School

A little birdie forwarded an email to me this afternoon. LOL. 

Hi xxx,

Happy New Year.

Was just having a chat with little birdie (who joined us at the end of last year) and we both agreed that xxx business students going for career interviews tend to dress too conservatively and look alike (you don’t want to be candidate number 1034 or was it 1043?). They should have a bit more colour in their dressing. The standard outfit of a white blouse/shirt with a blue/black suit may be safe but borders on the verge of being boring (oh no no no, you don’t want to bore your interviewer with what you wear before what you say). A dash of yellow, pink, beige shirt/blouse in a dark suit may have a greater impact.

Just our opinions.

In any case, we thought of dropping by to have lunch with you in the next few weeks to catch up and also discuss the possible implementation of an internship programme with xxx company.

xxx

 Note: Little birdie, maybe you should have a series / posting to educate the rest of my readers on how to dress to impress. 

The number of tags denotes the number of networking sessions that I’ve attended in year 2008.

Sigh. Job hunting sucks.

Recently, our school has being very active with a recycling project in campus and with that being my pet interest I did not delete those mails without reading them. The follow up inspection results were hilarious.

Excerpts from our school circular,

In general, there is an improvement in recycling activities on campus as evident through the increase in the correct types of recyclables in every recycling bins. However, it is observed that people have a tendency to throw plastic bottles into the ‘yellow’ recycling bins meant for aluminum cans.

4. Bins in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences have the highest level of segregated wastes.

5. Recycling bins in the Faculty of Engineering have the highest level of contamination. These bins contain wastes that cannot be recycled or recyclable wastes were thrown into the wrong bins. For example, Styrofoam food containers in “Paper” bin, paper cups in “Plastic” bins and “Can” bins.

Conclusion:
(1) Students from the faculty of engineering can’t differentiate the materials of the wastes. Styrofoam is not paper, it is not even biodegradable!
(2) Students from the faculty of engineering can’t read. Plastic, Paper, Cans.
(3) These students don’t give a damn.

Sigh. Life is not just about algorithms, numbers and machines.

Thesis is now declared as a sensitive topic to be discussed in public. Tensions rising among thesis students and violence outbreak may be seen.