did you witness the 'wake' of wake forest?

i thought that our basketball team was gonna get stuffed by national 5th ranked wake forest, so much that i came up with the joke that attending the game would be like attending a wake. but it turned out, after losing 3 straight matches which brought us down from 8th to 22nd in the national rankings, we were game for a big upset. i really wish i was there, it was even tighter than the kansas game and the better thing obviously was that we won, which the students present there celebrated by running down to the court and swarming the players. final score after over time, 102-101. tight tight game, very tense, til the last second!

but it was a great game, even on tv.

anyway, my econs test as well as calc went pretty alright, i think. i know i was only one question away from an A in econs, and there may be a curve, so im doting on it, and im not exactly sure if i did my calc right, i thought the questions were very straight forward, but when it seems really simple, thats when i get caught off guard, so im being weary.

i got my citibank card yesterday. what i never understood about these credit card activiations are that they send you the card to your campus post office box, but expect you to call from your permanent home phone. i mean, its like, im all the way down south in atlanta, do you really expect me to fly back to chicago to activate my card when the card has been mailed to my campus? but we managed to work out that little complication and got it activated.

i was pretty pissed on tuesday, coz the GE Aircraft Engines intern position 'disappeared' from the webpage that tech uses to get its students internships and co-ops. i thought that would have been a perfect opportunity, and you could imagine my horror and disappointment when i found out that the deadline for application was the previous day, which i never took note, nor even crossed my mind. deadlines arent supposed to be that early. but then, it came back last night, with more work details and a fixed location (in ohio) so i guess they were just updating the info. thank god. i'll be meeting my advisor later on today, so i'll book my interview schedule then. there was another job posted by GE, for manufacturing i think, which i will sign up for as well.

there was another bad news, which was that i didnt get the toyota job. its gone for good now. they sent an email saying i didnt have the experience does not meet the work requirements. i wasnt even told there were requirements during the phone interview. they could have asked me then or at least told me about it. i guess its coz when i submitted that resume, i was still an undecided engineer in my first semester.

well, i have more tools to look for the jobs through campus service, so i guess i'll depend on that then.

as weird as it may sound, i actually went for a 'career counselling' yesterday. since they have such services in school, i thought, why not take advantage of it, i mean, choosing a career is a huge decision. it seems i dont have much problem, so i decided to take some tests to cross reference some advises to what i really think i should do. ideally, you should do something you like, but theres no guarantee that you'll be good at it. im not gonna stick by the results, but just to see what it says. i took a simple one yesterday, and the 4 results that came up most often, if not, everytime was the following;

Family and Consumer Scientist (i dont even know what that is)
Industrial Engineer (i guess i made the right choice?)
International Trade Specialist (sounds like a very cool job)
Job Analyst (huh? they have people do that kind of thing?)

so you can see industrial engineering is probably the way to go for now, at least until i graduate. then maybe MBA in international business or something to go along the line of international trade specialist. my decisions arent affected at all, coz i had already made the decision to be an IE, as well as continue to do an MBA later on (though speciality not selected)

its a pretty interesting study, and i'll be taking two more tests so that my advisor can relay me to the relevent resources and guide me accordingly. i guess these things do come in handy, i used to think these were junks.

19 hours isnt as bad as i thought. im starting to lose sleep and feel the fatigue as the week goes on, but its not something new to me, so im fine with it. somehow i wake up every morning feeling like i didnt have enough sleep and wanting to stay in bed for just an extra hour, but i know i cant do that. but im managing my time pretty well, im still managing to cram in time to take short naps, surf about, and just take an hour or two off to talk to friends time to time.

if theres anything to encourage me, week 3 is done, 13 more weeks to go.

im having the housing staff interview tomorrow. theres a lot of conflicting interest in my part. as the RHA cabinet is opening up, the idea of taking up a position (i've kind of decided on being either the chief justice for the judicial board or vice-president of communications) seems very enticing. however, if i do get a housing position, then i cant be in RHA cabinet. i have to weigh the benefits of each position, i guess. and theres also the question of co-op, which will be detrimental to both RHA as well as the housing position. the only way out is if i get a co-op in atlanta, which i dont really want to do, as it will limit opportunities, as if it isnt tight enough.

and there's the fraternity thing next fall. im going to check back on delta sigma phi, chi phi and take a look at pi kappa phi and see how they go. i might be taking on a lot on that semester, but at least i would have known how to handle time after this semester, shouldnt be so bad.

the best way out will be to get the vice-president or community advisor role and get a co-op position with a big company in atlanta. but what are the chances? i guess i will see, theres only about 2 months til i find that out.