If there were two things I would say to every person going into, or considering an Industry Year it would be:

• If you want to do something ask
• Just because you do not get a return offer does not mean you did not perform well

Doing a "Year in Industry" (Placement Year) was one of the most important experiences of my University life. This article aims to answer some popular questions I've had about my placement year as well as give some key advice to people considering placement.

Studying full time, while doing 24 hours of work a week across two jobs, and maintaining a social life is hard.

Nothing in in this post will be ground breaking, nor do I intend it to be. This is a simple, and hopefully effective guide that you can use when life "steps up a bit", whether its the same work,social and university as me or if your life is just a little busier than it was previously.

I will cover:

• Know your limits
• Guard your time
• Compartmentalise
• But what about social?

Written by a Data Scientist working in anti-fraud and a final-year Computer Science (AI) student at the University of Kent. At this blog you can expect to find opinions, interesting projects, possible a tutorial or two, and other such posts.

• What I do: Data science for anti-fraud; final-year CS (AI) student
• What I write: tutorials, project write-ups, tooling guides (Obsidian, DataSpell, VS Code)
• Who it's for: engineers, data scientists, and curious learners