{"id":1465,"date":"2019-02-26T16:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T05:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2019-02-26T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T05:44:34","slug":"ive-had-a-great-time-meeting-new-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2019\/02\/26\/ive-had-a-great-time-meeting-new-students\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve had a great time meeting new students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Howdy!<\/p>\n<p>I did a couple of stints on the <a href=\"https:\/\/students.flinders.edu.au\/student-services\/hcd\">Health, Counselling and Disability Services<\/a> stall at orientation over the past couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>We were (mercifully) located in the hub, with our buddies from <a href=\"https:\/\/oasis.flinders.edu.au\/\">OASIS<\/a>, and opposite the team at <a href=\"https:\/\/fusa.edu.au\/\">FUSA<\/a>. I say mercifully, because the temperature hit the high 30&#8217;s on both days and I felt very sorry for those located outside.<\/p>\n<p>It was great meeting some of the new students starting here in 2019 and letting them know about the range of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2018\/12\/05\/flinders-2019-wellbeing-programs-and-events\/\">wellbeing related programs and events we are running this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We handed out lots of pamphlets and even a few copies of our &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2019\/02\/15\/getting-off-to-a-good-start\/\">Getting off to a good start<\/a>&#8216; guide, which is admittedly a fairly lengthy read for someone who is just starting their university journey.<\/p>\n<p>It was also great to see a few familiar faces returning for their second, third and fourth years. Some were working on other stalls. Some were taking advantage of the mountain load of free stuff available. I myself got some shampoo from the head and shoulders people. Not sure if they were indicating I had dandruff.<\/p>\n<p>Much respect to the staff and students who were roaming around with the &#8216;Need Help, Ask Me&#8221; t-shirts on. They were fielding tonnes of questions and covering a lot of territory in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the stalls are only for a couple of days, Orientation week is still going. Make sure to check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/orientation.flinders.edu.au\/first-steps-at-flinders-2\/oweek\/\">website<\/a> for the other things happening this week, many of them social activities.<\/p>\n<p>So keep enjoying yourselves, and I look forward to meeting more of you in the coming year!<\/p>\n<p>Feel like sharing your orientation week experience? Feel free to leave a comment below.<\/p>\n<p>Take care<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Howdy! I did a couple of stints on the Health, Counselling and Disability Services stall at orientation over the past couple of days. We were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":1466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[5306],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-gareth-pontifications","tag-orientation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}