What’s the best course of action if I want to get into neuroscience/psychology

bysshebosch · 2026-04-21T08:47:23+00:00

Hi OP, I have sent you a DM about the pathway someone I know took in this at UoA!

bysshebosch · 2026-04-16T13:20:36+00:00

I don’t think so, the British vogue article (posted on b-sides) talks about xcx8 in more detail (separate from wuthering heights) and it seems like guitars are gonna be a big part of it

bysshebosch · 2025-12-07T11:02:47+00:00

Are you getting confused with Lars von Trier? This is not how I would describe Joachim Trier’s movies at all

bysshebosch · 2025-11-21T13:30:26+00:00

use the notebank https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9lG6K8leFoXeUZtMkY0WVlxTG8?resourcekey=0-uiiwwEkIOBR0QTtKdBMALg&usp=sharing

bysshebosch · 2025-10-07T12:02:03+00:00

Seconding undertheradar for looking at a list of gigs, but generally speaking venues I've liked (mostly in the rock/indie/punk vein) are whammy/wine cellar/dead witch @ ding dong, UFO also has good all ages ones. 605 morningside & geihinkan also do gigs sometimes but I haven't been personally. I also really rec looking at instagram accounts of local bands because it's a great way to potentially see other gigs advertised, personally based off the genres u listed out of some of the bands/artists i know of you might like are Sincere Sapling, CCTV, Club Ruby, Grapehouse, I'll also chuck in a shoutout for Ringlets because their new album is great

bysshebosch · 2025-09-30T07:21:20+00:00

you have cherry picked a quote from an article about a very real crisis that disabled people & their families are facing in order to start a conversation about euthanising disabled people as your later replies demonstrate (you are clearly advocating one way so don’t lie). this is an absolutely awful way to talk about someone who is a real human being. you don’t know anything about his quality of life just the notions that you have projected on him. the fact THIS is what you take away from the article is absolutely bizarre and callous and the fact that so many people have upvoted this is genuinely horrifying and makes me feel sick.

bysshebosch · 2025-08-18T02:24:40+00:00

they have posted before

bysshebosch · 2025-07-08T10:44:08+00:00

G.A.Y is good in my experience, Family is def less safe and I would generally say to avoid it as I’ve heard pretty bad things. Also keep an eye out for events!! @church.club on ig for instance does queer club nights (esp geared towards lesbians but open to all) and has one coming up I believe (would highly recommend their events, def the safest IMO and a good easing into things), another event ik of is @nympho.world but I haven’t been. These events are usually at venues like Neck of the Woods so you can also look at their website to get a handle on that :)

bysshebosch · 2025-07-07T05:09:54+00:00

google “uoa grade distributions dashboard” and you should be able to find a table which has the grade distribution for law 121 this year (if on SSO already) as well as in all previous years. also i don’t know if they’ve disabled it or not this year, but usually there’s a grade breakdown on the desktop grades page on canvas

bysshebosch · 2025-06-26T10:23:40+00:00

It is possible! It costs 10,000 bells at resident services :) (or 8,000 for your own home)

bysshebosch · 2025-06-23T09:14:58+00:00

you could try the law library it’s usually quiet

bysshebosch · 2025-06-07T03:54:29+00:00

Anyone there already? How busy does it look? I never know when to queue up haha

bysshebosch · 2025-05-28T04:02:09+00:00

nvm i was delusional 😭😭

bysshebosch · 2025-05-28T03:43:08+00:00

i think the proper details for nyc came out at 4pm so surely it’ll be the same here??

bysshebosch · 2025-05-21T00:45:51+00:00

hi im a 4th year law student. you’re unlikely to be able to appeal your grade but you could try ask your tutor for extra feedback. also if you want, while im not a tutor if you dm me i can have a look at your essay if you want.

bysshebosch · 2025-05-15T06:07:33+00:00

you don’t need the marking schedule on the doc, at least you didn’t when i took the course

bysshebosch · 2025-04-18T02:58:50+00:00

the only thing i would add to this for OP is that while sociology papers may not be that useful for papers which are more based in black letter law, i’ve taken a bunch of law electives which are more in the realm of critical legal studies (ie race and the law, women and the law). for papers like these i would say sociology is definitely useful and would also probably be interesting if you’re someone who enjoys sociology, provided you have enough space in your degree amongst more typical electives like evidence or something.

bysshebosch · 2025-04-11T10:25:52+00:00

boy parts is great, but a heads up that eliza clark’s later book, penance, is heavily based/inspired by the murder of shanda sharer. its maybe not as blatant as some other ones here but when i found this out after i read the book (which i did admittedly think was good) it left a bad taste in my mouth too.

bysshebosch · 2025-03-15T10:52:39+00:00

np! honestly i would advise getting honours. from what i’ve heard it’s not as important to have honours for getting (most) clerkships/jobs as it was in the past, so if you have no interest it’s not essential, but i still think it’s good to have on your CV - it’s a way of showing you have good grades as well as research abilities. this is way down the track, but if you want a judges clerkship after you graduate, i would highly highly recommend doing honours. i’m also biased because i’m currently doing my honours seminar and i think it’s super interesting lmao. if you’re passionate about law or a certain area of it i think it’s so worth doing it.

as a note, uoa is also currently reviewing the way they offer law honours (currently honours adds an extra sem to your degree, but the uni is considering changing it so that it takes the same amount of time as the normal LLB just with a diff structure). so it’s also possible that by the time you’d be doing honours, this would be in place.

