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.
On theses, keeping it real, and Edgar Allan Poetry
Authored by Rosalind
An Honours thesis can bring out strange things in a person. The flight response, manifesting itself in unparalleled procrastination skills, honed at last to sheer perfection. Perhaps a weeping…
A day in the life of an ANU arts student ... laptop
Authored by Hero
It’s 8am and I’ve been rudely awakened. Why did Hero pick the 9am tutorial on Monday? Surely someone told her to have better sense than that. I sluggishly boot up for her to check the location of her…
Surviving your first year living on campus
Authored by Julia
When I first set foot on ANU campus on Open Day in 2014, I took one look at the melee of students and the beautiful cherry blossom trees covering University Avenue and knew this was a place where I…
So, you’re thinking about doing Honours? A Q&A with Courtney
Authored by Courtney
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…
Doing ANIP: like winning the golden ticket
Authored by Daniel H
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…
Confused about university preferences and other terms?
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 seven,…