I was intivited to Foxtel to interview for my internship.Luckily and surprisingly,the company has selected 120 applicants and chose 20 of them for interview and I was one of them and I can honestly say  that this is my first formal interview in my life.The engineer showed us around the company,well,mainly in the engineering site.Ultimately speaking,forxtel is a TV station and it was my first time to actually see how those channels were delivered to every individual house with no problem.Followed by an interview,however,this was not a face to face interview,it was actually a group interview and I was participated enough during the group interview and I know in terms of teamwork,I did a bad job.Last week,a rejection letter finally arrived at my house[Dear Qi,Thank you very much for your time to apply Foxtel,we regret to tell you that your application has been unsuccessful at this stage.Once again,we thank you for your time and wish you all the best in your future studies].I have actually received quite a few letters like that now.

Today I went to another interview and this was actually an American Telecommunication company located in Australia and they have quite a few branch offices in China as well.One thing for sure is that I performed much better in the interview today,however,there were many things need to be improved.I am not sure if I can get this position,but I will find out in 2-3 weeks time.God bless me!!!

Perform interview time and time again is actually part of learning process,provided I learn something from doing the interview.The feeling is really good^_^Even if I cannot get this position,do not look it as a bad thing or struggling process,treat it as a step-stone game.The more I do,the closer to what I want!!!

I read a recent graduate report today,which shows people's name in a 2006 UTS GRADUATION PROGRAM booklet. I was just curious reading the booklet. To my surprise, not many people graduate from Electrical Engineering at all,man...what can i say?For those of who graduated, 2 people got First Class Honors,and 2 people got Second Class Honors.When I go to Faculty of Business and Faculty of Information Technology(IT)section,heaps people got First Class honors/Second honors...I cannot even count their names,its just too many!!!Then I started to ask myself...if everybody got HD or D average,then what does that mean?Suddenly,my subject coordinator of Circuit Analysis and Signals and Systems walked past, said"what are you reading about?That is IT,Marketing,Management...Its not EE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Students who passed Electrical Engineering course have 50/51/52 and supposed to be good mark....oh.my god...anyway...i get used to those "good marks"now...

I had a chat/talk with the subject coordinator of Signals and Systems, who really encouraged me a lot after the mid-semester exam. THANK YOU,Peter!!!

The reason he did not put the questions that we are familiar with is because in his opinion, an exam is supposed to be designed in that way, in other words, it is testing your understanding/how much you can do/how much you can apply the knowledge you know to a new question, simply because in real life,as engineers, nobody will say to you "look,this is the work you are going to get in 3 months' time,practicse now".In real life, everything is new,engineers are supposed and trained to solve problems and therefore, in university environment, we are trained to solve how to THINK rather than how to remember stuff. He gave me an example that we could possibly by those books or get a book from the library and read on the train to get the knowledge anyway.Therefore,the important thing is to be able to THINK professionally, in other words, have ENGINEERING thinking. So,people get put off by those difficult/new questions they have never seen before, it is not difficult to understand why the average mark is 6.5 out of 20 now and 2 people passed out of 48 students. But I can understand that I havent failed the subjects yet, meaning that I can still pass the subject if I do really well in the project and final exam.He told me Electrical Engineering is one of the hardest degree is becasue those concept are heavily mathematical based, such as Fourier Transform and Laplace Transform. Those two concepts are fundamental and critical in Electrical Engineering, plus everything is digitalized these days and therefore, micro-controller is becoming important and crucial as well. He also told me that not everybody can be Electrical Engineer,not everybody can do Ph.D, if everybody was electrical engineer or everybody has a Ph.D,then simply there is no electrical engineer or no Ph.D.If that was the case, the degree has been de-evaluated.

Gotta stop the mingle stuff and get back to work now!!!^_^

Circuit Analysis hurt me a lot last year at this time coz the average mark is 6.5 out of 30 and again, Signals and Systems hurt me again this year...Electrical Engineering has hurt me seriously quite a few times since 2004...

 

whatever,I still believe that the important thing is not the mark,is I should actually learn something from the exam although the lecturer was absolutely so mean...2 people passed out of 48 students, what does that mean?

 

I met a guy who is doing his Ph.D in Fibre Optics when I went to work yesterday...He finished his BE in Electrical in New Zealand and he told me it was the same over there...1/3 of students passed(the best case)in Electrical Engineering...So,he told me that do not worry and do not panic,and certainly do not lose confidence and get depressed,,,its part of learning process if you want to be an electrical engineer...but if you wanna do something easier,thats another story...