Donohue's Law
Anything worth doing is worth doing for money.
Career FairEvery semester, the
ECAC (equivalent to your college's Placement Office)holds a
career fair where companies come to
give information about their company, and hopefully find some prospective recruits.
The Frank Erwin Center on the inside, taken from the very top.
Some companies which you cannot see in this medley include the IBM, Sun, Qualcomm, HP, National Instruments.
And even this year, it was held at the
Frank Erwin Center, a place which was originally designed as a boxing court (or more infamously as a
WWE arena). Many bigshot companies -
Intel,
AMD,
Freescale,
TI,
IBM,
NI come about here. Most of them look for full time position, and some look for Internships and more for Co-ops (whereby the students work full time at the company as well take classes in the University, the Co-op being considered as another course. Great way of earning money though.)
Most of the seniors say that it is a farce; that the company just comes so that the ties with the University are not broken, and that applying online would yield much better results that coming to the fair.
Apart from getting to know companies, I come to the fair in order to collect goodies; all of the companies are giving freebies. Stationary dominates, some influential onces also give Tees, and some other give some interesting paraphernalia.
I ended up coming home with about 20 pens, a pack of cards, a couple of T-shirts and many odd trifles.
Atleast the pens will sustain me for an year atleast.