Student Ambassador Day

This post is a little belated but anyway....

Last month QRC had its annual Scholarship Student Ambassador day in the QRC offices. It was good to see so many new students - this year the number of students in the program has really stepped up. The highlight for me was probably Michael Roche's opening comments regarding the GFC and its affect on the Queensland mining industry and in particular, coal. It was both interesting and extremely promising to see that the queensland coal industry has actually experienced greater exports in March this year than March last year. It seems the media hype things up a bit more than necessary and as a consequence it leads to false information being circulated. Not to say we are not facing a problem, but things are definitely sounding promising. It makes me wonder about something like global warming, where i have started to hear things such as the temperature has actually decreased in the last 10 years, contrary to the common belief that it has increased, and that the global temperature will continue to fall. I don't know what to believe anymore! It would be good to see a proper discussion about the FACTS because i feel like many organisitations, governments etc simply jump on the bandwagon and implement policies to reduce carbon emmissions etc without actually knowing for sure that there is a need to. Again, i don't know what to believe but i feel like its extremely hard to just get cold hard facts about global warming so i can make up my own mind about it. anyway.....

back to the ambassador day.....
the rest of the day was spent mainly listening to human resources people from different companies which was good - getting the inside word regarding work and resumes etc... i think i need to get my resume looking a bit nicer based on what some of the speakers had to say.

but yeah to some up, good day!