Blogs
A day in the life of a UOA student. Vlog
Hi, welcome to a day in my life as a first-year commerce student living in halls. Hope you enjoy this sneak peek of what a day looks like and feel free to leave any comments or questions down below! https://youtu.be/nJTZ17IZuwE
New Year, New Room, New Flat – What To Take?
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...
What I Learned About Being a Student While Working at a Resthome
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,...
How Can We Make Human Interactions Better, Post-Lockdown
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...
Life after High School
Life after high school may seem like a foreign world. If your school life has come to an end, its understandable if you feel a range of emotions, from excitement, to fear, sadness or nostalgia. 13 years at school is a long time and it seems to end very suddenly! I...
Resources to Make Use Of
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...
The Inside Word 2022 needs bloggers!
So you’re an expressive and interesting writer? Want to get paid to produce awesome content while you study? Yeah... We thought so... For the last decade The Inside Word has been hosting blogs and vlogs in which current students share ‘the inside word’ on the...
Living Life in Auckland as a Student
How to find events, restaurants and community in the super city while you're a student.
What Law Has Taught Me About Life (so far)
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...
The Importance of Balance
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...
The Spectrum of Emotions
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...
The International Association of Women Judges Biennial Conference
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 what...
Looking to the Future
I’m more than half-way through my degree now and one thing is for certain; employment is around the corner. I know I want to work for a masters degree in media and communication, but once that’s over, I want to work within the world of advertising and marketing and...
Staying motivated
It is completely natural for your motivation to have ups and downs throughout the semester – even if you love what you are learning! I’ve noticed that my motivation seems to follow the same trajectory every semester. I now know what to expect, so I thought I would...
Keeping Safe
The following blog has been submitted anonymously by one of our regular contributors: By global standards, New Zealand is a very safe country. But bigger cities can feel more dangerous to live in, and it’s okay to feel intimidated if you’re moving to Auckland and...
