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chloemercina:
Hi all,

I am studying Occupational Therapy at ACU.

My HSC:

I honestly didn't think I'd get the marks to get into OT so I had all these other choices. I didn't even include ACU OT in my preferences for offer round 1 as I was so sure I wouldn't get an offer. However, I did get my first preference in offer round 1 so in round 2 I decided to put OT down just to see. I was SO surprised when I got an email telling me I got an offer!

Why OT?

I love the diversity of the career. I can with young, old, disabled, injured etc the possibilities are endless. I also love how OT's focus on occupation and how occupation can be used in treating people. I have wanted to do this course since around year 10 so it feels awesome to have got in.

My experience so far?

I am so far loving my course (it's only been 2 weeks!). Just looking at all my units tells me there's going to be a lot of work ahead of me and quite a lot of content but I really want this career so it'll be worth it.

If anyone has questions about OT or studying at ACU, feel free to ask and I'll try and help!

Joseph41:
This is awesome! What prompted you to make a uni journal? :)

Super exciting about your offer. That's surely a good lesson for any future HSC students. ;D What are your units atm? Do you have much choice or is it all the same for everybody in OT?

chloemercina:

--- Quote from: Joseph41 on March 07, 2019, 04:44:51 pm ---This is awesome! What prompted you to make a uni journal? :)

Super exciting about your offer. That's surely a good lesson for any future HSC students. ;D What are your units atm? Do you have much choice or is it all the same for everybody in OT?

--- End quote ---

I decided to make a uni journal so I could always have something to loom back on as well as having a platform for people to ask me about Occupational Therapy as it is often a profession that not many people understand.
Currently I'm doing BIOL121 (a human biology unit), ALHT106 (a unit relating psychology to the area of allied health), OTHY100 (foundations of Occupational Therapy) and OTHY101 (health and occupation).  There's no choice for us, pretty much all OT's do the same units as it's a pretty set course!

Bri MT:
I'm not very familiar with occupational therapy at all but your units look interesting - do you have a favourite so far? 

Love your passion about your career path :)

chloemercina:
Hi all,

I've completed my second week of un! Yay!

It's been such an amazing two weeks, I've learnt more than ever about the profession as well as made a heap of new friends. It has been a bit stressful as I'm getting used to the whole notion of doing readings (which can be so long) as well as having a lot more independence with my learning compared to high school. We've been given directions about starting our first essay (worth 30%) which is a bit daunting for me. I've also got quizzes coming up for 3 out of 4 of my units.

I'm so glad they don't set any really complicated or big tasks until the later weeks as they scare me!!!

Uni is a lot more different to high school than I originally thought. Like I knew it'd be different, I just didn't realise how different! Uni expects you to take total responsibility for your learning. They definitely don't provide as much guidance as high school. Also, if you need help, you are expected to ask for it, help won't necessarily be offered to you. Also, uni's have SO many opportunities. Like my uni (ACU) has academic and numeracy workshops that they run based on skills such as writing essays, time management as well as maths based ones such as problem solving. It's really important to find out about these things as they can often go under-utilised.

If anyone has any questions, I'm more than happy to answer!

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