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Countdown begins!
Two more months until I travel 7400 miles to Sydney, Australia! I am super excited to experience a new country and culture but it has not hit me yet. I am supposed to receive an offer email from the University of Technology, Sydney but I have yet to receive it. Out of the seven of us who are attending, two has received their offer letters. My friend Michael King who studied abroad at UTS last fall told me it’s pretty much a done deal but it just takes ages for them to send the email. I have been going on Kayak.com and VirginAustralia.com multiple times in a day to check out airfare prices and I have noticed it fluctuates A LOT. I have noticed airfare is the cheapest around Tuesday evening through Wednesday morning. I need to book my flight some time next week before it goes up to $1700 RT…
LIG
LIG - Life is Good.
It seems like things are starting to pan out the right way.
- Successfully completed the Delta Sigma Pi pledge education program with three of my best friend’s - Jacky, Shirley and Chris
- Executed the Management Information Systems Association as president by hosting top notch IT companies to speak to our members
- Worked up to 30 hours a week
- Managed to keep my grades up the way I like it to be
- Getting accepted to study abroad at the University of Technology, Sydney this coming fall semester
- Three more months until I depart for Sydney
- Thirteen more months until I graduate with my Bachelor of Science Business Administration - Management Information Systems degree
- 80 percent sure I want to pursue my Master of Science in Information Systems at the University of San Francisco
I cannot be more happy than ever! The only thing I really miss the most is being home. San Francisco is my home and will always be. I miss my family and Natalie more than ever. I don’t think words can ever express how much I miss them each and every day. The daily grind in Sacramento doesn’t help, but the friendships I’ve built here have helped tremendously. I only have about a year left in Sacramento (five months if I don’t count my study abroad program) - I’ve told myself to let go and enjoy my time with the amazing individuals I’ve met rather than be down thinking about how much I miss home. It’s truly amazing how things can change with a few amazing individuals by your side. Truly amazing and priceless…
Inspiration
My MIS professor, Professor Spiros is the most inspirational educator I have ever met in my college life. I feel every time he speaks, he tells his students the truth about what is out there for MIS students such as myself.
Today he started off on his normal tangents and I caught one thing he said…
Don’t give up on finding a job after you graduate. Look at X, she did not receive a job offer after she graduated last semester - receiving no offers from Chevron, Intel, SAP, etc, but she told me she was offered a job at SAP, Oracle and Intel. After she accepted the Intel position, she was notified about other job openings with various IT companies.
If your dream job is to work for the Disney Company in IT then go drive down to Southern California and hand give the HR department your resume and ask them for a resume, as you have traveled over 400 miles to personally hand them your resume.
You cannot wait for companies to approach you - you have to approach them and be aggressive to show them how badly you want it.
After he talked about X, who was my classmate last semester - it really opened my eyes. I have been stressing out a lot about my whereabouts after I receive my degree in MIS but Professor Spiros have calmed my nerves down. I know what I need to do and I know what I am going to do when I return from Sydney. One of my ideal (see I didn’t say dream) job is to work for Chevron’s IT business. I have fallen in love with their department ever since I was told how they treat their newly hired graduates. I just cannot stress enough how many opportunities there are for Chevron employees! I know I will be working at Chevron if I want it bad. The questions is, what am I going to do to achieve this feat?
