s pretty cool to finally be earning an income! By my gooooood is it busy! It honestly doesn’t stop, even when I’m not working I’m thinking about work and what I need to do for each client and what flowers I’m going to pick for one of our client’s media launch’s and so on

Basically my company run the social media for a number of businesses, mainly local northern Beaches businesses as well as a number of exclusive resorts in Thailand, Bali and Mauritius. My job is to co-ordinate these posts as in what they’re going to say, when they are going to be posted, and making sure they align with what my clients want. I also do monthly reports for them on how the marketing is going, and assist with events when needed.

It is a pretty cool first job but with how busy and hands on it is sometimes I just wish I started off working as a checkout chick at Woollies or somewhere similar

But really, I know this is going to give me such great skills for the future with time management and having the ability to handle situations when they don’t go as planned - as well as a pretty cool title for the resume!

So uni starts in about a month and a half and I’m pretty keen to see what it’s all like but I’m kinda sad I’m not going back to school because I honestly did have an enjoyable high school experience.

I will be attending Macquarie University doing a double degree in Media & Law.

Media has been my passion from a young age (particularly sports media) so I always knew that’s what I wanted to do at university. I only decided to do law pretty late into year 12 after loving Legal Studies so much. Sometimes I do think if I should’ve just done Media by itself because then I can get into the workforce quicker, but I need to remind myself how handy it will be to have two degrees giving me the freedom of two completely different fields, even if that does mean two extra years at uni than I had originally planned.

My timetable for uni is super good, as well as my work timetable. On basic terms, I’m working all day Monday, uni for an hour Tuesday, nothing Wednesday, working all day Thursday, working half a day Friday, and uni for the rest of the day that Friday. This little contact time at uni is mainly due to my choosing of online lectures, which I have given myself Tuesday and Wednesday to watch. I’m hoping everything works together as well as I think it will because I think I’ve given myself the right amount of time to work, be at uni, study and socialise. Have to give credit to my boyfriend though because I basically just copied his life schedule during his first year of uni last year

So I better stop here because as you can see I could probably end up writing a book about my life if I do keep going lol.

I really hope I remember to update this but I’m afraid I won’t. I found the hsc one easy because I loved seeing my peers thoughts on subjects etc. but the uni community, and particularly the course/s im doing at my uni of course isn’t as big as an entire state doing the hsc.

But hey, we shall see.

[fantasticbeasts3]

hi ella!

so excited to see you're writing another journal - would love to read about your uni journey! your contact time at uni is amazing, especially for a double degree, like... i have to go in 4 days a week. also, props to you for getting that marketing job, it would be so good for work experience :-)

i hope you have the best time at uni, and all the best!!

[paigek3]

hi ella!

so excited to see you're writing another journal - would love to read about your uni journey! your contact time at uni is amazing, especially for a double degree, like... i have to go in 4 days a week. also, props to you for getting that marketing job, it would be so good for work experience :-)

i hope you have the best time at uni, and all the best!!

Four days a week oh no! I’d have to do that too if my lectures weren’t online I just got really lucky that I could squish all my classes together with no breaks but I am starting to question if that’s a good idea or not.

You should write one too! I’d love to hear from your degree because it was something I was thinking of doing but decided distance was a bit too far for me

[fantasticbeasts3]

Four days a week oh no! I’d have to do that too if my lectures weren’t online I just got really lucky that I could squish all my classes together with no breaks but I am starting to question if that’s a good idea or not.

You should write one too! I’d love to hear from your degree because it was something I was thinking of doing but decided distance was a bit too far for me

sooooo lucky. i reckon you'll get used to it :-) mum told me not to shove a lot of classes in one day because she said it would be tiring, but you learn from experience so if it doesn't work out, you can always change it. :-)

maybe i will write one! funny you mention the distance though, UNSW is quite a trek for me, hahaha. happy friday :-)

[paigek3]

WOW I have a lot to catch up on hey . So many new threads of so many people I recognise from the HSC class of 2017 which is awesome and I look forward to reading all of those tonight!

But seriously I need to start getting back on here more - I mean I even got a notice asking if I really wanna post because this thread hasn’t been active in over a month....oops! But now that I have an actual reason to post, I’m hoping I will.

So tomorrow is my Orientation Day for Uni! I’m quite excited because I know a couple of people going. My other friends who have been to theirs so far haven’t enjoyed it too much because they didn’t know anyone else going so felt a bit out of place which is not like them at all. But I guess uni is a whole different ball game!

Main thing I’m looking forward to tomorrow is the freebies hahahaha!! Also excited to hopefully get my Student ID if the lines aren’t too bad, and need help with accessing my email because it’s telling me I’m putting in the wrong password even after I’ve tried eeeeverything.

