Students' challenges in online learning The COVID-19 pandemic forced students to miss opportunities for attending regular classes and enjoying face-to-face interaction with teachers and other learners. Because of this, schools and universities to have to look for alternative methods to their conventional teaching modes in classrooms, such as distance and blended/flexible learning forms (Al Ghazali, 2020). Online learning is not new to us. In tertiary education, universities…
Great things take time As someone who is prone to self-doubt, I lost track of how many times I had already asked myself if I was qualified for this course. I don't know if I'll survive engineering or if I'll just pick up a card and shift. I was an achiever from grade school until senior high school. But things changed when I enrolled in an engineering course. Things become clearer; I am not good at Mathematics, and numbers will bury me to death. I hate numbers, but plot…
16 Advices for Engineering Students and Young Engineers 1) Learn fundamentals and engineering principles. Figure out how you may apply them in real-life. I knew a lot of young engineers who are good in solving engineering problems that requires equations and formulas but does not have an idea on how it may apply to real-world problems. Engineering economy is a good example. Try to use what you have learned at school in real life. Your basic duty is to 'learn as much as you…
Keep going Some of us could experience disappointment when we realize we are not the people we were meant to be back then. People have high expectations of us. But I've come to the conclusion that college life will never be simple. People who are on the same level as you will join you, though you cannot exclude the possibility that some of them will be better than you. But that doesn't mean you have to evaluate yourself against them. In college, there is more of a…
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