So. Thereâs less than three days left for you to pick a specialisation. Are you ready to decide what to do with the next 45 years of your life? Okay, letâs calm down a little bit. Itâs not like youâll be forced to even start a career in your chosen discipline when you graduate. You…Continue Reading Chasing the Nerd Clout (or, Why Would You Choose Software?)
As of today, exam season is over! So, first of all, congratulations on making it through! Regardless of how they went, theyâre over now, and life goes on, and thatâs all that matters ⌠so are you ready to do it all over again next year? Haha, you think, heâs just joking. Second year is…Continue Reading Deja Vu! I’ve Just Been In This Place Before (or, Semester 2 in Review)
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 canât escape my jokes ⌠just as much as I canât escape how…Continue Reading Managing Engineering Time Abound
Itâs a Tuesday night. Youâre on your phone. Swiping away from your problems. Swipe, swipe swipe ⌠youâre swiping them all right. Trying your hardest to put your best self out there. Waiting to find that perfect match. Theyâre out there, and you know it. Youâre just waiting for one of them to realise that…Continue Reading Swiping Right on Your CV (or, Getting a Software Internship)
Your phone dings – itâs a message from your mate. âWhere are you?â You step off of your bus and bump into a friend on Symonds Street. âI havenât seen you in months!â You scamper to your 8am ELECTENG 101 lecture, one minute late. âYou must go to the overflow room.â Or maybe none of…Continue Reading Study Spaces (or, Semester 1 in Review)
Whatâs the most humbling experience youâve had lately? And, wait, what does that have to do with software engineering? And why am I doing this weird kind of intro again? Let me explain. A couple of examples come to mind for me. The first is from one hour ago, when I wanted to start writing…Continue Reading Metaphorical Wi-Fi (or, Why Did I Choose Software?)
Imagine if time travel was real. Yeah that doesnât seem to have much to do with software engineering, but trust me on this one. Just think of all the things you could do if you had the ability to travel through time. What would you change? What wouldnât you change? So many possibilities – I…Continue Reading Time Travel (or, an Introduction Post)
Some feedback Iâve gotten since my last post was that I didnât exactly give a glowing review of SE. Donât get me wrong, I do ABSOLUTELY love what Iâm studying. But I refuse to sugarcoat things and I want you guys to 100% know what youâre gonna expect before you get in, and that involves…Continue Reading I Am Not A Master Welder
Helloooo everyone! Hopefully some of you remember me from writing for The Inside Word last year, since Iâm assuming most of you guys reading this are first years. Well, guess what? Iâve decided to continue my promising career as a blogger, because clearly thatâs pretty much all Iâm good at. We can call it… Part…Continue Reading Remember Me?
I think the first question I need to answer is:  why did I choose Software Engineering? Firstly, let me make something very clear. I had a very hard time trying to make up my mind when I was choosing my specialisation. In fact, I never intended to do Software Engineering, so the story about how…Continue Reading Why did I choose Software?