tomorrow i have a date with xerox. actually, i was kind of bribed and hoodwinked into going. a few days ago i got an email from umbc’s career center that said, well:
Glenn:
Due to your academic excellence, Xerox (http://www.xeroxstudentcareers.com/) would like to invite you to attend their intern and full-time information session that is being held THIS TUESDAY at UMBC. Paid summer internships along with full-time opportunities will be shared.
how about that! “academic excellence”! they think i’m smart! and also in that same email, the bribe:
FREE PIZZA AND BEVERAGES- BRING YOUR RESUME
Don’t forget to RSVP in UMBCworks- Go to the Homepage on UMBCworks, click on Events, and search via Information Sessions.
so, since 99% of the career events are on campus during the day when i’m at work, and since i’d be able to attend this one after getting out of work for the day, i figured i might as well check it out, and free pizza is a bonus. i tried to see yesterday about rsvp’ing for the event (hey, it says to!), but when i tried to rsvp through umbc’s career center site it said that my account was disabled and to contact student services to have it reactivated. called today and they asked me if i was an alumni (no, i’m a graduate student), and they had their tech guy talk to me a little bit and he got things working again. i’m not sure if it was because i started at umbc as an undergrad and left to go to umuc, but it also sounded like he was having some trouble with the site in general. he said that you don’t always need to rsvp, but when i said that the invite i got said specifically to rsvp, he checked to make sure my account was working by rsvp’ing me for the information session. no big deal since i planned to go anyway.
here’s the part where i was hoodwinked:
i got another email today from umbc’s career center that was more of a mass-email about upcoming career center events, and what’s on there? yup, you guessed it. and here i was thinking that it was because i’m a special snowflake. oh well.
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