On November 10, I took part in the Stress and Anxiety Reduction personal enrichment workshop. Most of the workshop consisted of practicing various meditation techniques in order to relieve stress. The main goal of this workshop was to help students attain a sense of mindfulness. Mindfulness is the awareness of one’s surroundings in the present moment. Overall, I felt that the workshop taught students a successful way to to relax and cope with stress. However, I did not think the environment of the room was proper for meditating. The bright lights and uncomfortable chairs did not promote a soothing environment at all.
Stress and Anxiety Reduction
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Stress and Anxiety Reduction
Stress is an all to familiar territory for most college students but dealing with stress in a healthy way can be far from familiar. The stress and anxiety reduction workshop introduced students to healthy and productive ways to deal with stress. I found that the topics they discussed, such as muscle relaxation, mindfulness, and assertive training, were effective yet informative. The muscle relaxation techniques were my favorite because it taught me how to relax my body and assauge my stressful feelings. This workshop is probably the most interesting one i’ve been to.
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Internship and Goal Setting
I really liked this workshop. I found it very helpful and informative. The speaker, Theresa Conway, was very confident in herself and didn’t bored me. I love the book they gave us in the beginning. It was filled with the stuff I needed. It was filled with how to write a resumé, a cover letter, and more. It had the questions you should be prepare for before an interview. It stated what you should wear for an interview. It had a lot more stuff. It did kind of scared me when Ms. Conway started talking about how important GPA is. That was the only thing I didn’t like, she made me feel like I was going to fail life if I didn’t get a 3.5. I learned alot about internships and I know that this workshop helped me for my future.
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Annual Student Services Fair 20-09!
The student services fair was another workshop chocked full of important information meant make the lives of freshman like us much easier.
Personally I felt the workshop did do a great job in informing students of the many different facilities Baruch has to offer, from the medical services to the sports teams, which allows students to be better aware of their possible options for different situations.
Some of the information I took back with me that stuck were the fact that we have a whole medical department here to cater to all of the students medical needs. Now this came as a surprise to me because I had spent my last 4 years in a high school that didn’t even have a school nurse let alone a whole entire medical department. Other things include information on sports teams which was cool. I was a little disappointed to find that we didn’t have a handball team but it’s all good considering I probably wouldn’t go see the games anyway.
I learned about the STARR career development center, where it is, and what it can do for me. I find it to be a very interesting resource, definitely something I will be putting to use later on, so something very important to have some background information on.
Other than that i learned about where i can go for tutoring, which also may come in handy very soon for my math class. On top of that i learned a lot of locations throughout the campus and what these locations mean and what they can do for me. All in all it was a very good and informative workshop I can see it helping hordes of freshman in the future.
—Rabab Sadman
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Career Planning Impression Management
This particular enrichment workshop was interesting in that it actually took place, lol just kidding.
Here we learned how it is important to be mindful of how we portray ourselves to other people and what types of advantages or disadvantages this may have for us. More importantly these understandings were made clear that they were especially important within a business environment or an interview for a job at a big business, and since we do go to business school, that is how it all remains relevant.
Now one major thing we learned is that someone who’s opinion matters may have a certain view or feelings about you before you guys even share eye contact let alone words. This makes it all the more important to be dressed accordingly, speak appropriately and carry yourself in an all around positive manner.
These first impressions can be the deciding factor in whether we are able to get a particular job or not, contributing to the reasons on why this particular workshop was so important. We learned more important skills that help us during interview and basic interaction while occupying the workspace. Basics include the need to dress appropriately, respect others, and acting appropriately.
All these skills are necessary for us to lead a successful career and for us to be able to get in and stay in the fields of our choice.
In my opinion the workshop was a bit longer than it needed to be to get the point across, and I felt that the speaker repeated somethings much more than once which added to the unnecessarily long length. Other than it was worth listening to gaining knowledge from, as well as getting that signature of course. 😉
–Rabab Sadman
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Sigma Alpha Dela – Oxford Debate
On October 22, 2009, I attended Sigma Alpha Delta’s debate on gay marriage. I think it was a great idea for a group in the school to hold such an event to discuss such a controversial topic. With the laws being passed and debated and questions being asked it was a brilliant idea and turned out to be a great debate. We heard a few speakers. I was a bit late and most of what I heard was against gay marriage. There was this one speaker; he was a priest, telling us the Catholic Church’s idea on gay marriage. He seemed a bit, feminine to me but he was against gay marriage because of the bible but he was very respectful towards the gay community. In fact, he claimed that the Catholic Church could/would accept it if the law accepted gay civil unions.
There was a question and answer portion in which people were able to get more information to base their vote on. Yes, at the end, everyone gave in a ballot for gay marriage or traditional marriage. It was a difficult decision because neither side convinced me completely but I voted. I look forward to their next event.
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Fresh Start-Academic Enrichment Workshop
Fresh Start was what everyone thought waas going to be our first enrichment workshop for our freshman seminar class. We all attended with an idea in our mind that we would go to gain some valueable information that will help guide us through the time we spend here at Baruch. We went with big expectations but sadly we were met with some disappointment. It seemed that not just “we” (LC11) were the ones who were in search of this valueable information, the majority of the Baruch freshman class were in the same search. There was an overcrowding problem which kept us from being able to get the information we were expecting, but in the end we were able to atleast get our necessary signature, which was nice. What’s more important? The signature or the information? We’ll have to ask next year’s freshman class to find out.
–Rabab Sadman
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Impression Management
I felt that the workshop was helpful, but mostly a mind refresher. The speaker was very interactive with the audience, which was a good thing, where as it helps clear any questions anyone had, along with giving him the ability to understand what other people thought. A lot of it were things that I think growing up we generally know, but don’t always apply. It was rather long and boring and there were some things that I felt didn’t have anything to do with impression management. Overall it was a good and informal session.
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Get a Fresh Start
In the Academic Enrichment workshop I had the opportunity to visit the Advisement Center located in the 5th floor. An important place for the students in Baruch, since it provides students with advice about the classes they need in order to get into the different schools in Baruch. In addition, the people in the Academic center help freshmen create their schedule for the second semester. The people are very helpful and take their time to explain things. That day there was so many students that the workshop didn’t last long.
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