So, I believe I will start this off by actually talking about some of my experiences at the Alumni Symposium. On Monday, I wrote about what I felt the Symposium would be like, and for the most part I was correct. The speakers had good insight on how to get a job, how to sell yourself, and most importantly how to be yourself in the years after college. There was a Q&A period after the presentations, and they used this time to address many of the concerns that students had about finding and keeping jobs in the industry. The most important takeaway from the whole thing seems to be to just keep learning. Technology is a fast field, and you have to be willing to keep up with the times and learn new techniques in order to be a useful member in a company.
One of the really refreshing things about the symposium was how a few of the recent graduates still seemed to not really be fully sure in their jobs. They say that people treat them like experts, but they have to try just as hard as everyone else to keep up and be relevant. It provided a very humanizing viewpoint on the working world.
There was also a slight discussion about events that we could go to in Charleston to further network with people in the industry. Many were mentioned, but far and above the most important was the Job Fair that we will be having in March. I will definitely be attending this, and will hopefully meet some contacts that will be useful to me in the future.
In Obsidian news, we had a meeting tonight to discuss further bug fixes. We worked as a team to help Joanna figure out her exception handling bug, and I solved my Test Class naming issue. For now, we just gave it a more distinct string to append to the end of class names. We may improve upon this further in the future to make sure duplicate names cannot exist. For now though, the team decided this fix was good enough. We also talked more about the Web App and the website itself, and made a plan to meet on Friday to commit the bug fixes to the project.
Hunter also told us today that we had been granted a table at POSSCON for the 2 days it is running. We will be able to show off Obsidian to local developers, and hopefully gain some more members for our project.
One thing that I am currently worried about is the prospect of having a dead project in the future. A lot of the members of our class have been having issues getting into contact with the developers for their projects, and this is discouraging to them. While I don't want Obsidian to become like one of those projects, I do think that there is a very real danger that it might. We are 5 students, 4 of whom will be graduating this semester. That amounts to a lot of change in the future, so hopefully as we tackle that change, we will also be able to continue to grow and nurture this project.
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