Mitchell Eddy
Bachelor of Arts
I wasn’t particularly sure where I would attend university, or go to university at all. When VCE results came out, one of my teachers suggested that I apply for the Vice Chancellor’s scholarship at Swinburne. Receiving that helped make up my mind about university and presented an opportunity I am glad to have taken.
English and history have always been my preferred subjects, so an Arts degree was the obvious choice. Exercise, science and the general workings of the human body and mind are also favourite topics; because of this, having the option of doing psychology within my Arts degree was an added advantage.
Swinburne’s Cultural Studies stream is a particularly enjoyable part of the Faculty. Its focus on a more holistic science promotes a new - or at least a revised version of an old – approach to the way we study the world, which hopefully has the potential to address some of the problems current practices have not been able to amend.
A student entering Swinburne is moving into a university that is still developing, both in the physical sense and a cultural sense. What the University offers students will change in coming years – structurally the completion of new buildings is important as is continuing to work towards ‘feeling’ like a university; in terms of culture and student activities. Swinburne currently offers a good place to undertake further education and appears to be improving itself, even in the short time I have been attending.
- Mitchell received a Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship,
and in 2009 was awarded a Certificate of Commendation for the June Shenfield Poetry Award
