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?
You might have seen videos of OpenAI’s latest GPT-5 model and all the impressive things it can do when it comes to coding: creating a fluid dynamics simulation, a 3D racing game or even a basic working Photoshop clone. That leaves the question on the mind of every software engineering student, and anyone considering studying…Continue Reading Software Engineers vs AI: Who Will Win?
“A mechatronics engineer is the jack of all trades and master of none.” – a lot of people As someone who knows jack about trades and has mastered nothing, that phrase might very well be true. Welcome back to the blog, dawgs ๐๐ฒ I’m still Arren, my licked-batteries-count is still four, and you’re seemingly still…Continue Reading Tron Explained: Who is Jack and what is he trading??
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…
Have you ever chased a banana around the CBD to win cash?๐ธ Communally chugged Red Bull๐ฅค before performing for 600 people? Enjoyed bougie Bivacco cocktails and pizza๐ for free? Well then, you have truly been missing out on the eNgiNeErinG ExPeriEnCe!๐ซ This year, I have embraced all the university-exclusive opportunities out thereโฆ with NO REGRETS!…Continue Reading From Chasing Bananas to Chugging RedBulls: A Clubs Exposรฉ
๐ So, a random start, but I asked ChatGPT to read my draft blog and select the music that vibes the best with it. It chose the music u have below :). Feel free to listen to this while reading my blog ๐ If you read my last blog on how I ended up choosing…Continue Reading Field Trip Frenzy: My Epic EngSci Adventure to Taupล and Rotorua ๐๐ฅ
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 ๐๐ ! 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 ๐
My time as a software baddie ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ป (disclaimer: this is totally NOT hate mail to software folksโฆ) 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 wonderingโฆ or not) Well.. long story short, software just wasnโt 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