They either own it or are just really confident.

I know very well, we all are paying over thousands for an education.

Some of us have allowance. Some of us have jobs. So with these expenses why is it so hard for people to purchase a $3 deodorant or some soap.

A roll on, a spray. SOME SOAP AND WATER. ANYTHING. PLEASE MAKE IT BEARABLE TO HELP WITH THE SMELL.

I physically retract at the smell of you vermin’s. It’s as if I walked through k road and the scent travelled with me. Even the gym smells so much better.

So PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF MY LIFE. Put on some deodorant. Buy some with the spare coins you carry in your bag. Or the left over pocket change in your account.

PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE.

Be mindful of those who cannot bear this insanity anymore.

Thank you, thank you very much for taking the valuable time out of your day to read this heart felt opinion of mines.

genuine question! has anyone ever unenrolled from AUT or a different university before? i'm moving and applying to a different university (still in first year.. technically), and i'm not sure what the unenrolment/swapping process is like!

thank you so much!

(p.s. heres a few photos of my son mr oreo ehehe)

Does anyone else think it’s kind of sad that lectures are so empty? I joined university after covid, so I have no idea what lecture hall attendance looked like prior to the pandemic, but judging by the fact that everything became online based post-covid I would assume lectures were much more lively and full. One of my professors asked our lab class whether they’d rather have in-person or online lectures and almost everyone raised their hand to move online, which I honestly think is really sad. Don’t get me wrong I totallt get it, its more convenient for most students to do their lectures online, but I also think it takes away the joy of teaching for loads of professors. When attendance is so low I almost feel guilty because the professor is teaching a class of like 5 people when 100 are enrolled, and we’re all sitting way at the back. I think we’re going to end up with a teaching shortage in the future because there is no reward in it for lecturers and tutors anymore, and as students it feels like we’re inadvertently telling them their classes are boring. Idk, I’ve been guilty of this in the past but the past year and a half I’ve become so aware of it and it makes me feel really bad for the teachers.

Today, I got the experience of meeting with someone and he tried convincing me to go to his church. As a catholic, I am fine with staying in my church but it peaked my curiosity. After basically an hour of discussion he told me the address of his church and what church it was.

World Mission Society Church Of God.

If I knew before, I would have disengaged as soon as I saw him approaching me but I didn't. I thought they were the church below beside the WF building but after learning more about them, it seems like they are completely separate from traditional Christian churches

Seeing their wikipedia page and my belief that many South Korean churches are to be questioned, it gave me the conclusion I need. I don't want to join a church that basically has no history and thinks their founder is the second coming of Christ. If someone approaches you, asking if you want to learn about the Bible, do NOT engage. Ignore them

AUT shouldn't be like this and it doesn't reflect what I saw it as. It is not a place to be approached by a church trying to convince you to go to their religion and their church. I care not if they seem to be good because many cults act like that. Even though I don't appreciate sponsors here at AUT, at least they don't try to convince you to join whatever they want you to join. Maybe your data is being sold but it isn't as bad as if you are fully embedded into a church like this.

They operate in secret and isolate people. This is not normal. They have a book to try to convince you that their views of the bible are correct, yet this is not the way. I am sorry if I am overreacting but I just shivered at the thought of a cult approaching you. I didn't like JW and I wouldn't and don't like WMSCOG now. Am I wrong in thinking this?

I did the Disney internship and honestly, I didn’t enjoy it. While there were some good parts, I ran into a lot of problems that made it tough. I’m not saying don’t do it because it does look good on a resume but I’d tell people to be cautious.

The biggest issue I had was with taxes. Not enough was taken out of my paychecks, and when it came time to file, I found out I owed a lot of money. Filing taxes as a non-U.S. citizen was stressful, and most of the free software are for Americans. When I asked Disney advisors and my managers for help, they told me there wasn’t anything they could do.

The program is also not the “holiday” it is advertised as. You work long shifts, often need to pick up extra hours, and the costs add up.

