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I will be interning at …

March 16, 10 //
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After starting my stay here in Houston with a couple of days of vacation and subsequently a fair bit of partying with the rest of the guys from the Entrepreneurship Programme, the serious business started tonight with a meet-and-greet matchmaking event with all of us meeting up and pitching ourselves to our prospective internship companies. I’m pleased to say that I ended up with Werkadoo, and thus I’ll be spending my days there for the next three months or so.

I honestly don’t know exactly what to expect at this moment, but tomorrow’s the first day so I’m sure I’ll be getting a much clearer picture by then. All I can say right now after hearing their introduction, talking to our contact person and reading through their website is that I’m really excited about this opportunity I’ve been given!

More to come in the next few days once I get some spare time, including a bunch of pictures and some video from the concert and much, much more.

Introduction and Resume

March 4, 10 //
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My profile (headshot and introduction) and resume, along with the others that I’m travelling with, has been put up online to be presented to our prospective internship companies here. I’m near the bottom of the page, and there’s a typo in my introduction, fantastic!

Feel free to give me feedback on it. I opted for a barebone approach with the resume, leaving out a lot of filler info and experience to put more emphasis on what I consider to be the most important things.  Once I get a spare moment I’ll get the resume up here on the blog as well.

Finally, someone takes notice!

February 26, 10 //
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From The Wall Street Journal:

Norway has won more Winter Games medals than any other nation. Last week it became the first country to win 100 Olympic gold medals, and Tuesday it hit the 300-medal milestone (the U.S. is second on the all-time list with dozens fewer.)

What makes its performance hard to fathom, however, is that Norway has only 4.7 million people to choose from. It’s as if the American team finished third in Vancouver after limiting the athlete pool to people living in metropolitan Detroit.

I’ve always been a proud Norwegian, but it’s always nice to be recognized. Just stay out of the comments, people always feel the need to rain on others’ parades.

PS: Another gold medal collected today, and our curling team qualified for the final where they’ll face Canada. Let’s hope for a repeat of the 2002 final!

Bachelor’s Degree

February 19, 10 //
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Even though I finished my Bachelor’s Degree in Business and Administration this spring, I only received the actual certification today. Seeing how I’m still a student working towards my Master’s Degree I didn’t have any need to for the paperwork, but with my upcoming studies and internship in the US I was required to document the degree. Thought I’d just share the fact that I am finally, after what seems like umpteen years in school, finally qualified to do something!

My upcoming trip to the United States

February 4, 10 //
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Houston skyline — Photo by telwink

Like I’ve mentioned on several occasions here on the blog and many more times over at Twitter, I am leaving the safe and familiar (and cold) surroundings of Northern-Norway, where I’ve spent most of my life, to stay the United States and more specifically Houston, Texas to work and study for three months.

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