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 annabel | Aug 23, 2022 | Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022
TFC was not my first choice, but it is my best choice. I moved to New Zealand after sitting for my O-Levels in Malaysia because A-Levels (Year 13 equivalent) are optional (for Malaysia) and my school did not offer them. The programme also takes 2 years, so I wanted to...
by annabel | Aug 22, 2022 | Campus Life, Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022
You might have seen your friends and course-mates use their tablets in class. The convenient pen colour switching, the copy-paste feature and the simple task of looking up the relevant pages for the lectures. But tablets come with a high price tag, so should you get...
by Sophia Schulz | Aug 22, 2022 | Creative Arts and Industries, Engineering, Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022, Study tips
For those of you who don’t know me, hi! My name is Sophia and I’m a Bachelor of Design/Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) conjoint student. Although I’m a second year university student, Semester 1 of 2022 was my first semester of design as well as my first semester in...
by Sophia Schulz | Aug 22, 2022 | Campus Life, Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022
Hello there! My name’s Sophia, aka the idiot who travelled halfway across the world to start university during a pandemic. To give some context: I’m an 18 year-old Canadian-born half-Kiwi queer-identifying mechatronics engineering and design conjoint student. If that...
by andrew qiu | Aug 22, 2022 | Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022, Study tips, Uni hacks
Online learning. I’ve done it before. You’ve done it before. And at UoA, you’ll do it some more. Okay, actually, that isn’t entirely true – the University of Auckland, for one, holds all their classes in person nowadays and is probably hoping to keep it that way – but...
by isabelle | Aug 19, 2022 | Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022, Medical & Health Sciences, Science, Study tips
It’s that time of semester where it seems like everything is happening, all at once – assignments are due, tests are on the horizon, and there’s just so much to be done. While there’s no doubt uni is stressful, there are many positives to think about – and they...
by aishani | Aug 2, 2022 | Accommodation, Campus Life, Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022, Medical & Health Sciences
I have yet to experience a crazier time in my life than first year uni. The fresher experience is hectic to say the least and expressing that time coherently is a difficult task. But as the saying goes, a picture speaks a thousand words, so I thought what better way...
by andrew qiu | Jul 21, 2022 | Computer Science, Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022, Science, Uni hacks
Somewhere at the very start of the year, an early lab for one of my classes asked something along the lines of “Why are you studying Computer Science?”. For a little introduction to me, this is what I said: “I’m doing a Computer Science conjoint with...
by aishani | Jul 19, 2022 | Accommodation, Auckland Life, Inside Word 2021, Inside Word 2022
If you have read any of my other posts, you may have picked up that I am a HUGE fan of lists. So, with semester 2 well underway, I thought what better time than now to compile a bucket list of fresher activities for all my first-year readers. Get plagued by freshers...
