The Career Exploration workshop was definitely one of the most crowded and strange workshops of them all. The concept of it was nice – have booth stations concerning specific aspects/programs of Baruch all around a room with people who are experts in that specific category answering any questions you may have. However, I think the fact that we were given a small piece of paper at the entrance and told to get holes punched next to the type of booths we visited turned the workshop into a wild goose chase rather than an opportunity to get your questions answered. Even if you did have a legit question to ask, it was nearly impossible to get an answer seeing as how almost all of the booths were surrounded by rabid students shoving their little papers in administration’s faces instead of legitimately participating. On top of that, most of the administration realized that student’s were just asking them flimsy questions in order to get their holes punched, so they weren’t exactly giving the most detailed, effective answers to questions being asked. My friend Sasha and I literally had to hold on to each other to avoid getting lost in the mass of frenzy people.
I think this workshop should’ve been turned into a sort of question and answer thing where students could ask questions concerning a specific topic and the expert in that topic would answer the student’s question in 5 minutes or less. We would’ve all absorbed information a whole lot more effectively instead of wishing we had a hole puncher in our bags. Everyone just wanted to get their 10 holes punched and go as quickly as possible. Hopefully, the next sort of workshop isn’t as wild!