We've just finished week 3 of uni now and I'm back in the swing of regular life in Australia. The subjects for Environmental Engineering students in 2nd semester, 3rd year are catchment hydrology, maths, soil mechanics and process principles 2. They're all good courses and it's really starting to feel like I'm learning things I'll use in my career. So far, catchment hydrology is all about analysing weather patterns and topography of landscapes to predict how water will behave in an area. Soil mechanics is mostly about analysing different soil types and their properties to determine the suitability of certain soils for a project. Process principles 2 follows on from a course I did last semester. We're learning to use a computer program to model process plants and calculate different flow rates. We've also started a project on converting methane to methanol. So yeah, it's been an interesting semester so far. The workload is huge already, so we're all getting a bit stressed, but it's great to be learning things that are directly relevant to engineering design, rather than just pure maths and science.