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Aug. 12th, 2011 01:28 amBoy, what a packed three days this has been!
It'sall mostly over now, so I can get back to what passes for normal over here within a couple of weeks, unless I happen to get hired, of course.
I say two weeks because that's about how much time I'm estimating it'll take me to sift through everything I've picked up, file things away, submit electronic copies of my resume, and other related stuff.
The amount of stuff to pick up was astounding to me.
Each day I got around a pound of free stuff, and the vast majority of the time it was stuff I hadn't picked up previously.
There were pens, pins, screen cloths, T-shirts, optical disks with free content, bags with company logos, luggage tags, more pins, and reams and reams of information sheets.
Once I finish writing down what happened each day, I'll be summarizing what impressed me about each day so you all can find out what went on.
As for contests, it's too early to tell for most of them (as most of them will pick the winners on Friday, with notification via email), but I didn't properly win either of the ones you had to be there for.
Intel had draws from some really cool swag, such as Solid State Drives and a Netbook computer, while Renderosity had free premium memberships, texture software, flash drives, and T-shirts.
(on the last day, the people in the Renderosity booth had decided that they didn't want to have any flash drives left over, so if you handed in your ticket, you could get a free flash drive with around six free products from their marketplace on it)
There was also a job fare in one corner of the exhibit hall, and officially I handed out my resume to one company so far, with connections made with at least five more.
Again, this will take some time for me to figure out, so nothing's going to happen overnight.
(the only thing that's supposed to be happening tonight is that I go to sleep and give my feet and back some well-deserved rest)
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I say two weeks because that's about how much time I'm estimating it'll take me to sift through everything I've picked up, file things away, submit electronic copies of my resume, and other related stuff.
The amount of stuff to pick up was astounding to me.
Each day I got around a pound of free stuff, and the vast majority of the time it was stuff I hadn't picked up previously.
There were pens, pins, screen cloths, T-shirts, optical disks with free content, bags with company logos, luggage tags, more pins, and reams and reams of information sheets.
Once I finish writing down what happened each day, I'll be summarizing what impressed me about each day so you all can find out what went on.
As for contests, it's too early to tell for most of them (as most of them will pick the winners on Friday, with notification via email), but I didn't properly win either of the ones you had to be there for.
Intel had draws from some really cool swag, such as Solid State Drives and a Netbook computer, while Renderosity had free premium memberships, texture software, flash drives, and T-shirts.
(on the last day, the people in the Renderosity booth had decided that they didn't want to have any flash drives left over, so if you handed in your ticket, you could get a free flash drive with around six free products from their marketplace on it)
There was also a job fare in one corner of the exhibit hall, and officially I handed out my resume to one company so far, with connections made with at least five more.
Again, this will take some time for me to figure out, so nothing's going to happen overnight.
(the only thing that's supposed to be happening tonight is that I go to sleep and give my feet and back some well-deserved rest)
