SRB & Career Fair

Student Resource Building:

Since I’m an international student and OISS is located on the third floor of the building, I need to visit SRB once in a while. It’s really a nice place, spacious, and have a lot of departments that aim to solve students’ problems. There are:

Campus Learning Assistance Services

Disabled Students Program

Educational Opportunity Program

Graduate Division - Diversity, Recruitment, and Retention

Office of Student Life

Office of International Students and Scholars

Office of Judicial Affairs

Orientation Programs

Student Affairs Grants and Development

Women's Center

This is the place where we should go when we have any related trouble.

 

Career Fair:

I certainly learned a lot from it today and I grabbed a lot flyers.

The first table I went is the econ major information table and from it I acquired useful information regarding my fall course and what I need to do for my major. I’m econ & math major, and I’m taking econ 1 this fall. However, when I asked if there will be a lot work to do if I take econ1 as well as other 3 courses, the advisor said yes and that I should put my focus on econ given the circumstance that it’s my major.

Then I went to US army table (don’t remember the name of it), and got some information about the advantages of enlisting into army during college or just simply take the class. If one get through 4 year of college participating their program, one might immediately get a title in the army as soon as one finish his college life. I’m quite interested in army because I once dreamt about being a soldier.

The next table I went was the Education Abroad Program. I’m really interested in Germany and their advanced industry. Moreover, they offer English teaching, which requires no German speaking skills. However the advisor said that most people who actually participated the program would actually feel the need to learn the language.

I found Asian American Study table thereafter. I’m taking Asian American Study 2 this coming fall so I went to ask some questions about it. I came to know that I can actually take Asian American study 1 which is more about Chinese, where I come from, and is taught by a Chinese, later during the next pass time. But what stressed me was, the advisor said that it might involve some heavy class works, which I might find difficult to balance with econ. They provide Asian American study as a minor too, which gave me some thoughts on what to choose for my minor.

Then I found another minor option in Spanish information table. Since Spanish is so widely used in California and it is said not to be a difficult language to learn, and I would really want to learn a third language, I asked a lot questions about it.