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Hopefully you all had an eggcellent Easter break and ready

to get back into the uni groove.

To help you with your upcoming work why not visit the Writ-

ing Mentors.

Writing mentors are experienced and successful students

who provide free personalised study support.

Writing Mentors can answer your questions about researching and writing at university.

Typical questions they can assist with include:

I have so many assignments due all at once, how long should I spend on each one?

How do I start researching my assignment?

I am not sure what I have to do with my task, the question is not clear to me.

How can I plan my essay?

I have written the assignment but I am not sure if it makes sense. Can you read it?

I got a low mark. Can you help me understand how to improve for next trimester?

Can you explain referencing?

..and any other questions you have! If they cannot assist they will direct you to the right place!

They have drop in sessions available during the teaching periods

of Trimester 1, 2 and 3 at your campus or online.

The Learning Space, Building H, Level 1

Monday to Friday

11am - 3pm

03 9246 8694

mentors@deakin.edu.au

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At Burwood Student Residences, we like to reward residents who are regularly making a positive contribution to the Res community.

The following people have shown great commitment to the Res community by helping out during the recent Res vs St Leo’s football match. Nathan Noblet and Liam Pain gave up their time to umpire during the match, while Ben Thom-as helped out with the coaching to ensure everyone got a run. Thank you for your efforts, events couldn’t run smoothly on Res without people giving up their time and effort to help out.

Congratulations to all recipients!

Prizes will be delivered in the mail.

Intercampus Clash

Save the date SUNDAY 17th MAY. Coach will go from Burwood to Geelong and back. More details to come in following weeks.

Sign up for the third Res Yoga session, which will be held on Monday 20th April,

As always, the hour-long session will set you back $5 and starts at 8:15pm. Sign

up is via the Shop in the Resi portal and places are limited, so be quick!

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Red frogs will be on Res on the following dates:

20th– Level 6 and E block

27th- A block and Level 7

When you are ordering items through the mail through 3 rd. party websites

please make sure that the items being ordered comply with Australian laws.

The Australian Government controls the import of certain goods into Austral-ia. The controls include:

an absolute prohibition, where you are not allowed to import the goods in

any circumstances, or

a restriction, where you need to have written permission in order to im-

port the goods.

Please refer to the Australian customs website and Aus. Post for infor-

mation on what is allowed.

http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page4369.asp

http://auspost.com.au/media/documents/Dangerous-and-prohibited-goods-

guide-Dec2014.pdf

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Flu Vaccinations – Free for students living on Residences.

As you are living and studying day to day in close proximity to many other students we highly recommend you take up the offer of the free flu vaccination. Two clinics have been organised at MB reception for Thursday 23rd April 4-6, and Tuesday 5th May 4-6pm, register your name in the StarRez portal and come along to receive your free vaccination. If you have any questions relating to the vaccine or other concerns please email us at askanurse@deakin.edu.au Flu is highly contagious and immunisation will assist in reducing the spread of the flu- ideally you should have your vaccination between March and May, before the onset of the flu season. Flu Check out this video created for Sanford Health an American Health care facility, Flu Man is everywhere. http://youtu.be/j9qtck4diCQ

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Q: What do you call cheese that is not yours?

A: Nacho Cheese

If you have an appropriate joke or limerick that you’d like featured in the bulletin, send it through to

Amy: amylong@deakin.edu.au

Be the first to resi reception to answer the following question

correctly and win yourself a movie voucher!

Q. Where are two 24 hour

Computer labs located

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The Health and Wellbeing Unit within

Student Life provides free, confiden-

tial services to students of Deakin.

The services are available on each

campus of Deakin.

Counselling

Medical centres on campus Multi faith Chaplains

Safer Community

Counselling service – Free and Confidential

By week 4 of the trimester students can start to feel the pressure of work-load demands including looming assignment deadlines and tests. All the ex-citement of the beginning of the trimester fades, and homesickness can re-veal itself. Stress levels can catapult into the stratosphere. How is your stress management ? Counsellors are available on each campus and appointments are available by contacting Student Life, speaking to someone and discussing coping strate-gies that can ensure you stay on track for the trimester and beyond.

Smoke Free Deakin

How are you managing with Smoke Free Deakin ?. The campus nurses are all QUIT ed-ucators and even if you are not ready to QUIT speaking to a nurse may assist you to start the process and set a goal, you may wish to QUIT with some friends, get a group together and the journey may be easier. The medical centres on campus have a full range of Nicotine replacement therapies to assist you, as well as access to free Hypno-therapy (offers end 30th June 2015) these options are free for Deakin students. To make an appointment use our Appointuit online system and book with the campus nurse into a QUIT appointment or make an appointment to see one of the GP’s. We are

here to encourage and support you through the quitting process, the MyQuitBuddy app is another fantastic resource and even calculates the money you can save by quitting.

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Please direct any queries to Reception at bsradmin@deakin.edu.au

Nom Nom NoodlesServes 4

Ingredients

One portion of noodles (ready to boil)

1/4 finely chopped red onion

1 chopped tomato

2 tbsp sweetcorn

1/2 pepper chopped (red / green / yellow)

2 tbsp pasta sauce eg ragu

1 tbsp olive oil

Salt and pepper to taste

Sprinkle of any herbs eg, basil, coriander, mixed herbs etc

1 tbsp lemon juice

Method

Put noodles to boil in a pan, slightly heat olive oil and add onions and soften till light brown. Add all other veggies and stir fry for 2-3 minutes add pasta sauce drain noodles and add to this give a good toss add herbs and lemon juice

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