Section BUW1A

This was my first seminar. The workshop was veyr crowded and was held in a very small room. There were many freshmans who had no idea what was going on. I learned about my business major options in Baruch. I learned about the tiers and what is best for me to take to reach my goal of becoming an accountant. It was very nice of them to feed us and I thank them for trying to teach so many students. This seminar was very informative and useful for my education at Baruch. I know how to stay on track with my studies.

This workshop taught me that I can choose to do anything I am interested in, in Baruch. I learned that i can make my own major and study what I want to study. I can combine and create majors to help myself become more marketable in the business field. If I create my own major i learned that companies look at me as creative and bold. You can create a major by writting an essay on it then you have to get it approved by the department. This seminar was very informative and interesting.

This workshop was a good experience because it was more of a private seminar. In the workshop, we discussed the problems that might result in conflict in the Baruch community. The class was very engaged in the discussion and we created a list about the problems and how to prevent and avoid conflict. This taught me to be more passive and how to approach my issues with other people. The adviser explained that if we have a problem with the Baruch community we should approach it calmly and carefully so the other person will take the defensive position.

The club fair a decent experience. Baruch has a lot of clubs I am interested in but when I got there, they did not intrigue me anymore. The whole thing felt a bit chaotic. They members were not very informative in their clubs and they were very unorganized. They could not seem to focus on the questions students ask them. I am interested in joining clubs next semester and wish this was a better experience.

The tour was very informative. Jahn taught us about the library and where everything is. He told us about the printing room and where we can borrow laptops. This is very useful because I can print my work faster instead of waiting on line.  I was amazed that we could borrow laptops from the school. He also told us where to borrow books, calculators and textbooks. He showed us the quiet room where everyone sleeps and reads.

My history professor Ms. Fernandez told the class to attend a workshop about Obama and his change in America. The workshop was informative and made me realize a lot about race and ethnicity. I learned how latinos are becoming a majority and that certain ethnic groups favor a specific area. Living in New York City, I thought there were a lot of asians in america but I was wrong. There are barely any asians in America compared to the other groups. During the presentation, a student from Baruch College spoke about how people are so comfortable in their own ethnic groups and that we all should spread our culture and mix with others.

Now, though Baruch seems to stress attendance to workshops outside our own comfort zones, I didn’t think it’d mean actually finding excuses to fill one of the categories because there weren’t many workshops, but that’s what happened with the global awareness one!

I had actually planned on doing the Heart walk the week previous to this one, but I only remembered it a day in advance, so I opted instead to do the diabetes walk because: for one, a good cause is a good cause, no matter what. Two, it’d fulfill the workshop requirements, and three, it was a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge (+ surrounding areas) and back, which is usually nice.

The walk itself wasn’t anything to really write home about, and I went with two friends and we were just enjoying the scenery. Some of the volunteers looked bored out of their minds, while others seemed to be making up for it with their enthusiasm. Luckily the weather was almost perfect, except for the slight chill about the air. I can’t say I had the same enthusiasm as some of the others, simply because it was a cause I couldn’t relate to. I did feel bad for leaving such a minimal donation though (only $5) but I guess I lack the compassion to donate to a charity with lots of pictures, vs a single poor beggar who’s crippled walking about the streets

Yep, my blogs are long overdue, but that’s okay, because I took good care to remember what happened

Well for one, the library tour execution was sloppy at best, with dates and time being changed around and they didn’t quite match up. Even then, there was quite a bit of a delay, because some people were late (and it wasn’t a very nice day outside either), but eventually, we all got settled in and we walked into the library.

It certainly wasn’t my first time in the library, and many of the things that jahn introduced us to I pretty much knew about, or were easily found by way of the various signs throughout the library. We never did move past the 2nd floor printing rooms though, so in a sense we didn’t actually “explore” the library as we should have. That, in my opinion was a good thing, since it meant less time wasted.

Well actually, I did learn about the study rooms, if we needed it, which sounds like a good idea and definitely useful

Today I went to go watch the movie Capitalism: A Love Story.

Today was also the last day to go see this movie in the theaters.

It’s a documentary teaching us about what capitalism means and how its effecting society. I thought it would be boring since its all factual and economics but actually it was a pretty funny and moving film about how capitalism is adopting the survival of the fittest theory in business. It strongly emphasized that in capitalism one man’s success is at the cost of many poor workers and the survival of the fittest theory is leaving many to die. Is that what it means to be an American? Free with democracy but not free by the economic system? It talks about how the economic system is running democracy with bribery and how we need to take action. I don’t want to spoil the film for anyone.

I wasn’t attracted by the title but the online reviews did motivate me a little to go. After watching the film, I strongly suggest that a history teacher should show this film rather than something like Fog of War. >.>

I attended the Resume Writing workshop to fulfill my Career Exploration. The workshop was located in a small room on the 3rd floor of the NVC. I felt that the room was not well suited for the workshop. The instructor attempted to show us a powerpoint on her laptop but was unable to connect to the Baruch network (due to lack of wireless internet connection in the room).

The instructor reviewed the main points of a resume, i.e. name, objective, education, language, etc. I learned that it is important for you to put your GPA in your resume if you have a 3.0+ and if its lower that a 3.0, you omit the GPA. I also learned that it does not matter what jobs or internships you attended in high school because in college you are suppose to start fresh on your resume.

I also learned about the importance of a thank you letter, as covered in Freshmen Seminar. It is important to send a thank you letter to show your appreciation and in many cases, the thank you letter is the deal breaker for a position.