Last Tuesday I went to the Starr Career Development Center. I went there to schedule an appointment for working on the resume. Firstly, the lady that works there gave me the paper where it says how schedule an Online Appointment. So I took my computer logged in and then found out that the dates that they have don’t work out for me, so I asked are there any other hours that I can come and she said that later that day between 3:00pm and 4:30pm they have walk-in hours for Brief Consultations. I came back later and went inside for my brief consultation. I brought my kind of resume that I made few days before that. I was very unsure what am I suppose to write down and what am I not suppose to. I was confused mainly because I don’t have much of experience because I didn’t have time to work in high school and I just started college. She explained to me that there are several types of resumes depending on what are you applying for. Also she told me that there are few information that must be included in every resume which are the contact information, dates and locations, education, experience and skills. She also gave me some advice what should I delete from the resume that I wrote and what to keep. She pointed out for me some other categories that I might add into my resume if I can fill them with my achievements. All in all I think that this was very rewarding experience because they definitely helped me with my starting resume. I will go there few more times for sure, and I am very glad that we have this opportunity at school, to get someone to help us with these stuff. I would highly recommend everyone to go there and visit.
Author: h.brankovic
Student life/Brankovic Helena
One day I went to see what clubs and organizations Baruch offers to students. I went with my friends and we saw many different clubs. We are walking around and one of our friends texted us to come and see the Jewish club. Even though I am not Jewish I wanted to see how the club looks like and join the meeting that day. I was a little bit nervous about going there because I am not Jewish, but they said I don’t have to be and it is okay if I want to be there. As we approached the room in which the club’s meeting was being held, there were two girls in front of the room who were greeting everyone and saying: “Welcome to the Jewish club” When we entered there were a lot of people inside. Some of them I recognized from my classes but some of them I’ve never seen before. Some of my friends who were Jewish came with me decided to join this club. There was also a lot of different kinds of food, which was really nice. The atmosphere felt great. Me and my friend were talking to some people we met there and sharing our experience about the first few weeks in college because they were freshmen too. Apparently, they were having the same issues with classes, homework, and professors as we did. So, I felt a little bit relieved to know that I am not the only one. We were also talking about clubs that we joined and recommending each other what is worth of seeing and going to, from our experience. After a while, we had to go because our classes were about to start, but I would say that I feel great for finding that club. The people there were great and very sociable. I would definitely go there again.
Rubin Museum of Art visit
Few days ago, I went to the Rubin Museum of Art. I’ve visited many NYC museums, but not this one. Honestly, I doubt I would ever go if it weren’t for the assignment. Especially since this month was so stressful in college. Not only that is hard to adjust to the new environment, new people, professors, but also, we have a lot of homework, readings and tests.
I decided to visit this museum after school, and since it’s not so far away I walked. So, this visit also gave me the opportunity to look around the city, explore and get to know this city little bit better. I didn’t even know what the exhibition was about so I didn’t really have any expectations. I entered the museum and started walking around. First thing I noticed is that it was very quiet and that is kind of most important for me when I go to the museum. Because when there is a lot of people you can’t really focus on the art and think about it. The exhibition was about Hindu religion and I’ve never been to this kind of exhibition. I’ve spent more than an hour circling around the museum. I didn’t expect to like it this much. At the end of my visit I was really amazed and felt good for coming here. On my way to home I decided to walk different way and see the city little bit more.
I think this was great experience and very surprising. I thought this was going to be just another task I had to do, but it was relaxing. Also, after that visit I felt like I want to visit more museums like this and to explore what NYC has to offer.
