I went to the Engineering EXPO today (basically a job fair). It was a lot smaller this year, I guess cuz the economy's been bad. But yea, it was different going this year, cuz I was actually trying to get a job- as opposed to going just for the sake of picking up goodies. I figger this is my best chance, before I blow my GPA (which I'm more and more convinced is going to happen this semester). So I talked to a couple companies and handed out a few of my resumes. I'm hoping for a summer internship with one of the following: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Ball Aerospace, GM, or the Aerospace Corporation.

Man, a lot of companies just tell you to submit your resume online. One company even handed my resume back to me and said, "That's your reminder to submit online." ...I thought that was pretty cold. But yea, man, I need to learn how to make small talk and sling the BS better... I'd just run out of things to say to the recruiters so fast, and then it's just like, "ummmm, yea... so I'll check out your website, thanks." And then I'd walk off feeling like a fool. =(

Oh yea, and one of the recruiters I talked to was really young- looked like a student. And when I finished talking to him, without thinking, I gave him one of those hand sliding against hand kind of highfives as opposed to a standard handshake. And he just gave me the weirdest look, like uhh, what are you DOing? I realized what I did halfway through, and I thought to myself, MAN, that was stupid.

And I managed to get a Rubick's cube from Microsoft. I had to like beg since they're only supposed to give 'em to likely job candidates I think. They had to take one of my resumes for it (that was the rule); so now they've got some aerospace engineering resume for no good reason, haha. I really wonder how influential it is giving out these resumes at job fairs is, if everyone just tells you to submit it online anyways. I think the politics of the job hunting game is definitely changing- for better or worse, I'm not quite sure yet.