Mike’s Adventure At the Club Fair

Posted on October 13, 2009 by mdinoto

OK, so maybe I’m three weeks late at posting about this, but at least I’m posting.  On September 24th, I went to the club fair held in the gym.  It was awfully crowded, but none the less I became aware that every fraternity is racially segregated (not that I’m the least bit interested in frats).  This intrigued me because I thought Baruch is really big on diversity, yet it brought me back to my high school days when everything was divided by race.  So I moved on and looked at all these clubs and none really sparked my interest.  I mean there was a lot of ethnic clubs and clubs for personal interest, but I realized I don’t have the time to dedicate towards being an active member of a club.  But I took in all the information available to me and took mental notes of my options at Baruch.  Although I left the gym without joining a club. I was able to feel apart of Baruch Student Life for my first time.

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Sick sick sick :(

Posted on October 13, 2009 by ae102522

What a horrid weekend, I lost my DSLR camera + p&s camera, lost a ton of money, and when I woke up today my cold seemed to have gotten a bajillion times worse.  Even better, my doctor’s office isn’t opened today.  So while I was sipping on my chicken noodle soup I decided i’d finally get this blog thing done.

I feel like posting multiple blogs within a time span of 30 minutes seems a bit haughty, so i’ll just write all of them on this.  If that’s a problem, please let me know (Analucia).

Our first workshop was a complete fail.  There were apparently way more kids that showed up than expected.  On a worse note, there was no food (i kid i kid.. actually maybe not).  Basically the outcome of the confusing ordeal was about a paragraph of speech and having not our planners signed (since we didn’t have them at the time), but our own pieces of papers (which I need to find by the way…).  I felt bad for the hosts of the event, they seemed overwhelmed but I feel like they were happy they had such a huge turnout; at least they know for future years that if their event counts as a Freshman Seminar  enrichment workshop during club hours they’ll need a bigger room.

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For Arts at Baruch, I attended the Gallery Tour: The Nature of Landscape/ The Nature of Photography.  It was a bit odd for me considering I’m really into Photography, I didn’t even know what it was gonna be about (I was just tagging along at first).  I still have the handouts we received that day, and definitely learned a lot including a few Photographer’s names I should check out.

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Managing Relationships was pretty cool since we were forced to introduce ourselves to new people, this was definitely one of the more “engaging” workshops.  I had to have 10 surveys for a club filled out the same day, and this workshop definitely helped me find those 10 people.

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The Blood Drive was like all of the other blood drives I’ve participated in.  Fill out long form, wait in line, get finger pricked for iron test, wait again, get blood sucked from the bod, and then be rewarded with a plentiful supply of cheez-its, apple juice, and water.  I don’t know why, but usually when I donate blood it takes me longer to fill up my bag than others.  Sometimes two people will be in and out while i’m still sitting there.  I don’t know if I have a weird aura that repels the nurses/doctors from checking on me or if it’s my body.  I shouldn’t be complaining though, things could be worse (ask Anthony about it, or read his blog).  I’ve had a similar (but not as bad) experience, where my arm started getting shooting pains and although I notified the staff they told me it was nothing and I should ignore it.  After a long period of time (and multiple people finishing before me when i started before them) a staff member realized blood wasn’t going into the bag anymore, so she decided to stab randomly in my arm until she seemed content.  Again, no blood was coming out.  The doctor came over and removed the needle completely and then reinserted it again, again to no avail.  After a few more “trial & error” attempts they got some blood flowing out, and I was finally done after another long amount of time.  When I was done, I felt faint and almost passed out, I felt like it was hard to breathe, so they sat me down on the side for a while.  I don’t know why blood donors all have these freaky stories but it’s ironic how we still always come back (I mean, the cause is definitely worth it).

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So those are my thoughts on the workshops I’ve been to, I’m gonna get another batch of chicken noodle soup and make some more honey lemon tea, then head to sleep.  I’ll see you guys tomorrow, regardless if I feel like crap still or not since we have that music test, and then i’ll see you guys on thursday as well since we have that anthro midterm and english draft due.  I hope massive amounts of sleep and NyQuil serve me good.

