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- [Luke] Hey, my name's Luke and I'm a
second year medical student
at the University of Western Australia.
I do love my sleep-ins.
I'll wake up probably around nine or ten,
get myself a quick breakfast
and coffee just at home,
just to get myself going,
and then I'll catch the bus in from town into Uni.
And then I give myself my full breakfast at
Hackett Hall, they do an amazing...
Eight dollars gives you bacon, hash browns, baked beans,
bread, like the whole spread.
So that's the proper start of my day.
And then after that, a typical day,
I'll have either classes, tutorials, or labs
and I've got some really good mates in those classes.
So after we finish them, it's around lunchtime by then,
so we head down to the local bar which is a student bar.
Another ten dollar burger, chips, drink special.
You can tell I'm onto these specials.
Play a bit of pool there, muck around,
and then back to classes for the afternoon.
Typically, Uni wraps up at around five o'clock each day
and after that, depending on how refreshed I'm feeling
I might hit the library, do some study, or go home.
Once I'm home, I like to think I get study done there
but truth be told, it's more just going
to the dog park with my dogs.
Because I just find after a stressful day of Uni,
it's just nice to kick back and relax
and just do something completely non-work related.
So the dog park is a huge tick for me.
Maybe a little bit of study after dinner,
just so I consolidate whatever I've done in the day.
And then I do try to get to bed at an early time,
but I'm all sure we know how that ends up working out.
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The campus itself, I would say is probably one of the best
in Australia, and just quietly, definitely the
best in Western Australia.
It's so green, like there's water features everywhere
and as you can see, the architecture is really, really cool.
So this is Winthrop Hall, it's arguably
our most impressive building on campus.
The stone here was laid by our Premier in 1929,
but I'm sure the actual building itself
is much older than that.
Over here is where everyone takes their
graduation photos because, as I'm sure you can appreciate,
it is a really picturesque location.
So, the medicine degree at UWA starts off
with your undergraduate, and that's made up of three years.
The first year was really, really fun
and was a really nice way of kind of easing you into Uni
because you had the opportunity to do
lots of broadening units.
I actually did a full unit for a whole semester of playing
African bongo drums and our final composition
big assessment was a concert where we just got to
whack drums with sticks, which was super cool.
So that first year was amazing, you really get
an opportunity to immerse yourself in Uni life.
Joining clubs, we actually, me and my mate
started up the UWA Poker Club for the first time ever
so that was like, really a highlight of my year
being able to start that.
And it's still running a year later
so hopefully that continues.
So, in second year it actually starts to ramp up
a significant bit and we started doing a lot more
medical related stuff.
Whilst it was hard, it was really cool because
I went into Uni with the knowledge that I wanna be
after six years, I want to be a doctor.
So, while second year was really hard, we actually
got to start looking at those kinda things.
Doing physiology, doing pharmacology, starting to
learn anatomy, like really in-depth
which really affirmed to me that I was actually doing
the right thing, because I've really loved this year so far
even though the competitiveness of it's really ramped up
and it's a lot more content, it's really awesome.
The UWA course, I think, is really well taught
which makes it a bit easier for us as students
and has really been a good year for me.
Next year, in third year, we move onto
more clinical based stuff.
So actually looking at specific diseases
and how to treat them,
and a much wider view of the body
which is really cool because in the first kind of years
it's slightly more general "science-y"
and chemistry, and biochemistry
but, then in third year we're going to
be able narrow it down and actually start looking at
the human body and looking at really exclusive things
like human anatomy, human physiology,
rather than just general.
So, after third year that's going to be
the undergraduate component of our medicine course finished
and then we move on to postgraduate.
That, I think, is going to be really awesome
because you start getting to actually
go off campus and go into healthcare settings
such as the Harry Perkins Research Center
or Queen Elizabeth the Second Hospital, Royal Perth Hospital
and starting to interact with patients and other doctors
and I think the thing I most look forward to in that is
actually getting to look almost at what might be my future
and see things that might interest me,
expose myself to different areas of medicine,
and that's something that's just going to be
an amazing opportunity because it's really getting to
see what might my life actually look like in the future.
So that's going to run for three years
and I'm really looking forward to that,
because at the end of it, after six years of Uni
I'll be able to graduate as a doctor of medicine.
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UWA has an amazing body of international students.
I've made friends with people from Italy, from Portugal,
and I don't think really that can be summed up, like, enough
it's so amazing to meet these people
from all over the world who you probably
otherwise wouldn't have met if you're not
coming down to Uni, getting yourself immersed
in the social aspects that UWA has.
At UWA, I think we've got...
It's like over a hundred and fifty clubs and societies
which is just another way to find
people with like-minded interests
or even let a friend drag you down to
one of their clubs or societies that they're interested in
and you can learn this whole new kind of society
and meet different people and get involved
in something that you probably otherwise wouldn't have seen
which is just something that makes the social life
here at UWA really, really cool.
In terms of the social aspect, UWA is just perfect
'cause itself it's far enough away from CBD that
we've got a beautiful campus.
It's huge, expansive, there's lush greean places everywhere,
we've got awesome sporting facilities,
but also it's close enough to the CBD that
there's everything you could want to do, and more.
So, for me on the weekends, my typical weekend
I'll maybe go up to King's park with my friends,
take the dogs up there.
The view is fantastic, you can see over
the whole Swan river.
And then also, we might go out kayaking on the Swan river,
it's really nice.
The water's super clear, it's really clean,
lovely to get outdoors and actually do something.
Also, we've got amazing beaches
Fremantle beach and City beach are just spectacular,
really great places.
Especially now that it's coming into summer
the weather is just amazing for it.
You kinda just have to go to the beach if you live in Perth
it's part of the cultural life.
So that's really awesome
me and my friends love going down there.
I think the main reason I chose UWA
is because it is my local university.
I've lived in Perth all my life.
And whilst I've been to some of the other Australian cities
and the Unis there were really awesome when I visited them,
UWA being my local one is a huge thing
but it's also in the top one hundred of worldwide Unis,
so it's not just because it was my local one,
it's a really good university and the medical course here
has been running for ages and it's really well established.
They know what they're doing.
So for me, it was a really, really easy choice.
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