“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.”
Navigating university as a shy introvert
Greetings from The Inside Word! Occasionally our bloggers prefer to post anonymously when discussing personal or private matters. This is one such blog. We hope you’ll find the insights and advice interesting and helpful: Google defines an introvert as “a shy, reticent person”. That’s it....
POV: YOU WANT TO EXCEL IN LANGUAGES
If there’s anything you should know about me, it’s that I looooooove languages and I’ve found them to be one of my favourite things to study! A fun fact that intrigues all at dinner parties or whenever someone meets me is that I currently am learning three languages. Yup, you read that right,...
Clubs are your answers to everything
My obsession with clubs A lot of parts of high school really sucked. For me, one of the things that made it more...
Let’s Have a Conversation
I read quite a bit over the inter-semester break, listening to podcasts and the radio too. These are all forms of...
Staying healthy on campus with ‘Better Kai’
Healthy eating. We all know it is important. We’ve always been told to eat our 5+ servings of fruit and vegetables,...
Studying for a lecture: A timeline
Being a student feels like a full time job. In fact, the university recommends that for each paper, you should...
One Semester’s Worth Of Learning
The first semester is over (whoo!!), and now we are wading into the second semester. University life certainly is...