Coloring Up Your Future

Today I attended my fifth workshop called “Coloring Up Your Future”. This workshop was held in the Vertical Campus building in room 2-125 from 12:30pm to 2:30pm. I honestly felt this workshop would be a waste of my time and I just needed to fill in my requirement for community-global awareness. I just wanted to attend the workshop and get it over with. However, I was wrong. This was by far the most interesting workshop I’ve attended at Baruch. I learned a great deal from this workshop. The keynote speaker for this workshop was a former councilman named, Alfonso Quiroz, who is currently gay. He talked to us about how he went about running for councilman and informing the public that he was gay. He told us that he has been through many hardships but he has not regretted that fact that he has opened up to the public regarding his sexuality. Not only was he a very good speaker, but he nurtured the audience by giving them hope. He has achieved so many things in his past such as interning in the White House or working in Al Gore’s campaign in the 2001 Presidential Election. However, he was only an C student throughout high school. What made him the person is he now was the determination and desire to do better than anyone else around him. I hope that you guys can plan to attend this workshop if they offer it to you guys in the future.