Week 4 on Librarian and Career Resources

I expected the librarian’s lecture to be very monotonous, however I was surprised when her lecture was very energetic, dynamic, and legitimately informative. I was unaware that the University of California system has the second largest library in the nation under the library of congress. Since the world’s two largest libraries are the library of congress and the British equivalent, ours must be way up there in the world rankings. Also, I found the diagram describing the reach of engines such as Google, Yahoo, etc. within the Internet’s “sea” of knowledge very clarifying. I’m glad that the UC system’s electronic resources match its physical ones, and I look forward to using them. 

            I didn’t learn much from the lecture at the career resources building simply because I was already told everything in a career and major planning class that I’m currently taking. The class, INT 64, is helping me very much in understanding the values I want to get out of a career. It confirmed my belief that I would need an environment that is always changing from day to day in which I could be creative and versatile. I would also need a tangible result at the end of the job. This seems pretty far from the law and business careers taken by the rest of my family. I plan to visit the center several times this year to research various paths in industries such as film, music, and videogames. I think that I’d really enjoy working on things like these, and if I enjoy my work, I won’t be working.