This video shows MIRLINDA ALIU sitting in the foreground outside at RMIT University. There are shots of her talking to camera, walking around the RMIT campus, boarding a tram, walking through city arcades, talking to other students, and childhood photographs of her.
Duration: 2:06
Subtitle: Mirlinda - Bachelor of Business (Economics and Finance) (Applied)
Audio: Soft instrumental music plays.
Mirlinda speaks:
So, I've always had a love for numbers. A lot of that has got to do with my dad. He has always had a huge influence on me with maths and everything like that. And as soon as I finished high school, I wanted to turn that passion from the family and everything into doing something practical, which was definitely part of my uni degree. And I know, finance is definitely something I wanted to do. I enjoy doing it.
The city campus, I love how it's in the middle of everything and you can always see your friends. Like I've got friends in all the different places here working and even at other uni's. It's kind of fun, because these areas to study, and then when you need a break and you are with your friends, you can kind of just relax a little bit as well.
My favourite spot around RMIT city campus would 100% be the courtyard on Bowen Street. It's just because it's an outdoor area, it is so free and open. And I study there and it's actually really calming just to be in nature. I know how cliché that sounds, but it's really good to study there. Around Melbourne, I definitely like the State Library. It's so beautiful, it's such a beautiful building. And even just like shopping around Bourke Street and things like that, there's always just a great city vibe around. So, I definitely love that, I'm definitely a city person.
My co-op year is next year and it's a whole year of doing an internship. And the main thing that I want to get out of it is actually seeing what is going to be like as soon as I finish studying, because all I've known my life is study. So, to get into actual work will be so much fun to see the environment and see how I work into it and yeah, even learning on the job and everything like that.
So, what's next for me is finishing my degree, and then definitely getting into the real world. My main objective through that is to become a CFO of a major retail company would be amazing, so any work experience I can get to get to that goal, that's what's next for me after this degree.
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