Chit-Chat: best coast california

[acatfrommars]

What's a cover letter, guys?

It's a introduction to a resume when applying for a job. It normally introduces the applicant's self, explains the purpose for writing the letter, and highlights on the applicant's past experiences and skills that he/she may have for the job. It basically tries to entice the employer to hire them.

^ No I did not copy that. lol

 

[Tsutarja]

Cover letters (and résumés) pretty much sell a person to an employer, and they are a persuasive device used by job applicants towards an employer to help them get a job. Hurts to be me though since I have no job experience, which really limits my chances of getting a job :/

 

[Nick]

What's a cover letter, guys?

Employers look at cover letters before they look at resumes. Its an important factor because its usually that that has an employer look at your resume in the first place. At least for in cases where there are hundreds and hundreds of resumes for one position. Use that to convince the employer to view your resume by highlighting things about yourself to spark interest in them looking at your resume. Think of it like the back of a book.

Cover letters (and résumés) pretty much sell a person to an employer, and they are a persuasive device used by job applicants towards an employer to help them get a job. Hurts to be me though since I have no job experience, which really limits my chances of getting a job :/

The smart thing to do would be to volunteer somewhere and use your experience there to pad your resume work experience and gain a reference and recommendation for your future employment.

Also if you're starting school, consider on campus employment.

 

[Meganium]

I'm about to go through one hell of a semester, with work in the morning and school in the evening. It's a wonderful thing that my manager is able to compromise with my current schedule and allow me to work mostly on weekends once the semester begins, with 1-2 morning shifts thrown during the school week to complete my weekly hours.

I start on the 21st. Back at it as an evening student, because it's awesome going to school at night xD

 

[Honest]

I was wondering about taking night classes. Ended up doing a weird compromise where I have class in the morning, a 4 hour break, then a class at like 6. And that's not even that late.

 

[Nick]

I hate getting up early in the morning, but I would rather have morning classes than later classes. By the time its, like, 4:00, I'm ready for the day to end and not really in a mood to do anything but lie in bed and watch TV or internet. Class is just not in the cards. Where-as, if I start my day with class, I actually have a better day.

 

[Honest]

My problem is my lack of sleep coming to hurt me in morning classes. I always dosed off in the 8 AM class, ah. But the main reason I'd want a late class was to stay away from home, honestly. If only I dormed. ;c

 

[Aeroblast]

What's winter session? Not like winter break is it? :o

I applied for table tennis course over the summer so I have something to do during the break, get exercise, and fill credits faster.

 

[Honest]

Wait, you're getting credits for playing table tennis?

 

[Ultramarine]

No fair! You're living my dream!

I kinda love ping pong.

 

[Tsutarja]

Earning credits for playing table tennis? Holy **** I wish I could do that.

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

I absolutely loathe the structure of high school compared to college. In high school, 50-80% of your grade is a bunch of "assignments", and the rest is tests.

I want it to be like college, where you write a few papers, do a few projects, and (of course) go and listen to lectures, and call it a freakin' day. No bookwork, TRIMS, all this meaningless public education crap. Just what matters.

 

[Honest]

I absolutely loathe the structure of high school compared to college. In high school, 50-80% of your grade is a bunch of "assignments", and the rest is tests.

I want it to be like college, where you write a few papers, do a few projects, and (of course) go and listen to lectures, and call it a freakin' day. No bookwork, TRIMS, all this meaningless public education crap. Just what matters.

Eh, you can skimp out on attendance (at least in my college you can) if you're good with work. Had a 34% attendance rate for one class and got a B+.

 

[Kano Shuuya]

Reminds me of my friend who promptly skipped his math class all semester, and then proceeded to ace his final.

I want his math skills..

 

[mishy.]

wow i kind of want to punch him in the face I suck at math and it's just... not the subject for me. ;;

 

[Meganium]

Reminds me of my friend who promptly skipped his math class all semester, and then proceeded to ace his final.

I want his math skills..

I want his ability to skip class and ace the final in general. xD That is...wow.

Speaking of math. No more math classes for me. I'm so happy. :)

 

[Nolafus]

I'm going to have to take my first college math class next quarter. D:

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

You know, "assignments" in high school are there to make it easy for the unenlightened. This is coming from someone with a 92% average on assessments/exams and a 31/32 practice sophomore ACT score.

 

[Sector]

I've met more people who doesn't like nor is good at math.

I completed math in my sophomore year of high school (10th grade). I didn't have to take math anymore if I didn't want to go all the way to Calculous. Instead, I took Accounting 'cause I can sleep & still get A's in that class, which I did B)

 

[Morkula]

I'm going to have to take my first college math class next quarter. D:

It's honestly not that bad. I took pre-calc because I was going to be a comp sci minor, and I would have had to take a few semesters of calc and discrete as well. But I got tied up in my music major classes and never had the time or free credits to follow through with the comp sci minor. It's for the best though, because coding really isn't my favorite thing to do anyway - I'm more of a hardware person.