“Are you a secondary school student wanting to know what life is REALLY like at uni? Classes, courses, events, money, studying, stressing… You’re about to get the Inside Word on all of it, straight from the people who are experiencing it. The Inside Word is a blog written by first year uni students and they are going to tell you everything you want to know about your first year of study at the University of Auckland.”
Day trip to Shenzhen
Hey guys, So a few weeks ago some friends and I went to Shenzhen for a day trip as its quite close to Hong Kong (around 2 hours by MTR, costing approx 90 HKD return). I tried to do it vlog style. Lets just say I ended up with heaps of shaky and unusable footage paired with some embarrassing...
How to budget: life lessons 💸💰
Eeeeek. Money. Budgeting. Bleugh. (From a student's perspective) Budgeting at uni is not fun. Budgeting in general is not fun, but when you're a student and can't have a full time job it becomes imperative that you become good at managing where your money is going. It can be as simple as...
Things I miss about New Zealand
Apologies for the extreme lack of updates as I have been away having fun and not missing Auckland at all 🤪 Jokes...
University is kinda hard?
University is the biggest part of my life at this current point. With that, it brings great challenges. Too much of...
Law School: Love or Hate it?
Throughout high school, students wanting to go into law are told all about how competitive it is, the difficulty,...
How to prevent burnout 🏫📚
Something I've realised recently, especially with how this last semester has been going in regards to workload is...
12 ways to be a better student this semester
For the purposes of this article lets just say that being a 'good' student is in the pure academic sense of the...
First week in Hong Kong!
So, its 2:00pm right now and I’m sitting in my room with a bowl of half-finished oatmeal by my side listening to...
