Section LC15

The Academic Enrichment workshop that I attended was at the SACC center. It was  basically a 2 hour session with a tutor in 3 types of math courses. The one I took was Math 2003.  Other sessions were in higher types of math. The workshop overall was very good. The tutor, Gavin, was very nice and enthusiastic. He encouraged people to ask questions and wrote many problems on the board for us to practice. He also to a lot of problems from the final exam. In the end I was very pleased and actually learned something from the workshop. The tutoring, simply put, was sufficient, and the amount of people in the room was little too. So everyone had a chance to ask a question or participate.

The workshop I went to was called, “Resume Writing.” It was in room 3215, from 12:30 – 1:30. It started off late because they couldn’t get the projector on time, it also took forever for them to hook everything up. In the end, the projector didn’t even work. The presenter was also a little…moody? She was really strict and made the workshop no fun at all. However, something that surprised me was that all the jobs that I held during my years in high school, could not be put on my resume anymore. She said I had to take everything out and I felt so devastated! I had already gone to Resume Rush(which I think should count as a workshop!) but the lady I spoke with didn’t tell me I needed to do that. So I don’t know who believe. I probably won’t take it out. If I were to rate this workshop on a scale of 1-5, 5 being the best, I would give it a 2.5.

I want to start off by saying that they need more workshops! Roar! Also, I tried getting into one, but then they told me I couldn’t go in because it was full. I leave for 10 minutes and my friend tells me they let 20 people in. So not fair!

Well, they finally made a new one named, “Values, Pressure, & Choosing Majors.” Took place in room 3185 from 3 -4. We had to fill out a chart. It was about what the world associated us with, what we wanted, why we wanted to follow a certain career path. These topics and how it changes depending on our religion, sexual orientation, social class, etc. Then there was another chart that talked about our long term and short term goals in life. The charts were actually pretty confusing. I think they should probably find another way to format it. The presenters seemed really passionate about what they were talking about though. Overall I thought the workshop was okay.

The career workshop was well organized with a slide show presentation. It was somewhat helpful; we learned that personality affects which job is best for you and saw a hexagon chart with careers that best fit each personality type. The information wasn’t new, but I learned about the starr search website, which was helpful in my search for a part time job.

I attended this academic enrichment workshop on 9/22/09. Sorry im blogging so late, I was just too lazy. Well this was basically about Sonia Sotomayor and how she achieved success regardless of her environmental drawbacks, like financially and her environment was filled with crimes and drugs and all of that. She is the first hispanic judge and has pride in that. I liked this workshop because it was nice to see a women talking about how far she came and the struggles she went through. I’m very feminist and i liked this workshop.