This entry has nothing to do with Halloween lol.
Recently I have finished all my exams, yay!
The unfortunate part was that the second time around, my exams for psychology was not as good as the first time.
October has been an incredible stressful month, not to mention I had exams for all my classes within a week's time.
Recently I had encounters with Apple and Google which was a pleasant surprise especially after learning it was the real Google that contacted me before I contacted them.
However, school has gotten me down lately and I don't feel prepared to work for a big and prestigious company like Google.
Apple's College Care program (or whatever it was called) was something I applied to without thinking much about it.
It was one of those things you just apply to for the heck of it, not expecting to hear anything back from them, but I did.
On this Tuesday, I received two calls. One from the school's library position and the other from Apple's College Care program.
After getting the first call, I was too excited to care about Apple, in which I am more likely to get rejected from.
I scheduled an interview for Thursday, October 29th with the IT staff in the library. For Apple...there's an hour long interview online and in Central Time. Ehh..no thanks.
Don't hate me, but I think I'm the one and only person in the tech field that doesn't want to work for Apple. So when someone from the CS major approached me and said, "who doesn't want to work for Apple?" makes me almost (almost) correct him.
Anyway, the 29th is almost always my lucky day. I think the interview went well, but that doesn't mean anything.
To give you an idea how IT support jobs interview is like, they give scenarios and you have to pretend you're on the phone with a faculty or staff person troubleshooting the problem.
Common troubleshooting problems involves the computer shutting down completely or not rebooting correctly.
Another thing that's important is knowing how to install hardware and software on the computer. If I remembered correctly, I did installed an SDD into one of the computers at my old job but dang it I forgotten to state that during the interview.
They asked questions on how to get the MAC address as well as using echo which I knew the latter better than the former.
Overall, it went well. The three people who interviewed me provided a relaxing and comfortable environment. The office was very bright, but kind of empty in terms of people.
It looks like a really good environment to work in, but it may be too quiet. I don't know if I'll have co-workers or not.
They asked non-technical questions such as "when can you start?", "can you start tomorrow?" (ask a joke) and whether I was an international student or not.
Hey, you'll never know, leaving my old job was probably best for me and if I do get hired here, I will be more motivated to learn new things especially if there won't be other co-workers to depend on.
Whatever the challenge is, I'm ready for it.
Oh, one more good news of that day was I got a 98/100 for my computer engineering class. Woo-hoo! No life surely pays off...one day.
From Candy
Recently I have finished all my exams, yay!
The unfortunate part was that the second time around, my exams for psychology was not as good as the first time.
October has been an incredible stressful month, not to mention I had exams for all my classes within a week's time.
Recently I had encounters with Apple and Google which was a pleasant surprise especially after learning it was the real Google that contacted me before I contacted them.
However, school has gotten me down lately and I don't feel prepared to work for a big and prestigious company like Google.
Apple's College Care program (or whatever it was called) was something I applied to without thinking much about it.
It was one of those things you just apply to for the heck of it, not expecting to hear anything back from them, but I did.
On this Tuesday, I received two calls. One from the school's library position and the other from Apple's College Care program.
After getting the first call, I was too excited to care about Apple, in which I am more likely to get rejected from.
I scheduled an interview for Thursday, October 29th with the IT staff in the library. For Apple...there's an hour long interview online and in Central Time. Ehh..no thanks.
Don't hate me, but I think I'm the one and only person in the tech field that doesn't want to work for Apple. So when someone from the CS major approached me and said, "who doesn't want to work for Apple?" makes me almost (almost) correct him.
Anyway, the 29th is almost always my lucky day. I think the interview went well, but that doesn't mean anything.
To give you an idea how IT support jobs interview is like, they give scenarios and you have to pretend you're on the phone with a faculty or staff person troubleshooting the problem.
Common troubleshooting problems involves the computer shutting down completely or not rebooting correctly.
Another thing that's important is knowing how to install hardware and software on the computer. If I remembered correctly, I did installed an SDD into one of the computers at my old job but dang it I forgotten to state that during the interview.
They asked questions on how to get the MAC address as well as using echo which I knew the latter better than the former.
Overall, it went well. The three people who interviewed me provided a relaxing and comfortable environment. The office was very bright, but kind of empty in terms of people.
It looks like a really good environment to work in, but it may be too quiet. I don't know if I'll have co-workers or not.
They asked non-technical questions such as "when can you start?", "can you start tomorrow?" (ask a joke) and whether I was an international student or not.
Hey, you'll never know, leaving my old job was probably best for me and if I do get hired here, I will be more motivated to learn new things especially if there won't be other co-workers to depend on.
Whatever the challenge is, I'm ready for it.
Oh, one more good news of that day was I got a 98/100 for my computer engineering class. Woo-hoo! No life surely pays off...one day.
From Candy