 My name is Olivia and I completed the Bachelor of Information Technology in 2023. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do after high school and I was spending a lot of my time playing computer games, so I decided to look into degrees related to computing. I ended up changing my major during the study and having that flexibility was amazing. I managed to make a whole level of a computer game. It was a platformer with a goblin character who had to make it from one end of the dungeon to another, without dying, while collecting as many coins as you could. I feel that games tell these amazing stories that take you to whole other worlds. Sometimes you take that journey on your own, sometimes you talk through that experience to someone else or go through the journey together and it's a whole new way people are interacting in this day and age and it's so exciting to be able to do that yourself. To put the pieces out there of a game and let people experience it and tell you what they thought. It's raw, but it's rewarding when people like it. The placement experience was absolutely amazing. I had a great mentor who showed me a lot about app development and I ended up building an orientation app and I loved making it. Newcastle being the small town it is, everyone's ready to connect to you. I ended up completing the course part-time in order to still be able to work casually and stay on top of mental and physical health. It got scary at times wondering if I was going to graduate or not. I had to redo a couple of things and to have that support network around me made it easy. To finally be able to walk across the stage in the cap in my gown is an experience, just a relief, just this amazing sense of relief of being able to walk across the stage. Now I've graduated, I've received a couple of job offers and I'm super excited to begin work as a systems analyst.