Welcome to ENGGEN 299, the compulsory workshop practical course all second years are required to complete before starting part III. The university website isn’t very helpful for figuring out what this course involves; when I checked it only really mentioned welding. Although the workshop course isn’t civil specific, I would’ve loved to know more about…Continue Reading Since When Did I Need to Know How to Weld?
Let start off with a tip- make sure you rest up during semester break. No rest equates to breakdowns in the first week of second semester. And you’ve got no time for that. Truth is, I pretty much had no break. With Warman competition robot build and other commitments, I didn’t give myself time to…Continue Reading The Awakening Call of Semester 2
With 24th of July came the most annoying end to the holidays: Explanation: notification comes out on Canvas at 7.30am telling the students with MECHENG 270 labs at 8 and 9am that the labs are cancelled this week. Thumbs up, lecturers! Now I can’t really call this year’s inter-semester break a holiday – Warman project,…Continue Reading One Early Monday Morning…
As I have clearly shown from my previous posts, I absolutely love BME and I don’t think there is any other degree that I would rather be studying for, but it isn’t for everyone and there are definitely some things to consider before choosing BME. So today, I’m going to outline some of the…Continue Reading 10 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Do BME
First off, huge shout out to the guy who left his MECHENG 242 exam room screaming, “FREEDOM,” like that guy from Braveheart. This semester has had its share of ups and downs: the fact that Mechanical and Mechatronics were the last cohorts to finish exams was a little demoralizing. But hey, we pulled through in…Continue Reading Still Alive… For Now
Believe it or not, semester one is over! A big congratulation to everyone who survived this semester. For me, this semester went incredibly fast and just like other things, it had its ups and downs but EEE didn’t let me down, not even once, and I can’t be happier with my choice of specialisation. In…Continue Reading Semester One of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
This post will summarise the EngSci courses in Semester One. ENGSCI 211: Mathematical Modelling II A mathematical model uses maths to describe any sort of phenomena or system (i.e. a thing in the real world). That’s it. You want to elegantly describe the motion of a glider in a thermal field? Mathematical models can describe…Continue Reading An EngSci Crash Course: Understand. Predict. Control. Improve.
In my last post, I spoke a little bit about the perks of being a BME student and the type of atmosphere within this specialisation. I know this has basically sold you already, but just in case you wanted to know a bit more about the papers we take and whether or not this is…Continue Reading The Best and Worst of Part II Semester One BME
Semester one has officially come to an end and our exams are finally all over, I can tell you one thing and that is that it has been a hectic semester keeping up with all the assignments and tests as they were being thrown over at us one after the other. As all that is…Continue Reading One Semester of Computer Systems
Here we are again, the end of another semester, which just happened to coincide with the end of the America’s Cup, (I had to laugh, the commentators were constantly commenting on how the boats were under massive amounts of stress and strain – and I don’t think I have ever related to a boat so…Continue Reading Balancing it all out