Hey everyone, Maadhav here, currently sitting in the library surrounded by approximately 47 pages of notes and questioning every life choice that led me to this moment. So we’ve reached it. The final stage. Everything else is done, projects submitted, reports handed in, and assignments completed. There’s nothing left between me and freedom except three…Continue Reading Exam Season: The Final Boss Battle
And with that, the 2025 academic year has come to a close 🥲. We have truly locked in, crashed out, and discovered all of the joys that mechatronics engineering has to offer. And now it is time to say goodbye. Well, at least not for the next 3-ish minutes because I’ve still got some yap…Continue Reading “Don’t Dream It’s Over”: The Goodbye Blog
Heyyyy everyone!!! Maadhav back again, writing this from what I can only describe as the eye of the storm. You know that part in movies where everything goes quiet right before absolute chaos? That’s where we are right now. All four courses are simultaneously wrapping up, which apparently means giving us ALL THE WORK at…Continue Reading The Final Stretch: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Hey everyone!!! Maadhav here, currently running on four hours of sleep, two energy drinks, and the rapidly fading hope that I actually understand thermodynamics. Welcome to Week 9, also known as “midterm season,” also known as “why did I think engineering was a good idea,” also known as “please send help and maybe some functional…Continue Reading Week 9: Surviving Midterm Season (Barely)
During the mid-semester break, I considered switching to computer systems engineering. Compsys has everything I like about mechatronics. Embedded systems. Electronics. Software. Hardware. And it has none of what I don’t like about mechatronics. Dynamics. Thermofluids. Mechanical theory. But knowing where your degree goes is much more important than whether or not you like what…Continue Reading Second-year: lessons and learning
Actually, I wanna talk to you guys about friends. I’d say its a lot harder than in high school, where you make friends out of being stuck with them from 9 to 3 every weekday. Still, there are many ways you can make and keep new friends in university. If you’re worried about how you’re gonna connect with people in your second year onwards (like I definitely have), then this blog is for you….Continue Reading Finding Your Tribe
What’s good, future engineers! Maadhav back again, writing this from the sacred sanctuary of mid-semester break (aka my bedroom at 1 PM still in yesterday’s clothes because time is a social construct when you’re on break). So we’re officially halfway through Semester 2, and I figured it was time for some brutal honesty about what…Continue Reading Six Weeks In: The Mechanical Engineering Mid-Semester Truth Bomb
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!
Hey future engineers !!! Maadhav here again, back with another dose of reality mixed with questionable life decisions! So you’ve survived my first post about what mechanical engineering actually looks like, and now you’re probably wondering: “But WHY did this slightly unhinged individual choose this path of beautiful torture?” Buckle up, because this is the…Continue Reading The Real Reason I Chose Mechanical Engineering
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…