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workshop 2

Posted on October 10, 2009 by djadan

Title of Workshop – Building and Managing Relationships in College

Category of Workshop – Personal Enrichment

Date/Time of Workshop – Thursday October 8th from 12:45 – 1:40ish

Brief description & workshop goals – Well this workshop was, as you could have guessed from the title, about relationships. The speaker, a lady physiologist who is on maternity leave, talked about ‘4 very important relationships you will have to manage will in college’. They are: Family, Friends, Romantic, and Networking. In regards to family she said that now that we are in college problems might surface like boundaries and managing actually seeing your family and doing projects, hw, etc. On the topic of friends, she said that we should try to go out of our comfort zone and make friends at college instead of just sticking to old high school friends. Then in romantic, she said that we should strive to have healthy relationships and understand that breakups may occur. And finally with networking, she advised us to be friendly with our teachers as they will be the ones to provide us with recommendations for grad school and to sign up for linkedin, a website for professional networking.

Explain why you selected this particular workshop and how it took you outside of your comfort zone. If it did not take you outside your comfort zone explain why not – Honestly, I chose this workshop because it falls during club hours and I had nothing else to do. Usually I’m studying for a test or working on a project but this week I didn’t really have anything and since I haven’t been doing any workshops I figured might as well as get started right. Umm about the comfort zone: I don’t really think it took me out of my comfort zone. The lady didn’t ask me to walk across fire or eat like snake parts or anything of the sort so nothing was uncomfortable about it. I had a seat and talked to Roxanne and some other people around me which was pretty usual.

How did this workshop meet or fail your expectations? Would you recommend it to another student? Why or why not – I didn’t really have expectations so the workshop didn’t fail or meet anything. I kind of figured there was going to be speaker, some slides or note giving of some kind, and the typical ‘be involved’ speech. And that’s exactly what happened so yeah. I guess I would recommend it to another student. I mean it was an ok workshop. It wasn’t like some horrible, boring speech. It was just very routine. And plus me and Roxanne were hungry.

What do you feel you learned from the workshop experience? What surprised you about that? What was new that you could take away from this experience? Hmmmm from this workshop I learned that…… Mike Eng’s alter ego is Armando. See for every subtopic of the workshop (family, friends,…)  we had an exercise in which we would have to go talk to other people and tell them about our lives in connection to the subtopic. So for the friends part we had to meet new people and Mike came by and said ‘Hi, I’m Armando. You?’ So yeah that was quite interesting. Other than that like I said it was very routine.

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A few things…

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Analucia Castillo

First off, I got the following e-mail:

There have been increasing concerns with the manner in which freshmen are approaching the enrichment workshops.  Some of them seem primarily concerned with getting only their requirements filled, and express frustration and anger if they are refused a signature if they come in late, leave early or stay for just 10 minutes.

These enrichment workshops have been set up to challenge our students and to help them get out of their comfort zones.  The message conveyed to students needs to be very clear on this.  They have been given the autonomy to get to know the college in ways that we hope will keep them not only challenged, but also help them to develop some self management skills. 
 

Certainly, there have been some hiccups in the past few weeks.  But we are learning from this, and I am ask that we work together to challenge and develop our students to get the most out of their first year experience.Please stay for the ENTIRE Presentation. If there are too many Freshman, and you do not get a chance to get your passport signed, please blog about it and ONLY THEN will I sign it.

I want to also urge you to keep checking the blog calendar for last minute changes that might occur.  There are some changes for this week that are reflected on the calendar that you should definitely review.

 

  • Any one who is interested in History, please go to the History Club Meeting on Tuesday 13th. They are looking for officers as well. NVC 5-263.
  • STARR SPEAKER SERIES: 
    Wanna be on Top….of Your Career Game? 
    Attend this series of Starr Speaker workshops to learn from the pros, career coaches and industry experts how to POSITION your brand, SHARPENyour job search skills and COMPETE in the world of work.
    The Art & The Craft of the Interview
    Thursday, October 15th, 12:30PM – 2:30PM
    NVC 3-160

Guest Starr Speaker: Dorothy Doppstadt, President, Surge Partners Company Dorothy Doppstadt, the President of Surge Partners Company, teaches college students how to “surge ahead” and achieve in the professional world. Faculty and students have applauded her workshops as timely, informative and engaging. Her combination of corporate experience at ABC NEWS as an editor/writer and her ten years teaching experience as a writing and journalism professor at various universities and colleges in and around New York City are valuable assets for preparing students as they launch into an increasingly competitive work environment.

