Within a Cooee! Advice Tool

I’m at uni: now keep going! is a collection of encouragement and advice, gleaned from experience, for those who have already begun their studies.

Introduction

Being Regional

I’m Thinking About Uni

I’m at Uni: Now keep going!

Think about your end-goal/future

Find your support networks

Don’t hold back from seeking help

Who or what keeps you going?

Get involved

Pearls of wisdom

Practical advice

Like a Rollercoaster

Get involved

I’d say, “Get involved as much as you can. Attend everything that you can”. Obviously, I can’t get to everything because I have kids and working if I’m not at uni, but attending the social events, volunteering for student representative councils and engaging with your tutors and outside of purely that teacher/student relationship. I think just embed yourself in the community and that’s how you get a lot more out of the university.

Sophie is 34, in her 1st year of Nursing and studying full-time on-campus (moved online during COVID). She is from inner regional NSW, has two pre-school aged children, and works part-time

  • Connect with people and join groups; you know, if it’s an agriculture group or a food group, or a bush group, just to make the friends because it’ll make missing your family a lot easier. That’s what I regret not doing in my first year. (Macey)

    Macey is 18-20 from a very remote area, in 2nd year Nursing on campus. She is a student with disability, from working class background and is first in family at uni. She is 15 hours drive from home.

  • I would show first-year-me to step out of her comfort zone and she’d go to the open day events because it’s a lot harder to be lonely… I don’t know how to explain it. I didn’t really do much in my first year because I was so scared and I was so alone and it was hard for me to get out of my shell but now that I’ve made friends and I go out for lunch and I meet with them in the library to study, it’s a lot easier (Macey)

    Macey is 18-20 from a very remote area, in 2nd year Nursing on campus. She is a student with disability, from working class background and is first in family at uni. She is 15 hours drive from home.

  • Do it. attend the open days, research courses of interests, check out the student accommodation; they’re all like you being from away from home (Jackie)

    Jackie is 21-25 from an outer regional area, doing Behavioural Science on campus, 3rd year fulltime. She is first in her family at uni, and moved far from her family