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Foo Foo McKnuckleberry

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