Freshmen reception

1) Title of Workshop: Freshmen reception

2) Enrichment Area Fulfilled: Academic Enrichment

3) Date/Time Attended: 9/17/09 12:30p.m.- 1:00 p.m.

4) How did the workshops affect your perspective of the topic that was discussed?

           This workshop is really useful to me in planning my future college life. After attending this workshop, i realized the college requirements are going to be tons of hard trials.

5) How did the workshop take you out of your comfort zone?

    After realizing college requirements are going to be tons of hard trials, i really have to think what i’m willing to be majoring in and force myself to work hard.

        6) Explain what the workshop was about and tell us why you specifically chose that workshop.

           This workshop was mandatory for all freshments, so i had to go anyway. Moreover, i really wanted to know more about my future life in Baruch, and i wanted to have my first signature on my handbook.

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Academic enrichment

1) Title of Workshop: Freshmen reception

2) Enrichment Area Fulfilled: Academic Enrichment

3) Date/Time Attended: 9/17/09–12:30-1:00 p.m.

4) How did the workshops affect your perspective of the topic that was discussed?

            We went into the room and the advisor gave a speech about how to make our lives better in Baruch College. This workshop introduced this college and I had obtained much information that I did not know before I come this school.

5) How did the workshop take you out of your comfort zone?

This workshop teaches us how to organize our schedule and work appropriately. Because unlike high school, college seems to provide more freedom and we need more skills on arranging out time for work and entertainment.

        6) Explain what the workshop was about and tell us why you specifically chose that workshop.

            I chose this workshop because it provides information about how the freshmen should get used to the academic life in college, since college is a totally different situation and system for us, and we really need time to get used to it.

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Club Fair

1) Title of the workshop – Club Fair

2) Enrichment area fulfilled – Student Life

3) Date/Time attended – 9/27/09   12:30 – 2:30 p.m

4) how did the workshop affect your perspective of the topic that was dicussed?

– We did not discuss any thing for this workshop, we just walked around and asked questions and igned up for clubs.  I thought clubs were the best part of  college,  so I went there excitedly. Then I realized I had a lot more thoughts than I could do.

5) How did the workshop take you out of your comfort zone?

– There are so many amazing thing outside of our classes, we should explore all more and figure how to meet people ,what  kind of people do I want to hangout with and enjoy our college lives.

6) Explain what the workshop is about and tell us why you specifically chose that workshop.

– I really want to join clubs in order to enrich my college life. So I went there to check about clubs such as what they do, what is the attrctive point of these clubs.

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Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective Exhibition

1) Title of Workshop: Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective Exhibition

2) Enrichment Area Fulfilled: Arts at Baruch

3) Date/Time Attended: 11/3/09  1 p.m to 2 p.m.

4) How did the workshops affect your perspective of the topic that was discussed?

       Entering the Mishkin, we had a guide telling us the arts and the biography of Mercedes Matter. I like how she expressed her understanding of life through abstract paintings. Even through the instructor gave us explanations on those paintings, we didn’t fully understand what she was saying.

5) How did the workshop take you out of your comfort zone?

        This workshop made me use more of my imagination to comprehend those abstract paintings.

6) Explain what the workshop was about and tell us why you specifically chose that workshop.

           This workshop is sort of like a tour of the paintings of Mercedes Matter. As I have mentioned before, I like how she expressed her  understanding of life through abstract paintings. The reason i chose this workshop was that I was in need of one more signature.

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Career exploration

1) Title of Workshop: Baruch Student Employment Fair

2) Enrichment Area Fulfilled: Career exploration

3) Date/Time Attended: September 8/ 1pm-2pm

4) How did the workshops affect your perspective of the topic that was discussed?

 While attending this fair, I realized that the job offered in Baruch is actually more than what I expected. In addition, there are various jobs so we can look at what we like and try to pick the one we want. And of course, we are not definitely picked by the organizations, but it is a very experience.

5) How did the workshop take you out of your comfort zone?

            There are so many jobs offered and we have to actually go and ask the staffs about the jobs and what are the benefits for us when we apply for one of the offers. It is obvious that getting a job would make our resume look better, but  it is also essential to know how our jobs affect our future career.

6) Explain what the workshop was about and tell us why you specifically chose that workshop.

      I think this workshop is important. It gives us more opportunities to know more about Baruch College and our future career. If we want to get more money or experience, this event is very helpful.

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Challenge your values –Let’s talk Ethics

) Title of Workshop: Challenge your values –Let’s talk Ethics

2) Enrichment Area Fulfilled: Community-Global awareness

3) Date/Time Attended: 09/17/ 09 1-2pm

4) How did the workshops affect your perspective of the topic that was discussed?

