STARR workshop

Posted on November 5, 2009 by lc102015

On November 3rd I attended a workshop held by the STARR Career Development Center at Baruch. For this particular workshop I was required to register online. When registering the site labeled this workshop as “Small Talk.” However, when I walked into the room I was pleasantly surprised that it was a “Choosing A Major and Career” workshop. The presentation was very interesting and helped me get closer to deciding on a major.

I learned about a major that I hadn’t heard of before called the Management of Musical Enterprises. I’m fascinated with the world of music and I was excited to learn about this major. I also learned about personality types and what jobs may suit my personality. I am still undecided as to what to major in but I’m one step closer than I was before. I’m going to be making important decisions that affect my future soon and I hope to gain access to the right path through my adventures at Baruch.

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Student Service Fair – Disabled Student section

Posted on November 4, 2009 by gw102123

I got another signature from the diabled section of student service fair. There are speeches about disabled students. If there is any relatives who need that kind of service, it would be very helpful. But it also provides information how to provide assistance to disabled students. The teachers there are very nice and kind, but since this topic is not very interesting and popular, they have to use other ways to attract students. So they start to sign the book in order to attract more student (since most sutdents are perfectly healthy), so they can spread out their ideas and try to invite people to help more about disabled student. I also have a friend who knows a disabled student in our school, she is very nice and kind, who helps that student a lot. So for both the signature and my own interest, I listened to their speech and took the sheet from them. (They also provide little gifts to attract people) Well, their speech is kind of hard to listen to since everyone was just trying to ask random and unrelated questions in order to get the signature. But I got some information from some serious questions asked by other people and from the sheet I got. Although I may not use those kind of information for my entire life, it is good to keep it in mind for emergency. So I think it is really helpful to me and I may pursue some more on that topic.

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Regional CPA Career Fair

Posted on November 4, 2009 by slee2

On October 1st, I attended the Regional CPA Career Fair. It was interesting to see over 40 Acconting Firms, Clubs and organizations showcasing that day. Most firms seem really professional and the really have an interest in Baruch College. They gave out pamphlets and business cards to prospective students and gave a little information about their firms and what employees do at the firm. I managed to get a few business cards from the event and afterwards I networked with the university relations representative at Roger CPA and she gave me a position as a campus representative. Attending events/job fairs are really beneficial since we would never know who we will meet and the networks we can get from these events.

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KPL general meeting

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Sharon Luong

I rushed for Kappa Phi Lambda, so I attended a few general meetings where I learned more about the sorority. I met some sisters and they informed me and the other rushees about what the sorority was about. They are very into sisterhood and they do a lot of charity work. At one of the meetings, the sisters introduced Asians foods, such as desserts and dishes, from various Asian countries, such as Thailand and India. There were also samples of some of the foods, so that we could try them.

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Keys to Success

Posted on November 4, 2009 by slee2

On September 30th from 6-8 PM, I went to the Keys to Success workshop. It consisted of guest speakers that included Hamilton Lin, CFA, President & Founder of Wall Street Training, David Kovacs, who works in a family office that has an equity of $50+ Billion, and Elisabetta Bartoloni, Executive Recruiter for Westwood Partners. This workshop was extremely informative since these wall street professionals gave us tips and techniques that students need inorder to be competitive in the job market. Hamilton Lin provided resume tips, interview tips and what not to say during an interview. He provided invaluable networking skills to students and introduced students to wall street training. He gave to the attendees free wall street training courses, and a discounted weekend bootcamp session that will train us from M&A to Advanced Excel techniques without using a mouse. This workshop was extremely beneficial and informative and the speaker Hamilton Lin brought up humor, jokes and Dilbert Cartoons to keep the audience awake.

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Talking about classes (L.U.C.Y.)

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Sharon Luong

The speaker at this workshop explained what L.U.C.Y. explained via an online video, so it was a re-cap of what the video explained. She handed out another copy of the three tiers and the requirements to apply for the three different degrees and what is required to graduate with those degrees. She went over the core classes that every Baruch student must pass and have credit for in order to graduate. She also went over the classes that needed pre-requisites before being allowed to take them. This information is definitely helpful as I am trying to figure out what kind of schedule I want. The speaker also gave tips on how to manage and create the perfect schedule for oneself, such as actually drawing and mapping out a potential schedule. She also took time to look at the classes we wanted to apply for next semester and sort out what was possible and what was impossible. She also told us that registering for science-related classes may be difficult.

The speaker told one of the students there that she won’t give a signature because we don’t need it…

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NABE-National Association of Business Economics

Posted on November 4, 2009 by slee2

On October 29th, I attended the NABE workshop on club hours. This workshop is intended to show students at Baruch College the benefits of joining NABE. NABE stands for the National Association of Business Economics and there is going to be a Baruch Chapter that is going to be formed at Baruch College. Membership into NABE helps students receive greatly reduced prices for NABE’s meetings, conventions, skills workshops and career development offerings. Students will have have free access to all of the teleconferences offered by the NABE roundtable, and we have the opportunity to follow economics and network with them. Ben Bernake is a member of Nabe as well. The lecture was given out by professor Jain who is a finance and economics professor. She is apart of NABE and encourages that students at Baruch College join the society for a membership fee of $30 due to its benefits.

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Academic Advisement

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Sharon Luong

I went to the Academic Advisement workshop. It was really crowded and very hard to get inside the room. There were so many people. I saw people with drinks and cookies and other refreshments, but could not make it to actually get some myself. There was no sign-in sheet, nor did the speaker offer to sign books; not to my knowledge at least. I don’t know why the planner for this workshop would do this, knowing that there would so many freshmen trying to get their workshops done and books signed. The workshop taught me more about the Center for Academic Advisement and allowed me to become a little more familiar with where the room is. I also met a lot of people at the workshop.

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Bearcat the other google

Posted on November 4, 2009 by slee2

Today on November 4th at 1:30 was the Bearcat the other google workshop. It was really interesting to see the Baruch College search engine Bearcat that was an alternative to google. She showed us how to use the search database using key terms and using and or a plus to find articles that contain both of those words on the title.
It was interesting to see that there Baruch offers this type of search engine and you can find virtually any article, whether it be a newspaper article or a scholarly paper. She also introduced us to refworks where when we find a journal article or any article that we like, we can take the citation from the articles and put it into our personalized database that only we can access and we can have access to Refworks until we graduate.

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Academic Advisement

Posted on November 4, 2009 by slee2

For one of our FRO classes, we were suppose to receive a lecture from a person from academic advisement. It is intended to show us the requirements we needed to graduate and the requirements we needed to enter the 3 schools at Baruch College. It was really helpful and a refresher for us since most of us do not know the requirements or forgot the requirements to enter the 3 respective schools. The lecture consisted of what courses we could take, what classes we need to take and how to register for classes. The sheet she gave us with the Tier requirements were extremely helpful
Upon finishing her lecture, we made a line and we showed her the list of classes we planned to take next semester and if we me requirements. It was really informative and worth the time.

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