Professor Doppstadt has taught broadcast writing and production at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has won national news awards including: The Ohio State Award, The Front Page Award, The American Legion Fourth State Award and the National Health Journalism Award for original documentaries. She has developed and taught courses at Fordham University, including the journalism core curriculum, writing for print, radio, TV and screenwriting as well as Shakespeare in Film, along with advanced writing workshops. At Manhattan College and the College of Mount Saint Vincent she taught business writing, magazine writing and feature writing.

She has a Master of Fine Arts in writing from Columbia University, winning the Chris Kazan Memorial Award for screenwriting and the Laurel Entertainment Award.

 

A little information about it: Baruch College has launched a new internship program, one that will benefit both our students and Baruch College as a whole. Beginning this semester, the Bernard M. Baruch Presidential Leadership Program for Interns will provide a stipend of $5,000 each to 20 Baruch College students annually.

  • Also any future Accounting Students should apply for this competition. It is a  great way to see what Accounting is about from Pricewaterhouse Coopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers  xTREME  Tax Competition 2009

 It’s that time of the year, again!  Here is your chance to get great exposure to a major accounting firm.

 Participation in the PwC xTREME competition will give you unique insights into practical and ethical dilemmas surrounding accounting and tax decisions, as well as valuable professional skills in critical thinking, decision-making, teamwork, communication and presentation (and build your resume at the same time!)

 Teams of 5 students (2 sophomores, 1 junior, and 2 others including seniors or graduate students) work together to build a case on a business issue and to present their findings before a panel of PwC professionals.  

 You may form your own team or sign up individually and be assigned to a team!

 Last year over 170 students applied to participate and 80 students were selected to compete (so apply early!). Awards ranged from $1,000 for a winning team and iPods for the 2nd place, to 4GB flash drives for each participant.  

 To participate, please email [email protected] with your team’s or individual information including the following:

 1.    Your first and last name
2.    Student status (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, or 5th year MS program) 
3.    Major 
4.    Email address 
5.    GPA (optional) 

All the teams will meet with PwC on October 15thto go over the structure of the competition.  This meeting should take no longer than 1 1/2 hours and PwC will provide lunch or snacks depending on the time of the day.  The teams will have two weeks to prepare for the competition that will be held at Baruch College on October 30th.

 If you are interested you can find more information at www.pwc.com/xtreme

 Zeljko Sockovic

Ernst & Young Student Advisor

Stan Ross Department of Accountancy

Baruch College, One Baruch Way, B-12-225

New York, NY 10010

Phone: 646-312-3234

That’s mostly it for now. Please check your e-mails for the weekly annoucements of what is happening in CUNY as well as Baruch.

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Personal Enrichment Workshop: Building and Managing Relationships In College

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Roxanne Torres

 

Date: October 8, 2009

Time: 12:45-2:00PM

Location: VC – Multipurpose Room

 

            The Managing Relationships workshop aimed to focus on guiding students on how to handle the changes and hardships the relationship they have with their family, friends, and loved ones go through. The workshops aimed to provide students with advice on keeping these relationships strong and less stressful to handle. The workshop wants students to be able to learn how to balance the hectic life of college with social and love life.

            I selected this particular workshop, because I personally am having a difficult time balancing my relationships outside school. I have very, very close friends who are also bombarded with college work, and it doesn’t help the fact that they are away in another school or just simply unreachable. The friends that are near me and  are easily able to reach me tends to get disappointed when I don’t return their calls or when I cancel out on seeing them because of the work I must catch up on in school. So, these particular relationships are strained because of long distance and bad timing. My close-knit family also gets disappointed when I don’t join in the dinner table because of the work I’m bound to doing at the moment. I attended this workshop to learn a few guidelines in fixing these relationship and distance problem.

            The workshop did take me outside my comfort zone because the speaker asked the students to “mingle” and “socialize” by going up to a random student we don’t know. Each of us had to do it b going across the room and introducing our names and one little fact about us. This took me outside my comfort zone because I am particularly shy when it comes to meeting new people and introducing myself. But I got through it in the end as it turns out to be quite entertaining.

            His workshop met my expectations because the speaker did provided very good advice on how to manage relationships (hence the title), especially those that are strained by distance or college life. Therefore, I would definitely recommend this workshop to another student, even if he or she doesn’t have the same problems as I did, but to just learn guidelines about keeping a relationship strong.  

