This blog addresses a crucial aspect of an EngSci student’s journey: securing summer i*ternsh*ps. So, this is going to be one of those useful blogs, where I first discuss my J-word hunt experience and later offer advice on how to make the J-word hunt experience for the 800 hours of practical work requirement go well…Continue Reading The I-word tips after my J*b hunting experience
A student review of every p2 Engsci core paper + electives!
The next and most important part in an Engsci student’s journey is choosing electives, and this blog is here to help you in that regard, as well as give a student review of all the core Engsci papers! So, let’s get moving: Engsci is a degree known for its huge list of papers and possible…Continue Reading A student review of every p2 Engsci core paper + electives!
EngSci Survival Kit: Tools That Prove We’re Built Different

Every EngSci student’s journey kicks off the same way: you turn up to the Part II field trip with a backpack, a hard hat, and only a faint idea that you’re about to be thrown into something intense. I covered that trip in detail in my last blog, but once it’s over, the real grind…Continue Reading EngSci Survival Kit: Tools That Prove We’re Built Different
Field Trip Frenzy: My Epic EngSci Adventure to Taupō and Rotorua 🚍🔥

👋 So, a random start, but I asked ChatGPT to read my draft blog and select the music that vibes the best with it. It chose the music u have below :). Feel free to listen to this while reading my blog 😀 If you read my last blog on how I ended up choosing…Continue Reading Field Trip Frenzy: My Epic EngSci Adventure to Taupō and Rotorua 🚍🔥
How to Choose Your Engineering Specialisation: How and why I picked EngSci (My Process of Elimination & MART)

👋 Hi everyone! I’m Ashmit, and this is my very first post as a Part II Engineering Science blogger! A year ago, I was a first‑year student just like many of you, staring at a long list of specialisations and wondering which one would feel like home. I have always felt that the blogs I write…Continue Reading How to Choose Your Engineering Specialisation: How and why I picked EngSci (My Process of Elimination & MART)
engsci q&a with me!

I feel like university in general is very much just a guessing game, and you’re lucky if you end up doing the right thing. You can try to do your research, look through the uni website, read the subject descriptions full of the same repeated buzzwords, but at the end of the day that is…Continue Reading engsci q&a with me!
what I like and don’t like about engsci

Wasn’t really sure what to write for this blog in all honestly, I feel like coming to the end of semester two it would make sense to talk about the other sem two classes. In engineering science in semester two there is one core engineering science paper, one compulsory engineering wide paper and two electives….Continue Reading what I like and don’t like about engsci
engsci in a ‘real-world’ sense

I think finally after almost a year as an engineering science student I am just starting to understand what engineering science actually is. Semester two has been such a mission for me not gonna lie, but through some of my recent papers and their assignments I feel like the dots are finally starting to connect,…Continue Reading engsci in a ‘real-world’ sense
what does my life look like going into semester break? – life lessons from my second semester as an engsci

I came back from the holidays feeling completely unrested, and so being back at uni was NOT what I wanted to be doing. It can be hard to keep up the study grind, especially in the second semester. I feel like the inter-sem break just isn’t long enough and a lot of people are still…Continue Reading what does my life look like going into semester break? – life lessons from my second semester as an engsci
my review of first sem engsci, out of five stars

To review my first semester of engsci, what better way to do it, than reviewing them all out of five stars? This review will be my personal experience in engsci, so I don’t speak for everyone, but my star ranking will be based on how much I personally enjoyed them, and not official ‘quality’ of…Continue Reading my review of first sem engsci, out of five stars