Civil is Broad! One of the main appeals of civil engineering is undoubtedly its flexibility. Water, transport, environment, geotechnical, construction and everything in between. But with so many options, which is the right one...
It seems like all that everyone talks about is internship. If the prospect of applying to lots of companies, knowing you have very little to offer, is daunting to you, welcome to Part II...
If I am to describe the second semester for Civil and Structural engineering in one word, it would be “teamwork”. In contrast to the calculation-heavy semester one, semester two revolves around group projects and...
A wise man once said, “If you squeeze information in, you squeeze your audience out”. So here’s a “concise” blog about roughly what we learned in each course in the first semester. CIVIL 203...
Civil or not to civil? That was the question I’ve been asking myself for the good part of the last several years. On one hand, I had anticipated it to be a long and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