            I learned that it’s not entirely impossible to have a social life outside college during freshman year when most of us, students are adjusting to the work load and the new environment. That was certainly something I did not expect to be possible. I learned to fix those relationship problems with my family and close friends.

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Anthony’s Blood Drive Exp.

Posted on October 7, 2009 by adelillo

So yesterday*October 6th* Baruch held a blood drive in the all purpose room.  I went down there expecting the best because I have given blood plenty of times before, and this time felt like any other time.  I saw Ambrose down there..with his feathered and lethal hair..and i sat down and took the same survey of questions as the past 3 years.  Since I am “big” (according to the director of the blood drive), and i have a high iron count, i usually use the Alyx Machine.  It takes out your red blood cells, and pumps the white blood cells and plasma back into your body.  It takes out more than the normal amount of blood, and since they love my blood (-O) i figured what the heck why not.  So i sat down on the machine, like always, and figured it would be another pitch in my arm, 5 songs on my ipod, and i was done…but this time something went wrong.  The machine is all on one big timer.  The thingy that squeezes your arm to get your blood pressure *and yes i did say thingy* is on a timer with the needle that sucks the blood out of your arm, which is on a timer with the fluid that gets pumped back into your arm.  So the *thingy* kept squeezing my arm tighter and tighter, and it really started to hurt.  I told the lady and she insisted that it was normal to feel pain at first, but i knew that it wasnt supposed to hurt that bad.  Whatever, i dealt with the pain until i looked down and my whole arm turned purple.  Literally PURPLE.  I told the lady and she kinda giggled and said “your fine hon—Oh my god! Mike come here!!!” Mike is the director of the whole blood drive.  So what had happen was,  the machine kept squeezing my arm tighter and tighter, and blood kept getting sucked out of my arm until there was no blood left. WOOHOO! I had no feeling in my arm all day, according to a couple of guys, and i quote, “looked like shi*”. I wound up eating a “chex mix turtle bar” from mike and kinda felt better after that =).  I went on the train after and what do you know..i completely was out cold and had to be waken up by the conductor before he left. Well all in all, It was a GREAT expierence, and i am now scared to give blood again!

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A Couple of Things/ Long Post

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Analucia Castillo

Some of the websites I mentioned today:

https://dgw.baruch.cuny.edu/ (to figure out what requirements you may have to take, check out the pre-business like the one I showed you in class.)

http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bulletin/documents/ug_bulletin_2007_2010.pdf ( page 53)( you may follow the suggested schedules)

http://student.cuny.edu/cgi-bin/SectionMeeting/SectMeetCourses.pl?DB=ORACLE_A ( to start looking now for classes and get two or three possible schedules) I just noticed that this does not work. You will have to log in www.cuny.edu Log-in into the portal. Scroll down to the Headline: Student Applications. Under there you will find eSched (Course Schedule). Click on Baruch College and for Semester click on SPRING 2010.

http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/programs/undergrad/core.html (the core curriculum for all three schools!)

http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/programs/undergrad/degrees/entrance.html (entrance to Zicklin)

http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/undergraduate.htm (Weissman School requirements)

http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/spa/academics/undergraduateprograms/admissionrequirements.php 
(Public Affairs Requirements)

http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/ugradprograms/ ( check out the undergraduate programs for more info.)

I think that is it for now! Your class does not have academic advisement until the Second of November. I will give you more details when the date approaches sooner. If you have any questions, make an appointment with the Center for Academic Advisement and here is their contact information: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/advisement/contact.html . They are very busy around registration time so I suggest if you are confused in any way, they should be able to explain things more clearly.

UPDATE: Remember the letter that you got from the Center of Academic Advisement? Please follow the three steps. 

Step One:                Using your home or campus computer log on to http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/advisementsession/

                                    and review L.U.C.Y.’s on-line advisement session.

 

Step Two:               Complete the registration schedule (course selections) on the back of this letter.

 

Step Three:           Bring your completed registration schedule

(course selections) on the back of this letter, a pen and a highlighter to your in-class advisement session.

Step Two refers to this:

Spring 2010 – Registration Schedule

 

Step One:    List all AP/College Now credits

(including pending credits)

 

Course Credits
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

Step Two: List the courses you are taking Fall 2009.

 

Course Credits
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

Step Three:  List the courses you are eligible to take in Spring 2010. 

