Section BPR2B

On Tuesday, November 3, 2009, at around 1pm, I attended the Gallery Tour. This was located in the Sydney Mishkin Gallery on 22nd Street. This workshop was a tremendous advantage to me, being that the paintings had something to do with business. The tour guide explained to us that these kinds of works of art are usually discussed in the business world, and so it is an important benefit to learn about them. One thing I like most about these paintings was that Mercedes painted them in such an abstract form, which took me quite some time to analyze the image. From this I realized that almost everybody can have their own unique interpretation of these paintings. In conclusion, this tour was a wonderful experience, and I truly recommend it to anyone in the school because art is also a fundamental part of the business world.

On Thursday, October 22,2009, I attended this workshop, which was hosted by the STARR Career Development Center. The workshop took place in room NVC 1-107 from 12-30-2pm. This was probably the most essential workshop of them all. The speaker spoke to us about the different kinds of internships that are available, which I had never known. She explained that we would have to maintain a certain GPA in order to even be acceptable. Therefore, she recommended we apply for internships during our sophomore year. She even handed out internship manuals, which I think will turn out to be extremely useful when applying for an internship. Overall, I recommend this workshop to almost everyone, because interships will eventually lead to your dream job.

On Thursday, October 8, 2009, I attended the Managing Relationships workshop. This is a personal enrichment workshop which took place in room NVC 1-107 from 12-30-2pm. The title says it all on this one, the workshop literally showed us how to manage relationships. The proctor spoke about the various kinds of relationships one will face in life and how to deal with each one. We were then asked to walk around the room and introduce ourselves to about 5 new faces. This was, in my opinion, the most critical part of this workshop because it forced us to reach out of our typical comfort zones. This can be really helpful in life, especially in the business world. We also discussed how to manage our time with these different relationships and our busy life. In conclusion, this workshop was extremely valuable and I recommend it to everyone.

On October 10th I attended the Breast Cancer Walk in Manhattan. I called Jane that day to see where we were meeting; however, when I arrived there, no one was there except for me. I must have arrived as soon as the group left unfortunately. This walk was very important to me because my Mom had Breast Cancer and succeeded when I was in the sixth grade. Even though I was not with the group, I still participated in the walk and it was very rewarding and my parents were proud of me for doing that. It was also great to see how many people attended the walk, hundreds of people. When I was finished walking, I took the MTA Bus transportation back uptown in Manhattan, where I live, and I have to share what I found on the Bus! I found a ten dollar bill on the seat which made my day even more exciting! I will now try to attend every breast walk in Manhattan. It is also great to see all the food products such as Special K Cereal which says on the front of the box that a portion of the sales will go to breast cancer research and I bought two boxes with that ten dollar bill. When I found that ten dollar bill, I knew that it would be a great idea to use it to help the fight against breast cancer.

On November 3rd 2009 I attended the Sidney Mishkin art gallery and it happened to be very interesting. I liked how the tour guide began by asking who here is interested in majoring in Business. Most of the students raised their hands and she stated how Art is important in the Business World. I learned that a lot of business deals are made in Museums and art galleries and we may have to be able to speak about art in business meetings or dinners. Therefore we have to have a wide range of knowledge, not only in business, but also in the arts. Since the paintings were in chronological order, we saw what Mercedes painted at the age of twelve and it was incredible. She painted a detailed human being, I could not believe that such a young child could paint something like that. We took the tour of her paintings from when she was a child to adulthood. Each painting had immense detail. Everything was amazing except for one thing and it had nothing to do with the artwork. It was the temperature in the room that was unbearable; however, it was worth it to see such artwork and talent. I was glad to have had the opportunity to see it.