- Dec 31, 2001
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Hello Everyone,
So a friend of mine, who is the current MS Student Consultant on campus, asked me to apply to be next year's MS Student Consultant. Well, I wasn't entirely sure if I wanted the position, but I thought it couldn't hurt to apply. I wrote a rather humorous email and got a great response out of it:
Hi Ajay - thanks for this awesome mail -- I'm falling off my chair laughing at parts of it! And sign me up to be part of your army to take over the world, or at least Pittsburgh, with web services. I'm attaching the job description so that you can get the nitty-gritty on the program
-- I'm out of town this week but would love to talk the week of May 6th anytime -- are you around then? Are you in the middle of finals? I can talk the next week if that's better for you.
Revi Sterling
Anyway, so I'll have an interview next week, and I looked over the job description, and there are some nice perks (free laptop for one!). I also can form some great networking contacts with this position, too.
In terms of my own past experience, I've worked at IBM before, and I'm very familiar with all of the competiting technologies to .NET (ie Java/XML based web services); and I'm currently working on one application that is entirely Win32, and another one that is cross-platform (Win32, Linux, & maybe Mac OS X). That latter application is part of a research project I'm currently working on, in the automotive telematics space.
So This is the problem: the majority of the students here in CS and Engineering are very anti-Microsoft. I'm rather OS agnostic, and my house has Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in it.
I'm worried about being labeled an MS whore, and how to effectively penetrate this campus, given the anti-MS sentiment. How can i do this position without being labeled as such?
feedback, please
So a friend of mine, who is the current MS Student Consultant on campus, asked me to apply to be next year's MS Student Consultant. Well, I wasn't entirely sure if I wanted the position, but I thought it couldn't hurt to apply. I wrote a rather humorous email and got a great response out of it:
Hi Ajay - thanks for this awesome mail -- I'm falling off my chair laughing at parts of it! And sign me up to be part of your army to take over the world, or at least Pittsburgh, with web services. I'm attaching the job description so that you can get the nitty-gritty on the program
-- I'm out of town this week but would love to talk the week of May 6th anytime -- are you around then? Are you in the middle of finals? I can talk the next week if that's better for you.
Revi Sterling
Anyway, so I'll have an interview next week, and I looked over the job description, and there are some nice perks (free laptop for one!). I also can form some great networking contacts with this position, too.
In terms of my own past experience, I've worked at IBM before, and I'm very familiar with all of the competiting technologies to .NET (ie Java/XML based web services); and I'm currently working on one application that is entirely Win32, and another one that is cross-platform (Win32, Linux, & maybe Mac OS X). That latter application is part of a research project I'm currently working on, in the automotive telematics space.
So This is the problem: the majority of the students here in CS and Engineering are very anti-Microsoft. I'm rather OS agnostic, and my house has Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in it.
I'm worried about being labeled an MS whore, and how to effectively penetrate this campus, given the anti-MS sentiment. How can i do this position without being labeled as such?
feedback, please