by Leticia Alvarez | Aug 31, 2022 | Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022, Uni hacks
So someone asked me what I wish I’d known in year thirteen. Of course there are many practical things that would have saved me expensive mistakes – managing money and learning to budget and save, learning to cook, making sure I was meeting the prerequisites for...
by Leticia Alvarez | Jun 20, 2022 | Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022, Uni hacks
This year I started working at Student Hubs, the center for any university or library related inquiries at the General Library. You can imagine there is a very wide range of requests and people come in – PhD students juggling babies and their own brainchild,...
by Leticia Alvarez | Dec 21, 2021 | Accommodation, Inside Word 2021
Whether you are starting summer school or Semester One awaits next February, a return to Auckland brings in the universal student experience (unless you have been studying offshore) – moving into a new place. I remember before moving into halls I received a list of...
by Leticia Alvarez | Dec 17, 2021 | Inside Word 2021
Career anxiety. It seems more and more people are familiar with its symptoms – fear that they’re not on the right path, not meeting their goals in time, or that doing their best just isn’t enough. We live in a time, as Belgian psychotherapist Esther Perel says, where...
by Leticia Alvarez | Dec 13, 2021 | Inside Word 2021
The U.S. Surgeon-General Dr. Vivek Murthy said that throughout the pandemic, one of the most common lines he heard was, “Do we want to go back to 2019?” He also said that before COVID hit, there was a loneliness pandemic. COVID-19 just exposed how we had been feeling...
by Leticia Alvarez | Dec 3, 2021 | Auckland Life, Campus Life, Inside Word 2021, Money/Scholarships, Uni hacks
Once you become a student at UoA, you’ll find you get access to many new things. They come with hyperlinks hidden inside websites, newsletters, and emails; pamphlets are sometimes thrust into your hands, bullet points… often information overload. I’ve ended up...
by Leticia Alvarez | Nov 30, 2021 | Inside Word 2021, Law
I started out my BA/LLB conjoint studying psychology along with law. But quickly, I realised law is all about human relationships. The past two years have been so fascinating. Legal principles have dripped down into my everyday life and reasoning and I hope they’ve...
by Leticia Alvarez | Nov 30, 2021 | Inside Word 2021, Uni hacks
There are probably a million articles on the Internet and a million people who urge you to balance your life. We all know it, too. The hard part is putting in practice, especially when we seem to live in an either/or society, where decisions seem extreme. To top it...
by Leticia Alvarez | Nov 29, 2021 | Inside Word 2021
Life changes a lot. I know everyone has heard it all the time – embrace change, be prepared for ups and downs. But as exam results start coming out, I’ve been thinking about how much weight people put on their final grades (understandably) and think about the year...
by Leticia Alvarez | Nov 29, 2021 | Inside Word 2021, Law
Earlier this year, I was very lucky to be in the same room as some of my role models. When you’re a law student, you spend a lot of time poring over judgements and pulling out the reasoning, listening to your lecturer’s explanation. You’re encouraged to ask...
