10 Quirky Academic Gift Ideas
With the season of shopping and consumerism now upon us, we’ve started thinking about gifts that will satisfy and delight the academics in our lives. You may like to pick […]
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AUT Closedown Dates for Summer 2018-2019
You can tell it’s getting near to the end of the year when the crowds of exam-stressed undergrads dissipate and you suddenly don’t have to wait in line for coffee/elevators/toilets. […]
Academic Laughs for Halloween
On this, the scariest day of the year (except, obviously, thesis submission day), let us reflect on the ghosts and ghouls of academia. From the creepy decades-old marginalia in dusty […]
Easter Weekend – Facilities Update
The long Easter weekend is about to begin! Friday 30 March and Monday 2 April are public holidays, plus Tuesday 3 April is a holiday for AUT. What that means […]
Happy holidays!
Merry Christmas and happy holidays from all of us here at Thesislink! Image by Bill Harrison, licenced under CC BY 2.0 Today is the last day of the working year […]
10 Auckland Summer Activities (for Student Budgets)
The sun is out, and in just a few short weeks, the university will close down for the Christmas / New Year period. From Saturday 16 December to Sunday 7 […]
Wild Weather: AUT Closed
With Cyclone Cook now bearing down on us, Auckland is facing a very wet and windy holiday weekend. This is a potentially serious storm – MetService has issued a severe […]
Christmas Wishes from the Thesislink Team
Pohutakawa flower from the New Zealand Christmas Tree (Metrosideros excelsa) The Thesislink team will be taking a break over the Christmas period; returning in early February 2017. We would […]
Happy Easter Break
Happy Easter Thesislinkers! If you’re at AUT, bear in mind that Friday 25th, Sunday 27th, Monday 28th, and Tuesday 29th March are all holidays for us. The libraries will have […]
Welcome Back Thesislinkers!
We hope you’ve had a relaxing summer… it’s been an interesting one, weather-wise. But we got enough sunny days to witness this moment of heat-beating Kiwi ingenuity: Now that 2016 […]
Merry Time Off from the AUT Postgrad Team
This is the last day of the AUT university year for 2015, so Thesislink is signing off until January. From all the team at the University Postgraduate Centre, we wish […]
How to Make the Most of the Holiday Closedown
If you’re a research student, particularly on a longer programme like the doctorate, it can be unclear where the lines of “work time” and “holiday time” are drawn. Sometimes, “work […]