Hi I’m Kate, I’m a final year geology
student at QUT here at Gardens Point.
Having a first year which was such a broad
over you know, you’re doing biology, chemistry,
geology, environmental science, you know it’s
such a wide range like if you’re not 100%
sure of what you want to do, like if you know
you like science you know you can come here
have a good look on what’s on offer and
see, talk to lecturers, talk to older students
and decide where you want to go from there.
Over the summer I got given a whole project
to work on so you know I had a general outline
of I know to find about this formation, and
study its depositional environment and then
work out whether it was worth the company
investigating, whether it was something that
a geologist should work on.
I did a lot of work on computers, researching,
mapping, so I drew little contours, and then
a lot of presentations, analysing information.
We have a lot of industry nights where companies
sponsor and present and you know mingle with
students so you get business cards and hopefully
you get a job.
I know a few people who have got jobs from
industry nights.
In five years time I would love to have been
in a grad program, finished it and hopefully
be working as a geologist overseas either
in South East Asia, South America, maybe Houston
you know big Texas oil fields, that would
be pretty cool.
