Another Year Done
Well school is finally done for the year. It was fun, and I enjoyed my courses but I was more than ready for it to end. I can thoroughly recommend to everyone to avoid have five labs in one semester particularly if one of them is geological maps and cross sections. And exams topped of the year with a good old dose of massive stress.
I'm pretty sure that if I had, had one more day of exams or with something on it that I had to do I would have gone into a full-blown mental breakdown but I made it through and I will never again have five labs in a semester. It may have been manageable except that the Mapping and Cross Sections labs took me, on average, a solid 12 hours of work to finish, and was due on Friday after a Tuesday lab. Not an easy task when you're at school until five every day. Of course for the final we only had three hours to do the same amount of work... but the consolation is no one else finished either.
In good news I finally got an interview... well, two interviews. One I had yesterday for YGC resources, a British Columbian company looking for gold ($175/day for nine hour days, accomodation, food, living allowance, and they pay travel expenses). I'm probably not going to get it, particularly if there were a couple third year students trying for it because there are only two positions and he had three days of interviews. The other company, however, was one I applied to despite the fact that there was no job posting had only five people apply (from Edmonton anyway) and have three positions. That one is with CanAlaska doing uranium exploration. So that's, exciting and a little bit terrifying at the same time.
But for now all I have to worry about is getting myself packed to leave tomorrow for field school. Two weeks in the mountains looking at rocks. To say I'm excited is a bit of an understatement. I've been looking forward to this trup for the whole year. If I can manage to find my camera before I leave (its disappeared on me) I'll be sure to post a lot of pictures.
Anyhow that's all I have to say.
Over and Out
~Em
I'm pretty sure that if I had, had one more day of exams or with something on it that I had to do I would have gone into a full-blown mental breakdown but I made it through and I will never again have five labs in a semester. It may have been manageable except that the Mapping and Cross Sections labs took me, on average, a solid 12 hours of work to finish, and was due on Friday after a Tuesday lab. Not an easy task when you're at school until five every day. Of course for the final we only had three hours to do the same amount of work... but the consolation is no one else finished either.
In good news I finally got an interview... well, two interviews. One I had yesterday for YGC resources, a British Columbian company looking for gold ($175/day for nine hour days, accomodation, food, living allowance, and they pay travel expenses). I'm probably not going to get it, particularly if there were a couple third year students trying for it because there are only two positions and he had three days of interviews. The other company, however, was one I applied to despite the fact that there was no job posting had only five people apply (from Edmonton anyway) and have three positions. That one is with CanAlaska doing uranium exploration. So that's, exciting and a little bit terrifying at the same time.
But for now all I have to worry about is getting myself packed to leave tomorrow for field school. Two weeks in the mountains looking at rocks. To say I'm excited is a bit of an understatement. I've been looking forward to this trup for the whole year. If I can manage to find my camera before I leave (its disappeared on me) I'll be sure to post a lot of pictures.
Anyhow that's all I have to say.
Over and Out
~Em
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