This post follows on from the last – a retrospective look at the rest of Semester 1. Life as a student gives you a lot of freedom, but sometimes it can swallow up your time, like a tea towel into a vacuum cleaner. After the second weekend in a row spent on structural…Continue Reading Sem 1 – Part II
What’s up Engineers! I’m Ben and I am the lucky Part II Engineering Science blogger for 2021! I trust you’ve enjoyed your first year of engineering so far and are excited to choose your specialisation for second year! Whether you’re here to read about my fantastic blogs or get a better understanding of Engineering Science,…Continue Reading Ben’s Lit Official Greetings (B.L.O.G.)
Hey everyone! I’m Jess, the Software Engineering student blogger for 2021, quickly typing up this blog post in the midst of all the assignments. While I do question in these moments why I chose software, I thought I’d share a short overview of how I got here in the first place! An introduction… Fresh…Continue Reading Software yay!
I love sleeping in. Especially in winter, snuggled up under numerous blankets and duvets in your softest pyjamas listening to the rain and wind attack the windows, knowing it can’t reach your warm haven. Despairingly, this semester does not allow for sleep-ins. While last semester the earliest start was two 11ams a week and then…Continue Reading Musings on Monday 8ams and Medsci mornings
The night is dark and full of terrors. Wind howled in the night sky, trees battered against moonlit windows. Used mugs clustered on the counter, their contents consumed. The perpetrators lurk around a table nearby, amidst a pile of books and screens. Their caffeine-infused throats chanted elusive words, passed down from ancient times. “Why isn’t…Continue Reading Mech is Coming
Equipped with little more than Kirchhoff’s laws and a potentially haphazard love for calculus, I decided to choose electrical and electronic engineering (EEE for convenience) as the number one option on my specialisation form. Goodbye friends lost to the other specialisations, ’twas a good one while it lasted. When I tell people I’m doing EEE,…Continue Reading A short intro to the darkside
Hey everyone and welcome to the 2021 instalment of the Chemical and Materials Engineering (aka CHEMMAT) blog! I’m Sophie and to kick things of I thought I’d do a quick Q & A so you can get to know a bit about me and the CHEMMAT specialisation. What do I get up to in my…Continue Reading Welcome to the 2021 CHEMMAT Blog!
Greetings traveller, I am Alexander Bailey and I’m the Part II Computer Systems blogger for 2021! The most common question I get about my specialisation is: “Did you not get into Software?” Well, I can gladly say that no, I did not. I chose Computer Systems Engineering (CSE). Yes, CSE is its own distinct specialisation…Continue Reading Hello, World: Computer Systems Semester One
Welcome to Auckland. We’re going into lockdown. That was the start of my first semester as a Civil engineering student. Two weeks of online learning. As the late-summer rains pattered against the windows of my new high-rise home, I plugged in my headphones, pulled up a single chair, and got stuck in. Nonetheless,…Continue Reading A Civil beginning
Lunch? Packed. Pencil case? Full. Laptop? Charged. Outfit? Folded neatly on my desk. The first day of my university life was finally here and I could not have been more excited. After 13 years of school, who would’ve thought I’d be this excited to go spend another 4 years at a place some refer to…Continue Reading An Introduction to ME(chatronics)… a ha ha