To-do list

[pez]

Final Year Project - Developing a process to produce expanded waste glass concrete aggregate (due 06/04)
- See tutor
- Get started on the bloody lab! (this week)

Transport policy presentation - Bus prioritisation in London
- Learn the stupid presentation. Luckily I'm only doing 5 mins. (due tomorrow)

Robotics - Modular prefabrication for industry
- Write the bloody report (10 pages each for 4 people. But seeing my group, I'll probably end up writing 20 pages or more) (due 12/12)
- Get the presentation together (due 16/12)

Systems coursework
- Do it. 2 more questions to go. -_- (due 11/12)

Wastewater network system design
- Do it (due 01/04)

That's my university coursework schedule so far. It's not bad except I hate robotics since the lecturer sucks and I know for a fact he isn't going to read any of the reports submitted yet he's asking us to do it. Everything else is okay. The final year project's just a pain in the ass, but as soon as I see my tutor and get the lab started it should be better. I've got a friend staying over this weekend though, and I'm going to bring her around London, so I won't have much time to work then. *sigh* But it's okay, she was someone from my primary school who I haven't seen for 10 years, so it's well worth it.

Job application-wise, Scott Wilson hasn't replied yet (looks like I'll have to wait till January), neither has Faber Maunsell or Arup. Still filling in application form for Buro Happold. Don't you just hate it when they ask you what you learned from previous work experience? Well me, I learned that Sainsbury's quadriple chocolate cookies from the "be good to yourself" range is really tasty. That's about all I learned. *sigh*

So, "Which parts of this experience were most beneficial to you, and why?"

Me: er, I know where to buy good cookies? Oh I also find out that when you need to rebuild something built in the 50's, you have to spend a lot of time converting inches and feet to metres in the drawings...

"Give details of your main extra curricular activities and interests to date. What have you contributed and what have you got out of them? Mention any positions of responsibility."

Me: this is the only one I can answer.

"What has influenced your career aspirations? Why do you choose our company to start your career?"

Me: because you're a well known company and you pay well, dammit.

"Please use this space to explain what it is that you feel you would bring or could contribute to our company."

Me: ....... I'll bring the cookies?

I just *hate* this sort of application forms. I hate it when they ask about work experience, especially. It's not like I didn't learn anything, but I learned very little and the things I learned are quite hard to write. When you're there doing summer job they don't know what to let you do. You don't know enough to do most things, so they give you mundane tasks to keep you occupied. I did ask for some other work but that didn't help change things much. Grrrr, I hate these forms!

Comments

[sardius.livejournal.com]

You poor thing. I know what it feels like to have all these damn assignments to hand in. *gives you strenght*

I *hate* those forms as well. You spend half the time making utter crap, rather than putting yes or no. Blah.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

It's really depressing isn't it... I bluff my way through those forms because I don't have anything worthwhile to fill it in with *sigh* People who wrote these forms should try to fill it in themselves! >_