Career Fair, StuOrgs, apartments, Mail: Too Much on the Mind
Thu, 2005-02-24 17:34 — jrearick
This week just smashed into me. Monday pretty much felt like an extended weekend with Gaila around. Tuesday I find out that Tom will be taking the entire week off work. Tuesday the engineering career fair. Wednesday was the business career fair followed by FUG and church.
I ended up sprucing up my resume a little bit and attend career fair to see if there would be any cool summer internship possibilities in central Iowa. The engineering fair was not very productive since they really didn't care about you, unless you knew how to build a bridge, though it gave me a chance to get used to the atmosphere of the fair and make a few minor tweaks to my resume. I ended up handing out 7 resumes at the business career fair. Looking at a lot of the stuff people were doing, it seems that ASP and VisualBasic are very common languages for Information Systems these days. I know I dabbled with VB in Com S 104 a long time ago and it wasn't very hard at all. Perhaps I should build a Windows box to learn VB and run IIS and dabble a bit the ASP and Microsoft SQL. Surprisingly, there weren't too many jobs that were looking for Java experience. I guess a lot of these place are very Windows centric and are stuck in a rut :(. Anyway, there are a few companies I am interest in, and will hopefully be calling about positions. I still have to go though and organize all the information I gathered.
FUG is seriously considering disassociating with the university over the new proposed policy for organizations. I will have to take a look at these policies and determine what AmesMUG needs to do to comply with these new regulations.
I have also been rummaging around online for apartments. I have found quite a few 1 and 2 bedrooms and varying costs. The market is putting 2 bedroom apartments between $300 and $350 per month per person. I have put together a FileMaker database that compares all the options to assist me in making a decision. Colin and I need to figure out how much we can afford considering not just rent, but also utilities, food, and other expenses. Also, Gaila and Mel, I'm willing to share what I find.
So, also this week, I have switched from Eudora to using Mail. I have to say that Mail isn't all that bad. It works immediately with Kerberos on campus, the filter system is easy to administer, and most messages are displayed right. The only problems I have is that I can't tell it to bounce the icon when there is new mail, I can't have more than one mail box or folder open at one time, and when there is new mail it only shows the number of new messages in the IN box on the dock icon. With all the filters I have, it is very common for mail to get filtered into a folder and not be represented when I check the dock icon.
Anyway, I suppose I should do something productive with this afternoon at work without the boss.
I ended up sprucing up my resume a little bit and attend career fair to see if there would be any cool summer internship possibilities in central Iowa. The engineering fair was not very productive since they really didn't care about you, unless you knew how to build a bridge, though it gave me a chance to get used to the atmosphere of the fair and make a few minor tweaks to my resume. I ended up handing out 7 resumes at the business career fair. Looking at a lot of the stuff people were doing, it seems that ASP and VisualBasic are very common languages for Information Systems these days. I know I dabbled with VB in Com S 104 a long time ago and it wasn't very hard at all. Perhaps I should build a Windows box to learn VB and run IIS and dabble a bit the ASP and Microsoft SQL. Surprisingly, there weren't too many jobs that were looking for Java experience. I guess a lot of these place are very Windows centric and are stuck in a rut :(. Anyway, there are a few companies I am interest in, and will hopefully be calling about positions. I still have to go though and organize all the information I gathered.
FUG is seriously considering disassociating with the university over the new proposed policy for organizations. I will have to take a look at these policies and determine what AmesMUG needs to do to comply with these new regulations.
I have also been rummaging around online for apartments. I have found quite a few 1 and 2 bedrooms and varying costs. The market is putting 2 bedroom apartments between $300 and $350 per month per person. I have put together a FileMaker database that compares all the options to assist me in making a decision. Colin and I need to figure out how much we can afford considering not just rent, but also utilities, food, and other expenses. Also, Gaila and Mel, I'm willing to share what I find.
So, also this week, I have switched from Eudora to using Mail. I have to say that Mail isn't all that bad. It works immediately with Kerberos on campus, the filter system is easy to administer, and most messages are displayed right. The only problems I have is that I can't tell it to bounce the icon when there is new mail, I can't have more than one mail box or folder open at one time, and when there is new mail it only shows the number of new messages in the IN box on the dock icon. With all the filters I have, it is very common for mail to get filtered into a folder and not be represented when I check the dock icon.
Anyway, I suppose I should do something productive with this afternoon at work without the boss.
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You guys should all come over to Hickory Ridge! It's really nice over here, and the rent is reasonable, especially considering the only utilities we pay are electricity and land-line phone. The internet is really nice (a lot better than I expected it to be at first). It's also a really quiet complex, and it's on Red, so buses go in and out of campus every 10-15 minutes from 7:30-5:30. If you guys look into coming over here, give me a heads up.
Yeah, don't you get something for referrals? I'll probably IM you about details. Thanks.
Yeah, actually, we get $250/lease we referred; if you guys come out here and we refer you, we'd be willing to split that with you to kind of soften the first month's blow (because you'll need to pay fees to get your phone and electricity set up, and you'll need to buy/rent an HPNA adapter for internet). Keep that in mind.
We pay $680/mo on the apartment ($685 next year), about $40/mo electricity (which includes my PowerMac G3 and my Athlon 64 box running 24/7), and $30 for local phone with caller ID. The phone and electricity cost us maybe $150 total to set up, I don't remember off the top of my head.