I already have a job as a co-op student, and this particular company often hires if the semester reviews are good, and they are.
I hear this sort of negative gloom all the time. Yes, it may be true that some engineers have this problem. But they brought it on themselves. They never took the iniative. They never developed experience or people skills. They tend to be people that graduate with low GPAs and no experience. Put yourself in the company's perspective: You can hire someone that has a year of co-op experience in the field and a higher GPA (co-op companies require high GPAs to stay in the program, I believe mine requires > 3.5). Or you can hire some guy with a 2.5 GPA and no experience. The choice is obvious. Especially if the employer is your co-op employer because they don't have to invest money into introducing you to the company.
Of course this doesn't describe all people with this problem.
My company's co-op advisor even approached me once wondering why they had such problem recruiting people from my school. I had no clue.
Yep, that's probably the fault in my plan. However, I will never marry a gold digger. I'd rather live alone than put up with a woman that just HAS to have a lexus every fvcking 5 years and buckets full of shiny rocks like she's some sort of racoon.