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
~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 😃😅! 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 😉
My time as a software baddie 👩🏽💻 (disclaimer: this is totally NOT hate mail to software folks…) 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 wondering… or not) Well.. long story short, software just wasn’t for…Continue Reading Debugging My Degree: Why I Left Software for Structural Engineering
The best way to determine whether software engineering is the right specialisation for you is to start working on a project and writing some code. It’s one thing to learn coding through a course (like in high school or ENGGEN 131), but it’s another thing to work on a “real” project, navigating design challenges, fixing…Continue Reading Code First, Commit Later: A Software Litmus Test