Community-Global awareness – September 14, 2009 – 12:30pm
I thought this workshop was going to be very boring, straight from the beginning. The room was mostly filled with older people and the only students whom attended the event were my English class. As the discussion was handed to the people on the panel it became interesting and I was drawn into their views on diversity at Baruch College. The people on the panel had very interesting ideas to talk about. One topic that interested me the most was when one person on the panel started to talk about the different ethnicities and how people from the same ethnicity only mingle with each other. Instead of trying to make friends with people of other races they only stay within their own race. I agree with his point of view, even though this is not true with all the students. I have noticed that people of the same race only make friends with each other most of the time but there are other students at Baruch, like my friends and I, who interrelate with people of other races. Other discussions that were made by the panel were interesting as well, but this one really caught my attention. Overall I feel this was my favorite workshop because it made me learn and become interested on the diversity at Baruch College.