Coat Drive

Posted on December 5, 2009 by thomash

For my Global and Community Awareness workshop I volunteered to help out with the coat drive. I wanted to help the community so I worked the coat drive table for a few hours during club hours this week. It was very rewarding to see other students’ generosity and to feel like I was giving back. I would definitely recommend volunteering to help with any drives like this one, it was very rewarding.

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Mishkin Gallery Tour

Posted on December 5, 2009 by thomash

I attended this workshop last tuesday during club hours and was a little disappointed. it involved a tour around a gallery that was home to some abstract paintings. I thought the workshop included photography, which I am interested in, so I decided this workshop might be interesting but it really wasn’t. The guide also bashed photography throughout the tour, which I didn’t like. I learned that anything can be art from this workshop, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

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Career Planning: Internship & Goal Setting

Posted on December 4, 2009 by michaelt

I went to this workshop on 11/10/09 with the intent of learning about internships. Disappointingly, the orator was not present. Instead, an extremely energetic middle aged woman named Rhonda substituted and educated us on basic interviewing skills. This was the first workshop that I attended without any friends and I was not very interested in gaining interview skills. However, Rhonda made the workshop a pleasure with her humor and intelligence. Although she lectured us for the full two hours, I was actually engrossed into her lecture the whole time. Rhonda was very experienced in business according to her numerous accomplishments. She taught us about the do and don’t when being interviewed. I learned that timeliness, preparations, and a smile are essential to acquiring a job. Fascinatingly, one of the students asked Rhonda how she was so optimistic all the time. She claimed she lived as pessimist in her first 20 years of living. She taught us by pretending to be an optimist, you eventually become one. This was one of the best advices I received so far in my college life. If Rhonda taught a class in Baruch, I would definitely take it. In conclusion, I highly advise prospective and current students to meet with Rhonda in the career development center or in workshops. She really is one of the most inspirational and valuable faculties Baruch has to offer.

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Student Life: Club Fair

Posted on December 4, 2009 by michaelt

I attended the Club Fair on 9/24/09. Sadly, I did not derive anything from the Club Fair due to the crowded gym. I expected to join a club this semester. All the clubs that I was considering on the club list were absent. It did bring me out of my comfort zone because I have never been in such a crowded area. It was impossible to maneuver around the fair. It felt like standing in Baruch’s elevators right before class starts. Also, the loud music was inappropriate as I attempted to discuss the clubs with the recruiters. Evidently, the club fair was not what I anticipated. You can actually learn more from attaining a list of clubs and Googling them.

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Community Global Awareness : Coloring up your future

Posted on December 4, 2009 by michaelt

To replace the other community global awareness workshop (speaker was not present), I attended this workshop. Surprisingly, this workshop was remarkable. The delicious Subways sandwiches only added to the already, flawless experience. The speaker, Alfonso Quiroz, was very reputable and confident. Apparently, he played a direct role in the Bill Clinton campaign. However, what really caught my attention was his involvement in MTV. Similarly, I always wanted to be a part of the music industry. Utilizing business and music to innovate the music industry was always a vision of mine. The speaker gave some excellent advice about reaching for your goals. In his case, he had to face the hardships of homosexual discrimination in politics and business. However, he taught us never to give up no matter the criticism. I usually get discouraged from the simplest criticisms. But, I learned time to time to ignore disparagement and dream on. My optimism only increased after this workshop. Overall, this workshop surpassed my expectations and is recommendable for its inspirational nature no matter your sexuality.

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Mercedes Matter Gallery Tour

Posted on December 4, 2009 by christined

I attended the Mercedes Matter Gallery Tour in place of the Community-Global Awareness workshop.

This workshop displayed works by an artist named Mercedes Matter. There were three sections: her early work, the things she did in the middle of her life and, her late work. The artwork was beautiful and the colors were so vibrant.

I genuinely liked this tour, aside from the fact that we were only able to look at three or four pieces. The woman giving the tour spoke a lot and I wish we were given the opportunity to make observations or discuss the artwork instead of her just rambling on. However, I did like the fact that as Mercedes Matter got older, her work became more abstract; I like abstract art.

