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Summer School: Who needs sun when you have schoolwork?

Summer School: Who needs sun when you have schoolwork?

by Sophia Schulz | Dec 9, 2022 | Engineering, Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022, Study tips, Uni hacks

Do you like spending your summer indoors, staring at a laptop screen and not socialising with anyone? Do you enjoy devoting hours to schoolwork while everyone else is enjoying the sun? Then sign up for summer school and sell your free time — and your soul — to get...
Up, down, and around: learnings from the first year

Up, down, and around: learnings from the first year

by andrew qiu | Nov 14, 2022 | Arts, Campus Life, Communication, Computer Science, Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022, Study tips, Uni hacks

Around this time last year, at my high school graduation, one of my teachers ended his speech with a line that went something like: “If you felt this year went by quick, the next 40 will too”. I’m only 1/40 of the way there (as of 2022), but it feels like only...
Managing Assignments

Managing Assignments

by Tomoki Vincent | Oct 25, 2022 | Arts, Auckland Life, Campus Life, Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022, Study tips, Uni hacks

Okay, we kind of need someone to talk about this. Managing assignments. And I’m talking about the big ones. The ones that are worth 30%, 40% or even 60% of your grade for a course. These kinds of assignments become more common the further you get in your Bachelor of...
Being Queer at University

Being Queer at University

by Tomoki Vincent | Oct 12, 2022 | Auckland Life, Campus Life, Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022, Uni hacks

Coming into university as a member of the LGBT community can be terrifying. For some, this is the space where they first come out to people. For those already out, they’ll be meeting new people from around the country. As someone who is openly bisexual, my experience...
Preparing For The Future

Preparing For The Future

by Tomoki Vincent | Sep 5, 2022 | Arts, Communication, Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022, Uni hacks

University is a place we go to to get some help for our future. We want to become advertising specialists, lawyers, doctors, journalists, teachers – all those people we aspire to be. Everyone thinks uni is about assignments which take forever to get done and pulling...
Things I Wish I’d Known in Year 13

Things I Wish I’d Known in Year 13

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...
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