Remember those days when you think your future is very uncertain and you are so scared to face tomorrow? I remember that day because for me as an international student in UoA, leaving my home country and coming back to continue my second year as Chemical and Material Engineering (Chemmat) student caused a huge breakdown…Continue Reading Discovering Chemmat 101
The end of the year is coming up fast now, and if you’re reading this, it probably means that you’re trying to decide whether CHEMMAT is the right specialisation for you. Choosing can be tricky for a lot of people, but I think my biggest piece of advice would be to not be afraid to…Continue Reading The end of another year, already?
Six weeks of semester two have flown by, meaning there’s only six to go, and by this stage you’re probably starting to think pretty seriously about what specialisation you want to go into. So lets take a look into semester two of CHEMMAT: CHEMMAT 232: Process Design The worst part about this paper is that…Continue Reading A lot to process
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
What is free time, and where can I find some? For the most part, our first few lectures were going over fundamentals and basic stuff, which really doesn’t prepare you for the workload that hits once you’re past this stage. But, for me anyway, it was stuff that I had chosen I wanted to learn,…Continue Reading Above or below the yield stress?
Hey guys, my name is Penelope, and I am a second-year engineering student studying Chemical and Materials (or chemmat) engineering. A bit about me: I grew up on a farm that was literally in the middle of nowhere, which meant being surrounded by a lot of land and very few people…safe to say that moving…Continue Reading Penelope’s introduction
In between commuting, cooking, reading, and catching up with friends this Chemmat student finds the time to explore the world at the atomic level. You Are Not Alone The first few weeks of the semester seem so long ago now, and as I am writing this, end of semester exams are most definitely on the…Continue Reading Chemical & Materials Engineering – Taylor