Next year's hopefuls taste campus life

Future Students

The University of Adelaide has once again shown its commitment to inform school students about tertiary education through the 2005 Senior School Orientation Day organised for Glenunga International High School.

The Orientation Day, held last month at the university's North Terrace Campus, included information on various academic programs and university life, as well as providing campus tours to prospective students.

Among the numerous Year 12 students who visited the campus were Olea Corcoran, Sarah Burrow, Candice Bergin, and Nick Zaglyodnov. They all aspire to visit the same campus next year, but as undergraduate students enrolled in different courses at the University of Adelaide.

While Olea is interested in taking up a program in "special needs teaching", Sarah is keen on the arts and languages. Nick has his future well planned, with the intention to get into a three-year undergraduate program in Design Studies, and subsequently study Architecture or Interior Design.

According to Candice, who has recently returned from an exchange program in Japan, the University of Adelaide's North Terrace Campus is the most convenient for her among the three South Australian universities.

"I want to do a double degree, and Adelaide Uni is the most convenient as I could do both Medicine and Japanese without having to travel and change campuses," she said.

Olea, Sarah and Nick seemed impressed with the good reputation of the University of Adelaide, thereby making it their first choice.

"I've been told that this university has very good lecturers, and also a very enjoyable campus life," Sarah said.
"The University of Adelaide has a lot of history behind it, and also nicer buildings," Nick said.

A large group of Glenunga's Year 13 students, including Michael Tormet and Bess Williams, also visited the university and participated in a number of orientation sessions related to their future courses of study.

While Michael is interested in pursuing Medicine ("The uni has a pretty good reputation, and the Medicine program here is amongst the best"), he would be equally pleased to get a place in Aerospace Engineering if he does not manage the requisite scores for the medical degree. Bess seemed quite certain about her choice of study, which is the Media program at the University of Adelaide.

Michael has been gathering information about study options at the University of Adelaide since he was in Year 10, and said the university's Open Days and orientation sessions for school students were useful.

Bess has heard that the Media program at Adelaide is quite comprehensive, and gathered more course details from the Media seminar she attended during the Orientation Day.
"I am interested in a course that covers media as a whole, and not just journalism, which is why I want to do the Media degree at the University of Adelaide," she said.

The Orientation Day was organised by Miss Mary Brownlee, Senior Lecturer in the university's School of Education. Miss Brownlee acknowledged all the staff - academic, administrative and general alike - who gave up their time to help make the day a success for the Glenunga students.

Story by Sukhmani Khorana