by Sophie Burns | Jul 18, 2018 | Accommodation, Auckland Life, Campus Life, Inside Word 2018
The end of semester break has just been and gone and over the time that I was back at home in the rural Taranaki, I came to a few realisations. After moving from England in 2012, I went to a very small, all-girls school in a rural town called Stratford in Taranaki. It...
by Sophie Burns | Jul 10, 2018 | Inside Word 2018, Law, Study tips
Exams are HARD. Being in a competitive course like law, I knew early on that I would need to organise myself and be better prepared for tests and exams than I was when in high school; as unlike with NCEA, it is near impossible to pass a course based on assignments...
by Sophie Burns | Jun 13, 2018 | Inside Word 2018
I have never been the kind of person who knew exactly what she wanted to do for a career. As a young girl, I went through many phases such as wanting to be a teacher, a dentist, a costume designer… the most memorable being BRAIN SURGEON (which still gets brought up...
by Sophie Burns | May 24, 2018 | Inside Word 2018
As we all know, uni is a lot of work and is often quite stressful. A lot of us have found that as we creep closer and closer to exam season, we are getting more tired, constantly reading and re-reading essential materials and then collapsing mid-afternoon from those...
by Sophie Burns | May 7, 2018 | Accommodation, Auckland Life, Campus Life, Education, Inside Word 2018, Study tips
When I first arrived in Auckland in February I took MANY photos of all the things that I brought with me, convinced that I would write an informative blog about how organised I was. I recently went back to the folder on my laptop where these photos were stored and...
by Sophie Burns | Apr 23, 2018 | Inside Word 2018, Law
I would like to preface this blog by saying that I love my degree and I love the people that I am surrounded with. But let’s just say that you learn a lot about yourself and about other people in your first 3 months at university. Before coming to university, I...
by Sophie Burns | Apr 9, 2018 | Accommodation, Auckland Life, Campus Life, Education, Inside Word 2018, Law
As I write this week’s blog, it is currently inter-semester break (already!) and I have been home in good ol’ New Plymouth for almost a week! Although it has been so nice to be home to spend some much needed time with family and friends, this week has given me some...
by Sophie Burns | Mar 20, 2018 | Accommodation, Arts, Auckland Life, Education, Inside Word 2018, Law
Uni is a big deal in more ways than one. Having to cultivate a new group of friends, get used to how large the lecture theatres are, and ultimately, adapt to a brand-new academic environment. For many of us, it’s not necessarily just a new city but also a whole new...
by Sophie Burns | Feb 28, 2018 | Accommodation, Auckland Life, Campus Life, Education, Inside Word 2018, Law
Heya! Sophie from O’Rorke here and as I write this, we have already reached the end of O Week *gasp!* Almost from the get go, Auckland has offered so many exciting new exploring opportunities! Coming from the small (but pretty!) city of New Plymouth in Taranaki,...
