Author Archives: jdeng
Personal Enrichment/Student Life Workshop?
At first I thought “Your Life, Your Money” was a personal enrichment workshop but I found out they changed it later to a student life workshop. The first part of the workshop was watching a movie and then there was … Continue reading
Arts at Baruch – Gallery Tour: Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective
The gallery tour was pretty good. I had no idea that the gallery is actually dedicated to the artwork of an artist named Mercedes Matter. The gallery was organized from the art she made beginning from her childhood till her … Continue reading
Career Exploration – Internship & Goal Setting
Someone from the Starr Career Development Center came to talk about the basics of internships for this workshop. Most of the information can be found on the website www.baruch.cuny.edu/careers. Finding internships are pretty convenient because you can just set up … Continue reading
Academic Enrichment – Database Survival
For this workshop, it lasted for only half an hour but it felt pretty long to me. A lady talked about the databases available in the school’s library website and the terms we can use to help us narrow our … Continue reading
Community-Global awareness – Changing Nature of Race, Power, and Ethnicity
The workshop was a discussion about how the Era of Obama and Sotomayor can impact diversity in the United States. I personally do believe that they can bring positive changes because they represent a part of the population that has … Continue reading
My First Freshman Seminar Enrichment Workshop
This blog post is about the Freshman Reception back in September that goes under the category “Student Life”. Basically like what everyone else said, it was very crowded and they divided everyone into smaller groups in separate classrooms. There were … Continue reading