double up – career exploration JP Morgan Investment Banking

Posted on December 10, 2009 by dchin

It was a great event, I touched base with people I had met at the last event. Definitely impressed alot of them there, showed them that I had grown and had been preparing myself to apply for an internship. I learned alot, got into detail with the specific areas of investment banking with each individual. Networking has become easier for me, I guess it is that practice helps alot. I had grown out of the common questions like “What is the style at JP Morgan?” to questions that shows them I know what I’m talking about like “Does M&A consist of my hours than CSAS side of IB?” Of course, it really tested me and helped me develop a base for people I can reach out to in the future if I need any help. The people at JP Morgan are just really helpful and love to help you grow.

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Community Global Awareness – Ethics

Posted on December 10, 2009 by cli

A lot of topics were addressed that questioned our morale in a workplace. (We usually discuss these in philosophy class anyway) I actually had something similar to this back in high school. Some of the same questions were asked.

-Would you accept personal gifts if it meant compromising your career?

-Would you blow the whistle on a co-worker taking money from the company to spend on personal items?

We were divided into group to discuss our opinions on these issues.
Many students there had some strong opinions and weren’t afraid to voice them. It was a good debate.

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Stress and Anxiety Reduction

Posted on December 10, 2009 by xtang

This workshop was very helpful, because when I went to it, during that time I WAS VERY STRESSED! and it helped me. It was very similar to psychology, we had to do the same exercise we did in psychology. Where we would close our eyes and we had to feel and our movements from head to toe and pay attention to our breathing and everything around us and everything that was going on inside of us. It felt very peaceful and quiet. However there was something different that was done at this workshop that we never did in psychology. It involved using our muscles and helping us relax our muscles. Ive never been a very..”relaxed” person, whenever someone massages me, they always say Im very tense so this exercise sort of helped a bit.

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Career Exploration – JP Morgan

Posted on December 10, 2009 by cli

I felt really lost when I attended this. The majority of the students in the room ere either seniors or juniors; there were only 5 or 6 freshmen at most. A couple of people spoke about working at JP Morgan and answered the most popular questions ranging from ‘How is your social life?’ to ‘How is your typical day of work like?’ After the speakers finished talking about their jobs, the students were allowed to go around the room and network. I met some analysts and they all agree that its grueling work. It requires long hours and a lot of hard work. (But i already knew that) In any case, I was more interested in how they got their job and how their social life was. For the people I talked to they either switched from another company or interned at JP Morgan. As for their social lives, everyone seemed to pause before answering. Everyone told me that they still have friends and hang out with them from time to time. Work seemed to be their top priority. I wish them all good luck. And i hope everyone finds a nice person to marry before they reach middle age.

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Lets talk ethics

Posted on December 10, 2009 by xtang

When I first heard about this workshop, I thought it would be exactly like Philosophy class, which I hate! I thought it would just be stubborn people arguing non-stop about whatever, however the topics covered in this workshop were much more interesting. It really made me think about a lot things and allow myself to put myself in certain situations that I’ve never even thought about. Also different from Philosophy class we got to move around when a new topic was being discussed, we got to pick sides, we didn’t just sit in our seats and shout whatever we wanted to say. There was a clear line between the views of who is on what side.  This was a fun workshop.

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Arts at Baruch – Mercedes Matter, a retrospective

Posted on December 10, 2009 by cli

This was a really short workshop, but I had to wait in line for a really long time to get inside the gallery. Once inside, there was a tour of the entire gallery. The woman leading the tour only discussed the ‘popular’ pieces and gave an analysis of her own. The paintings made no sense to me. I’m not an arts kind of person, and I don’t like to analyze art; sometimes a painter just paints. When we try to break down every single part of the painting, “it loses its soul”. In any case, Mercedes had some decent paintings

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Gallery Tour

Posted on December 10, 2009 by xtang

The gallery tour was okay. There were a lot of people and waiting to get in was a pain. I’ve never been a fan of walking around and looking at pieces of artwork because most of the time its because I was forced. But this gallery was quite good. Everything was shown to us in a chronological order, like the development of her life. and as her life changed her pieces of work changed with her as well. It was pretty interesting. At first we had to walk around with a tour guide but in the end we were allowed to walk around and explore on our own, which was good but sometimes I rather prefer the guide tour, it just makes things easier. Overall it was pretty good!

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Personal Enrichment Workshop – Basic Interviewing Techniques

Posted on December 10, 2009 by cli

I attended this workshop on Monday, and Rona Gilbert was leading it. Basically she talked about the importance of interview skills and little things we could do to improve our chances of getting the job. Some of the things she said were to HAND DELIVER a ‘Thank You’ card, know the company and know important facts and related current events and have a pitch that takes up no more than 40 seconds. She worked with citigroup for the majority of her life; she was in sales and trade. She was pretty helpful, but some of the things she said were common sense. I’m pretty sure i learned at least one thing from her; I forgot what though.

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Basic Interviewing Skills – Career Exploration

Posted on December 9, 2009 by ewu

I attended the Basic Interviewing Skills workshop on November 1st to fulfill my Career Planning workshop criteria.

The workshop was well organized and registration and entry was simple.

The presenter was clear and articulate, and her sharing of real-life experiences were quite helpful.

A lot of the information I already knew by common sense, but it is nice to have it be reassured.

I did learn quite a bit on the requirements of companies.

But the part I found particularly helpful was when she shared addresses to databases on basic company information.

The workshop was supposed to be an hour and a half long, but the information was presented clearly and concisely, and the crowd was small, so the “question and answer” session was short, so the workshop ended half an hour early.

Time well spent.

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S.A.C.C. Center

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Caroline Albanese

Today for my last workshop me and two of my friends went to the S.A.C.C. center in hopes of being able to attend a walk in meeting and having our last workshop signed and over with. We ended up having to wait three hours for our tutor to come due to the acclimate weather but in the meantime the students working were very attentive, and one even came over to us and helped me edit my English paper. When the tutor did arrive she really understood her subject and matter. Even though it was a bit stressful, I’m really happy I went and look forward to using the S.A.C.C. center again.

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