Upcoming Event Tomorrow: SEO Meet and Greet

Internship Open House  Meet & Greet Event

Career Options for Engineering Students Interested in Investment Banking & Other Fields

Tuesday, November 17^th, 10AM – 2PM, Raisler Lounge (Towne Building)

Food will be provided

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) is the nation’s premiere summer internship program for talented students of color that lead to full-time job offers.

Since its inception, SEO’s Career Program has placed over 5,000 Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian and Native American students in internships that lead to opportunities in exciting and rewarding careers in the most competitive industries worldwide.

For more information visit:  http://www.seo-usa.org/career

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J

Introducing the Major Advisor Board

Good evening, everyone. In an effort to promote Academic Excellence, Penn NSBE has created the Major Advisor Board. Each board member is a undergraduate representative of the Engineering School, as well as other programs include Pre-Med, Wharton, and Liberal Arts. Contact them with any burning questions regarding courses to take, professors to talk to, and other excellent opportunities.

Bio Engineering: Chidi Ahaghotu

chukwc@seas.upenn.edu

Pre-Med: Chichi Erondu

chiomaerondu@gmail.com

Computer Science: Isaiah Green

igreene@seas.upenn.edu

Chemical-Biomolecular Engineering: Jenneille Jobson

jobsonj@seas.upenn.edu

Systems Engineering: Jacci Jeffries

jacci.jeffries@gmail.com

Electrical Engineering: Philip Asare

asare@seas.upenn.edu

Wharton: D'Andre Carr

daca@wharton.upenn.edu

Liberal Arts: Whitney Dublin

dublin@sas.upenn.edu

Don't forget early registration for Spring 2010 classes start on Monday!

If you have any links you would like to share, please post them in the comments.

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J

Downloading free programs made simple.

Recently reformatted your computer? Forgot where to download your favorite browser?

Here is an excellent website that allows you to mass download some of your favorite free software. It has web browsers such as Firefox and Google Chrome, as well as messaging software such as Skype and Pidgin, among other things. The list of available programs is quite extensive. All of these programs are readily available by going to the original programs' main website, but this site avoids unnecessary web surfing. Check it out.

http://ninite.com/

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5388408/ninite-bulk+installs-great-free-windows-apps

Edit: It has come to my attention that the site only contains Windows installers. Sorry, Mac users.

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J

Back from Hiatus: Keeping Cell Phones Findable on Vibrate

Good morning everyone,

I hope everyone is having a pleasant Fall Break. Here is a tip for everyone that likes to keep their cell phones on vibrate, courtesy of LifeHacker.com:

"Matt shows us how to keep your cell phone on vibrate without losing it:

I prefer to keep my cell phone on vibrate all the time. Its just easier for me. But it poses a problem because I tend to lose my phone a lot, so calling it to find it is pretty much pointless. What I've done is set all my default tones to no ring (calls, txts, etc), and turned vibrate on for all. Then I set a custom ringer on my skype number, so if I need to call it to find it I can, and it still makes a full noise, without annoying me the rest of the day"

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5383537/from-the-tips-box-finding-cellphones-copy-file-path-in-finder-and-more-wave-filters/gallery/

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J

Upcoming Technology: "The Sixth Sense"

Straight from the MIT's Pattie Maes Lab comes the "Sixth Sense", the newest in motion based technology. Users wear a camera and projector as well as pointers in order to capture movement. The camera responds to common gestures such as forming a your hands as a camera to take picutres. The camera also reponds to various objects placed in front of it to give more information about it, e.g. books, plane tickets, and even people. See for yourself:

TED-"The Sixth Sense"

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More websites.

Have nothing to do today? Why don't you expand your mind with these websites.

TED.com is the official website for the TED (technology, entertainment, design) conference. Here you will find some of the most intelligent people in the people in the world talk about various topics including TED, politics, culture, and the like. The lectures are not that long (about 20 minutes), so you can always watch them as a study break.

FORA.tv is a similar website with more lengthy discussions akin to those held at Penn. These are not as technologically based, but are great to watch anyway. They cover topics such as the economy, green technology, culture, and others. Check it out.

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Summer opportunities.

I hope everyone is having an excellent week so far. Here are some links for your enjoyment. These are most applicable to undergraduates.

Are you an undergrad interested in your PhD? Then the McNair Scholars program might be right for you. Here you participate in a 6 week summer research program mentored by a faculty member. The research experience is one many great benefits of the program. The deadline for this is March 23, 2009.

Perhaps you are interested in working after graduation. The MLT prepration program may be of interest to you. Here you get summer workshops and training to become a leader in the business world and get an edge in the competitive market. This is wonderful for networking as well. This program is only open to rising juniors (Spring semester sophomores), but freshmen can apply for next year. The deadline for this is April 15, 2009.

Once again, the links:

McNair Scholars: http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/aap/mcnair/index.php

MLT Prep: http://www.ml4t.org/join/programs/prep

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