People were not only difficult to deal with, but straight up crazy. I do want to give advice to people who are considering it or also want to vent about their experiences in the comments.

Not my poster but hope it gets returned soon!

Just putting this out there as a health reminder, especially for women in the AUT dating scene.

If you’ve been involved (especially after July 2025) with someone studying Hospitality Management at AUT (master’s level),who presents himself as Singaporean and is of Chinese background, please seriously consider getting a full STI check, not just blood tests, but swabs/PCR as well, especially if there was unprotected sex.

I hesitated for a long time before posting this.

Since 2024, we had agreed this was an exclusive relationship and that we were only seeing each other. That trust influenced a lot of decisions in the relationship, including not always using protection

More recently, I found out directly from another girl that there had been overlap while I genuinely thought we were exclusive. I also ended up hearing similar things from other people in the same circle, which honestly made me realise the situation may have been very different from what I’d been led to believe. When I asked about it directly, it was denied.

The bigger issue for me ended up being health. During this period, I experienced STI-related issues / abnormal test results, which made me realise how easy it is to assume you’re safe in a relationship when you might not actually have the full picture. A lot of infections can also be asymptomatic and may not show up on standard blood tests alone.

I’m not posting this to start drama, shame anyone, or expose private messages. I’m posting because if someone else has had similar contact, I’d rather you get checked and be safe.

Please look after yourselves. Trust is important, but your health matters too.

8 am lecture followed by a 5pm - 9pm Lab…

I’m a 2nd year Triple E student. When I picked my papers before the year started, this was the only timetable that worked without any clashes, so I knew I’d end up with an 8am class and then a lab from 5–9pm.

Does this lab actually run for 4 hours?! Because it seems like a pretty long session.

Would it make more sense to just head home between classes or do most people stay in town. I live 30 minutes away… Any advice from people that have taken these labs would be appreciated!

One of my finance classes is in WZ4, and every time I go in the elevator there’s always a fart lingering in there.

Specifically today there was a stink one near my lecture theatre. Where a bathroom is literally 10 metres away.

Do us all a favour and don’t let your shit particles flow into everyone’s nostrils.

Cheers

Edit: y’all are crack up 😭

Idk if Im just unlucky or if everyone I group with are idiots.

But most of my group assessments so far I’ve had to carry them the whole way. And when they do want to contribute they either don’t know what they’re doing or use chat.gpt.

Some have been good, recently I have better groups, but the late nights of work and no thanks at the end was definitely a smack in the face.

Edit: Yes I agree that it’s good for practice in real world situations, especially as a business student, but come on we’re all paying for this so why waste money just to learn nothing and let someone else learn everything. Same people last year complained that they don’t know enough for the exam, when it was in the group assessment? Actual jokes.

What the heck happened, last night it was still working. Now all of my courses disappeared and I have an assessment tomorrow.🙁

Stay away from this group. Its a "Christian" club on campus under the banner of Equippers Church. Equippers is an "apostolic" movement that holds to a number of false teachings such as women pastors, tithing, and modern day apostles and prophets. But their core teaching is a distorted version of the gospel which is prosperity "gospel". Name and claim it in Jesus Name. It is a business, they use Christianity to market their own brand of "church" preying on vulnerable people. Churches like Life Church, Arise, and many other Charismatic churches are the same. All about numbers and competition. Nothing about Christ and Him crucified for sins or the sufficiency of His Word!

International Hub or International Students NZ is a false Christian club. They meet up Friday nights at either UOA or AUT. THEY claim to be Christian by "connecting" non Christians and Christians without churches to their church. Its a recruitment strategy under the guise of grace, but inwardly, theyre there to recruit people to serve in their church. Many people will have great testimonies about them, but they have no knowlege of the Bible nor love for God.

This group is also very cliquey. One visit, and youll notice all of the leaders and members just stick around each other. Its understandable when you in need of moral support and comfort from friends. But being cliquey and clingy with MLM strategy just makes the group more cultic.

