If Hose student résumés told the truth
Joe D. Engineer
enginejd@rose-hulman.edu
Hose-Rulman Institute of Technology
B.S., What an Appropriate Acronym for My Degree
Status: Super-Duper-Senior
GPA: 2.16 / 4.0
GPA for major courses later than 4th hour during spring quarter in the last year: 4.0 / 4.0*
Notable Courses: College & Life Skills, Calculus I (x3)
* Grades I would have if I had taken such a course
Technical Skills
C+ (Listed on better parts of transcript), SQL (heh-heh, dump, heh-heh), Visual Basic (can basically see with corrective lenses)
Proficiency in all major instant messaging / illegal downloading / porn-surfing software suites
Interpersonal Skills
N33r n4t1v3 f1u3ncy N 133t
Went on a date once
Superior personal hygiene (compared to that one guy on Deming 1 freshman year)
Skills ripped off from Napoleon Dynamite
Numchuck skills
Bowhunting skills
Computer hacking skills
JDE Retail Enterprises
Founder/CEO
Developed plan to redistribute print learning materials via interactive entrepreneurial retail application*
Reinvested capital in liquid social networking supply system**
* i.e. sold books on eBay ** i.e. spent money on beer
Guild Wars
Party Leader
Prevented party members from acquiring real friends
Developed advanced bladder mastery skills
Independent Grant Research
Researcher
Once looked up a guy named “Grant” on Facebook
Dean’s List (of students on Academic Probation), all quarters
Most Frequent Customer, Sonka’s Irish Pub
References available upon request but oh, God, please, no