So uni starts next Wednesday for me. I have a few lectures on the Monday/Tuesday but all mine are online hence why my first physical uni day isn’t till the day after.

I’m super excited to start and meet new people and do all that fun stuff. I’m sure the thought of uni being fun will quickly wear off

How has everyone else’s orientation days gone so far? What stuff have you got? Have you met anyone doing your course? I’m sure I’ll find out a lot of stuff after reading the rest of the journey journals!

[The Special One]

Lol I dropped my Commerce part of my  double degree after a year to focus on law full time.

Hopefully you have the motivation to stick with yours all the way through.

[jamonwindeyer]

But seriously I need to start getting back on here more - I mean I even got a notice asking if I really wanna post because this thread hasn’t been active in over a month....oops! But now that I have an actual reason to post, I’m hoping I will.

This is one circumstance where I'm really glad this warning was ignored keen to hear how things travel for you, have missed having you around!

[paigek3]

Might be a week late on my response to O-Week (well really day for me lolllll) but better late than never, right?

Found the orientation day pretty stock standard, telling me to study, telling me what a lecture was and everything else, but from doing a lot of research myself & having a boyfriend who is a second year student (of a completely different degree but still helps for general uni stuff!!), I kind of knew most of what they spoke about. We had a ‘how to succeed in law school’ talk but everyone there was saying how it was basically a study skills session haha but I didn’t mind because it’s nice to refresh my study habits.

Have had two lectures so far, but all of mine are online so haven’t had a physical day yet. My foundations of law lecture was extremely introductory, introducing staff etc. but my Australian Media one did that and went into what exactly we will be learning in a more in-depth sense so I enjoyed that. My first physical day is tomorrow! I have one tutorial. I’m in a group chat with plenty of media students from Macquarie after it was posted in the 2017 hsc discussion group asking if anyone wanted to be added, and I found a girl in my tutorial for Australian Media tomorrow so that’s cool!

I’ve done my two readings for tomorrow, and really enjoyed one and struggled to read the other. Made some notes on them because I have to write 100 words on one of the readings every single week so definitely will choose the first one.

So not keen for ice breakers tomorrow lol! I’m a people person but I still think ice breakers are gross and awkward hahaha but it’ll be pretty funny cause at least we are all in the same boat!

[paigek3]

forgot to add I had my high achievers assembly today for 2017 HSC at my high school! Was fairly quick but was good to see some of the year 12s and my old teachers!

[fantasticbeasts3]

Hope you have a great time tomorrow!! Excited to read more of your updates. :-)

[paigek3]

My first tutorial went well. Just did ice breaker activities for most of the class (which weren’t that bad) and then discussed the weekly readings for a bit. Met two girls who seemed heaps nice. Hoping uni is like high school where once you sit in a spot for the first time, no one takes it, like an unintentional seating plan lol.

Got four hours of tutorials straight tomorrow until 5pm so that’s going to be tough. Also have to carry around 2 (or 3 or 4..better check that) textbooks which also will not be fun. But cause uni is still so new I’m super excited!

[K888]

^re: sitting in the same spots - probably depends, but I found that people always sat in the same spots in my tutes last year haha

[paigek3]

My gosh, am I overwhelmed.

Been absent from here (yet again oops) but this time it’s for good reason - I’ve been so damn busy. I calculated that this week alone I had been assigned 269 pages of readings, 2 writing tasks and an online quiz... I’m going crazy!!! Alongside that + physically attending university, I’m also working 21 hours a week and work has been stressful too because we are organising a media launch for one of our clients, as well as signing new clients so things are changing and I need to stay on top of them.

It’s honestly frying my brain right now but I think once I get the hang of Uni work I’ll feel a bit better

Other than that, I’m really enjoying uni life in itself. The people are nice, my tutors are awesome and we have some good discussions

Is it bad to say I’m already keen for uni break so I can get on top of things lol?!

[fantasticbeasts3]

My gosh, am I overwhelmed.

Been absent from here (yet again oops) but this time it’s for good reason - I’ve been so damn busy. I calculated that this week alone I had been assigned 269 pages of readings, 2 writing tasks and an online quiz... I’m going crazy!!! Alongside that + physically attending university, I’m also working 21 hours a week and work has been stressful too because we are organising a media launch for one of our clients, as well as signing new clients so things are changing and I need to stay on top of them.

Wow!!! Hope things settle down sometime soon :-)

Is it bad to say I’m already keen for uni break so I can get on top of things lol?!

Same! Do you have your break around Easter?

[paigek3]

Wow!!! Hope things settle down sometime soon :-)

Same! Do you have your break around Easter?

We have the long weekend (which we still have a lecturer for one of my law subjects that will be pre recorded fml) and then we are at Uni for two more weeks, then from the 16th of April is our break