by Chenchen Huang | Oct 4, 2018 | Inside Word 2018
Hello friends, here is the blog piece where I tell you all of my woes around budgeting and having money at university. So the first question, before we look at cutting costs, is the question of where it comes from. So I’m at Auckland on a mixture of the money I saved...
by Chenchen Huang | Aug 20, 2018 | Arts, Auckland Life, Business School, Campus Life, Inside Word 2018, Science
The experience of course planning will be completely different depending on what degree you intend to take. So on one end of the spectrum you have the biomed/health sci (I am yet to figure out the difference between these two) and engineering end. That’s when the...
by Chenchen Huang | Aug 9, 2018 | Inside Word 2018
Here’s the coveted blogging review edition of the Inside Word. I thought it was most appropriate to write this blog at this time because funnily enough, after a few weeks of sort of putting blogging on the backburner and taking life as it comes, it’s become apparent...
by Chenchen Huang | Jul 18, 2018 | Inside Word 2018
Hello friends, the last few weeks have been quite the turbulent ones, both literally and figuratively. You may remember from my last post I talked about the importance of chilling out and taking it easy over the exam period. Now this was followed by an uncomfortable...
by Chenchen Huang | Jun 13, 2018 | Accommodation, Auckland Life, Business School, Inside Word 2018, Science, Study tips
I woke up today at my semi-regular time of 2 p.m., just after lunch was served at O’Rorke. But I’m not hungry, and I don’t feel like I’ve wasted much of my day. I wake up to clear blue skies and the chirping of birds outside my window. It’s exam season, so there’s no...
by Chenchen Huang | Apr 17, 2018 | Inside Word 2018
In the weeks leading up to mid semester break, it wasn’t the impending exams or essays that I felt was of any significance in my life; it was an article from Craccum and assassins week. Craccum, the weekly magazine from the students’ association had a piece by Janna...
by Chenchen Huang | Mar 26, 2018 | Inside Word 2018
The stage is set. The lights are ready. You’ve practiced your routine. And the curtain is about to unravel. Thus begins the first act. And for the most part, it comes naturally. Classes begin and end at a set time, just like you remember. Even accounting for all the...
by Chenchen Huang | Mar 9, 2018 | Inside Word 2018
So this is it. Time to pack up shop and carry all you own in two bags to an unfamiliar city. Time to leave your friends, family, and inhibitions behind and start on a new page. Time to write your name at the top of the page and date the margins. That was it. 400 youth...
