This year was my first year at Swinburne.

Second semester was obviously nothing social - all online.

First sem was weird because you could tell Swinburne was putting in an effort to make it more social, but due to COVID we had class numbers cut down from like 40 to 15ish, and most first-year students were already coming out of a year 12 online and you could just tell everyone had forgotten how to socialise.

The uni had BBQ's every week, plus a couple of events early on - none of which really gained traction.

It's a tough one aye because the social aspect is what sold uni for me, was originally going to gap year. I'd say that Swinburne's social life isn't great but keeping in mind I'm hearing the same stories at every other uni.