talked to a few people, met some chick and talked to her too. found out she's married ... :/
with two companies, i felt i made a good impression. with one - i felt like i *really* impressed the guy. it was a PC repair type place. i gave them a run down of all my experience, and the unfortunate fact that i didnt have any diplomas, degrees, or certificates yet. he said the diploma stuff wasnt too important as long as i had enough experience. i then mentioned to him how their web server was misconfigured (i had looked up their company site before talking to him, and i noticed that a different page would display depending on if you put the "www." in front of their domain name or not). i think that really surprised the guy. he had been talking to a bunch of people for an hour that all had their own experiences and reasons why they should work there - but it was only me that seemed to actually take the time to look up the company, notice flaws in their current system, and then point them out along with how i would fix them. so i know i made more of an impression than the others. the guy seemed impressed. i didnt even get to bring up that i had tested out of several courses at the school, or that some of my work was shown in 2600 magazine.
with another guy, along with giving him a copy of my resume (i had 15 copies of my resume, and my Linux instructor went over them with me to make sure they looked nice), i was told to also go ahead and e-mail the company with my Resume attached.
i got to dress all fancy. nice shirt, tie, etc.