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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.
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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...
26 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...
03 December 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...
27 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...
26 September 2018
Picture this. It’s a crisp winter morning; snow gently drifts from the heavens in flurries. You emerge from your brownstone townhouse clothed head to toe in your warmest gear, feeling almost as...
21 March 2018
Baffled by the terminology and don’t know where to start? Our explainer will help. Get fired up Choose what interests you. If you’ve been interested in a subject since year...
24 April 2019
To the surprise of everyone except Canberrans, Lonely Planet recently announced that Canberra is one of the top ten cities for tourists in the world. It's high time to revisit some of the things that...
25 January 2019
How I was able to specialise in my passion and area of interest My interest in the intersectionality of gender and development issues faced by both men and women inspired me to choose my...
21 September 2018
Why I chose to do postgraduate studies As I approached the end of my undergraduate degree, I felt like the research I was doing really deserved more time to be developed. I had a desire to...
26 September 2018
Reflecting on all the adventures of the past university break, I could not believe how blessed I was to have had the opportunity to study and travel in China. As part of the International Alliance of...
