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- Here at UTS I'm taking medical science,
I'm an aspiring future doctor.
I take four classes here, I think it'll prove
to be a little bit more difficult as the weeks go by.
- I'm studying international marketing,
so I'm mostly doing business courses here.
What's different from back home is the fact
that we have tutorials and lectures.
While back home we only had lectures,
and back home we only had one teacher,
while here there's one for the lecture
and one for the tutorial.
There's also a lot of group work for business courses.
I have that in every single subject,
and that can really go both ways
depending on the people in your class.
That's something that's been a challenge for me.
- I'm also doing business courses
and one language course.
And the thing which is different to home is that you
have to do a lot of stuff during the semester.
You don't have just one exam at the end,
you have some assignments during the semester.
- I'm studying architecture and we do a lot of group work,
sometimes you have lectures and tutorials as well.
The only difference is that I'm taking
research classes here.
So this is something I'll really have to get used to,
a lot of English reading.
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- There's O Week, which in Building 1,
they organise all the clubs.
So it's an easy way for us to get ahead
on what's around and what to see, so definitely recommend
being present for O Day,
'cause all the clubs are there,
and if you want to be out there and do new stuff,
that's the place to go.
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One thing that I wasn't really used to,
that they really focus on here for the first week
is a portal called UTS Online.
It's where all your courses,
the information is there for your courses;
whether it's the syllabus.
I would recommend definitely check up
on UTS Online, the first week.
'Cause it's all kinds of little pre-quizzes,
and videos that your instructors want you to watch
before you start your academics.
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Finding classes was not too difficult,
the nice thing about it being a city campus
is that the buildings are really close.
Takes a sec, but there's people out there to help you guys
and I mean it took me a few tries.
But I feel like a pro and I've only been here for a month.
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- I am a part of the food society,
we pay five bucks for the semester
and then you get free food whenever they host an event,
which is really nice and normally around once a week.
- I am part of a Futsal team,
every Friday we go out into the gym and a couple of guys,
I think it's usually a five on five.
We play for about a couple hours.
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Regarding school supplies, I definitely brought
quite a bit of things back home.
There are like bookstores around here
that offer cheap notebooks, pens and pencils.
So don't feel stressed out
about having to bring all your stuff.
'Cause they've got plenty of it over here.
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- There are a lot of events around UTS in general,
that you can just take part in when you're at uni.
On Tuesdays there's free breakfast
from 8:30 to 11 in Building 5B.
On Wednesdays there's free breakfast
in Building 1 from 8:30 to 11.
And on Thursdays it's free soup
in Building 1 from 5 till 7.
So you should take advantage of that.
- So if you need any more information about the free food
just type in free breakfast at UTS in Google
or check this website and you'll get
all the information you need.
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- I didn't know a single soul coming in.
I really hadn't had a single problem finding friends,
especially with UTS housing.
They do a great job of bringing other international students
into the housing combination.
I would definitely recommend the first
couple of weeks you're here,
branch out, be part of the activities that they have here.
No need to be in our rooms and y'know, be introverted.
It's time to be alive and let's go have fun.
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