Student news and events

For many first-year students, adjusting to university isn't just about keeping up with assignments or navigating a new campus. It's also about learning a new way of communicating.

Sometimes, the biggest lessons from studying abroad aren't just the ones taught in a classroom. During two weeks at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, RMIT Vietnam students discovered new perspectives, built meaningful connections, and returned home seeing both themselves and the world a little differently.

Vietnam Young Lions is more than a contest for many emerging creatives, it’s a proving ground for young minds with big ideas. This year RMIT students answered that call with courage and creativity, turning pressure into growth: across multiple categories they earned top honours, including two Golds in the Film category.

What started as a first year at RMIT Vietnam soon turned into an unexpected journey across continents for Nguyen Thuy Duong. Through the Erasmus Scholarship, she traded familiar classrooms for a new student life studying at CETT, a leading higher education school affiliated with the University of Barcelona, Spain.

After weeks of deadlines and late-night study sessions, it’s finally time to let your hair down. But breaks aren’t just for Netflix binges and late mornings. At RMIT, students are turning their time off into a mix of rest, skill-building, and new adventures, proving that growth doesn’t stop when classes do.

“If I get an NN (fail) or PA (pass), is it the end of the world?” Many students, especially newbies, ask this when results don’t go as planned. More often, bad marks reflect a gap between effort and strategy, expectations and execution, or pressure and capacity. The grade matters, but what matters more is understanding why it happened and what you do next.

Far beyond typical tourist sights, international students at RMIT Vietnam found the true heart of Vietnam inside a local children's hospital. Serving early morning bowls of porridge to pediatric patients revealed a profoundly different side of their host country, turning a simple meal into a lasting lesson in compassion.

End-of-semester season can feel like everything is due at once: assignments, presentations, exams, group projects, internships, and life outside university. The goal is not to become “perfectly productive.” The goal is to stay functional, protect your energy, and finish the semester without burning out.