Hey y’all, Are you vibing? Despite the relief we feel post-exams, it can still be a nervous time while we wait for our final results to arrive on SSO. Are you going to make the Dean’s Honours List? Are you going to have a high enough GPA to be eligible for Engineering Science*? Are you…Continue Reading Semester 2 vibe check
As of today, exam season is over! So, first of all, congratulations on making it through! Regardless of how they went, they’re over now, and life goes on, and that’s all that matters … so are you ready to do it all over again next year? Haha, you think, he’s just joking. Second year is…Continue Reading Deja Vu! I’ve Just Been In This Place Before (or, Semester 2 in Review)
Welcome back to the electrical blog, and you guys are in for a real treat today! I had a chat with electrical engineering messiah William Lee about all things electrical: why he chose the subject, how he found his experiences working in the industry, and of course – the most pressing scoop – the inspiration…Continue Reading WILLIAM LEE: as presented by Spark Arena
With the end of the academic year coming to a close, I thought it would be really valuable to hear from other Part 2 Civil students and get their perspectives of Civil this year. So I’ve reached out to a few second year students with different experiences with how they got into Civil to ask…Continue Reading How to ̶s̶u̶r̶v̶i̶v̶e̶ thrive in Part 2 Civil – from this year’s Part 2 Civil students | #4
Hey everyone, congratulations!! We all survived another year of university! Hopefully you all made it through your exams okay, and have almost decided on which specialisation is the best for you! This is, unfortunately, my final blog post of the year 😢 so I thought I would just give a brief summary of what happened…Continue Reading Another Year Down
Semester Two in 3 words: Projects, labs, Assignments. Notice one word missing? Exams. Ok sure we did have one exam, but we had two weeks to prepare for it. The ECSE department at UoA wants us to leave university with practical experience. After our first semester, we don’t have a single semester without projects. If…Continue Reading Computer Systems Semester Two: Projects Galore
Hey lovely readers! This will be my last blog post of the year and also my last chance to convince you to specialise in MECHATRONICS engineering. I want to say a huge THANKS for reading my previous blog posts and for somehow not getting bored of me. 😊 I hope I have done a good…Continue Reading End of Part II MECHATRONICS – Final Blog Post from Vanessa
Aight, this is a super-long post. I’ve tried to condense it down but turns out I ONLY HAVE ONE MORE POST AHEAD OF ME :0 This post breaks down the group projects I’ve worked on this year, along with the programs and tools I’ve used to aid my learning and collaboration. Feel free to have…Continue Reading How to Make Friends and Influence Group Members
Hiya everyone, apologies for the very long gap between posts – a bunch of tests, projects and presentations clearly got the best of me. For this blog post, I have decided to answer a question that I am literally constantly asked, and it has taken me this entire year of studying chemical engineering to finally…Continue Reading But like, What Does a Chemical Engineer ACTUALLY do?
Most of my posts so far have had a few things in common – a ridiculous title, an introduction with an unusual premise, and an AliExpress-quality sense of humour. This post has none of those things. Okay, who am I kidding. You can’t escape my jokes … just as much as I can’t escape how…Continue Reading Managing Engineering Time Abound