Student blog
The CASS Student Blog is your opportunity to tell your peers what it’s like to be a humanities, creative arts and social sciences student at ANU. We want to hear about your experiences on campus and off, advice you have for other students, and recommendations for things to do and eat.
Interested? Read our submission guidelines.
14 November 2023
Author: Clare Taylor Back in 2019, when I found out that I had been accepted on the Applied Arabic study tour to Amman, Jordan, I felt both excitement and trepidation, simply because I was...
13 July 2022
ANU has changed so much since I began my Bachelor of Arts degree in the late summer of 2018. I remember starting my life at uni, eating hot chips at the short-lived ANU pop-up village with friends I...
20 June 2022
People learning a foreign language are often told that the best way to improve their skills fast is through immersion: by living in a country where that language is spoken, and by practicing speaking...
31 October 2019
CW: Animal deaths Each year, ANU anthropology lecturer Dr Patrick Guinness, in partnership with the Duta Wacana Christian University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, runs the Indonesia Field...
19 September 2019
Studying overseas offers great opportunities, but it also means leaving behind your home, your family, your friends, your comfort zone. With all the effort of moving out and settling into a new...
19 August 2019
Master of Museum and Heritage Studies student Edmond Lai participated in the Culture and Heritage in China Field School just recently, conducted by the ANU and Sichuan University in China. Edmund...
08 April 2019
3rd year Laws/Arts student Aislinn Grimley travelled to Paris in December for the Global Paris 2018 course, led by ANU French Studies scholars Dr Gemma King and Dr Leslie Barnes. “How was...
22 February 2019
I’ve become that annoying person who won’t stop talking about their trip abroad. My constant reminiscences of my recent trip to Vietnam to study ‘Global Vietnam: Gender, Labour and Migration’, are...
17 December 2018
One of the more challenging aspects of my transition between school and university was learning to manage higher academic expectations. It became clear during the initial weeks of my first year at...
10 October 2018
Ever since I was little I wanted to come here. I used to look at the poster we had on the wall of one of Finland’s 187,888 lakes and tell myself one day I would see it with my own eyes. So...
26 September 2018
I’m the type of person whose heart-rate increases when I’m within arm’s length of a monumental painting. I prefer to have a guide when I’m visiting historical sites as I believe contextual knowledge...
09 May 2018
CASS ambassador Daniel Hellig-Smith likens the Australian National Internship Program (ANIP) to Roald Dahl’s classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was always...