 We talked about ethics. We went over about the worksheet about on plagiarism’s negative effects on us and how to get rid of it in our papers and lives. Ethic issues can give people different perspections. How we see and evalue it can effect us a lot.

5) How did the workshop take you out of your comfort zone?

This workshop took me out of comfort zone by telling that when choices are provided in the society, people’s ethic view will make differences. Therefore how we value and interpret  things will actually change our lives.

6) Explain what the workshop was about and tell us why you specifically chose that workshop.

           Ethics are important in every way in our lives. There are so many thing we can do but shouldnt do. So we should use our virtual to evaluate and make the right decisions.

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Freshmen reception

1) Title of Workshop: Freshmen reception

2) Enrichment Area Fulfilled: Academic Enrichment

3) Date/Time Attended: 9/17/09–12:30-1:00 p.m.

4) How did the workshops affect your perspective of the topic that was discussed?

           We were all split into different rooms and were given a short speech about Baruch.  We generally talked about the future life in Baruch by going over worksheet. This workshop made me think about my future plan at Baruch, such as how to meet the requirments of courses.

5) How did the workshop take you out of your comfort zone?

    I should prepare more about our future life in Baruch, caz it will be hard to go through, just like this freshmam Semiar Class, it has countless uneccessary requirements. So we all should be prepared to endure whatever might come up next.

        6) Explain what the workshop was about and tell us why you specifically chose that workshop.

            I chose this workshop because it is specificly for frenshmen and we are required to go in a way.  This workshop is basically about how freshmen can live for the rest of life in Baruch.

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Let’s talk Ethics

1) Title of Workshop: Challenge your values –Let’s talk Ethics

2) Enrichment Area Fulfilled: Community-Global awareness

3) Date/Time Attended: Semptember17/ 1pm-2pm

4) How did the workshops affect your perspective of the topic that was discussed?

 We talked about the problem of ethics. In college, people focus more on the problem of plagiarism and how it is important in academic life. The advisor gave us a worksheet about how plagiarism’s negative effects on us and how to avoid it while writing our paper. I also have an experience that makes me notice that people have different perceptions toward ethic issues.

5) How did the workshop take you out of your comfort zone?

This workshop took me out of comfort zone by presenting me that people make different choices. They see what is right in various ways and I think it is interesting that almost all their reasons are rational.

6) Explain what the workshop was about and tell us why you specifically chose that workshop.

           Ethics are important in every way in our lives. In college, the biggest concern while we are doing our work for school is plagiarism. Some people think that it is alright to copy other’s original work. However, it is unacceptable, and this workshop explains why we should not do so. The activity we have later also explains that people actually view the same issue differently.

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club fair

Sorry for posting my experience of club fair so late because i was having trouble with blogging.

1) Title of the workshop – Club fair

2) Enrichment area fulfilled – Student life

3) Date/Time attended – 9/27/09   12:30 p.m – 2:30 p.m

4) how did the workshop affect your perspective of the topic that was dicussed?

– I don’t know how I would relate Club fair to this question. However, I could see that Baruch really offers us lots of clubs. There were varieties of clubs that I couldn’t pick which one to join.

5) How did the workshop take you out of your comfort zone?

– This workshop was so useful to me in exploring more about this campus, like basement floors. After visiting the club fair, I realized there were swimming pool, basketball court, handball court, weight training room etc.

6) Explain what the workshop is about and tell us why you specifically chose that workshop.

– The club fair offered us lots of clubs, and we might join the clubs we want, therefore, we would have more to do besides eating. The reason i chose this workshop was that i rather practice taekwondo in the taekwondo club than spending money to practice it outside of the school.

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Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective Exhibition Workshop

1) Title of Workshop: Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective Exhibition

2) Enrichment Area Fulfilled: Arts at Baruch

3) Date/Time Attended: Novemeber 3/ 1pm to 2pm

4) How did the workshops affect your perspective of the topic that was discussed?

       We talked about the arts and the lifetime of the artist Mercedes Matter. I liked her art and the way she demonstrats her perspection towards the world by using the colors.  After having this gallary tour I start seeing the world through artists” eyes. And I have new discovery and understadings od the world.

5) How did the workshop take you out of your comfort zone?

        We should think deeper about our life maybe. I am not really brought out of comfort zone, I just appreciated her art work, they were really nice.

6) Explain what the workshop was about and tell us why you specifically chose that workshop.

           In the workshop the tour guide showed and explained her art work for us. She used triangle which is a new positing techeque to demonstrate what she wants to illustrate. Every single color and movement is well planned by her. Most of her art work are abstractive, and I really like the combination of colors and lines. I chose this workshop because it is about art. The imperfect  part of this workshop was that we were forced to follow her instead of looking around by ourselves.

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