“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.”
What to expect in First Year’s First Semester (BIOMED edition)
Hello there! I hope you didn’t mind me losing track of how fast time flew by, but here I am again, at the end of semester one. I felt it would only be right to pop on here and share my semester one experience with you! This is mainly for anyone interested in taking first-year biomedical science...
What it’s Like Getting Sick in University
Getting sick is never fun. The experience of getting sick in university is very different to getting sick at home. You still got to cook. You'll miss classes and will need to catch up. You'll need to email the right people. Fortunately, I got sick at a time period where the workload was not too...
12 Things I’ve Learnt During Semester One
Hey there, hope you don’t mind the ‘fashionably’ late blog post this far into the semester, but better late than...
The BSc in Food Science and Nutrition: How does it work?
So, you want to study a Bachelor of Science. Great choice! You’ve come across the Food Science/Nutrition...
A Year in Highlights
It's May already! Now almost halfway through my second year at uni, I've had some time to go through some...
Student Life and Silent Retreats
I read a book once that talked about “the furniture of the mind” (the Penguin Classics edition of George Orwell’s...
Multiple Choice Exams: A blessing or a curse?
I’m not going to lie, I too breathe a sigh of relief when I hear that an assessment is going to be multiple choice!...
Why I Love the Faculty of Arts
BA student, Tomoki Vincent talks about why he loves what he is studying.