Summer is here!
After yonks of online learning, Semester 2 is over! No more awkward zoom calls or online lectures that suddenly become twice as long when you reach the lecturer’s favourite topic. Well, maybe we’ll be...
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Advice from the Civil cohort
Semester 2 is coming to a sudden end; these last few days seem to have disappeared faster than a bag of flour in the supermarket. For this post on the Civil blog, I thought I’d...
But what is civil engineering?
Everyone’s heard of civil engineering: its a career that often becomes the butt of jokes like this one: But what exactly is civil engineering? And surely it doesn’t involve any writing… right? (wrong!) So...
Here we are again…
Well, here we are again – another lockdown, another round of online learning. But before I launch into stories about silent zoom sessions and lectures that are suddenly 1.5 times as long, I...
Sem 1 – Part II
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...
A Civil beginning
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...