CSE Undergrad News

Here’s a quick reminder there is another tech talk today.  I hope you all had fun with Microsoft yesterday!

And the Career Fair is this Tuesday, it will be a blast!!!

Chris

ACM pseudo-SPAMbot

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UIEvolution

Thursday, January 20th (Today)

5:30 PM Atrium, The Paul G. Allen Center

If you have a passion for making scalable, usable and innovative software applications we’d love to meet you. Please join us for an information session on January 20th or submit your resume to uwjobs@uievolution.com. Visit www.uievolution.com to learn more. Free food will be served!

Hi guys and gals,

There is a TON going on in the next two weeks, here it is all layed out, plan accordingly!  If you’re still looking for summer work now would be a great time to touch up your resume and take advantage of all these great opportunities!

Remember, everything can be found on these calendars:

http://flatline.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/events/

http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/studentoutreach.html

0.) CAREER FAIR!!!

When: Tue, January 25, 1:30pm – 5:00pm

Where: CSE Atrium

What: It’s just like Fall again!  There is likely more emphasis on hiring for internships, but likely to be full time opportunities still around. A current list of companies that will participate in our winter recruiting fair may be viewed here: http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/meetings/recruit-co-1011-winter.html

1.) Resume Review:

When: Tue, January 18, 3pm – 6pm

Where: CSE Atrium

Description: HR experts from several local high-tech will provide individual resume tips to our CSE undergraduates. Strong resumes are essential for obtaining job interviews and student resumes in any stage can benefit greatly from a review from our experts. Students can attend either the 3:00 or 4:30 sessions, no reservations necessary. Bring at least 4 copies of your resume—initial drafts are fine!

2.) Microsoft Tech Fest

When: Wed, January 19, 6pm – 8pm

Where: CSE Atrium

Description: It’s all about us meeting you and you meeting us, and all of us geeking out over some crazy tech stuff.  Talk, ask questions, or just mingle with your fellow techies!   Check out demos from Windows Phone 7, SharePoint, MSN Mobile, Internet Explorer and more from the developers who actually work on these teams!   Bring your questions, geek out on some sweet technology and see where Microsoft is going next.  A recruiter will be on hand to talk about how you can Be What’s Next.  Fulltime and intern positions are still available – bring your resume!  Stop by anytime between 6:00pm and 8:00pm and enter to win an Xbox 360 & Kinect bundle, Zune HD or other sweet prizes!  Free food from Jimmy John’s will be provided!

3.) UI Evolution Info Session

When: Thu, January 20, 5:30pm – 7:00pm

Where: CSE Atrium

Description: A tech talk / info session from a company you may not have heard of!  There will be food and likely swag.  Check out the website: http://www.uievolution.com/

4.) Cisco Info Session

When: Mon, January 24, 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Where: EE 105

Description: Cisco is more than just routers.  We are the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate.  Since 1984, Cisco has led in the innovation of IP-based networking technologies, including routing, switching, security, TelePresence, unified communications, video, and wireless.  The company’s responsible business practices help ensure accountability, business sustainability, and environmentally conscious operations and products.

Please join us for this exciting session! Dinner will be served plus a FLIP Video Raffle. For more information, please visit www.cisco.com/go/universityjobs.

5.) Facebook Tech Talk

When: Wed, January 26, 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Where: EE 105

Description: Facebook is back again.  They had a pretty awesome Tech Talk last time around (super interesting).  Definitely come check it out!

6.) Mock Technical Interview

When: Thu, January 27, 6:00pm – 8:15pm

Where: Career Center

Description: Our Winter Mock Technical Interviews will once again allow CSE students to experience a 40 minute one-on-one technical question and answer session with actual interviewers from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Primavera Solutions and many more.  The Winter Mock Technical Interviews will be held on Thursday, January 27 from 6:00-8:15 pm.  Reservation information will be provided shortly.  Reservations for the interviews will be taken on a seniority priority basis.

7.) ACM WINTER FEST!!!!!

When: Friday, February 18, 6pm – 9pm

Where: CSE Atrium

Description: Mark your calendar! It’s like fall fest all over again! Come celebrate surviving half the quarter or your newly acquired internship or full time position with all your CSE friends.  For sure Food, drinks, board games, video games, and music will be provided.  If you think any other fun activities should happen at Winterfest send your suggestions to the ACM offices.

That’s all folks! (Really, seriously, that was only 650+ words of announcements).  But that’s about half the quarter of events.  Add our calendars and twitter!

