Grrr I just wrote a long post and then lost it... Pffft!!

Oh honey - I hear you about on campus life being your Kryptonite! We had a bar in the building...need I say more
Um yeah, we had a Queer Lounge... our motto was "Degree...? What degree??"

Shades that is really exciting!! One suggestion though - check out the Uni at Bathurst (CSU?) and see if they offer childcare. I'm at UNE at Armidale and they offer on campus childcare while Res schools are on. So you may be able to take your little one with you.
I'm at CSU yep. Bathurst's helpful suggestion re: childcare is to "search TrueLocal". They won't even let me have him room-in with me in a room in Halls, which Wagga allows, instead they refer 'families' to a motel on campus which charges an extra $20 or so a night (and $12 a night for extra people?), which is a fair amount on a four night stay.
I'm really thinking I should leave him home with DP. We'll trial a couple of overnights, see how he goes. He goes 12 or more hours without BFing so I doubt it's a staple of his nutrition at this point and if my milk's not gone by now, I'm sure 4 days with some casual expressing won't hurt too much. It's mostly a comfort thing for him anyway I reckon. He happily drinks cow's milk from a cup, and it might be good for him and DP to bond over how much they miss me