I attended this workshop and honestly, I wouldn’t do it again because it just wasn’t very helpful. I guess it wasn’t very helpful because I don’t think I needed any help with the topic in the first place but aside from that it just seemed kind of dry and there wasn’t anything said that I’m sure everyone in the audience has heard before/knew already. It was mostly the speaker asking questions like “what issues might a couple come across in college?” or “how is your relationship to your parents/friends?” but nothing really about managing those issues. There was an effort to get the many kids in the room to spread out and socialize a bit but it didn’t go farther than shaking someone’s hand and asking for their name. I think a better way to have handled the workshop would have been various smaller sessions where students could ask questions and get answers from other students while being guided by a speaker/mentor/authoritive figure. But yeah, as it was, kind of seemed like a waste of time for me.
Managing Relationships in College
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Library
I had an art history exam last thursday. I found out last minute that the book store gave me the wrong text book, and I couldn’t exchange it that day, so I ended up going back to school to the library from 6:00 to 10:30 PM wednesday night to study for the exam. The library saved my life. That’s all I have to say.
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Impressions Management
Today, in room 3-215 was a workshop called Impressions Managements. it was headed by the STARR career development center and it taught us the do’s and don’ts of what is correct in how to approach a new job and any specific interviews. I found this workshop to be very helpful because it made me think about my future and any future experices I have in the job world. It made me become more aware of how “cyber dirt” and Google will actually hinder my prospects of getting a job if I am not well prepared and have a good outlook on my life and how others see it. It taught me that even though you can have a great first impression there might also be a bad impression on you even before you go to the interview if you have bad “press” going around. With this we learned to always look approachable in every situation so that you dont look like a mean person and that you can handle anything without putting a sour face on.
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10/08 Personal Enrichment Workshop
I attended a Personal Enrichment workshop on October 8th on “Building Relationships.” The workshop was basically about the importance of meeting new people and forming close relations while you’re in college. The speaker also touched upon several problems that might arise in families or in intimate relationships during college. I thought the workshop was sort of helpful, it didn’t really relate any NEW information; it did, however, remind me that it’s important to be more outgoing and take a greater initiative to making new relationships with various people for various purposes.
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Fall Blood Drive
The Blood drive was by far a great experience in my life so far. i have never given in blood before because i am scared of needles but this was the first year that i actually stepped up to the plate and signed up. The people there were great and it was not as crowded as i thought it would have been. Signing up for the blood drive was great and easy and my appointment was Wednesday the 7th of October at 12:45. i went to get my finger “pricked” and the nurse had told me i had really low iron. =[ that meant i could not give blood!! I was very disappointed by how i could not give blood. overall beside the fact that i could not give blood i enjoyed the experience and the idea of giving blood and hopefully at the next blood drive I will be able to give blood. =]
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Student Life 9/24
I thought the club fair was really fun an extremely informative. I think that everyone was very well represented, i think there were a variety of clubs and things for people to be interested in. I really enjoyed the fact that they had random things like the objectivism club which is something that I feel a lot of college kids would want to talk about but would not be sure where to go. It was really entertaining with the dancers and the music and the free food. It was a really good atmosphere, very welcoming.
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club fair
the club fair was so much fun. there were more clubs than i ever imagined, it seemed like there was a club for every ethnicity or almost everything in general. the way each club presented themselves was really nice too, like with food and stuff. the dances were entertaining and the representors of each club were very welcoming. I joined many different clubs, and skimmed through a couple of the sororities. the club fair, although very crowded, made me love baruch a lot more. seeing all the diversity and different interests coming together.
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Ethics
I attented a workshop dealing with Ethics. To be honest, the word ethics always gets me. For some reason, I couldn’t remember what it meant. However, after this workshop, I understand. Ethics has to do with morals, basically what’s right and wrong. We did a few activities, the first of which was to pick a side of the room representing our agreement or disagreement on a certain scenario. An example of one was whether or not we’d keep a TV given to us by a potential client even if it was against business policy. Only one person said they would. Haha.
The next activity was to decide whether certain examples of writing were plagerized or not. The last was the most fun where we were all given a scenario and we had to decide whether we would act “right or wrong”. One of them asked if we would steal some medication a doctor was charging too much on in order to save our spouses life. YES WE WOULD!
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Ethics Workshop 9/30
Early today I attended a workshop for Ethics. I learned that ethics is based on a persons morality so it differs between everyone. There’s no clear distinction between right and wrong, it’s not black and white. We make these ethical decisions based on our influence from our parents, friends, media, etc. We were given various situations and we had to decide on what we would do. For example: If you were a teacher and one of your students is a single parent who works part time and they earned a ‘D’ in your class but s/he needs a ‘C’ to maintain their academic scholarship would you give them a C because of their situation? There were other situations like this and the class was usually split on what they thought was ethical. We also spoke about plagiarism and how that ties in with ethics. I enjoyed this workshop because it required everyone to participate and it was interesting.
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