Highlight the courses that are a priority  and/or required

for the Spring 2010 Semester  (Ex: ENG 2150, MTH 2205)

 (In order to do this step, you must see what you want to take and check out your degree audit and see the course schedule and the course description to see if you may qualify for the class that you want to take in the Spring 2010.)

Course Credits
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 Step Three refers to bringing it with you on:

DAY DATE TIME SECTION ADVISOR Attendance ROOM
MONDAY 11/2/2009 2:55-4:10 LC05 Phillip Hogue 50 ppl 3-215
      LC06 Phillip Hogue    

 This is when we will have the in-class session on Academic Advisement.

Sorry that it is a long post, but this is important for registration. By the way, scroll to the right, so that you know what room you are in on that day.

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How this week went

Posted on October 2, 2009 by balebdy

I had two tests this week. Math and ecology. The math was towards the easy side and ecology was just too easy (although i made careless mistakes ugh). There were opportunities to go to some workshops this week but i decided to do some next week and focus on my tests instead. My Google Earth Project as well as my Essay for writing I was due on oct 1st so i’m glad i got those done in time. Ended my school week with a nice 1hr workout.

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Ron’s Experience at the Art Show

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Ronald Kavral

Happy LC 06

Don’t we look like a happy family? haha

Well that Art Show wasn’t as what I expected it it to be. It was rather small and I figured it would have been art by current students at Baruch. But I can’t lie, I was pretty impressed by the angles some of these photographers captured from as well as the images they wanted to express by cropping. I had a blast with my friends, and I feel like I wouldn’t of been able to fully get the experience if none of them were there.

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Happy October!

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Analucia Castillo

It’s only two days away from October. (I am not counting today.) How’d you feel September went so far? It seemed long at least to me. With the month of October comes midterms! Go to the SACC Center located on the 2nd floor behind the elevators. You would need to set up an appointment for a personal tutor.

With October coming along, it is Latino Heritage Month. It is a great way for those who are not of Spanish Heritage to get some free food as well as experience a culture that you do not know well particularly. I personally will attend some of these events including the Fashion Show. Here is the link for the calendar of events: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/studentaffairs/lhm/calendar.htm

With the Enrichment Workshops, there are a few going on this week such as:

 

Tues 29-Sep NVC 2-125 12:30:2pm SACC: General Study Tips. This would fulfill the Academic Enrichment.

Wed 30-Sep 3-210 12:50-2:05 Challenge your Values-Lets talk Ethics Community/ Global Awareness

Thurs 1-Oct 3-215 12:30-2:30 Managing Relationships in College This would fulfill your Personal Enrichment.

There are also some workshops sponsered by the STARR Career Development Center:

The Regional Accounting Fair, Oct 1 12:20pm-2:30pm 14-220NVC
A program designed for students to meet with recruiters from small to midsize accounting firms. This event is sponsored by Beta Alpha Psi & the SCDC and cosponsored by the Accounting Society, ALPFA, Ascend & NABA.

As well as a corporate presentation by Morgan Stanley Sept. 29 6:00pm-8:00pm 151 E. 25th Street, Room 750
Sign up on STARR Search
and Bank of NY Mellon Sept. 30 6:00pm-8:00pm NVC 1-107
Sign up on STARR Search

Internship of the Week:

 The T. Howard Foundation – Summer 2010 Paid Internships

  • ALL majors welcome to apply starting September 8, 2009!The T. Howard Foundation is a non-profit organization that partners with some of the largest companies in the world to provide paid full-time summer internships in the multimedia and entertainment industry to minority and female students.

    Our partners include companies such as AOL, Comcast, DIRECTV, Discovery, ESPN, HBO, Lifetime, Rainbow Media, Time Warner Cable, Turner Network Sales, Showtime and many more! These companies work with the T. Howard Foundation because they are committed to increasing ethnic and gender diversity in the multimedia and entertainment industry workforce.

    Qualifications:

    Foundation partner companies need students from ALL academic majors for various positions within their organizations. Our students are placed in a variety of departments including Accounting, Digital Media, Engineering, Finance, Government Affairs, IT, Marketing, Production, Public Relations, Sales and many others. There is no minimum GPA required to apply. Since 1995, the Foundation has placed almost 450 interns in full-time paid summer internships.

    Apply:

    For more information and to apply http://www.t-howard.org/index.html

I guess that’s it for now!

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