The Inside Word 2018
Four Weeks of Bliss
They say home is where the heart is. I can't help but agree as I think about all that I've done these past few weeks of break. Blueberry Picking My mom took my twin sister and I blueberry picking and it was honestly the highlight of my day. I loved spending time...
Home of the Free!
An array of colors splatter across the night sky. Oohs and aahs filter through the air amidst the sporadic booms. In the middle of all this noise I sit, surrounded by my friends, whom I haven’t seen in over four months. Only one sentence replays over and over in my...
Life Lessons from Pizza
Mid-sem break has been filled with great stories to tell 🙂 but also coming to terms with the realization that the majority of the year has gone by 🙁 It’s weird to think that already ¾ of the uni year has gone and so have ¾ of our med applications. There’s three parts to our application for MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) ...
Classroom Etiquette
One thing that’s super different between university and high school is the classroom size. Lectures for first year Engineering are huge, usually held in the largest (around 600 seats) lecture theatre available. Sometimes even that’s not enough and there are...
I Can(‘t) Wait
While procrastinating on my assignments during this mid-semester break, I found myself looking at journals from earlier this year. They were all about me looking forward to things ahead or reminiscing on memories. Then I came across a journal which simply said "I...
Thinking over or over thinking?
Alas I am on vacation, in Paris of all places in fact. Seeing the historic sights that you see and learn about at school. Eating amazing food and experiences new things. It has also meant a time to completely remove myself from the Uni scene, from the day to day...
First Glance, Second Semester
A run-down on how Tate feels about what she's studying this semester.
Specialisation Corner: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Nothing’s quite worse than realizing you’ve forgotten everything to do with electric circuits from high school despite getting straight Excellences in Physics. Who knew that 6 months without having to think about which-component-lags-the-current or what hand rule...
1 Week Till Hawaii
FINALLY MADE 30KM Our team has started to dial down trainings as we get closer to Hawaii, however over the last couple of Saturday trainings our team was finally able to meet our goal by reaching 30km at training. As you can see the weather hasn’t...
Suiting up, reading up, and (mostly) turning up.
I don't know how but we've already made it to week 5 of this semester. This means we only have one week left until our Mid-Semester break and not long at all until the end of the year... Well isn't that just scary? So much to do in such little time. The weeks just...
Life in the Halls (O’Rorke Style)
In case you didn't already know, I live at O'Rorke Hall, one of Auckland University's first-year hall of residences (applications for school-leavers are OPEN! Apply here). PS. The balloons will be explained later in...
Auckland Uni Courses & Careers Open Day
If you're around in Auckland next week, you should definitely come to Auckland Uni's Courses & Careers Open Day on Saturday 2 September. Not only can you attend talks about the courses you are interested in, take a tour of the many Auckland Uni hall of...
2 Weeks Till Hawaii
GYM TRAINING To make sure our team is performing at the best of our ability, the university has provided us with free gym memberships, as well as our own personal trainer. Each of us met with the PT individually and completed a basic fitness test, and from this our...
Loving and learning – Pre-Med Style
What an amazingly corny blog title - ammiright? Blog gold at its best. As revealed so beautifully in the heading, today I thought I’d switch it up a bit and introduce the french to my fry, the chicken to my nugget, my Biomed compadre… Jakob! Jakob and I are both...
Finals Preparation (!!!)
I’m currently sitting in front of my gate at Shanghai International Airport, waiting to board my 15-hour flight to New York City. With five hours to go until my plane arrives, what better opportunity than now to reminisce about the last month of exam preparation...
