I have found Caulfield campus the ideal place to study as a postgraduate student while balancing full time work, life and study pressures.
After nearly 10 years of being in the workforce, completing my undergraduate degree at Monash was a distant memory and committing to a Masters of Communication and Media Studies seemed very, very scary! Like so many undergraduate students, for three blissful years while I worked towards my Bachelor of Business, I juggled a full time uni load, worked part time in retail and had the typically demanding 'just-left-school' social life. This time around, I had a full-time job: could I keep some form of a social life and squish uni into the mix?
Semester one presented its challenges. There was the completely new IT world of WES and my.monash to navigate. I wondered whether I'd be the oldest person in the class. In addition, my biggest fear - could I remember how to reference and do a bibliography?
Coming back to uni and juggling it with working full time has been hard work but very rewarding. It turns out; studying after a long break is a lot like learning to ride a bike. You may have a few shaky moments at the beginning, but then you find your balance and the next thing you know you're moving along confidently and well on your way forward.
Natalie
Master of Communications and Media Study