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Well, the first meeting turned into more of an info session than an actual meeting.  Two of the speakers didn’t even show up.  One of the experienced Toastmasters gave a very nice overview on what being involved with Toastmasters is really like, it sounded really interesting.

Other than the experienced Toastmasters that showed up to help get things rolling there were only about 6 of us new people there, we need 20 actual members to charter a new chapter.  Perhaps the low interest was because whoever picked the date and time didn’t realize it was in the middle of our homecoming football game.

We’ve scheduled the next meeting for Thursday the 13th, hopefully more people show then.    I think it’ll be a really good time, and I’m going to try to get a bunch of my friends to get involved as well.  I’m also going to try to get involved in one of the executive roles, maybe public relations which calls for creating and maintaining a website as one of the duties.

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I recently found out that a new Toastmasters chapter is being formed on my campus geared toward IT students and faculty.  The first meeting is this Saturday.  I’m looking forward to it ho help with my public speaking, something the IT curriculum at the U lacks.  I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.

I hope everyone had a great Halloween!

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Tuesday and Wednesday were busy days for me.  I attended the UofM Institute of Technology Career Fair (sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers – SWE and HKN) and talked to about 20 recruiters from different companies.  I’ve also already received a few interview offers, so I’m definitely excited for the coming weeks.

I’m also rather busy with class work right now so my side projects have definitely slowed to halt, but I did purchase a Danger Shield from the Makershed store to solder together and play around with in the coming months,  I plan to use the sliders for light control or something similar in my apartment bedroom.

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