Oh, how I wish I had my pilot's license...

I'm going to take a look at a small airplane today. It's for my design class. My group is trying to redesign a tail landing gear for the thing. I'm not sure exactly what we're going to try and accomplish but I haven't seen it yet so I'm going because I love planes. If I could fly and plane I wanted it was easily be the P51 Mustang. My dad had a really cool book on P51 stories from the second world war. These planes were just so sweet. Very exciting stories.



This is mostly a study weekend. I tried to do a little bit yesterday at Nevin's but we didn't get too much done. We were a little distracted with job offers coming up, watching movies, and just being so happy that we didn't have a report we had to be working on. Movie first, we watched the Punisher last night. I actually thought it was a really good movie. Dark character but he had his funny moments too. I loved his fight against that huge Russian.

So yeah, we got to see all of our job offers for the first time last night. I have some real decision making to do this weekend. The way it works is if the company ranked us first we see the word "offer" beside their name and if they ranked us 2nd, 3rd, ... we see "ranked" beside it. I have 9 offers, mostly from oil and gas companies in Calgary, and 6 rankings, mostly from non-oil&gas companies. Hmm, kinda shows me which way my marks and work experience are steering me. The offers are with Anadarko, BP, Burlington, CNRL, ConocoPhillips, Enbridge Pipelines, ExxonMobil, Syncrude, and Talisman. The only reason I'm writing down all these names is because I'm not quite decided yet and hoped some of you might have some comments for me.

My top 3 are Burlington, Anadarko, and Talisman. During the interviews Burlington just sounded like such a great company. It's a drilling position, which sounds cool but really I don't know much about it. I'm going to call my friend Michael Yee see what he though about it in Calgary last workterm. I'll try to get ahold of my uncle Gerry too. Oh, and the pay is around $3600 /mo. Anadarko is midstream engineering. I don't remember exactly what that is but I do remember thinking "well that's kind've cool but not like Burlington" and then they go and offer me $4000 /mo! Ah, I know money shouldn't be a big part of choosing these student jobs but an extra $500-$400 per month is hard to ignore. Talisman is the first offer I saw and it's appeal is that it's drilling, $3650 per month, and Lucas and Mike Kolla also got offers from then doing other positions that they were excited for. If they don't take those jobs then Talisman and Burlington are more or less the same but I know that they do a lot of fun things at Burlington (baseball, bowling...days off...sounds like Alcan). So I need some input. Mom and Dad, I'll try to call you today but what do you think? Amber, you have any input? I know you have had much oil and gas experience but you always seem to have great wisdom. What should I look for in the company aside from my actual position? Meh, I'll think more about it later. Breakfast time!