I would recommend this tour to another student because it is relatively short but I would also encourage them to go on their own if possible, if they enjoy looking at artwork, just so they would abe able to look at the entire gallery. The only problem I had with this workshop was, my tour was supposed to begin at 1 and we did not start until almost 1:30. In addition, people who came later than others went ahead of the line and since they only allowed 25 people or so in at a time, those who waited a long time didn’t get to go in at first and had to wait even more.

But I really did enjoy this workshop 🙂

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Managing Impressions workshop

Posted on December 4, 2009 by christined

I went to the Managing Impressions workshop so I could fulfill my Student Life workshop requirement because I had missed previous events and was told I could repeat a workshop in a different area.

Anyway, the goals of the workshop were to show us how everyday when we meet people we are making impressions and how we can give people a positive impression about ourselves. This workshop did not take me out of my comfort zone because there was minimal interaction between the students, even though we had to talk to someone we didn’t know. No one, however, got up to do that and we just talked with people we knew.

This workshop met my expectations because it was very informative and the person talking to us was very friendly. I would recommend this workshop to another student because the information they gave us was very useful.

From this workshop I learned that most of the students attending this workshop did not want to come to Baruch because it was not their first choice but had no other option to do so because they were either rejected from their first choice of school or their parents didn’t want them going elsewhere. It surprised me to see that only a handful of students, including myself, really wanted to go to Baruch.

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Global Awareness

Posted on December 3, 2009 by lbowlah

Before I wanted to do any workshops, I thought that it was unnecessary and a waste of time.  But when I heard about the global awareness workshop that showed a movie instead of giving blood I couldn’t wait.  I was excited and eager to watch it because I love watching old movies because they have more meaning.  They do more than entertain the Audience, they teach a lesson unlike movies nowadays.  Even though my classes ended at 12 I was determined to wait until 5 to watch the movie.  When time came around to watch the movie, I wad highly disappointed.  The instructors of the workshop informed everyone that the movie was cancelled. But before they told us the movie was cancelled, we had to Stare at a blank screen for half an hour. Then the assistant informed us that the teacher with the movie couldn’t be found.  But my effort didn’t go to waste because they signed our books for showing up.  Hopefully during my winterbreak I can borrow the movie,  “Intimate Stranger”, from blockbuster and watch it for myself.

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Art @ Baruch: Nature of Landscape

Posted on December 2, 2009 by amanda

Art is something that i have always found very interesting, maybe one of the reasons I am transferring to FIT next year. As I was in this gallery nature of landscape gallery I had to listen to a women speak about each photo and how the artists meant for each of them to be interpreted. I found it fun to take that interpretation and think about my own interpretation and also think about what the artist may have been thinking when creating it. That kind of thinking is so exciting to me. Some of the photographs I felt were risque and that is what I liked the most, how the artists used their imaginations to create such out of the ordinary art. It was so interesting to see the different ways in which nature was portrayed. Like I said, this kind of stuff I find really entertaining so this workshop was definitely one the better ones to me.

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Workshop @ the Library

Posted on December 2, 2009 by amanda

I keep putting off all of my blogs because I never check my email for the reminders haha. Okay well when I went to the library for this workshop I was shown different resources that are available to me via the Library’s website.  I sat through a similar thing with my English class at the library recently but because of this workshop I was ahead of the game. 🙂 I really like the fact that I am able to rent books online and make copies through that if it is available for that book. Also a little side fact that the librarian told me was that I am able to enter any CUNY library with my ID card because of the availability to take out a book from any school in their system. I never knew that it was possible for a college to do something like this so I thought that it was really cool and extremely useful.  We were also shown how to renew a book simply by using the website or to be put on a waitlist for a book as well. I thought these were really useful resources. The library overall is a place that I barely used in high school simply because I felt it didn’t offer too much help to me. This workshop helped to show me that my college library has so many resources that I can really put to use and I plan on doing just that.

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