At the blood drive, they had people fill out a blue form which took me pretty long to fill out. Then there was a line to get your form reviewed. I could not donate blood because I took this shot a couple months prior. The conditions for donation are really specific, like if you’ve been out of the country less than half a year you can’t donate.
Community-Global Awareness: Blood drive
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Career Exploration: Create Your Own Major
The workshop has guest speakers who have done an ad hoc major, where you create and combine majors. The workshop talked about the requirements which include signatures, an essay, amount of credits, and courses. I think it is a very helpful workshop if for the people who are considering creating their own major. I think what I got out of the workshop is the experience of the guest speakers and what their idea of what is expected of you when you are applying for a job. I think the thing that I remember most from this workshop is that if people are going to create their own major, they should know how to sell it.
Side Note: The administrator for the workshop told everyone to leave if they were trying to get signatures for the workshop because she wasn’t going to sign them. Luckily she just said that to scare away the people who weren’t interested in the workshop and signed them in the end.
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Perspective on Immigration
On November 23, 2009, I attended a Global awareness workshop called the Perspective on Immigration in the 135 Building. In this workshop, the most attractive thing to me is the distinction of features among different generations of immigrants. Possessing different learning environment and background, the first generation of immigrants, generally, are more hard-working than the second generations of immigrants, since the first generation of immigrants need more money to support their families and start their new lives. Besides the characteristics of different generation of immigrants, the workshop also focuses on the motives that propel people immigrate to other countries. Different person has different reason for his or her immigration. Some immigrants immigrate to foreign countries because of money; some immigrants immigrate to foreign countries to possess freedom, while some immigrants immigrate to foreign countries to pursue a better life or a better life. Conclusively I think this workshop is useful in grabbing attention from the public. Knowing that the trend of illegal immigrants is getting more serious at current time, it is viable for students to know the justice and ambiguity behind the lesson of immigration.
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Impression Management
On November 24, 2009, I attended a career workshop about the impression management in the VC Building. Unlike other workshops that introduced incoming freshmen into the Baruch life, this workshop was designed to help freshmen to get prepare for their future careers. From this workshop, I’ve learned that a person’s first impression is extremely important, especially for people who work in a big company or a big firm. Their dress code represents the image of their company. More important, it demonstrates officers’ reverence toward their customers. Besides the importance of dress code, the communication skill also plays a dominant role in constructing a person’s image. It stimulates people’s interpersonal relationships. In addition to that, it is necessary for officers in presenting their projects to their partners or customers. Overall, I would like to recommend this workshop to all the Baruch freshmen. Not only the instructor of this workshop presented the lesson in an organized and coherent way, but also the information that provided by the workshop filed students’ horizons and expanded their view of their future careers.
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club fair
club fair was an interesting workshop for me because i had no idea that baruch had so many clubs and they have clubs to satisfy almost evry interest there are from leadeship, to sports or business related. i however hate to say that i’m not able to participate in any of these clubs since i have a full schedule of work and school.
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Career Planning: Job Fair Prep
Last week, I attended the career exploration workshop that was held in the multipurpose room. The two speakers presented us with a powerpoint that had key points and tips on the process prior to going to a job fair. They provided us with the dos and don’ts when meeting with the representative of the company. Also, they showed us the appropriate dress attire and an example of a “30 second elevator speech.” After the workshop, I felt well prepared and confident for any job fair that I will attend in the future.
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Community\ Global Awareness
Yesterday I went to a lecture series that was about Rob Smith’s book about mexican immigrants and how they grew up without their citizenship. He basically observed these students from they were young until they got older. He predicted that thesestudents would never make it but a majority of them did and were making about 360k a year. This lecture was very interesting because he had watch this kids grow and although society didnt expect alot from them, they pushed themselves to be better and changed that perception of them that everyone had.
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