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...procrastinating type, The Crimson is here to help with a spreadsheet version of Cue Guide. You can sort by department, overall course rating, or perhaps more likely, difficulty rating...
Technology is another fertile arena. The tech news website CNET features a "spreadsheet of sunshine": a list of top Web 2.0 companies in search of software engineers, developers, open source technicians and other savvy staffers. Among the blue-chip companies hiring en masse are Facebook, Samsung, Intel and Research in Motion, the makers of the Blackberry. But it's also possible to flourish at high-tech companies without being, well, high-tech. "If you're in the sales side of technology, that's a pretty good place to be," Hoagland says. "Until we find bottom, what [companies] are going...
...they're getting better all the time. Zoho has spreadsheet, word-processing, presentation and organizing programs, and lets you work both online and off; it even has an iPhone app. Google Docs, which focuses on collaboration, lets you upload and edit existing Word and PowerPoint files, then chat in real time as you work on presentations and reports with colleagues. Because the applications reside on the Web, developers can quickly eliminate bugs and add bells and whistles, like the ability to insert headers, footers and pagination (all of which were recently added to Zoho Writer). The programs still feel simple...
Recruiting season typically heats up at the end of October, as smartly-dressed company reps fly in to dangle the big numbers that quickly lure spreadsheet-crunching MBAs onto the lower-rungs of their corporate ladders. And even in the current environment, some students are winning lucrative posts. At Rice, a student who fretted his full-time offer from Lehman Brothers would vaporize when the Barclays takeover was announced got a call that same day saying his offer would be honored. That's the exception, though, says Fuehne. "Many of our students who interned in banking did not receive offers...
...center of it all was investment banking, whose promise of six-figure starting salaries and eight-figure executive bonuses compelled hundreds of graduates to suffer through 80—hour workweeks spent hunched over an Excel spreadsheet...