Alisha's Uq Experience

"When I'm studying my Bachelor of Business Management, some of the things that I really love about it is all of my lecturers are completely lovely people. I can go and chat to them if I have any problems with any of the subjects that I'm studying. They also give you really good advice about what are good ways to get into the fields that you're interested in, so UQ's really great in that it helps you to prepare for when you start entering the workforce in your chosen field. For example this semester, I was lucky enough to have a number of guest lecturers who came in and talked to us about how they practiced in their fields. For example, we had someone come in to talk to us about Workplace Health and Safety, and they were actually a Workplace Health and Safety manager in their organisation. We also had representatives coming from some of the trade unions, we had a representative come in from the Australian Industry Group, and they talked to us about the interaction between unions and employer associations in the workforce. That really was great in that it gave you an insight into what things were like when you were applying all of this knowledge that you learn in university onto your career and when you're working in the workforce. Before I decided to come to the University of Queensland, I spoke to a lot of family and friends, and got their opinions on what they thought of different universities. I had some family members who were quite up in the upper management of some companies in Brisbane, so I had a chat to them and talked to them about what different universities they thought had better reputations for when they were hiring their staff at a graduate level. I also did lots of research on the internet to try and decide what areas of study I was interested in. I also spoke a lot to my guidance counsellor when I was in year 12. They had really great information about all of the different courses that we could study, and what areas different universities tended to specialise in. I'm very lucky in that I have a very good time table while i'm at uni, I'm only generally here for about 12 - 14 hours a week. And I actually get to choose when I have a lot of my tutorials, and when I have my lectures, so I can generally structure it so that I'm only here three days a week, maybe a couple of mornings and an afternoon a week. That's really great, because you can go home and study. I work part time as well. It's really good because you can balance your life between all of your social activities, your academic activities and also your work opportunities on the side. I've actually just moved off-campus, I'm living in Toowong, which is quite close to the university. I'm able to catch the bus to uni, I can catch the CityCat. There's lots of different ways that you can get to uni: I can drive, catch public transport, so it's really very well accessible to people living in all parts of Brisbane. I think my favourite aspect about UQ is probably the campus. I really love that you can come along to uni, between your classes you can go and sit down at the Great Court, or you can go down to the UQ Lakes and have a bit of a picnic with your friends. There's also really great facilities that you're able to access: we've got UQ Sport so you can go do lots of different sporting activities. We've got great athletics fields and sporting ovals that you can do team sport on. We have fantastic libraries. They're probably some of my most favourite aspects of UQ."