8 posts tagged “umich”
Where's a pair of ice skates when ya need them?
Thoughts?
It's an entrepreneurship seminar course. One credit, no homework or tests, just come once a week and hear some guy talk for an hour. Below speaking is Josh Linkner, CEO of ePrize (the guy on the screen is one of his investors).
I have been taking careful notes in this sinecure of a class. Why? In the course evaluation I will judge, lecture by lecture, the catering provided at the end of each talk.
The roasted asparagus spears had a tangy marinade, and who doesn't love fresh mozzarella in pesto? There were other good things, like some kind of alfredo lasagna and it appeared quiche, but I wasn't too hungry.
Well, "internship fair," they're calling it. Two years ago, maybe twenty percent of people seeking summer internships wore suits; now it's maybe ninety percent. Dress to impress. I really have to wonder how those Yahoo! and Amazon recruiters wearing hip logoed t-shirts react to another student as plainly dressed, instead of blending into the black sea. Of course, college has never been about fostering individuality, but I did see one budding computer scientist wearing the ThinkGeek 8-bit Tie. So awesome, the thing's clip-on for god's sake.
I didn't go to the Boeing booth, even though they asked us former interns to drop by and talk to people interested in Boeing. I'm not a manager, I don't really know what they're looking for (other than a decent GPA and "communication skills," which all companies want), I just worked there. There's no secret to getting in; apply on the website and take the phone interview well. Don't submit a fucked up resume in the HTML form box. They only take paper resumes at their booth to humor people, all of their hiring is done online so that it can be tracked more easily. I kind of wish I went there just to tell people that.
In a similar vein, The Goodness Tree delivers a variety of in-season fruit on the University of Michigan campus. In my last batch, I got a bunch of clementines, kiwis and grapefruits. They were good, but I'm not sure it's that much different from just buying from a grocer. They're definitely more expensive. I guess I don't jive all that well with the whole sustainable farming deal, though I don't deny it's a good thing. I'm too practical though.
Is that the most pretentious slogan ever or what? And it's wrong.
(From a "business and technology" conference flyer at my school.)
I took this photo two years ago in the grad library stacks second-floor restroom.
So after bitching to Google about the "Build Your Campus" contest a month ago, they want my help. I complained that the 10-person limit on teams was unfair to schools with over 300 buildings, since the contest required that all campus buildings be modeled for a valid entry. Apparently, the U of M Law Quad has been identified by the SketchUp team as a "signature structure" of the U.S., and so will be modeled in high detail and included in Google Earth. They need high-res photos of the building but don't want to fly up here, so they dug up my email and asked me to photograph and model it. I'm not being paid, but I miss this doing this stuff so much and hey, it's with Google. We all like Google.
