My First Date...

...with the rest of my LIFE. Today was the engineering career fair here at UCLA. I woke up 2 hours early. Got my usual bagel bacon, two orange juices, and tatertots from Ron's House (Rendevous) and went over a few of the big name companies that would be at the fair.

I was really excited; I never get to wear ties. I like ties a lot (now that I know how to tie them). After 30 minutes of figuring out which identical white collared shirt to wear, I finally picked up my 55 freshly printed resumes and left for the fair.

I felt really awesome as I walked down bruin walk in my nice clothes. No one ever double takes at me with shorts and flipflops.

The actual fair was indeed an experience. The atmosphere was intense, yet exciting. After walking a few laps around the grand ball room, I finally found the nerve (and the words) to talk to a recruiter. I started with Boeing. Mmm. At least she took my resume. I don't think it helped that I got her name wrong.. kristina, katrina.. meh pretty close. I blame kcheung.

After going through the other big Electrical Engineer employers: Raytheon, JPL, Northrop.. I stopped by St Jude Medical. They are a medical device provider. And when I told the recruiter that I was an Electrical Engineering major with an option in biology, I saw her eyes widen. (This was a much better reaction than when I told other companies I was EE and Biology). She even smiled as she wrote down on the back of my resume that my senior project was Design of Minimally Invasive Surgical Tools.I kinda messed up at the end when I didn't know what that actually ment, but I'm not even in that class yet, so how am I supposed to know?

I tried going to the Blizzard Entertainment booth, but they were stagnant on hiring non software oriented Electrical Engineers (no matter how much Starcraft 2 and World of Warcraft experience you have).

On my way past the entrance I noticed a seemingly innocent girl standing, trying not to get swept away in the madness of the swarms of job hungry engineering undergraduates. I smiled when I noticed that seemingly innocent girl was kristina. For the rest of the fair, the two of us wandered the floors nervously poking into the various booths hoping that someone would have a need for an EE-bio, or a material science major.

At the end of the day, I felt like I really got alot out of this fair:

Two google shades, one book light, one sparkly google pin, and a shiny crystal thing I got from a chinese company to be exact.

p.s, 3M also makes things that are not sticky (i.e, braces). Who knew?

Frosh Frenzy

I went to frosh frenzy again this year. If you don't know what that is, InterVarsity hosts this all nighter event for new students from Friday night at 8pm to Saturday morning at 7am. Yup, thats eleven hours of fun, games, competition, eating, and no sleeping.

I was wearily impressed by this year's freshmen. By 3am last year, the game room was filled with people knocked out on the couches. Besides a few people in the sleeping rooms, this year, the only person that was knocked out was the girl Justin ran over during "Do you love your neighbor."

3am this year, in the game room people were still playing signs. I left to play some basketball then came back after three games or so and the same signs game was still happening.

Amy Hu's karaoke hour was also a surprising hit-- 4am in the morning and a room full of freshman are singing "A Whole New World"

No magic carpet here.

I spent my whole frosh frenzy last year playing volleyball. I vowed this year not to fall victim to that addiction. But after hours of signs and ninja, I found myself back in the gym in a circle of people focused on not letting a ball touch the ground.

I spent the rest of the night/morning resting in a tiny chair discussing catching leaves as they fall from trees and watching the sun rise. And so the night was over and day had come.
My parents picked me up from school and we drove to my grandpa's birthday party where I spent half my time sleeping.

Poohwho, Season 4 Premier

Mmmmm... yeaaahh... picture a day... I kinda failed. As some of you might know, I was doing medical school stuff all summer up to now. Even if I had kept up with my blog, each day you would just have a picture of a different page of my Kaplan MCAT book and I think that would violate some copyright or something.

Anyways here's a summary of what you missed:
1 week of summer break
study for mcat
study for mcat
took mcat
woo summer vacation for 5 days at lake powell, UT

started med school apps
woo school starts
yay rieber
yay friday lunch/volleyball crew

yay old friends
yay new friends
ahh med school apps due
ahh need more letters of rec.

okay now we are caught back up to the present.