I attended an Arts at Baruch workshop at the Mishkin gallery on November 3rd. The gallery was a lot smaller than i expected, but true to the popular epithet; quality over quantity. The sheer amount of fellow freshman managed to drown out the tour guide’s voice for me, but i still enjoyed the several works of abstract art that the gallery contained. Though not my cup of tea, the art was still masterfully done and really does deserve its place in Baruch college, an abstract place on its own accord.
Small Talk
On october 27th I attended the “Small Talk” workshop for Career Exploration. I expected a workshop that straight forwardly listed a bunch of careers and requirements for those careers. But it was totally not what i expected., It wasnt small talk about exploring careers but more of the importance of small talk in the career and business world. It was about connecting to people from different companies and careers, it was about finding connections and get others to be impressed by you and what your capable of. It is true because you never know who you may walk upon and how they can “hook you up” in your future. its good to know how to leave a good impression on someone about yourself as well as knowing the right people. I already knew the importance of having great connections.
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Disabled Student’s Office
I learned about this service through the student services fair at first when i had to attend a workshop for academic enrichment. It was about the 2nd service i went to because it really caught my eye. It was a eservice for disable students who want to attend Baruch, or already attend as a student but need special care. This goes for all kinds of diabilities, not just the biological or whatever. It includes people who needcrutches or wheelchairs. I have seen many students at Baruch receiving special aid and I am really interested in volunteering or working with this service because I think its really important to help those whoneed it and make it easier for them to get equal the knowledge of non-disabled students. I visited the disability center as well to find more information about it and whether I can volunteer there or if there wasanything i could do to help.
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Student Services Fair
The Student Services Fair was pretty cool because all these programs and offices came together so that students can be exposed to different centers Baruch has to offer. I think it was a really creative andsmart idea for the punch-hole cards which basically forced students to visit at least up to 10 centers to be given workshop credit. Ill admit if i wasnt forced to go to 10 services i probably wouldnt have gone tomany nor would i have gotten the interesting information that i did by being forced. I had a lot of questions to ask about credit transferring and luckily there was a station for that. I wasnt that interested aboutstudying abroad but after visiting that service and learning about all the oppurtunities, I am now actually looking towards a possible chance of studying in Germany.
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Small Talk: It’s a Big Deal
On Oct 27 at 12:30pm, I attended the “Small talk: It’s a big deal” workshop, a part of the Career Exploration category. This workshop taught me the importance of small talk in personal and business situations. This workshop emphasized how essential networking is. You will never know who you are going to meet that could give you your big break. You can also start good friendships and break the ice by using small talk. We also walked around and met new people.
This workshop met my expectations because this strengthened my belief that small talk is the only way to achieve a happy and successful life. You can make valuable friendships with small talk. You can also build connections with valuable employers. I recommend this workshop to all students of Baruch College. You will become a better person once you experience this workshop.
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Bearcat: The other Google
On Wed Nov 4 1:30pm, I attended the “Bearcat: the Other Google” workshop, a part of the Academic Enrichment category. Even though we have google, sometimes it may not be so reliable. This particular search engine is great since it is geared towards Baruch students. I learned how to use Baruch’s own Bearcat search engine. The search engine has hundreds of databases for everyone. These databases have lots of subjects to search upon. I learned that there are a lot of articles with reliable sources. The speaker said that if we typed in key words and checked subjects, we would get solid results. We could also keep the work cited until we graduate. This workshop met my expectations and I left feeling satisfied. I knew that with this wonderful search engine, I would be able to excel in my research papers and projects in Baruch. I would recommend this workshop to another student since a good search engine is essential to a successful college career. Bearcat search engine fits the bill.
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20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
On Nov. 5 at 5pm, I attended the “20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall” workshop, a part of the Community-Global Awareness category. There were chips, pretzels, and soda, which was wonderful. I learned a lot about the history of the Berlin Wall. We watched a twenty minute film, which was produced for the German Information Center USA. It was directed by Bob Frye. This movie portrayed people from Berlin that were affected by the fall of the Berlin Wall and how it changed their lives and the city. After watching that great video, we were listening to some speakers that were from Germany and how it affected their lives. I selected this workshop because I wanted to be a part of this 20th Anniversary. Because the fall occurred two years before I was born, this was never a part of my life. This brought me out of my comfort zone because I was not too familiar with it. Thankfully, it all changed after the workshop since this workshop met my expectations.
I learned that the Berlin Wall was built on 1945 and was brought down by 1989. The Berlin Wall was built in order to prevent East Germans from escaping to West Germany. However, in order to save face, the East German Officials would say that they were trying to “protect” East Germany. I found that very interesting. I also saw footage of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was nighttime and everyone was partying and having a ball. It must have been great to be those people. I learned a lot from this workshop and I would recommend it to another student who would be interested in learning about the world.
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Ethics Workshop
The Ethics workshop was the first workshop i went to that got everyone involved in the activities. The activities were mainly to get us to see the difference between right and wrong, as well as general moral reasoning. We were given differen examples of scenerios where we were to ponder about what we would do in that situation, and the determine the difference between right or wrong in each. It was really fun being stuck on certain examples that we would feel bad about and morally they seemed wrong, but the easier choice seemed better to do. We also had to talk about how wrong plagiarism is and we had to see what peices of wiritng looked plagiarized and which looked real. Overall it was a really interesting and different workshop.
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Global-Community Awareness 11/6
The club that I am involved with, Solutions Across Borders, has a film series titled “Noise Around the Gobe” that deals with worldwide youth activism. The first movie was a Hindi movie called Rang de Basanti and it was about 5 college students in India filming a movie about the Indian Independence movement. They feel as though they can’t realate to those who cared that much for their country and their fellow countrymen but when a friend dies, they are pushed to take action and truly become like the characters they play in their movie. Before the movie started we had my history professor, V. Oldenburg, come in and introduce historical aspect of the movie, the Indian Independece movement. Overall it was a really good movie and it really got the point across about the importance of youth activism and involvement in government and politics.
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