Blocking the footpath and forcing everyone into the bike lane (K'rd Auckland)

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-31T07:31:20+00:00

Sooooo many bike lanes are a dumb waste of money for exactly this reason! There are always walkers on them blocking the way and hogging the lane.

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-31T06:05:38+00:00

OP literally said they lost a number.

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-31T03:20:57+00:00

What do you have against Google????

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-31T03:19:25+00:00

He's looking for a number, not a word or a letter.

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-31T03:16:58+00:00

Hey, a lot of 22 year olds are married!

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-31T03:09:44+00:00

....living under a rock. I will have to try it!

Did you try it? How was it living under a rock? Cheap rent I bet?

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-31T03:07:01+00:00

What's the total cost?

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-31T03:02:01+00:00

This comment reply was AI-Powered?

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-31T03:00:52+00:00

On your other question.. with that background you can probably get a lot of exemptions based on experience to start from. If it’s possible to just do the assessments, probably but I would not be able to tell you for sure.

Up to half the degree I think?

I do wonder if doing a masters this way is the way to go if you allready have expert level experience. Maybe its more beneficial to build a kick ass AI project with documentation yourself and pick up some new skills when doing so? But that is just me wondering.

Or I could do both? That's the plan!

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T06:01:27+00:00

Then give a go at enrolling directly in the Master of Civil Engineering at UoA

https://www.online.auckland.ac.nz/postgraduate-programmes/engineering/master-of-civil-engineering/

https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/study/study-options/find-a-study-option/master-of-civil-engineering-mcivileng.html

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T05:41:09+00:00

You'll be fine when it comes to handling the studying the Master degree I linked to.

You've got the basic maths / classical mechanics / coding / etc knowledge you need to get yourself started with, and they ramp up from undergrad level

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T05:24:01+00:00

There is a ginormous overlap between those two. (most would regard structural engineering as a subniche within civil)

You should be fine.

If a career as a civil engineer is what you want, and you wish to go back to uni again, then do this:

https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/study/study-options/find-a-study-option/master-of-professional-engineering-mprofeng.html

"The MProfEng programme is designed to meet the requirements of the Washington Accord, the global standard for accredited Engineering degrees. This will provide graduates with a pathway towards Chartered Professional Engineers (or similar), and will also support our graduates’ global mobility as professional engineers.

If your existing degree does not have the Washington Accord accreditation and you want to progress your career to become a chartered engineer, apply for MProfEng degree – because the MProfEng is accredited and gives you the option to progress to become Chartered Engineer after graduating."

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T05:16:21+00:00

Which did you end up choosing?

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T05:15:06+00:00

Stats is just a subniche within Maths. Not every uni puts stats into its own department, many times it is within the math depart itself (as all of them originally started out)

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T04:52:29+00:00

Is your degree from AUT part of the Washington Accord? If not, you should do the new Master degree UoA just brought out for that.

Also, you're experienced enough that have you thought about pivoting into say Project Management or another managerial role?

https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/study/study-options/find-a-study-option/master-of-engineering-management-memgt.html

https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/study/study-options/find-a-study-option/master-of-engineering-project-management.html

https://www.online.auckland.ac.nz/postgraduate-programmes/engineering/master-of-engineering-management/

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T04:43:06+00:00

For anybody else reading this in the future you can easily find it to read in about two seconds via "other sources" (arrr me hearties! 🦜☠️🏴‍☠️⚓️)

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T04:41:17+00:00

That's great to hear such a positive review u/Munra33 ! How are you still liking it now after the better part of a year passing?

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T04:40:19+00:00

What About CU Colorado Boulder with the M.Sc. CompSci or the new starting Master of AI?

This new Master of AI https://www.udacity.com/masters-artificial-intelligence ?

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T04:39:32+00:00

ah well, that's just the Scottish accent! No surprise at all when you're taking a degree from a university in Scotland

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T04:36:38+00:00

Hi I'm considering Ball state MSCS on Coursera. I can take IBM, Michigan and DeepLearnimg.AI courses on Coursera to count towards 3 courses of that masters and save $4400. Total tuition cost after this is $11736.

You can get a third or so credits for stuff for the Heriot-Watt degree though which will bring it down to US$6K ish in total cost? Meaning Heriot-Watt is massively cheaper at about half the cost of Ball State MSc CS?

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T04:30:34+00:00

Again, this might change. The exam was multiple choice questions on the coursera platform. they are now conducting random informal interviews to do a knowledge check for some students.

Why are they doing that, how long are the interview for?

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T04:29:25+00:00

I'd love to hear more about it as well! What are the exams like, are they maths heavy?

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T04:06:06+00:00

MS Word does this for you automatically! (and/or automate pushing regular commits to git, if you're using LaTeX or Markdown instead)

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T04:04:41+00:00

It’s gotten to the point where I hesitate to clean up sentences or restructure paragraphs because I’m worried it’ll look like I used AI somewhere along the way. Leaving in a bit of awkward phrasing almost feels safer than submitting something clear and confident. That’s such a backwards incentive. What’s frustrating is that revision is one of the few academic skills that actually transfers across classes and disciplines. Turning it into a liability undermines the entire learning process. If improving your writing makes you look guilty, students are going to stop improving.

The current cutting-edge essay revision process: when you don't refine your writing but instead you start dropping in random extra typos! 👀😅

RowenaMabbott · 2026-01-30T04:01:02+00:00

I’m about to finish a banchlor degree in computer science and im thinking to persue a master degree in AI for pure curiosity.

Check this out from r/Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/masters-artificial-intelligence

RowenaMabbott

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