Pubs, Clubs and Planting Shrubs

Hey everyone, This time last week I was an hour into my first exam, extremely well acquainted with the general library and my life was basically Eat-Sleep-Study-Repeat interspersed with a bit off stress. With Semester one done and a month of holiday ahead naturally I...

a mountain of tissues;

This is a post in praise of the university health services. Prologue.  20th June, Mon. 10am. – ‘Achoo!’ I looked around, hoping that I wasn’t disturbing my neighbours too much. ‘Achoo, achoo, ACHOO!’ My body shook and I...

the social worker and her stitches;

‘I thought that I’d been hurt before But no one’s ever left me quite this sore.’ These words were playing in my mind as I was studying for my last paper. Apart from being the well-known lyrics of my favorite Zumba song, I could not help feeling that it adequately...

12 Weeks To Go

Hello everyone! My name is Josie Stevens and this is the start of the blog documenting the Engineering Waka Ama team’s training for the September Queen Lili’uokalani Race in Hawaii. I have never blogged before so I thought it would a great experience to learn how to...

Postexamitis

Some people can walk out of an exam and wipe it from their mind instantaneously. I am not one of those people. I suffer from Postexamitis- A disease that can be best described as the inability to let go of the exam, even hours after it’s finished. I can’t...

Hurdle One Jumped

The law is exam is over. That’s so crazy. I still feel like I should be holed up in my room religiously reciting cases and case details to myself. After the exam, a lot of people posted on the LAW 121 G Facebook page that they felt they didn’t do well. I don’t know...

So Close, Yet So Far

The end of the semester is within reach, but there is one last hurdle before I get to head home and do nothing for 3 weeks. Exams. Ugh. You can tell exams are here by the drop of standard of dress and increase of caffeine consumption in the hall. It is now a common...

Law, Languages and the Kardashians

First two exams on the first day: sussed. I decided to take a break till Sunday… but it’s Tuesday now… whoops. Promised a semester course review so here it is. It will just be a short ramble about how I found the courses throughout the semester. You...

ex-hale, ex-ercise, ex-cuses, ex-ecute,

see what i did there…. pretty clever huh….. if you didn’t get it i was trying to emphasize that EX-aamms are upon us. Yes its that time of the year peeps. That time of procastination and absolute dread and pain ( by the way whoever invented exams I...