So I thought there was an AIAA (aerospace group) meeting today, but I was wrong. Man, this has happened at least 3 times now. I don't know where the faulty link is in my communication chain, but I always write down in my planner that the meetings are on Mondays, and then I get to the site and find out that the meeting is on Tuesday. Blahhh...
So I went to a meeting of the Asian Engineering Society instead. I guess they were expecting a lot of people to show up or something, but nope, haha. And it was the officer election meeting too. I showed up, and I hadn't originally planned on running for an office, but I got there and it didn't look like there was very fierce competition, so I thought what the heck. So I end up getting elected the Public Relations Chair for AES. I really wanted to be the SEC rep, but no such luck. =/ But yea, public relations is still a pretty sweet gig I guess, right?
I dunno, I guess it's time to start rebuilding the resume, now that everything back in high school is irrelevant. I've just got this kinda suspicion of joining and leading clubs as a result of resume-loading back in high school. In one of the essays for Stanford (which I really wasn't very set on getting into), I wrote, "They always told us as we were going through high school, "Sign up for as many extra-curriculars as you can! Colleges love it!" I didn't find out until half way into my junior year that this was all a horrendous lie." ...now granted, I went on in that essay to clarify a bit and make my point a little more palatable, but the general idea remains: I feel I was tricked into participating in a bunch of extra-curriculars that I honestly had no interest in, just cuz I thought it'd look good on a resume. But in the end, none of that helped- I'm still at UT, regardless of my efforts. And I guess it's a fear that it'll be the same thing here at UT that gets me. =/
So I went to a meeting of the Asian Engineering Society instead. I guess they were expecting a lot of people to show up or something, but nope, haha. And it was the officer election meeting too. I showed up, and I hadn't originally planned on running for an office, but I got there and it didn't look like there was very fierce competition, so I thought what the heck. So I end up getting elected the Public Relations Chair for AES. I really wanted to be the SEC rep, but no such luck. =/ But yea, public relations is still a pretty sweet gig I guess, right?
I dunno, I guess it's time to start rebuilding the resume, now that everything back in high school is irrelevant. I've just got this kinda suspicion of joining and leading clubs as a result of resume-loading back in high school. In one of the essays for Stanford (which I really wasn't very set on getting into), I wrote, "They always told us as we were going through high school, "Sign up for as many extra-curriculars as you can! Colleges love it!" I didn't find out until half way into my junior year that this was all a horrendous lie." ...now granted, I went on in that essay to clarify a bit and make my point a little more palatable, but the general idea remains: I feel I was tricked into participating in a bunch of extra-curriculars that I honestly had no interest in, just cuz I thought it'd look good on a resume. But in the end, none of that helped- I'm still at UT, regardless of my efforts. And I guess it's a fear that it'll be the same thing here at UT that gets me. =/
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