Last Wednesday (Nov. 4) me and couple colleagues went to check out a small workshop located inside the Office of Academic Advisement. Once we settled down, three female peer advisors greeted us and introduced themselves, and made us do the same but with an icebreaker game. Icebreaker game, I must admit, was pretty clever. We had to use three words from a provided list and connect them while it applies to us.
Throughout the workshop, we were taught about many of the resources available to us and a little background about various tier I courses that would help guide us a little in our future classes and registration. They described to us what these courses did for them and how it would help us academically and personally while fulfilling graduation requirements.
Overall I thought this workshop was decent, but not quite what I was expecting as to what the title of the workshop was saying. I thought this workshop would give us strategies in connection to the top through the power of communication but, it seemed more like a little guideline to tier I classes as well as the subject of communications. Therefore, I did not find this workshop too useful but I did get to hear about Degree works as well as a recall of other resources such as the benefits of Team Baruch, a personal test for undecided majors from the STARR Career Developement Center, and so forth. I guess in a way this workshop did pay off at the end.