Month: August 2025

To or not to Civil?

Hello again and welcome back to my second post!!! In my first post, I explained what civil engineering is all about, the different subfields within it, and the difference between civil and structural (which you should totally check out the structural blog if you haven’t already!) From my first post, I hope you got a…Continue Reading To or not to Civil?

The “I” Word…

These 800 internship hours are a combination of general and sub-professional work. General work involves working with trade skills and engineering processes directly, like working with machining tools. Sub-professional work is about your responsibilities as an engineer, such as work within a consultancy. You can choose to do fully general work, fully sub-professional work or a combination of both, so you won’t be penalised if you don’t like getting your hands too dirty (or you like getting your hands really dirty!)…Continue Reading The “I” Word…

From Chasing Bananas to Chugging RedBulls: A Clubs Exposรฉ

Have you ever chased a banana around the CBD to win cash?๐Ÿ’ธ Communally chugged Red Bull๐Ÿฅค before performing for 600 people? Enjoyed bougie Bivacco cocktails and pizza๐Ÿ• for free? Well then, you have truly been missing out on the eNgiNeErinG ExPeriEnCe!๐Ÿ’ซ This year, I have embraced all the university-exclusive opportunities out thereโ€ฆ with NO REGRETS!…Continue Reading From Chasing Bananas to Chugging RedBulls: A Clubs Exposรฉ

The Bark Don’t Match the Bite

Perspective Since the purpose of the Part II student blog is to help first years choose their specializations, the focus has largely been on the courses taken in their respective specializations. But I believe that only tells one side of the story. There are many aspects of the Engineering lifestyle that we overlook, and in…Continue Reading The Bark Don’t Match the Bite

Int*rnsh*ps & Selecting Specs: Killing Two Birds with One Stone EARLY & EASILY ๐Ÿ˜‰

~HEY PART 1s!~ Opps, I’m sorry – I didn’t mean to scare you with those rather large…and fRiGhtEniNg…words in the title, especially on the first blog of the year ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿ˜…! But, I have a rather urgent matter to discuss with you. Rather than introducing each specialisation and telling you exactly what BME is right off…Continue Reading Int*rnsh*ps & Selecting Specs: Killing Two Birds with One Stone EARLY & EASILY ๐Ÿ˜‰

Debugging My Degree: Why I Left Software for Structural Engineering

My time as a software baddie ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿฝโ€๐Ÿ’ป (disclaimer: this is totally NOT hate mail to software folksโ€ฆ) My second year had an unconventional start, with me actually taking Software Engineering. But wait- why the hell did I pivot to Structural then? (You may be wonderingโ€ฆ or not) Well.. long story short, software just wasnโ€™t for…Continue Reading Debugging My Degree: Why I Left Software for Structural Engineering