Chris Raastad

ACM SPAMMMM….ER

FYI,

There is a correction from the previous post, the Amazon snack break is from 1:00pm-2:30pm today in the atrium.  There was a discrepancy between the calendar and the content of the event details.  This has been corrected.

Chris

Hey All,

Hope you enjoyed your first week back!  There are plenty of recruiting events for both internships and full time positions in the next month.  Remember these can be all found on the calendars at http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/studentoutreach.html.

1.) Amazon Snack Break

Winter quarter is prime internship interview season! Unless you’re graduating soon or already have Very Important Summer Plans, finding an internship should be high on your list of summer options.

CSE alum Alex Loddengaard gives some advice on his blog:  “I challenge you to intern as much and as early as possible.  The more diverse work experiences you can have, the more likely you’ll be to find and pursue something you love.  And pursuing something you love is absolutely critical for living a happy life.” Read his full blog post here: http://alexlod.com/2010/12/15/internships-and-the-importance-of-diversity/

Hello All,

Quite a bit of the quarter has gone by without many notices, here are a few things to keep in mind!

1.) ACM Quarterly General Meeting: Friday December 3rd, 11:30pm-12:20pm, CSE 303

The ACM holds one of these meetings every quarter.  We provide pizza (w00t!), you tell us how we are doing and hopefully raise interesting discussion. This is your chance to tell us suggestions, praise (or complain) about the coke closet, and talk about any other odities in the department.

2.) Cleaning out THE Fridge

Veterans can affirm the student fridge in the ACM lounge has seen better days…  The old cleaning schedule will now take effect!  The student fridge will be COMPLETELY cleaned out sometime in the evening the first Sunday of each month.  EVERYTHING WILL BE THROWN AWAY, absolutely everything, no mercy, ie if you want anything don’t leave it in the fridge that day until the next cleaning notice has been posted on the fridge.  The first cleaning will be THIS SUNDAY 12/5, Moreover, please remember to

• Be curteous when using the small student fridge.  It is intended for temporary storage, 1-2 days maximum, not to load with food for the next week.
• DO NOT USE THE COKE CLOSET FRIDGE FOR PERSONAL ITEMS.  There are left overs from tech talks stored in the door but that is about it aside from inventory.
• If using the coke closet freezer is absolutely necessary (due to student freezer size), please mark your name on it and mark NOT INVENTORY.

3.) REDFIN CEO and Infosession, Thursday December 2nd, Mary Gates 134, 5:30-7:30pm

This is not an ACM event, but the CEO of the company will be present.  You can RSVP and find out  more information about this session and other sessions through www.huskyjobs.washington.edu/students/.  I wont necessarily be posting them all, its just another source.

4.) @uw_acm: Start following us on Twitter!

We’re hoping to put more comical updates in real time on here.  Like when a coke closet order has just came in, current state of the tech talk, and other random things! It only works if we have followers! So follow us!

Enjoy the final strech!

Chris Raastad

ACM Email Person

Hey CSE people,

I’m sure you’ve been missing my name clogging your inbox. There hasn’t been many events lately….

But, today, in one hour, there is a talk/info session by Twitter at Today, 10:30am, MGH 420.

This is not an ACM event (i cant guarantee free food), someone  on there end might accidentally contacted the wrong department… Hence, by an invitation from Ed Lazowska and Twitter itself, we cse ugrads are invited to crash the event.

Chris

In my previous post I accidentally put “Xanga” in the title of the post.  The info session is put on by “Zynga”, both having strange combination of letters.

Well here is one last reminder!

Today, Zynga, Atrium, 6-7:30pm, Thai Food and drawing for a netbook.

Chris

Hey CSE Ugrads,

Only 2 events this week, 2 days in a row!

Zynga Info Session: Tuesday November 9th, 6:00-7:00pm, CSE Atrium

AKA the makers of FarmVille and other ridiculously populated online games. There will be Thai Food, giveways, and a drawing for a Free HP Mini Netbook! They are hiring for full time and interns, check it out!

Research Night: Wednesday November 10th, 4:30-6:30pm, EE 125 and Atrium

One more ad for Research night.  A marvellous speaker and panel will start off the night at 4:30pm in EE125 getting us pumped for research.  Then a poster session will ensue at 5:30 in the atrium with ugrads, grads, and profs showing off their awesome research maybe looking to take on some new students!  It will be swell.

Take it easy,

Chris Raastad