So here I am, half way through my third year which means I'm now a year and a half away from completing my degree and I can see the 'light at the end of the tunnel'. I'm now applying for my second round of vacation employment. My previous vacation employment with BMA at Goonyella-Riverside Mine in Moranbah was excellent and extremely rewarding as I've learnt so much about professional engineering and an have picked up invaluable practical knowledge to take away.

I hope to now expand my experience in Electrical Engineering, I've decided to apply for the power industry in Queensland this time, either in Generation, Transmission or Sub-Transmission. The reason I'm apply for the power sector is that over my second and third year I've developed a strong interest in Power Systems and have been doing advanced courses in this area, I have just completed ELEC4300 - Power System Analysis. During the Semester Professor Tapan Saha organised the ELEC 4300 class to do I site visit of Energex, South East Queensland's Sub-Transmission and Distribution providers. During this time we had a walk through tour of Newstead Farm Substation. Observing the gear that these guys deal with and what their engineers do every day really amazed me and an opportunity to work with them would be amazing. I will be applying for vacation work all this month.

As I have said in a previous post, I am for the second time a wing community leader at Emmanuel College and loving it. Before the start of the university semester I went through orientation week with this year's first years helping them with various things with uni, such as course sign on, where to buy textbooks etc. I had an absolute ball and have formed many new friendships.

Until I start it all again in roughly 3 weeks time, that's all from me!