My faculty gives us 100 (complimentary) business cards and a nametag for the "big day"...
Connie Yuen, Western, Faculty of Engineering, BeSc 2004, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering…maybe I haven’t been wasting the past two years of my life…
The annual Western (Engineering/Richard-Ivey/Computer Science Upper Year) Job Fair.
It’s the one day you can’t tell the engineers from the business students…hair has actually been combed, and shirt and ties are in the place of the usual crumpled T-shirts. They’re all lined up at the door of the Thompson Area, there is tension in the air...the person who you sit with in every class has now become competition.
The company reps are ready, with their smiles, brochures and boxes of propaganda. Ready, to lure the students in and have them compete against each other to trade their souls for promises of starting salaries, employee benefits and dental.
The doors open…they’re all there, the so-called “big employers”. My colleagues are enchanted and slowly drift towards them like a fly to a light bulb…I will not be so easily gotten…Oh wait…what’s that I see? Oh my goodness…free pens…!!!!!!!!!