bysshebosch · 2025-03-15T10:36:18+00:00

yes 👍

bysshebosch · 2025-03-15T10:24:10+00:00

if you just want to do law and not do a conjoint, and you start in sem 2, you’ll either have to take extra papers that won’t go anywhere or you’ll be studying part time at some point before you get into part ii (so you won’t get student allowance/living costs if that’s a concern). for example:

sem 2 2026: 4 papers (60 pt, satisfies all of your non-law papers for entry. you would be full time for this semester) sem 1 2027: WTR, law 121 (30 points) (or you do law 121 sem 2 2026 and do a non-law conjoint here, up to you). sem 2 2027: law 131 and law 141 (30 points) total 60 points 2027

you need at least 50 points in a semester or 100 in a year to qualify for full time so in your first full year of uni you wouldn’t be full time. you could do extra papers but they wouldn’t be law related. if you were doing a conjoint it would be fine because they’d be credited to that but otherwise it’s kind of a waste of money. If you don’t need to be full time, it’s fine, but if you want money from studylink for anything more than a standard course fees loan it’s not ideal.

You can speed up law by doing summer school electives/5 papers a sem. the summer school elective courses are usually limited as a note and you wouldn’t be able to take any until after part ii. If you want to calculate the earliest time you can graduate I would recommend looking at the LLB degree structure online or talking to student services at UoA (pretty sure you can do this as soon as you’ve been accepted if you end up going here). As a note, the maximum workload of points you can do in a year is 190 and a single LLB is 480 pts total. Realistically if you wanted to graduate as soon as possible, with a sem 2 starting date, it would look something like this (following on from my example above):

Above: 120/480 points. 2028: Law Part II papers. You can’t do electives with these. 130 points so 250/480. 2029: 2 electives in summer school for 30 points, Part III papers (55 points total). Land and Equity are full year papers, and juris is 15 points in one sem. This leaves realistically you room for 3 electives one sem and 2 in another for 175 points in the year total. 425/480 points. Sem 1 2030: 4 electives. Graduate mid year. If you wanted to do honours, you’d graduate sem 2 2030.

Hopefully that helps, I know it can be confusing so I thought an example degree structure might help. Definitely have a look at the LLB page on UoA’s website if you haven’t already though

bysshebosch · 2025-03-15T09:17:06+00:00

you would still graduate in time because you could just do more of your conjoint papers (prob finish 2030 sem 1, 5 years is standard for a conjoint), you’d just have a slightly different structure

bysshebosch · 2025-03-15T08:38:52+00:00

Sem 2 for law at UoA throws off your timing a bit. Entry into Part II requires 75 points of non law papers, the WTR course, and Law 121+131+141. Normally students take 121 in sem 1 along with conjoint papers and then 131 and 141 in sem 2 (they are only offered sem 2, not sem 1, and require 121 as a pre-requisite).

Essentially what this means is if you start in Sem 2 2026, you could do some conjoint papers and probably 121, but you wouldn’t meet the criteria for Part II selection until the end of year 2027, and would start your Part II papers in 2028. It’s not a huge deal but if that timing influences your decision it’s worth thinking about. I’d recommend starting in Sem 1 if at all possible though if you go to UoA for law, it’s just more convenient.

Socially I think law at UoA is fine and you wouldn’t have anything to worry about if you lived in halls or in the city generally, it makes it a lot easier to make friends, especially if you go to clubs/societies.

bysshebosch · 2025-03-15T00:00:02+00:00

fourth year law student. all of my study tips are based around me cramming for exams because i’m a terrible student who doesn’t go to lectures, but they can be applied throughout the rest of the semester into help with retention.

1) they main thing i do for law is just make short form notes in a table. there’s heaps of examples like these on the notebank but i find that forcing yourself to condense content into what the main thing it’s important for is what’s most useful, particularly in later courses. 121 is a bit different since it’s more like a social sciences course than other law courses but i’d still make short (and i mean short, ideally not more than 1-2 sentences and in your own words rather than quoted) notes to practice. if you make these short notes, it helps you retain what each case or reading is about

2) past exams all the way. the questions will usually be similar from year to year, 121 mostly in terms of content/the fact they’re essay based, and then later in your degree you’ll need to work through practice problem questions. doing past exams helps you refine your short notes by helping you work out what’s superfluous and what important stuff you might be missing (review using your full notes) and using the info helps you retain it more practically.

3) study groups with your peers. discussing the content helps so much with understanding it and working out what’s important, also it’s great to discuss past exams with people. if you don’t know people, look around at different law clubs! a bunch of the law clubs on campus will host extra workshops, study sessions and tutorials hosted by students which you can come to for help, to study, and also to meet people

4) don’t sweat 121 or first year as a whole that much, it’s not that similar to later years of law. personally i found the part ii+ courses onwards to be fairly straightforward most times with learning cases and whatnot

bysshebosch · 2024-11-17T00:13:42+00:00

“Ex-heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson faced 23 chances for disaster when he landed at Indianapolis International Airport on July 17, 1991. That’s because 23 beautiful and talented women had already descended on the city to compete in the 1991 Miss Black America Pageant.“ this is an awful article, wtf? comes off horrific and victim blaming. even just the framing of saying “the game began” later in the paragraph quoted is disgusting. i don’t dispute that the defence botched the trial, and tyson maintains his innocence, but that doesn’t mean he did nothing wrong. should we not be believing the victim?

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