Mediating Conflict&Resolution 10.29

Posted on November 1, 2009 by ychan

The workshop was okay.  It was mainly about how to solve any conflict a student would have in the school year.  There is a person you would go to, I don’t know how to spell it but it starts with an A, ambosh?, I don’t know, but that’s the person you would go to to make an appointment with to file your complaint. Whether it be a problem with a teacher or a grade, that person will help guide you by asking questions and subtly allowing YOU to solve the situation. The room was very packed and the speaker split us up into groups of fours to do some role playing.  My group’s situation was that a student received a C- for a class but she needs a passing grade in order to get into the Zicklin School so she went to the ambosh for help but in the end, the student and the teacher talked it out and found a way to solve the problem.  The workshop helped me understand that there are many ways to resolve a problem at hand, but that most importantly YOU have to take the first step in trying to solve it before going to someone else for help.

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Impression Management

Posted on October 30, 2009 by gkiladze

The career development center woorkshop was very interesting. They taught me about all the useful resources our school’s career center hs. We have a resume writing workshop nd  place where we cn have our resume’s reiewed. We cnn have ataped mock itnerview nd then watch it to see wht we have to work on firshand, The college also has excellent intern assistance which can help you get an internship that helps build valueable work experinece. In the workshop,we briefly covered proper etiquette at work, and how to prepare for an interview.Overall it ws a very informtive and i’m glad i went.

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Club Fair

Posted on October 30, 2009 by jchen1

The club fair was extremely crowded. There was loud music and there was dancing in  the back. There were also many poeple who would go up to you and just give you fliers. It was pretty hard to walk through since people were  gathered around many different booths so it was hard to take a look at some of them. I went up and down the booth lines a couple of times to at least try to look for a club that I might join but,  no luck. Although there were many interesting ones, I have yet to decide if that club is right for  me. Hopefully, the next time I decide to attend a club fair, I will join one.

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Ethics Workshop

Posted on October 30, 2009 by kconner

This workshop was a little strange, not gonna lie. The speaker was trying to be very enthusiastic to lighten us up and get us to participate, but everyone definitely just went because they had no choice. It wasn’t too bad…until she made us all get up. When we did, she gave us a situation and had us go on one side of the room if we agreed and another side if we disagreed with a person’s ethical choice. She would ask us, for example, if we saw a wallet with money on the ground, would we take it or ask around to see if it was anyone else’s. At that time of the day, everyone was tired and we didn’t feel like giving that much energy to such a thing, so most people stayed on one side the whole time, which defeated the purpose of the whole exercise. I didn’t learn much, but the lady made a solid effort to entertain us, which I can respect.

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Ethics workshop

Posted on October 30, 2009 by jchen1

I thought the ethics workshop was kinda fun. The professor gave us different situations where we would then get up and pick a side that we agree on. There was also an activity where we had to choose the people that we think should get to live and the people that we think we should leave on the boat. We had to also gives reasons for our choices. Since we are taking philosophy now, I think that this is a good workshop to attend because we hear other people’s views on certain matters and compare to our own.

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Club Fair

Posted on October 30, 2009 by kconner

When Latoya had told us about the Club Fair at first, I didn’t know what to expect. Would it be like the fair that was held outside on the day of convocation? I wasn’t sure, but wanted to go downstairs to find out. The lines were absolutely huge, but once I got in, it was definitely worth it. There were people everywhere! Booths and tables were set up for all of the clubs, and the all had fancy posters and good food and candy and drinks to reel new people (mostly freshmen) in. Some clubs even wore costumes! Music started planning after a while, and the step clubs did their things, and they were surrounded by clubs. I helped out with the USG table to try to get more members in, and we gave out ice cream, but it got really melty. I even saw Dennis helping out at his club’s table. I got a lot of pamphlets and papers that I didnt really want, but overall, I’m pretty glad I went. It passed the club hours by quickly.

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Workshop about using the internet for research purposes

Posted on October 30, 2009 by pwu

I thought this workshop was really simple and straight forward, the lecturer let us know the in and outs of researching with the web for example using google and maximizing its efficiency.  The lecturer taught us things like using quotations and changing the way you type in the search engine to help get more out of what we search on these particular engines.  The points he made were quite simple, he said that we should use words that have relevance to what we researching and words like the and a are not really necessary when it comes to typing it in.  He mentioned that there are millions of pages that show up on google when you type something in thus emphasizing the importance of typing in the right combination of words in the search engine.   He expressed these points by actually typing in google.com on the overhead projector and looking up random topics as examples.  I thought that this workshop was informative and i will take what i learned with me anytime i research something for school.

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Club Fair

Posted on October 30, 2009 by ocondoluci

The club fair was a really nice experience.  I did not stay the whole time but it was alot of fun as well as very informative.  I visited alot of the booths and signed up for one club.  I enjoyed the music and watching the students dance and interact with eachother.  It was a fun and comforting experience.  Being that Baruch does not have a campus where people live and interact in the typical “college life” it is nice to see that students have adapted to this type of college experience and make the best of it.  Some people were dressed in fun cloithes and carrying signs… it was really interesting and fun.  I enjoyed myself and think it is a great way to get us involved.

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Using and evaluating the web for research – workshop

Posted on October 30, 2009 by ewu

This workshop was held in the library on Tuesday, October 20th at 12:30 PM.  The workshop was listed under “Academic Enrichment”, but I really didn’t go in expecting to be any more “rich” when I came out of it; it was only a short hour, one I could spare during my break after Art History class with enough time left for me to grab a snack, so that was a great (and possibly only) motivation to go.

But contrary to my initial impression, I actually came out (not really…I stayed in the library for another hour after) a bit more “enriched”; it turns out that Google-ing a couple of words, clicking the Wikipedia link and copying it into a bibliography isn’t the only way to do research.

But of course, it wasn’t exactly all smooth and fun.  The “presenter” wasn’t very articulate, which produced some pretty terrible (but mostly boring) effects when combined with an enormous library housing hundreds of people.  And it didn’t really help that I was standing the furthest away from the presentation.

But the things I did catch were actually quite interesting, a lot of which I did not know.  So an hour well spent.

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Club Fair (:

Posted on October 30, 2009 by wchaudhry

Hey guys,

I know this is overdue but then i’ve been waiting forever to express my feelings about the joyous Club Fair. Since the thought of blogging escaped my mind, I want to thank our awesome mentor, La-Toya, for reminding me again. Its still so vivid in my head because thats how amazing it was. Its persistent memory, as we learned in our Pscy class. I was swept away in the massive crowd of students during Club Fair, and I looked at many different clubs as I tried to squeeze my way through. I was surprised there were so many clubs! I did my best to evaluate each one and their free sample. I thought this club for Hispanic Women, had the best food sample. It was baked brownies with m&ms in them. It was like I was in Costo, samples everywhere, friendly smiles, and a welcoming staff! Overall, I enjoyed Club Fair,  and I still cant decide what awesome clubs to join. Any suggestions?

Waqas Chaudhry

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