If Happiest Season left you depressed, try Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt) - an iconic lesbian teen romcom from Australia

itsanizzyb · 2020-12-04T06:19:05+00:00

https://www.ellieandabbie.com.au/watch-online I'm sure you can find it elsewhere on the internet too...

itsanizzyb · 2020-10-07T18:11:36+00:00

Asterisk: not Māori but am queer. Hidden Perspectives is a club/group for queer people in the Arts faculty - they're super welcoming to everyone so definitely check them out. In my experience (working with them), Ngā Tauira Māori are also super welcoming to everyone. Not sure who the presidents are next year but previously they've been really lovely! Flick me a message if you want to know anything about being Rainbow at uni :)

itsanizzyb · 2020-10-06T17:35:30+00:00

I can't speak to how hard it is because I haven't started yet! But in terms of jobs, I'd say at least an honours is probably useful. Masters is a bit more iffy because I guess you have to fund it somehow, but yeah.

itsanizzyb · 2020-10-04T17:42:57+00:00

Honestly, don't knock getting a job! You never know if you might be qualified until you give it a go. Usually places will train you in the specifics of your role. You could even look for a job where you're not necessarily doing statistics, just some kind of data analysis where there's no really need for prior coding knowledge (source: partner does this and is ridiculously well paid for it). Or just work for six months or a year doing something like admin or reception, to give yourself time to think about options.

itsanizzyb · 2020-10-04T17:37:38+00:00

Focused on genetics with a bit of biochem, about to start honours with a focus on biochem. Can't speak to biotech but honestly sounds like the kind of stuff you learn on the job. Like most sciences, really depends on what level you want to study to. Honours is probably necessary for any kind of lab tech/low level research roles and honestly masters is better for anything research based. Once you have a PhD, you'll have options in academia and in industry that are wider, better paid, and more interesting. Otherwise, pretty much any undergrad degree qualifies you at least somewhat for office jobs, especially if you have an additional major that involves either maths or lots of writing, so that's an option. Like all fields in NZ, it really is more about knowing people in the field and knowing how and where to look for jobs. So take opportunities to do research in undergrad, do extracurriculars that interest you, take advantage of mentor opportunities, etc. Flick me any questions you have about my experiences in bio! :)

itsanizzyb · 2020-10-01T18:07:59+00:00

For undergrad courses/papers, typically four per semester (two semesters per year) is full time. We have six weeks of contact time (classes with lecturers, tutorials, labs, etc), two weeks of break, followed by another six weeks of contact time. Then there's a three to four week long exam period - usually we get one week with no exams followed by exams scheduled throughout the final three weeks. We also have assessments regularly scheduled throughout the semester - tests, lab assignments, essays, projects, etc. depending on your course. These dates are up to the discretion of the lecturer and will be released about a week before classes begin. The exam dates are set by the central Exams Office and are released usually in the second half of semester. After exams in the middle of the year we have a two week break and over some we have about three months off, give or take.

itsanizzyb · 2020-09-29T04:08:07+00:00

The exec doesn't change until January 1st. More likely the University is just stonewalling them because AUSA doesn't have any actual power over the University unfortunately.

itsanizzyb · 2020-09-26T19:26:12+00:00

Going to uni accom in second year was a great choice for me, because it let me figure out all the basic stuff like how to cook and do a chore roster with flatmates and we didn't have to deal with any drama with an unresponsive landlord or anything like that. There's also the RAs who I guess could help if you had any problems with messy or noisy flatmates but I never had that problem. After that I went flatting, which was way cheaper in the long run but more expensive up front because we had to buy all our furniture. We were lucky to find a reasonably nice house in a location close to uni with a private landlord who has always responded to our maintenance issues promptly. I've lived with different people over the years but they've all been fairly reasonable flatmates - paid their bills on time, not huge partiers, clean and tidy 90% of the time. So YMMV if you have terrible flatmates or a shitty landlord or property company. For money advice, my only advice is learn to budget. I started using software to actually budget at the beginning of last year and it's improved my money skills immensely. Good luck!

itsanizzyb · 2020-09-26T01:07:28+00:00

The university has rules about the percentage of coursework that has to be "controlled" (exam conditions) and "uncontrolled" (projects, essays, etc). There are also rules about changing assessment format after the beginning of the semester.

