Welcome to the final blog post! I have really enjoyed writing these blog posts, peeling back the layers of Computer Systems and revealing my beautiful cover photos. It has been a nice creative outlet over the last several months and maybe I’ll keep writing somehow… A brief update on the last half of Semester Two……Continue Reading Computer Systems: The End
Computer Systems has a reputation for being where students who didn’t make it into Software go. And maybe it should. Lots of people end up in that situation. But don’t disregard Computer Systems because of that. Computer Systems is a very cool specialisation if you enjoy programming but want the tangibility of holding your projects…Continue Reading What happens when you don’t get into Software?
Internships… The only thing that anyone seems to be talking about at the moment. If you don’t know already, you are required to do 800 practical hours throughout your engineering degree. This is typically done in two sets of 400 hours over the summer between your second and third year and your third and fourth…Continue Reading This is how hundreds of engineering students are finding internships for FREE…
And back into lockdown we go… This semester will be my fourth that COVID19 has impacted, but this one has hurt the most. Not only do we not get to see our lecturers lovely faces in person, we now won’t get to actually build our circuits that we have designed and instead we just look…Continue Reading ELECTENG/COMPSYS 209
Greetings traveller, I am Alexander Bailey and I’m the Part II Computer Systems blogger for 2021! The most common question I get about my specialisation is: “Did you not get into Software?” Well, I can gladly say that no, I did not. I chose Computer Systems Engineering (CSE). Yes, CSE is its own distinct specialisation…Continue Reading Hello, World: Computer Systems Semester One