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 difficult road filled with stress and challenges. On the other hand, I am more frightened by the thoughts of regret than…Continue Reading 2022: A Civil Odyssey
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 treated to some more online learning next year. Congratulations on finishing exams; I hope they went well for you all! The…Continue Reading Summer is here!
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 ask the rest of my cohort for some advice to throw at you. Some of it is Civil specific, some just…Continue Reading Advice from the Civil cohort
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 it is, a (hopefully) accurate breakdown of the major sub-disciplines of civil engineering. Geotechnical When most people hear civil, they…Continue Reading But what is civil engineering?
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 want to jump back to the start of Semester 2. Online learning hopefully won’t be a recurring theme in the future,…Continue Reading Here we are again…
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 your time, like a tea towel into a vacuum cleaner. After the second weekend in a row spent on structural…Continue Reading Sem 1 – Part II
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 of my new high-rise home, I plugged in my headphones, pulled up a single chair, and got stuck in. Nonetheless,…Continue Reading A Civil beginning
Part 2 of Civil has been an interesting year. There has been a lot of ups and downs, especially during the first semester with the ten million deadlines (or what felt like ten million deadlines) hitting you all at once. I wish someone had told me beforehand that it’s the most stressful semester out of…Continue Reading Recap of Part 2 Civil and Final Thoughts | #7
The second installment of Civil’s five papers, for Semester 2. CIVIL 211 The course follows CIVIL 210 from the first semester and a core of the paper focuses on methods that allows you to solve statistically INdeterminate structures. With regards to the level of difficulty of the concepts, I think it’s still similar to that…Continue Reading Civil’s Many Papers – Semester 2 Edition | # 6
Hey everyone! It’s been a hot minute since my last post, more than a month or so ago. With the rush of semester two, exams, and immediately working full time as an intern, there has been little time for me to properly sit down and write blog posts as much as I had wanted to….Continue Reading The Civil Cohort: a camaraderie | #5