on what its really like to be a first year student at the University of Auckland
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 life...
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 to...
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 been...
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 this...
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 residences,...
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 PT...
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 and...
Living in a hall
I always imagined that living in a hall would be like how the movies were. I thought making friends would be instantaneous and everyone would be super social and friendly. Obviously, I was being very idealistic. The reality is hall life isn’t always easy.
Remembering to Breath
Stressed. Stressed. Stressed. This single word thrums against my skull over and over again as I try and study. Some would say that this is a telling sign of a headache. My pretentious, overworked ass, on the other hand, has convinced itself that it is the universe's...
Specialisation Corner: Chemical and Materials Engineering
Weeee, so semester’s finally in full swing. I have a super packed calendar already and tests start cropping up next week, and every week after that so YAY! Oh, and assignments and labs GALORE. Isn’t that exciting? Of course, nothing’s more exciting than taking a...
3 Weeks Till Hawaii
On Water Training After The Great Waka Ama race finished our team had a break from trainings for about a week, then we got back into it starting with two on water trainings a week, one on Monday nights after uni and the other on Saturday mornings. Then in May we...
Everything is happening!
Where did that time go! Honestly cannot believe that we are already in the third week of uni. Once this month is over we are on another break and then it's THE FINAL COUNTDOWN *DUN DUN DUNNNNNN*. So much is going on and it's crazy! Everything is moving at such a fast...
4 Weeks To Go
What To Expect in Hawaii Our team will be doing the following 3 races while in Hawaii; Race 1 - Hulakai OC4 8 Person Relay When: Thursday 31st of August Race details: This race is a sprint where relay teams of 8 race in a 4 man canoe. Each team races the...
NZ Uni vs USA College ?!
Have you ever wondered how your life would’ve turned out if you hadn’t made a certain decision? Where would you be? Who would you be? Choosing where to go for University, at least for me, was one of those decisions. I struggled between staying in America, and majoring...
Getting back in the groove!
I’m back! Back in blog form and also back in the Big A after some well needed time away. The inter-semester break treated me like no other, but after a month of doing nothing, I feel more than ready to start doing something. So to honour the title of this blog, I...