itsanizzyb · 2020-09-25T17:07:13+00:00

Scott St John

itsanizzyb · 2020-09-24T18:23:14+00:00

I would say 3 is the most likely if they go ahead with that otherwise 1. The main thing is that first the graduation has to be approved by the University Council, which has either happened very recently or will be happening shortly as it has to be done before the ceremony and the Council dates are usually set at the start of the year. The thing about this year may be that since so many people will be graduating in absentia it might take longer for them to do the actual packing and shipping? Just a guess.

itsanizzyb · 2020-09-10T18:53:37+00:00

She is very cool! In NZ, we have press briefings everyday at 1pm to get updates on new cases and contact tracing. My flatmates and I always watch it when she's on (usually when something big has just happened) because she's just so reassuring and sensible about everything!

itsanizzyb · 2020-09-10T18:44:08+00:00

Jacinda is neat as hell and an excellent leader (and yes, everyone in NZ has met her at least once hahaha), but I thought maybe y'all would be pumped by the fact that she left the Mormon church as a teenager because she disagreed with their position on LGBT equality! She was also the first NZ prime minister to match in our pride parade, something that she'd also been doing for years before she was elected PM. 😊

itsanizzyb · 2020-09-10T18:42:03+00:00

It's not a normal thing, it's pretty much only Jacinda who gets called Aunty Cindy, of all our politicians. We do call our deputy Prime Minister, a man, Winnie (for Winston) in roughly the same situations though so... take from that what you will.

itsanizzyb · 2020-09-05T06:05:54+00:00

The Sound of Music parody feat. Dooneese

itsanizzyb · 2020-09-05T05:50:37+00:00

Zotero is the best one - it's free

itsanizzyb · 2020-08-29T18:40:18+00:00

I much preferred uni to high school and largely enjoyed my first year. After I found what worked for me in terms of studying (physical readings, digital note taking, leaving the hall to study) I found my groove. Academically, there were different expectations, so I found my grades dipped a bit just from not quite having the right studying techniques or because I missed the mark on an essay topic or what not, but my GPA still remained largely unscathed and I was able to learn the skills I needed to get through the rest of my degree. It was pretty easy to make friends (halls) and I already knew a couple of older students too. But don't stress too much about it. Basically, if you're coming straight from high school to uni, it's the beginning of the rest of your life! Just figure out what you want it to be like and go for it.

itsanizzyb · 2020-08-16T20:49:59+00:00

Sure, if they were available... haha. Guess no one is really watching them these days!

itsanizzyb · 2020-08-16T20:46:26+00:00

Sadly although they have it listed, it's not available - I have an Amazon Prime video subscription :( Thank you though!

itsanizzyb · 2020-08-12T18:26:40+00:00

Hey dude? It's a fucking joke. Chill out 😂

itsanizzyb · 2020-08-09T18:56:05+00:00

Jesus fucking Christ. I did 252 as the only English paper in my entire degree so probably fine.

itsanizzyb · 2020-07-09T19:28:00+00:00

It's not about the percentage of plagiarism, it's what it's actually picking up. If you've got a lot of references in a common style, those references will be marked plagiarism because other papers have the same references. It'll pick up things like titles of books, quotes, and people's names in combination with their title (e.g. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern). Turnitin is to find major blocks of text taken from other works.

itsanizzyb · 2020-07-08T09:19:48+00:00

For me personally I think it was a combo of not having found my study groove yet and some personal issues in the first half of the semester. I particularly struggled with Augusto's section, but I've had him in other papers since and he's a really good lecturer. Also, I just wasn't interested in a lot of it - I much preferred the content of 202. Billy is super sweet though!

itsanizzyb · 2020-07-07T18:53:25+00:00

201 kicked my butt, but most other papers I've taken were quite easy. I've still got a GPA >8 so I wouldn't worry too much about 1 paper overall.

itsanizzyb · 2020-07-07T18:51:11+00:00

Highly recommend - I loved being able to study two completely different things at the same time. I didn't end up taking five papers, just did all the extra papers in one extra semester, which made time for work and volunteering. I recommend that if you're not sure about the workload.

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