Throughout my week at registration and enrolment, I've learned more about Monash's educational system. When students graduate from school (our high school), they must take an exam that will determine which schools they will best fit and what course they should study. When they are looking at uni choices, they apply to the specific faculty which houses their interests (faculty of arts is super large, but the faculty of law or medicine is strictly for what it implies). Therefore, these students will go straight into a plan for schooling that is MUCH different from Furman. However, there has [View Full Entry]

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....well until O-Week 2009, that is!! Hi everyone! Sorry it's taken me some time to send out another update--things have been getting very busy (and very fun)! We wrapped up our O-Week 2008 Thursday night with a wonderful off-campus trip....but let me back track a few days to where I left off... After we had gone through enrolment at the beginning of the week, we had several more opportunities to get to know our building mates. Through building dinners, outings throughout the city, and trips to the super market, we've all had the chance to really learn more about one another [View Full Entry]

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Well, we've wasted no time in getting things started with O-Week 2008! As I moved in one day earlier, Saturday seemed to be a much busier day for first year students, as parents, brothers, sisters, boyfriends, and girlfriends made their way in and out of each stairway moving their loved ones into their new homes for the year. Much like my experience as an RA, Steph (our stairway RA) went around helping out the students and their families to get settled in, followed by having a Stairway meeting at her room. It was pretty routine: each of the ressies introduced him/herself, [View Full Entry]

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G'day everyone! I finally reached Melbourne, 27.5 hours after taking off from Greenville! I started out on February 13th from GSP and flew through Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and Auckland, before I arrived at the Tullarmarine airport in Melbourne. I was happily greeted by the scholarships coordinator from Rotary District 9810, Mr. Peter Murie. Tired and a bit grungy, Peter and I set out into the city. I had the chance to have lunch with Peter and Yumi, another Rotary scholar here from Japan. Yumi is a masters student studying ESOL. She was a 06/07 Rotary scholar to the district, but sh [View Full Entry]

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