Fresh Meat, Less Grill

Today was the BCIT Financial Management presentations, Manulife was invited to go by Larry Stubbs, and I was asked to attend as well. Just being back there I was flushed with memories of me and my schooling there less than a year ago. Entering into Town Square where the presentations were being held I was struck by nervousness. Something about that room where I gave my presentation in front of 20+ professionals, puts my hair on end.

There he was though, Larry J. Stubbs - the best teacher I ever had, greeted us and handed us some evaluation forms. We shot the breeze for a little bit, before taking our seats. I really wanted to talk to Larry more, so much I want to ask the man, but just didn't get the chance to. I've been back to BCIT three separate times, all three of which was to talk to Larry, but he's a busy man and I never caught him. As unorthodox a teaching style that he had, there's really no one else I'd rather have teaching me Financial Management (not even Trevor Linden).

The presentations were really well put together, and dare I say better then mine last year. There was two groups who's PowerPoint presentation just blew me away, so much style so much creativity, so much flare. They should be doing marketing or something in design.

After each presentation Larry encouraged us to ask questions, but I told the Manulife people not to. Of course they didn't care about my opinion and asked questions anyways. I was in the student's spots not too long ago so I knew how nerve racking it was to be asked questions by professionals in the field they were trying to get into. I guess all the professionals thought it was funny to see them sweat.

Just about every group held their own though, which was great to see. This includes the group with my friend in it. We've been friends since before we were in school and the last thing I wanted to see was for him to get grilled.

We were there recruiting, and asked people to attend our orientation, we had a few interested people all very good candidates. I would've like to have talked to more of them, but like last year most of the students already had jobs lined up and didn't care much to talk to the employers.

All in all it was an eventful day, meeting new people, watching some great presentations, and viewing the new class of professionals that will challenge me for my job.......maybe I should've grilled them after all.