[coreyjon]

On the talk of jobs, to prove how sometimes luck, and a little reputation can go a long way, I was at engineers week here in tech-valley, and I landed a job with CME doing Advanced Materials Research and Testing. Not bad for my first engineering related job. My goal is to be a mechanical engineer, and i'll be frank, I love to break things. So i'll be a little of both, a field guy grabbing samples from various places and testing (read torture) the parts to failure, and i'll also get to research new materials and make suggestions. I also get to play the part of a sluth, and if something fails, I'll get the oppertunity to investigate what happened and figure out how and why it failed. I think over all I'll learn alot from this job. MatSci was my favorite class last semester so I expect to have a lot of fun. The only boring part is occasionally i'll be doing NDT's, and that means no breakage of the part which is a bummer. I like big booms, and pulling Rebar into submission is a lot of fun, and loud! Thats really cool that you got to work for DEKA and all of thoose UTC company's, Thoose are the type of jobs I want to have ebfore I graduate for the same reasons you discussed. I still have at least 4 more years.