oh wow, so i just realized i missed a blog on the internship and goal setting workshop, which is surprising to me because this workshop was so pathetic that i felt the need to angrily blog about it. i have never been so bored in my life. we listened to some woman drone on and on and on about the starr career development center for the entirety of club hours, wasting the entire amount of time we have to spend at the clubs we’ve joined. not to mention, we were treated like children…i think it was a horrible workshop and a negative experience. it could’ve been made much shorter, and the woman could’ve treated us a little bit more maturely.
Seo
I don’t remember the real name of this workshop because thats how much effect it had on me. It put adds on the event wall saying come and learn the secerts to internships. HA. Instead it should have said if your a minority come learn how you can better your self. I am indian and not even i qualified to anything they mentioned. I went with 2 white guys 1 othre indian and a persain. So yea we had alot of fun. damn sarcasam doesn’t work well on the internet.
Relations
The most crowded event ever. Kids were all of the place, on chairs, floors, the heating vents. The person in charge try to keep a hold on things but it was to much even for her. The workshop it self just retold you what comman sence did in 2nd grade. Disapointed.
Basic Interviewing techniques
I went to this workshop like 3 weeks ago on the 29th so i do not fully remember what the lady said. She mainly just speak about what interviewers look for during an interview. This stuff is common sense and very repetitive because i hear this speech every half year. She talked about dressing to impress. The most common question that i had to be aware about was “tell me about yourself”. I think that this question will probably be one of the hardest because if you say one bad thing about yourself, it may affect you whole interview. One technique that was new to me is the eyebrow technique. She explained that if you get nervous looking at the eyes, look at the eyebrows. I think that this technique might be very useful because I get nervous very easily, especially when it comes to talking. She made us do a brief exercise with the person next to us. We had to be the interviewer and interviewee.
Club Fair
The club fair was a lot of fun. The music the daceing the food kept you really entertained. Although i did think the booths were all to close together and it was hard to hear the club members. That caused utter choas. It was hard to move around and a real turn of. I did get info from a few clubs and look forward to hear more from them.
honesty in terms of global awareness.
okay, so i’m going to be honest here and say that i missed all the global awareness workshops. i really, really hope that doesn’t cause me to fail. i TRIED making it to the last one, which was the blood drive, but since i’m unable to donate blood, i couldn’t get signed off. i’m sorry, freshman seminar. please don’t fail me! 🙁
era of Obama and Sotomayor
My history teacher guided my way to this workshop. I thought it was going to be just another “obama is the man” type speach but i was tottally wrong. The speakers were in touch with reality and knew no one person can do everything. I loved the discusion on if obama really even counts as a “black man” I personally inaged in the Q&A and enjoyed the responses of others.
Personal Relationship Workshop
When I went to this workshop it was very full, my friends and I ended up sitting on the floor. The speaker talked about networking and how it may help us in the future just by knowing someone. I thought some of the tips were very helpful.
Personal Relationship
Anther late blog for a workshop I went to back in the beginning of November. This workshop was quite popular, I still remember arriving a bit late and having to sit on the floors because there weren’t enough seats. The advisor lady stressed the importance of networking and how we can benefit just from knowing someone that might know someone else we might need in the future. (Kinda confusing) Basically connections and how we can get some hook-ups if anything comes up. She made us go up to a random person in the other side of the room and introduce ourselves and whatnot. Expected since it was a peer relationship workshop. Definitely was interesting and learned some tips to help in
Freshmen Reception
I don’t know how I managed to forget to write a blog for this one. Better late then never I guess. So this workshop was the most useless of all that I have went to I’d say. It was just a mess from the start. They told us that they didn’t expect the number of people that showed up to show up and that it was a record number for Baruch. The line outside the room where it was supposed to be held extended all the way around the corner and even blocking the escalators and the hallway on the fifth floor. They then directed us to individual mini lecture rooms there and began the workshop like that. All the waiting in line already killed like a good majority of the time the workshop was supposed to be held. When it started, they told us information that we had either already knew or was irrelevant. No solid, take away information was given which makes me say this was just a waste of time.