Be a Course Rep!

Hello again fellow students!

Today I would like to talk to you about problems. 

Remember how I was telling you that time is flying by? Well it is, and if you don't see it yet, trust me...you will. But other than time flying by, you might find that you'll have a number of unpleasant surprises at uni. I know our Uni is awesome and all, but things can sometime get out of the careful hands of our tutors and go completely wrong. What's there to be done you might ask? From my point of view, there are three courses of action:

1. You quietly go to your classes and only complain to your peers about the problems you have and make your life and others' miserable,
2. Go to your Course Rep and provide proper feedback that they can take forward to the tutors so things can improve
3. (and perhaps the most important) BECOME A COURSE REP. Stand up for yourself and for those who a scared to do so. Take the problems you find through first hand experience and what your colleagues feed back to you and try to help the course leaders improve your experience.

Being a course rep will not only help you gain recognition among the tutors (most tutors knew my name even though I thought they wouldn't), be known among your colleagues and gain valuable experience that you can include in your CV, but you can also be nominated for the Student of the Year award. I can't even begin to tell how great it felt to be one of the 6 students attending the Vice-Chancellor's Awards last year.

So stand up for yourself and for others and be a course representative! It will be well worth your time! (to be completely honest, you don't even need to put that much time in ;) )

What will you do?

Love,

Maddie.