 I'm Kate. I'm studying a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle. I've always had a passion for architecture and design and this university offers me the flexibility I need to study. This degree is fantastic because we are challenged to think outside of the box and we have staff who are really passionate about what they're teaching us. We have amazing facilities in this beautiful bush setting. We're here in the architecture building. This is where we do all of our studio work in groups and individually and we do all the theoretical components of the practical applications. We make things like models. We have the opportunity to use lots of different materials and we get taught how to build with those different materials. We get to incorporate those materials into our designs and we just get to make lots of models and stuff and that's really fun. A highlight of this degree has definitely been earlier this year. I got to travel to Cairns and work with a local Indigenous community and they're high school students creating a garden. It was fantastic because it dabbled in landscape architecture and it opened my world up to Indigenous design and Indigenous histories. We're in the maker space now. This is one of our workshops where we have facilities for building models. We have fantastic technology here. We've got several different types of 3D printers which allow us to make things beyond our imagination. I'm really unsure about where I would like to end up for a career but at this point I'm choosing between residential design and urban design. The undergraduate degree provides me with the foundations to pursue both of those and I'm really excited to see where this will lead.