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- Hi I'm Ruby I'm a third year dentistry student
at the University of Otago.
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I'll so usually get up around 6:15 and go to the gym
we have a free gym here at the Unipol
which has all of your gym facilities.
And after that I go home have a coffee have some breakfast
and then get to uni by nine
and, we have clinics three times a week in third year
and that involves just seeing patients and treating them
and we also make dentures, so that's pretty cool.
And then after uni I'll just go home
and hang out at the flat.
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The student culture in Dunedin is really unique and cool,
and the city's largely student run so,
that means all the cafe's and stuff are run by students.
The uni's in the center of town
which and all the flats are around it
so it kind of creates like a hub of students.
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On Thursdays and Saturdays is students nights
so, we either go to a flat party or out to town
or sometimes we go to the Forsyth Barr Stadium
to watch the rugby.
I actually play it with 15 girls
which is really fun and interesting.
In first year Aran goes to the halls as an Arana,
After that you run flats and in second year
most people go to Castle Street.
And living with 15 girls was really fun
but also kind of stressful at times.
We had to fight over who uses a heat pan or the dryer
during the three hour power.
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To get into dentistry
you have to go through first year health science.
First year health science is a year where everyone
who wants to become a health professional
kind of sits the same papers.
These papers are all like, chem physics
epidemiology, and bio chem those kind of things.
Health science is really competitive and quite stressful
especially to get into the degrees
like med or dent or physio.
Um, I always knew I wanted to be a dentist
so, I had to really work hard in the first year
and what was really helpful being in a hall
because I got to the the tutorials and had other students
who were all in the same position
which I really thought was helpful.
And to get into dent you have to get a certain
threshold of marks and then you also have to sit
U-med , which is quite a hard exam
and reach a threshold for all three parts of that.
After U-med you get an interview,
and then from there you get in.
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So this is Saint Dave's, you do lots of health style
lectures here and then after that in dent
you move to the dent school.
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The weekends are a great chance to get away.
Um, there's lots of beaches like Saint Cleer
or Saint Kilda that you can go get fish and chips
and watch the sunset.
There's also Sigo Hill which is really cool
or Baldwin street which is the steepest street in the world.
I also love to go to Queenstown and get away,
there's lots of skiing and snowboarding there
at Croonie peak, there's also lots of like scenic treks
or scenic drives and hikes you can do
which is awesome such a nice way to get away.
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