Orglethorp
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My engineering program has an awesome co-op component, which means we go to school for 5 years straight with no summer breaks after 1st year, and just alternate between semesters of course work and semesters of work placements. Jobs start being posted about 3 weeks in to the semester, interviews start the week after and all this goes on continuously until the end of semester. Wednesday was "Match Day" - the first day job offers can be given out. Only 30% of students in the faculty ever get offers on Match Day, and to be "matched" on Match Day for your first work term is even less likely. The program also has a clause where you can't decline a job offer (unless you're choosing between multiples that came in simultaneously), so if you get summoned to the office to pick up a job offer sheet and there's only one job on it, you have to take it.
Not only did I, a first-timer, get matched on Match Day, I got an offer from my first choice company! :D Of the 4 interviews I had leading up to Match Day, it was the only one that was more Electrical than Computer (Electrical & Computer Engineering differ by all of 2 courses in the first 4 semesters, so we interview for a lot of the same jobs), it's with a company I've admired since my first exposure to their products back in my high school electronics courses, and I really think it's going to be a great addition to my resume when I try to get into the animatronics world.
Not only did I, a first-timer, get matched on Match Day, I got an offer from my first choice company! :D Of the 4 interviews I had leading up to Match Day, it was the only one that was more Electrical than Computer (Electrical & Computer Engineering differ by all of 2 courses in the first 4 semesters, so we interview for a lot of the same jobs), it's with a company I've admired since my first exposure to their products back in my high school electronics courses, and I really think it's going to be a great addition to my resume when I try to get into the animatronics world.
