Orientation week has arrived at the Charles Sturt University (CSU) campus in Orange where 155 fresh faces are learning to find their way around while enjoying a relaxed, party atmosphere.
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The new first-year students were officially welcomed at a formal ceremony by head of campus Dr Heather Robinson on Tuesday morning.
There was a focus on fun for many of the other activities including a market day featuring Orange businesses, an Amazing Race where students had to navigate their way around Orange, themed bar nights and there will be a barbecue at Lake Canobolas.
The 155 new on-campus students at CSU in Orange do not include online students.
Across all CSU campuses there are 2785 new students studying on campus this year and there are more than 40,000 students in total including distance education students and international students, who make up 21 per cent of the student population.
Dr Robinson said students can study physiotherapy, dentistry, pharmacy and clinical science.
“We tend to have quite a mix of school leavers and students who have completed another degree or partially completed another degree or have been working,” Dr Robinson said.
Physiotherapy student’s Zac Oliver from Cootamundra and Lucy Carman from the eastern suburbs of Sydney were among the new first-year students who are taking part in the orientation week activities and will start classes next week.
“I’ve always been interested in the recovery side of it and providing therapy to people who have a disability [from their injury],” Mr Oliver said.
Mr Oliver is staying on campus and said he’s enjoying it after arriving on Sunday.
Although he’s new to studying in Orange, Mr Oliver said he has also studied rehabilitation science at Charles Sturt University in Albury and his goal is to work in sports physiotherapy.
Miss Carman is also living on campus.
“I’ve done two years at Sydney University but I changed to come here because it’s a smaller university and a lot more personal, I felt like just a number [in Sydney],” Miss Carman said.
“I really want to work in accident rehabilitation in hospitals for people who have been in a car accident or [similar experiences] to get back on their feet.”
Session one classes for students studying on campus in Orange start on Monday.
Tanya Marschke
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
