The Calm Before the Storm

While looking on Wikipedia and trying to find the origin of that phrase, I discovered that it apparently is also a song by Fall Out Boy (who by the way sucks...no offense). But more importantly, we're at a lull right now where everything seems to be working just perfectly and we're kind of strolling along until the storm hits.

One thing that gave me the chills today (in a good way I promise) was something that Jeff Mounzer, the President of TESC, mentioned today at the TESC GBM. E-Week here at UCSD is being called "one of the biggest and most magnificent Engineers Week celebration IN THE COUNTRY." Booya! That is freaking amazing and I'm sure it's lifted the spirits of every single person who is involved with all the planning and preparation like to the max. Honestly, when you think about it, what other school in the nation has 90 COMPANIES...i repeat...90 COMPANIES coming to an engineering career fair to recruit from their engineering student body? Not to mention more than 70 RECRUITERS coming to meet and speak with the volunteers who helped make that happen? Um...lemme guess...no other? Seriously, there is no competition. I think all the other schools should just bow down to our dominion.

Updates from the DECaF GBM:
-We're very lucky to have a DECaF team that is great and dedicated to the event, without everyone all the planning would have been a success! We're getting ready to appoint volunteer "head" positions for the big day to help supervise the massive amounts of volunteers that will be helping out on the day of DECaF. Our "day-off" pamphlets are being revised, all the food is ordered, the prep room is ready, and all we have to do is run the event!
-Publicity is going to be a major focus of the next couple of weeks. Volunteers and the committee members are going to go out and chalk boards, speak in classrooms, hand out pamphlets, flyer like madwomen (and men), and eat dessert while talking about DECaF with their friends. We have flyer parties every Monday to blanket the campus with flyers about E-Week. And the scary thing is, some engineers just walk on by without ever noticing that there is a whole culture on campus celebrating how amazing and awesome engineering is! So the motto is "more is better." The more we advertise the better turnout we'll get and the bigger the engineering school culture will get.

See you all again soon! Don't be afraid of pitching DECaF to your friends and random people on buses! Think of it in terms of self-fulfillment; the more you pitch, the more people will come, the bigger the event will be and the bigger the success and the more happy you are! Really, it's all basically a circle of happiness.

Are you ready for Professional Workshops?!?!?!?!

Because I am!

Hello everyone, as a brief introduction, I'm Katherine and I'm the DECaF Professional Workshops Chair. I've been working with the DECaF team the past couple of weeks to set up some awesome and amazing professional workshops in preparation for DECaF and you should all come and check them out! I'm a 2nd year Bioengineering-Biotechnology major and a Public Health minor. I'm also the TESC Liason for the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) and I act as a representative from my org to the Triton Engineering Student Council (TESC). I love helping people out and being a part of the DECaF team because we're basically helping our student body find jobs and improve on their professional lives. I also love dessert and anything fruit-related. Anyway, you'll see me here or there blogging about how DECaF and all things DECaF-related is coming along!

Whew these past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind blur. I can't imagine it was literally only about a month ago when the DECaF team came up with the idea to host professional workshops in preparation for DECaF and look at where we are now! Week 5 and our first workshop is this Friday!!

Debra Roy from BAE Systems is coming to speak at UCSD about resume and cover letter writing and give us the 101 on Interviewing this Friday, February 8, 11:00am-12:00pm in EBU1 2512. We have been in contact with the industry folks at BAE since the beginning of this quarter and through a couple of weeks of communicating we are all set and ready to go! Hopefully it will continue as a new DECaF tradition!

See you back here tonight when I give an update on our DECaF Committee Meeting. The Career fair is in two weeks!!! Get excited!