Mercedes Matter – Arts at Baruch

Posted on December 9, 2009 by ewu

I attended the “Mercedes Matter” art tour on December 1st.

I would have to say that it was everything I thought it was going to be.

The tour wasn’t necessarily boring, since I kept myself preoccupied by noting how typical the guide was; she was a vanilla art “interpretor”, or someone who looks at every single detail of a piece and tries to interpret it as some sort of movement or another.  I actually find this approach to art reproachable, but thats a whole other article.

The  subject was definitely boring, and  it didn’t really help that her voice was on one octave at best.

Also, the majority of the paintings were focused on fruits on top of tables.

Time not really well spent.  But at least it was short (15 minutes).

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Blood Drive – Community/Global Awareness

Posted on December 9, 2009 by ewu

On December 2nd, I went to the “Holiday Blood Drive” in VC 1-107 to fulfill my Community/Global awareness workshop credit.

It really wasn’t what I expected.

I thought it would be ten times more festive, and I would have my blood drawn while sitting on Santa’s lap, pampered with gifts by little elves. I guess not.

But other than destroying a kid’s holiday hopes, it was pretty smooth otherwise.

The donation took ten minutes, and it went by pretty fast since I was just listening to the assistants’ conversation on 50 cent’s new album. One of them kept thinking I was about to pass out from blood loss, though, but I was just tired from pulling an all-nighter.

After I was done, other than the usual cookies and juice, I also got a nice shirt. Its a good memento.

Also got an account with points that I can trade for prizes online. Unfortunately, the lowest “costing” prize is 400 points, and each donation is only worth 75. So another couple of pints to go before I can get a Fitted cap or a box of Legos. Joy.

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Toy Drive

Posted on December 9, 2009 by ychan

The Toy Drive was pretty much a failure.  It was a horrible sight seeing how people in school would not spare any change to give to the Toy Drive.  The Toy Drive was not well known throughout school or announced so not a lot of toys were being donated.  The Toy Drive occurred on the 2nd floor in the VC building.  The toys being donated were going to be children of poor families.  Overall, the Toy Drive received only a small amount of toys, but Robert Smith still thought the toys were still a good contribution for the cause itself.   I was disappointed seeing how many people actually cared to put a smile on a kid’s face.

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Piece of Advice

Posted on December 8, 2009 by ocondoluci

So this has nothing to do with a workshop I went to but there were some that we had to pre-register for.  Me and my friend registered for it the day before we had to go.  We went to the room and it was full  minutes before the workshop actually started.  I think that these workshops should be held in lecture halls so those who registered are guaranteed a seat.  It was an important one that many people needed but they held it in possibly the smalled classroom in Baruch.  I think it would make sense that since we were all registering they would have a sense of how many students were coming and change the classroom.  They need to be a little more organized.  Thanks 🙂

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Arts At Baruch and Academic Enrichment: Gallery Tour

Posted on December 8, 2009 by ocondoluci

I really really disliked this workshop.  It was probably the worst one I went to.  Extremely boring and pointless in my eyes.  I dreaded being there and unfortunately was forced to go twice because I needed my last workshop.  Honestly everyone went because they were obligated to get an Arts at Baruch workshop done.  The line was so long and they only took like 20 students at a time.  We learned about one painter and how she progressed throughout life :/ NOT FUN.  sorry to be harsh but they should try and get more interactive workshops especially for the arts.

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Personal Enrichment: Suicide Video

Posted on December 8, 2009 by ocondoluci

This workshop was pretty interesting but very sensitive.  We watched a video on people wh know someone who has commited suicide or who have tried to but failed and now are recovering.  After the video there was a discussion section in which there was a pretty heated argument.  It was a good workshop but should have been a little more controlled.  The man gave out pamphlets and centers to get help if we know someone or feel ourselves that we are suicidal.  I thought it was one of the better workshops I have participated in and encourage it to continue.  Just have more control over the discussions because you never know who ha been personally affected by this topic.

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JP Morgan Ib workshop

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Yash Sinha

I learned alot from JP Morgan coming to baruch and explaining about investment banking and all the sectors in that field. After hearing about each sector i realized i had a great aptitude for equities and thats what i would like to pursue as a future career. After learning about the environment of Jp Morgan and how the staff associate with each other the event was broken into a network event. All the staff of Jp spreaded around the room and we were able to talk to them and have any of our questions or concerns answered directly by someone in that specific field. I really enjoyed speaking to all JP morgan staff and in addition i made great networks that are willing to help me on my path as an investment banker.

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Mercedes Matters

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Yash Sinha

This was the longest line I had stood in for a workshop. I was excited to see the artwork because I had learned how to do a formal analysis on artworks so I couldn’t wait to try that technique. The tour was very boring because the tour guide had a monotonous voice throughout the tour. Therefore I lost my interest pretty fast and was just waiting for when it would be over. I wasn’t impressed one bit with this workshop.

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subotonik lab

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Yash Sinha

As freshman in baruch my career will deal alot with the stock market, therefore Dennis and I signed up for a workshop in the Subotonik Lab. Entering the room we were impressed with the live stock updates and the layout of the computers was very impressive. Then we had an instructor enter and he was intstructing us about how to operate these computers because they are different from regular computers. He showed us the software that was in the computer and how to check stocks from different exchanges around the world at the same time. Also he showed us how to calculate if purchasing a specific stock is a risky choice or not. I learned way too much in an hour and a half and my brain was hurting. But the atmosphere and the profound discussions that would erupt in the middle of the lectures were interesting and a great learning experience for me.

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Toy Drive

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Yash Sinha

Toy drive was supervised by Robert Smith and it was a great cause because all the collected toys were going to be donated to the poor children that wont have any gifts for this holiday. Therefore we took up a table at the lobby 2nd floor and began asking people if they had brought toys to donate. Apparently that was not too effectful because the toydrive wasnt too public and thus not many people knew that we were collecting toys today. Thats when Dennis and I came up with the idea of asking for any amount of money that people could donate. It was shocking to see how stingy people were with giving any sort of change but we did make $5 in change. Therefore the toy drive wasnt a total failure and Rob was pretty happy with our contributions.

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