This is an assignment for the University and the topic was, “What do you wish you knew before you started University?”

It’s a pretty broad question and one I do sometimes consider, if I could go back knowing everything I know now would I find it easier or do anything different? Obviously I’d find the earlier University assignments a lot easier and I would probably be smarter with my money so I wouldn’t spend so many nights eating mi goreng. But would I be any better off?

Actually I probably would have a much better GPA and be able to afford a new laptop so maybe that’s not the best example. But if I had known how to research journal articles before I came to Murdoch I wouldn’t have stayed up till 4 a.m being shown how to by my friend Cameron who also taught me all the shortcuts to make it so much easier. Knowing that the books Murdoch sells are really expensive wouldn’t really change the prices but it has made me appreciate their value that much more.

When I look back at all the really dumb mistakes I made when I first came to University it can actually be hard to not laugh about it all because those mistakes are some of my best memories and I think I learned more from making them than I would have learnt without making them. If half my life has been spent making stupid mistakes then the other half has certainly been spent laughing at them and learning from them.

Truthfully I think that’s what University is about, learning stuff you didn’t know before and then seeing the world in a new way. That doesn’t mean I don’t have any advice for you and if you check the video below I think you will find it very useful in dispelling a few of the myths surrounding University life.

R.I.P Barry 2009 – 2010 You were taken from us too quickly