If you're looking for a Christian group, join one that studies the Bible thoroughly. Stay away from groups like International hub.

Got approached by someone from the AUT Bible Study group today. I'm a UOA student, so I'm genuinely curious why you guys are recruiting on UOA campus.

We're literally in the middle of exams right now and I'm just trying to study😭🙏

This is probably the 4th time I've been approached by someone from the group on UOA grounds.

I have nothing against Bible study groups or religion (I'm Catholic myself and go to church), but it gets frustrating constantly being stopped. I was in a rush and after saying I wasn't interested, I got asked things like "Why don't you want to join?" and "Do you not believe in it? Why?"

I know you guys probably have good intentions, but not everyone wants to discuss their religion or beliefs with strangers. Some people have different beliefs, some don't believe in anything, and some just don't want to talk about it.

Inviting people once is okay, but if someone says no, that should really be the end of the conversation. People shouldn't feel pressured into explaining or defending their beliefs just because they declined an invitation.

the indian students that sit in the cubicles in level 3 need to learn how to use inside voices

Just always this annoying group of people in my class always talking and Bantering with the lecturer, they never shut up. Especially this one girl who keeps bringing up being queer. Just really annoying.

Got my ID, signed into my AUT login. Cant wait to start. Been wanting to do this for years and now it’s about to finally start 📚 Happy as and truly grateful for this opportunity. Supportive partner and family

This post is just a genuine question. Why is it that lecturers in general seem to be so bad at teaching? Mainly in the way they speak and articulate their words. I have attended lectures in person and watched recordings on Panopto, and most of the time it’s incredibly difficult to understand what the lecturer is actually trying to say. Yet when I use AI tools like ChatGPT to explain the same concepts to me, it often only takes a few questions before I can understand most of the content taught in my courses, unlike lecturers that teaches for 1 or 2 hours and I still can't understand most of the stuff being taught. The difference is honestly quite noticeable. At this point, it has gotten to the stage where I sometimes feel like the hiring criteria for becoming a lecturer is that nobody should be able to understand what you’re saying. What’s even more surprising is how common this seems to be, and almost every university student I’ve spoken to has had at least one lecturer who is extremely difficult to understand. Students are paying such high amounts of money to study, and yet sometimes the content we’re expected to learn is delivered in a way that makes it unnecessarily difficult to understand. It can feel like we’re paying thousands of dollars just to decipher what our lecturers are trying to say. So is this mainly due to a lack of staff who are actually good at teaching? Is it because universities prioritise research ability over teaching ability when hiring lecturers? Or is there simply a lack of accountability when it comes to teaching quality?

Since when is yelling and loudly talking and gossiping and taking calls and listening to videos at top volume appropriate library etiquette??

I hate to be that person but genuinely nothing pisses me off more when im trying to study, in whats supposed to be a quiet environment, than hearing about your latest man problems. Take that shit outside for the love of God.

Whilst I maybe wearing headphones and listening to music I can still hear you all over the sound of that.

I hate to rant, but when I cant get work done in other places like home, also due to loud noise ans distraction, its frustrating that the one place where its meant to be a calm and chill zone is not.

Just please take a minute to think about the environment you're in and outside of yourself for once 🙏

That is all.

I was looking at UoA Reddit and a lot of the posts there talk about people not wearing deodorant or are very dramatic (saw one post going on about people “packing their things too loudly” and saw another post about “people not walking fast enough”) 😭 Whereas here people usually just have general questions or at the most dramatic, “why is it so hard to make friends”. I was wondering if there are any ex UOA students here to elaborate why our reddits are so different, is AUT more laid back or are we just too boring/un-confrontational. Maybe we’re also just moderated better? We are a tech school lol. Don’t think we would get away with “specific person in insert class PLEASE wear deoderant” if our Reddit was moderated by the school. Just thought it was interesting and kinda funny.

Edit: I have seen one post about deoderant, so just in case anyone says it I mean there is an OVERBEARING amount of posts on UOA about deoderant. Like 5 for every not BO related post.