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iPod winner in a nanosecond
GIVE BACK:
On Thursday, January 26, the Senior Gift Campaign successfully kicked off with
a fun, festive party in Wozniak Lounge. About 70 seniors
dropped by to visit with each other, eat free pizza, listen
to music, and play board games. Among one enthusiastic group,
a hot game of poker ensued. Forty seniors made gifts to the
campaign, and their names were entered into a raffle to win
an iPod nano. At the party’s end, organizers awarded
the cool prize, engraved with “Berkeley Engineering
Class of 2006,” to EECS senior Christina de Jesus.
Here, she poses with campaign committee members, from left,
senior Brandon Barchard, College staffer Nicole Rinetti,
and seniors Grace Hsu and Kimberly Nguyen. To make your donation,
go to www.coe.berkeley.edu/giving/seniorgift/.
(Photo by College staff)
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CEE senior Heena Patel, IEOR junior Sumeet Patel, and BioE senior
Kevan Shah have been dancing Raas for years. They danced it regularly
with their families at local garbas, community dances that celebrate
the Gujarati culture, a state in western India. At these gatherings,
300 to 400 people of all ages danced Raas. That was just for fun, the
three say, but performing it onstage was another thing.
“I started performing when I came to Cal,” Sumeet Patel
recalls. “That
first time, all my saliva disappeared, and it was so dark, all I could
see were shapes of heads in the audience.” He quickly overcame
his stage fright to become a co-captain of the Berkeley Competitive
Raas Team with Heena.
Raas is distinct among South Asian Indian dances for its dandias,
or sticks, which the dancers hold and incorporate into their movements.
Men and women in colorful costumes step and whirl to the music, forming
and re-forming patterns as they hit their sticks together and twirl
them above their heads. [FULL STORY]
Like many engineering students, sophomore Ipsheeta Furtado found freshman
year arduous. She took Physics 7A and E45, and the courses confounded her.
She studied like crazy but got disappointing grades. Always a confident student,
she now worried she wouldn’t do well in engineering. She was intimidated
about revealing her shortcomings to others. And, away from home for the first
time, she missed her family and their real-time support.
The sophomore will be one of several panelists sharing their stories, tips
and wisdom about managing their engineering careers and getting through
each phase from student to retired engineer at “How to be a Successful
Berkeley Engineer,” Thursday, February 9. The panel includes current
undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, faculty, and psychologists from
the Tang Center.
All engineering students are encouraged to attend. Free pizza and gifts
will be provided. [FULL STORY]
On Amazon.com, there are 1,603 book titles with the word “internship” in
them. A Berkeley engineer will soon add another. Hello Real World!
A student’s approach to great internships, co-ops, and entry-level
positions will hit the market soon, penned and self-published by recent
alumna Jengyee Liang (B.S.’05 IEOR).
“For students, there’s a lot of concern over the internship
and job search process, and some are even intimidated by it,” says
Liang. “What I learned from my own personal experience was that
there’s really a lot more to getting an internship than just
getting it. I really wanted to share that information with others so
that’s when I decided to write the book.”
In true IEOR spirit, Liang’s book is about maximizing those initial
job experiences and planning the best approach. Hello Real World! is
written for busy students and working people, says Liang, so it’s
short (just over 100 pages) and “to the point.” It’s
divided into six sections: an introduction to the book and the internship
process; ways to approach the hunt; things to do between accepting
and starting an internship; tips for getting the most from your experience;
reflecting on your experience and why that’s important; and finally
a perspective on full-time employment. [FULL STORY]
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