Tag: 2025

Wow, This Blog Came Late!

If you’re seeing this sentence, chances are that I pretty much speedran this ENTIRE blog. Usually, I’d be cooped up in my room on a Monday or Tuesday morning, peacefully writing at my own pace. But NOOOOOOO! University had other things in mind…and WOW, was it a hill to climb! As of writing this sentence,…Continue Reading Wow, This Blog Came Late!

To or not to Civil?

Hello again and welcome back to my second post!!! In my first post, I explained what civil engineering is all about, the different subfields within it, and the difference between civil and structural (which you should totally check out the structural blog if you haven’t already!) From my first post, I hope you got a…Continue Reading To or not to Civil?

The “I” Word…

These 800 internship hours are a combination of general and sub-professional work. General work involves working with trade skills and engineering processes directly, like working with machining tools. Sub-professional work is about your responsibilities as an engineer, such as work within a consultancy. You can choose to do fully general work, fully sub-professional work or a combination of both, so you won’t be penalised if you don’t like getting your hands too dirty (or you like getting your hands really dirty!)…Continue Reading The “I” Word…

The Bark Don’t Match the Bite

Perspective Since the purpose of the Part II student blog is to help first years choose their specializations, the focus has largely been on the courses taken in their respective specializations. But I believe that only tells one side of the story. There are many aspects of the Engineering lifestyle that we overlook, and in…Continue Reading The Bark Don’t Match the Bite

Debugging My Degree: Why I Left Software for Structural Engineering

My time as a software baddie 👩🏽‍💻 (disclaimer: this is totally NOT hate mail to software folks…) My second year had an unconventional start, with me actually taking Software Engineering. But wait- why the hell did I pivot to Structural then? (You may be wondering… or not) Well.. long story short, software just wasn’t for…Continue Reading Debugging My Degree: Why I Left Software for Structural Engineering