Hi I'm Anisha I'm from India. Hi I'm Luna and I'm from Nepal. My name is
Arla and I'm from the Philippines. Hi my name is Sush I'm from India today we are
answering questions from future students about what it's like to study here at UTS.
When the plane touched down in Sydney what was going through your mind
I was excited and nervous at the same time because like I said it's my first time to be
way from my family to be completely on my own but it was also like going to be an exciting adventure
For me to learn. I was kind of scared because it was a new country for me so I had like a thoughts
going on like how will I speak to people and how will I actually interact with the people
and I don't have like a good language like English language of it how will I actually manage to be
like you know be in the community over here and study so I had that all the fears going on.
Did you find it easy to settle in to Sydney? When I came to Australia I went to one of my relations
place to stay. I came to orientation week and there were different seminars going on so it was really
easy for me to settle down at UTS and in Sydney. I actually am a very extroverted person so I met a
lot of friends and I travelled across Sydney with my friends and this way it was really easy for me.
to settle. It was hard for me initially because the curriculum back in our home countries and
over here is different, so um, you get to a whole different approach of how to do things but then
there's a lot of help available um there's so many journals and articles you can read about
um you know doing it and there's also UTS Helps which initially helps you with like they help you
with assignments so yeah I mean there has been help to get through the hurdles. How does UTS
help newly arrived international students? What do you think? If you're travelling alone in the
in Sydney from your home country you can actually tell UTS beforehand to pick you up if you get like
so they can help you out to find accommodation and how to use the transportation. I do remember
a big like welcome for international students wherein they would just basically like you know
tell you about what it's like in Sydney and um give you the chance to meet uh to meet with like
the other um international students and like some of my friends now um I actually met them on that
day and we've been like really good friends ever since then. Why did you choose to study at UTS?
State of the art facility is the state of the art library this support which is available at UTS
is top notch I I chose UTS because of its various clubs society is its support it's
UTS Careers is helps you to get along with your professional life as well as there's
like UTS Indian Society and ActivateUTS which helps you during your personal life it helps
you a lot. Aside from like the actual like commute going to school it's also like
the things that are like available near the school so like there's a mall right in front of us
um and if you want to go to the beach you just have to walk to Central Station take
another train and then you're there so like really accessible everything is here oh and
and like of course the food options here are also really great like you know for example
spice alley it's just right in front of as well so yeah you will never get bored here really.
What's your number one advice for new international students?
Have an open mind there are some things that are like different here from from like you know back
in your home so you just have to be like open to like learning and um adapting to things really.
Just explore the university explore Sydney or wherever you go just explore them because you
will like learn lots of different things when you explore as well as you'll be making new
like different friends you'll have friends from different backgrounds and also you when
you actually come here in Sydney I actually suggest international students to network
and in Sydney as well as at UTS you have lots of networking events where you can network with
different people that's how I got to network with lots of new friends not only at UTS but across the
Sydney that actually helped me a lot. Thank you so much we really hope that this was helpful for
you and don't forget to be brave. Just follow your dreams and believe in yourself and just hope for
always hope for a better future ahead. And if you have any more questions go online and reach out
to the community we're all here to help you and we hope to see you soon here at UTS. See ya. See ya