Please include the following when you are entering a post about a workshop:
1. Title of workshop attended
2. Category of Workshop
3. Date/time of workshop
4. Brief description of workshop, and workshop goals as you understand them
5. Explain why you selected this particular workshop and how it took you outside your comfort zone. If it did not take you outside your comfort zone, explain why not.
6. How did this workshop meet or fail to meet your expectations? Would you recommend it to another student-why or why not ?
7 What do you feel you learned from the workshop/experience? What surprised you about that? What was new that you could take away from this experience?
Building and Managing Relationships in College
Personal Enrichment
October 8, 2009 12:30-2:00 PM
This workshop helped explain the importance of the relations we keep with one another. The workshop also explained how relations may change in college due to the changes in being in a college environment. Furthermore, there was a a powerpoint presentation presented which kept us entertained. After that, we were to talk to other people at the workshop to learn how to develop relations. This is outside my comfort zone because it’s kind of awkward when meeting new people, even for me. Despite this, this was a good workshop and recommend it to be attended by others.
Freshman reception
personal Enrichment
9-18-09
So yess this is like weeks, months acctually in the past. However, I kind of remember the day despite my horrible memory. Freshman reception was acctually an okay day. gwetting aqauinted with the school, understanding what to expect, meeting new people. im glad i went, well ii think it was mandertory any way right? But still it was a nice dayy.
Mediating Conflict
Personal Enrichment
The presenter spoke about how to mediate conflicts at baruch and within relationships. She spoke about the different types of conflict that exist between people or between people and organizations. She did not have much to say, as the last half of the workshop was consisted of people complaining about workshops and the administration at baruch. The workshop was good enough, but i doubt the speaker did what she planned on doing
I attended the Values, Pressures and Choosing a Major workshop for this category. This workshop shows you how you should approach picking a major. It also gives you an idea on how to approach your future in the ways of planning it out and planning your goals. This took me outside my comfort zone because I never fully thought of a major and what other choices I had. I just decided a major and thought i would stick with it and see what comes in the future. I would recoomend this workshop to others who have undecided majors because it gives you a way of thinking what major to pick that you might not have thought. One important thing i have learned from this workshop is ones major could have been influenced by a wide variety of things and it might not be the major that person really wants to persue.
Stress&Anxiety
Personal Enrichment
November 10th, 2009 1:00PM-2:00PM
Basically this workshop was to help relieve stress that we get from our everyday lives. The speaker first gave us all a raisin. We were suppose to enjoy the raisin in a different way that we normally ate raisins. Normally we gobble them down in different ways and eating it with other foods. This time he wanted us to focus our ideas into the raisin so that we can “enjoy” it more. Then he went on to speak about different ways for us to relieve our stress and anxiety by doing things like, exercising, rewardification, and so much more. At the end we basically just did a stretch that, studies have shown, is suppose to reduce our stress and anxiety levels. I thought that was pretty cool and I might even end up doing them on a daily basis.
Mediating Conflicts and Resolving Disputes at Baruch
Personal Enrichment
Nov 12, 2009, 12:30-2:30PM
The whole point was to find solutions to conflicts that might arise while attending Baruch college. So we sat for an hour attempting to talk about issues, but eventually ended up discussing how useless these workshops are. I chose this workshop because this was like the last one available after they didnt let me into the first personal enrichment workshop that I tried to attend. They almost didnt let me into this one, even though I signed up for it, and they made half of us including myself sit on the floor for the entire hour until our legs went numb. The workshop failed my expectations completely. I wasnt expecting much to begin with but I didnt think that it was going to be this bad. So yeah, I wouldnt recommend it to anyone else, complete and utter waste of time. The only thing I learned was what an ombud is and that i wasnt the only one who thought that the workshops are pointless. There is absolutely nothing new that i could take away from this experience. I just want to know how I could get back the hour of my life that i wasted on this workshop.
1. Mediating Conflicts and Resolving Disputes
2. Personal Enrichment
3. 11/12/09, 12:30-2:30PM
4. This workshop was awesome! I learned so much! I know now what an ombud is! The point of the workshop was to educate us on being open to resolve problems. We must tell the truth and speak our minds to let others know of our concerns. If that doesn’t work, we must NOT resort to violence. In fact, we must seek help from an ombud!
5. I selected this workshop because I love mediating conflicts. I always wanted to be a conflict mediator when i would grow up. My dream is to be an ombud. One day, I’m going to go to an ombud college and get my ombud degree in ombudding. This took me way out of my comfort zone. I’m usually so shy. Conflict mediation really helped me open up.
6. I completely lied on question 5. I chose this workshop because it was all i had left. I had no expectations and if I would have had any; they wouldn’t have been met. I dont recommend this workshop because it was a complete waste of time.
7. I learned absolutely nothing that i didn’t already know. Thank you for wasting an hour of my life.
Mediating Conflict &Resolving Disputes at Baruch
Personal Enrichment
November 12, 2009
12:30pm-2:30pm
In this workshop, the speaker talked about the sources of conflicts at college and how to deal with these conflicts.She mentioned that conflicts are common between student and teacher, there are conflicts at the relationships and that there is a way to resolve them. Since the room was overcrowded, everyone started complaining about the workshop organization and the speaker went on to explaining how and t whom we can complain. Basically, this workshop ended being about how to deal with workshops. As I already mentioned, the room was so full, we had to sit on the floor. I wouldn’t say that the workshop was very helpful.
Building and Managing Relationships in College
Personal Enrichment
October 8, 2009 12:30-2:00 PM
This workshop was done to inform students on how to engage in relationships in college in order to broaden their networks. The presenter also went through a series of explanations on how to resolve personal relationships at home which may conflict with college work. I chose this particular workshop because i was curious how Baruch felt on how people should manage relationships and see what they suggest about the topic. It took me outside my comfort zone because we had to walk around and meet new people randomly. This workshop did meet my expectations because it informed me of some information i didn’t know about such as a website for networking and it also gave good tips. I would recommend this workshop to someone who wants to try something different and a bit more engaging because you get to meet new people.
Building and Managing Relationships in College
Personal Enrichment
October 8, 2009 12:30-2:00pm
this workshop helped make student aware of the hardships of having and keeping personal relationships with friends family and loved ones. it also discussed the importance of networking and establishing professional relationships. we were made to go around and meet five new people and that was something definitely outside my comfort zone but it made me learn how to open up more and to be more approachable. it met my expectation by discussing and provind good examples of what and how relationships are when a person is in college. i leared to be more outgoing and more open to meeting new people. i would recommend this workshop for those who want to learn how to establish good healthy relationships while balancing their college life.
Building and Managing Relationships in College
Personal Enrichment
October 8, 2009 12:30-2:00pm
This workshop is to inform students about relationships in college. The person in charge went through a power point on family, friends, intimate and professional relationships. She also made us move around to meet new people. It was outside of my comfort zone especially going across the room to meet five complete strangers. This workshop meets to my expectation because I expected them to do something with a power point and talk about each part of the relationship. I would recommend this to anyone who has a relationship problem because this would be useful. I learned about the different techniques to avoid some problems that were presented. I also learned a special online networking place to help me with my future career.