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This time of the year can be one of the most stressful times of an engineering student’s undergraduate college career. Some of the things that you might be encountering in the upcoming months is: getting all of the paper work finalized for the April FE exam, studying to take FE exam in October, working on senior projects or thesis’s and making sure everything is lined up so that you can graduate on time in May. Another stressful and important activity that undergraduates are doing is job searching. With the current economy, it could be extra stressful as you don’t get the jobs that you want.
While getting a job for after college is important, you need to make sure that the job is right for you, and that you don’t take it just to say that you have a job. Here is a list of things to consider when looking for that first job. [Read more...]

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