Day 408 of 1000
Earlier this semester, Kelly received credit for two classes that were up in the air. The first classes was CLEP Biology. The course/test material had to be reviewed to assure the material covered was the same as is required for the NCSU equivalent course. The second was Linear Algebra. We are not sure why that was up in the air because she took it at the community college. Maybe it is because of the course numbers–only MAT 280 at Wake Tech, MAT 405 at NCSU. At any rate, both Kelly and Christian got credit for MAT 405 (the proofs based Linear Algebra class).
She was going to have to go to summer school to be able to graduate on time (Spring 2014) because of both a math and a science sequence requirement. Now that she has both of those classes already complete, she has room in schedule for a summer internship if she can find one. NCSU has a relatively amazing series of career fairs. The two that apply to Kelly are the Engineering Fair which takes place today and tomorrow and the Business Fair which is on October 17.
Last night, I helped Kelly put together a resume. We printed out a couple of dozen copies for her to hand out at the fair. Lorena is going to run her some interview clothes and pick up her backpack. It is all quite exciting.
Christian has already done a summer engineering internship. The place where he worked, Bioptigen offered him a position this summer, too, but he needs to take one or two classes this summer, so he can graduate in Spring 2014. He will be able to work on his undergraduate research project this summer. It is very interesting and will help him build up his resume for grad school. Hopefully he will be able to get another intership between his undergraduate degree and the start of grad school.