the welcome ceremony is more or less just being yapped to for like an hour. tbh though I’d just try go to as much welcome week stuff as you can because it’s a great way to make friends, I made a lot of my closest friendships from that week
I have a mate who went there and it sounds pretty good, the kids are apparently alright and apparently the big excursion is really good and like form you as a person or wtv. education quality seems pretty good
if you can try to find business that are super busy over Christmas and/or back to school because it’s a lot more convenient for uni to be able to work a ton in holidays and not much during sem
and yes definitely worth it
depends what ur studying, i personally exclusively use pen and paper because for me notes are just to remember stuff during the lecture anyway and it’s best for memory retention, depends what ur studying though. definitely still need a decent laptop for uni though a lot of stuff is done online...
I worked a lot and went away/hand family over a lot so I couldnt spend too much time but in the time I did have I pre-learnt all the content for maths ext 2 and chemistry
I have a friend who got offers to both and I think she ended up choosing Sancta because it’s the more social/party college of the two, so I guess if that’s not what you want women’s might be better
just thought id add since my course only needed 93 and realistically even a 70 and id get to do more or less the same thing
the main reasons for me were scholarships and having the flexibility to do other degrees if I wanted. for scholarships it def made a difference, I didn’t get any from usyd...
I’m doing the exact same thing regarding hecs using a hisa (but without a scholarship because usyd hates my farm’s suburb 💔) and it’s just common sense, there’s no reason to pay off your hecs atm and if interest rates drop and indexation is set to rise you can just quickly pay it off before it...