No, my university hasn’t forged any alliance with the giant ebay.com, but it has changed its name to

from California State University, Hayward.

A lot of students (& perhaps teachers) opposed it, but still they changed it. A lot of sites have posted articles about it.

According to the board members, the university has campuses all over the east bay so the name East Bay is appropriate. But students claim that even UC Berkeley has its campuses in the East Bay, they are still called UCB.

I personally don’t like the name CSU - East Bay. It seems like a community college or something. Actually this name change would help the univ. to get more funds coz it represents a large area. I don’t understand that on one side the officials say that there are budget cuts and they don’t have money and on the other hand they will now waste millions on the name change like stationary, Letterpads, logos, etc…. This reminds me that I should buy the alumni stuff right now coz it says CSUH .

Its unfortunate that I’ll get a CSU - East Bay degree ….. perhaps not, I need to check with the admin. coz the name change has been approved today, it might take a long time for them to fully change it. Moreover I got addmitted to CSUH and not CSUEB. I think they will give CSUH degrees to people who are already studying and the new degrees to students who will join the univ in future. I’ll post a clarification on that as soon as I find out about it.

On a lighter note…. US economy is indeed getting better. There are a lot of jobs right now, esp. hi-tec ones.

I was worried about my approaching grad and the job scarcity last year.

I was finally able to update my resumé and sent it to a few companies thru dice. I must say that dice is much better than monster.com or monstertrak.com.

I got 2 replies from diff. companies so far. One is Milpitas based palmOne. They told me that the job for which I sent my resume needed bit more experience but they had something else matching my experience. The bad part is that that job needs to be filled by early feb, which means that I can not get it coz I won’t be done till June.

And today I got call from SF based Robert Half Technology. They are looking for a person for a 3 week contract work, but again they wanted a full time person, while I can only work part time for now :|. They will call me again when that project’s date will approach to check my schedule.

Things are getting better. Most of the jobs are for immediate hiring. I hate to wait for another 5 mnths. in college :(( and study lame subjects :|.

BTW I heard that NZ has a lot of good job opportunities as well. The reasons I’d be interested to goto NZ or may be AUS are:

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1.) Both play cricket \:D/.
2.) Things are cheaper. Like USD = 1.smthng * NZ or AUS $.
3.) A lot of Indians.
4.) Less stress (I believe, dunno for sure.)
5.) Just a few hrs. flight to India.
6.) I am sick of Bush.
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Anyways do checkout my resume and let me know if I need to change/modify something so that the resume appeals more to a recruiter or perhaps a typo.

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