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Charlie – Your Student Voice

Hi! Welcome to Charlie – Your Student Voice. Here you will find meaningful stories, common ground and an array of guidance or advice to support you at uni. Charlie is a space for students, by students which you're able to share simply by reading along or joining our community of student contributors. The Charlie Team are just a click away if you ever wish to reach out. Happy reading!

The positive impacts of becoming a student mentor

Written by Kristy-Lee Garland Firstly, I would like to introduce myself, my name is Kristy-Lee, and I am a fourth-year student. I started my university adventure by completing the Diploma of General Studies in 2019. This gave me an incredible...

Greta receives life changing scholarship

Written by Greta Porter Charles Sturt University’s scholarship ceremony for Bathurst and Orange students was held on Friday 20 May, and I was very fortunate to be one of this year’s recipients. Each year, Charles Sturt University offers more...

How education student, Michelle Curry, tackles exam anxiety

Written by Michelle Curry Exam anxiety is common and often experienced before exams. It can also occur out of the blue right in the middle of an exam. Physical symptoms include: Rapid heart rateExcessive sweatingVomitingNauseaDiarrhoeaFeeling faint...

Dealing with deadlines

Written by Grace Carpenter The busy part of the semester is coming up, as many people are dealing with multiple final assessments as well as possibly beginning to think about exams. Having a heavy workload like this can be really overwhelming. There...

Port Macquarie’s campus green thumb

Written by Sarah Buls On Wednesday 27 April the sustainability group in Port Macquarie ran a tree planting day. In the lead-up to the day the weather looked bleak and miserable, but when we all got together the sun shone brightly. With our old...

Animal science student, Ada Crain’s, tips on horse care

Written by Ada Crain Handling horses is something that comes easily to many but not others, but it is all knowledge that just need to be practiced. From what I can understand, people believe that horses are these massive scary beasts that are...

Meet our Sustainability Student Advisers

Are you interested in how we, as students, can be more sustainable? Do you have some sustainability initiatives you would like to discuss? Our 2022 Sustainability Student Advisers are here to help! So why do we have Sustainability Student Advisers...

Donating blood: Thomas Maher’s newfound passion

Written by Thomas Maher and Tahlia Tranter Donating blood was never something I thought to do when I was younger. Since coming to Charles Sturt University, I have met people I call my good friends and going into my second year as a nursing student...

Enrolments explained…

Written by Faith Hanstock Congratulations! You’ve got your enrolment email, and you’re officially starting a degree at Charles Sturt next session or next year. If you’re like me, one of the first things I thought when I got that email besides, ‘OMG...

Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses: what to expect

Written by Billie Tipping When you first enter the ‘world of university’ it can be difficult to understand the terminology and course structures. What is the difference? To put it simple, an undergraduate (aka undergrad) course is typically a...

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