So here we are in Lyneham.
This is where I live.
This is my beautiful house.
We can go for a tour.
So this is our little living room.
This is our access to our—
Very unkept backyard.
Managed to get out own veggie patch growing as well,
which is great, so,
Spent the past couple of months to have that going,
so we've got all our own vegetables at the moment
which saves a bit of money.
It's a bit time consuming though.
I'll show you the bedrooms.
Yeah, this is mine.
It's not very clean, I'm sorry.
Best advice is, get a bed base.
I slept on 20 milk crates for a period of about six months.
And it wasn't good.
Fantastic furniture, hundred-dollar bed base.
There's three of us in the house.
We've been here for about a year and a half.
And it's great.
Because, you know, we're really close to uni
and lots of friends around in the area.
But moving out was a very important experience
and uni wouldn't have been the same without it.
It's, you meet new people.
And you learn to live on your own.
And you learn how important making time for study is,
because you've gotta take care of yourself
and you wanna get out and see your friends at the same time.
Keep your house clean, and do everything like that.
So, you learn a lot.
Going for ANU, I guess, it was... it has such a good name.
And that's not to say that the other universities don't.
But it's just that the courses I wanted to study
when I was at college,
I discovered a love of philosophy and English.
I wanted to continue that.
So, I love the coursework.
It's fantastic.
And the lecturers, it's amazing that at such a reputable university,
you can just email a doctor of philosophy
or a professor of this and that.
And you can just walk up to their office
and go and talk to them about anything.
And it's great.
All three of us in the house are vegetarians.
So there's a lot of fruit and vegetables.
So it's very hard to try and go through everything without letting it go off.
And there's a lot of beans.
There's a lot of frozen lentil patties.
All good.
You can come meet my beautiful bike.
So this is a purchase from ANU, actually.
They hold a market at ANU every Thursday in Union Court.
So I picked up this beauty last year for 100 dollars.
And I named it Shaquille.
'Cause it's big and brown.
So yeah.
Shaquille's helped me get around Canberra for a bit over a year now.
Great being close to uni.
It's great when you have to hand that assignment
in that's running a bit late,
you don't have to worry about parking.
It's nice to get out in the fresh air
and just see other people riding around.
And that's refreshing in the morning.
I'm pretty spread out across the campus.
So I've got some lectures in the law buildings,
I've got some in the Manning Clark just here.
And I'm over in the Coombs building on the other side of the uni as well,
so, it's good having a bike for that reason as well.
You can get around uni easily.
But it's good.
They finish the lectures five minutes early
and start them five minutes late,
so you always get in between classes.
And yeah, it's very easy to work your way around.
It's the Chifley library.
So this is probably the main library for the art students.
It's between this and I'd say Hancock,
the science library, they're the two busiest.
It does get a bit difficult at times,
Having to juggle between having a girlfriend, boyfriend,
or working all the time, paying your way,
and all the assessments.
Generally, the assessments are pretty well spaced out.
I have an essay this week, an essay that week.
But this time of year,
the end of the year it's a bit difficult.
Exams are coming up and everyone's stressing out a lot more.
But generally, the university, the lecturers try and help you a lot.
So, this is the café I work at, called Ona.
Yeah, I'm here every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
From open to close.
So that works out being about 35 hours a week.
Sometimes 40.
Yeah, it's a really good working environment
and I work with a whole bunch of other students.
So they understand that when it comes to exam time,
it gets a bit harder.
End of a long day of lectures.
So, it's Thursday afternoon.
Everybody heads to the bar so let's check it out.
And it's great, it's a good meeting place,
so at the end of a week,
everybody's done what they've done on their uni work for the week,
so the next step is to head to the bar.
As an undergrad,
going to the ANU, and living in Canberra,
it's, I couldn't picture it being any other way.
I've had such a great time here.
I've learned so much.
The courses are fantastic.
I've made so many friends.
Living in Canberra's fantastic.
And for anyone that asks whether or not they should go to the ANU,
I would always say, "Yes."