Name: Saranya

Course: Master of business Information System

Hi everyone! This is my second semester in the Australian National University. I found and experienced many thing in this university and canberra too. But I want to share one of my bad experience in australia. It is related to the availability of accommodation in canberra. Last year when i came to this country I had no accommodation. I applied for the on campus and off campus accommodation from india itself but i didn't get any response from the university or anywhere else. When i reached the university i ask for the accommodation for which they said that they dont have. They told me to go to university accommodation service. There they provided computers and telephone to search and contact people who have accommodation. During that period i was living in YHA hostel "Thanks to them". But you know what i was searching continuouly for the accommodation for two weeks but i didn't get anything. I met many student who were going through the same situation. Everyone was saying that why this university is not arranging anything. Even i was feeling very bad for this university. After three week when i didn't get anything my parent told me to come back.They said if you dont have place to live there, then leave everything. I last time met Toad Hall people and told them the whole story. That day i felt that even hostel people cannot do anything as they receive so many applications from student and they have very limited rooms. I was the lucky person that who accommodation people cannot do anything.got the accommodation that after so much of struggle. But i also realise that even universitycannot do anything as they recieve thousands of application from students.

I don't know but i think university should open other new hostels for the students as the number of students admission is increasing in this university.

This step of the university will help new students.

what you think am i wrong??