 I'm Connor. I am a nursing student doing the Bachelor of Nursing through the University of Newcastle and I'm in my 30th. I never finished high school. I dropped out in year 11. I went on to do my training and enrolled nurse and that was my pathway into uni. When I was a teenager I fractured my spine and I was looked after by these amazing nurses who really just cemented for me that that's where I belonged. They made every day happy for me no matter how miserable I was, no matter how much pain I was in. I just wanted to do that. I just wanted to be there through someone's dark days and make them bright. So nursing was for me. I have a little girl who has some congenital renal abnormalities so the biggest challenge has been working around her but I knew if I didn't do it I'd never do it. I was like this is what you want to do for the rest of your life just bite the bullet get to it and go to uni and I did and they took me. Throughout your degree you're going to have some amazing experiences you get to go through placement you get to do labs you get to have some really cool classes. The community that we have in the uni of nursing students is brilliant. There's so much support from the tutors down. I've learned things that I thought I knew and I'm able to like make make sense of it more and it just makes me want to tell people about it it just makes me want to tell students about it. I have no interest in being an academic but now I'm just I'm so pumped for what my future holds. So if you're thinking about a career in nursing just do it. Just start. The brilliant thing about uni is that you can start and if something happens in your life that you need to step back for a little bit you've got that opportunity. Don't think that you have to have all the answers now. Nursing is this amazing career that will lead you into a million different places so just just start. Just start the degree give it a go you'll love it you'll love everything about it.