 My name is Joanne O'Reilly. I'm studying a Bachelor of Secondary Education at Griffith University. I have a wonderful husband and seven children. I just loved having a big family. I guess it was chaotic at times. I'd push one in the pram and one would stand on the front and one would run alongside. When I started university, my family was always going to be my first priority and so it needed to be flexible. I wasn't going to allow me studying to detract from my primary role of being there for my kids. When I sat in my first lecture, I sat next to this young girl who started discussing why we enjoyed maths and she said, maths is the language of the universe. Our lecturers are just wonderful, wonderful people. All the lectures are recorded. If it didn't have that opportunity to be able to watch a lecture at home, that would be a deal breaker. I'm actually graduating this year. I would love to go out country where education is needed, where teachers are needed. You're not just a teacher but you're a big part of the community. You want to make a difference in the world. Flexibility to me means I can still be a wife and mother, my first passion. But I also get to fulfil my dream, my passion of becoming a maths teacher.