How Do You Turn a Big Philosophy Question Into a Researchable Topic
Picture a second-year philosophy student staring at a blank document titled "Free Will Essay." They know they care about the topic. They've read Kant, half of Sartre, and three different Stanford...
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What Actually Makes a Graduate CV Feel Specific to You
You can spot a generic graduate CV surprisingly quickly. The degree sounds respectable, the formatting is tidy, and every other person seems to be “hard-working”, “organised” and a “strong...
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Your Engineering Degree Is Experience. The Hard Part Is Showing It
Three years into an engineering degree, there is a particular kind of frustration that can creep in when you open a blank CV. You know you have done things. Lots of things, actually. You have...
What Is the Difference Between Describing Your Work and Proving Your Competence
You can spend an hour describing a task and still leave an assessor wondering what, exactly, you have demonstrated. That sounds unfair at first. If you completed the work, followed the procedure...
When Does Aeronautical Engineering Stop Being Just About Aircraft
Picture this: it's week three of first year, you've just sat through a two-hour lecture on differential equations, and you haven't seen a single picture of a wing yet. You came here to study...
What Makes a MATLAB Engineering Assignment Go Wrong Before the Coding Even Begins
Here's a scene that plays out in halls of residence up and down the country every week. A student opens the assignment brief, spots a few familiar numbers, remembers a formula from a lecture...