Mercedes Matter

Posted on November 3, 2009 by michelleurs

I went to the Arts workshop in hopes of getting it over with really quickly and going out to buy food (again ;x) but that didn’t happen. Instead, there was an hour wait approximately. But like Yu said, our LC got some time to ‘bond’ but not really. It was mainly everyone in their usual groups with a few words exchanged in between. It got me to think that maybe we should have a more social event where everyone can just talk to everyone .. or maybe we’ll all just settle into our own groups again. Anyways, back to the tour. After an hour, we finally managed to get in and it ended  pretty fast because all the tour guide did was talk briefly about each of the few paintings. Though I think the painting were pretty interesting and showed me something I would’ve never realized if I looked at it myself, I didn’t like the tour guide telling us about them. I would rather prefer being able to look at them at my own pace and trying to decipher it my own way.I had originally planned to go to this workshop because I though it was more like a museum thing more than anything else. Didn’t expect that it to be like a tour and was very disappointed. *sad face*

Okay, this is too long. Time to go study. ~

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Arts at Baruch

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Yu

Today almost everyone in the learning community attended an art workshop in the administrative building.  The actual workshop started after almost an hour we got there.  During the hour, I talked with a bunch of people in my LC.  I thought it was pretty nice hanging out just for fun together.  I would like to use the term “LC bonding” to describe the experience.  Anyways… when the workshop finally started, I was pretty tired from standing for a whole hour.  The speaker of the workshop basically showed us a few paintings from some artist named Mercedes Matter.  I think everyone here, including Sophia, will agree with me that the workshop was pretty boring. I feel so jealous of my friends from other LC’s that just went up to Sophia, got their paper signed and left. :'(

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career exploration workshop

Posted on November 3, 2009 by hy101381

So, last thursday I went to this career exploration workshop held by the STARR center and it was somewhat interesting.  I learned some interesting facts about the business community and realized that business does not seem like it is for me.  The workshop made the business world seem so intimidating and strict as if life follows a set of rules, like the specific attire one is suppose to wear.  It was interesting to learn about the psychological facts that the speaker shared with the audience.  Yet, I still felt like the workshop was too long.

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Mercedes Matter

Posted on November 3, 2009 by hy101381

So, today I went to the Mishkin Art Gallery to fulfill my Arts at Baruch workshop requirement.  It was supposed to be from 1 pm to 2 pm but it ran a bit late.  The time I actually went into the gallery was around 2 pm and I finished at 2:30 pm.  So….I was late to my english class and so were the other 3/4 of the whole class…lol.  I think the workshops should really try harder to keep up with their posted time so that people won’t be late to class when attending.

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Basic Interviewing Techniques

Posted on November 3, 2009 by twei

This is the first workshop where I had to apply online. It was an interesting workshop. The lady who was the speaker had a good sense of humor and taught me a few things in interviewing techniques. She talked about the right attire to wear in an interview and questions to be ready for such as “tell me about yourself”. She briefly went over resume writing and taught us a technique of looking at someone in the eyebrow in order to not get nervous from when looking at their eyes. We also had to pretend to be the interviewer and interviewee with the person sitting next to us. However, this workshop was long and didn’t allow for lunch time when it was over.

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ING Marathon

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Helen

Well, since Michelle already blogged about what happened (and I agree with everything she said), I’ll just add the few photos from my cellphone.

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I admire all the people who ran that day. It was fun to watch, considering some even dressed up (hello post-Halloween day!) And I’m glad Michelle called me at 7AM in the morning just to get me up hahah. If not for that, I’d miss out on a lot.

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Career Exploration workshop

Posted on November 1, 2009 by tchiu

yea, i sorta forgot to blog about the career exploration workshop. The career exploration workshop that I went to is held in VC 1-107 on Thursday, October 22,2009. The title of the workshop is FRO Intership & Goal Setting Workshop. It was pretty interesting despite the rude people that were sitting near me who kept talking throughout the whole workshop. I learned about what kind of internships there are and many other things. There are paid, unpaid, credit internships. I also found out there’s a Diversity Job & Intership fair that is hosted on Friday, November 20th. From 12 Pm – 4 Pm at the VC gym. Anyone want to go there ? =D, I think its sorta gonna be like the club fair where intern hosts set up their table and take your resume and see if they accept you or not. You have to be in a suit for guys, don’t know about girls, probably have to be in a business attire.

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Successful Interview Techniques

Posted on November 1, 2009 by michelleurs

I thought I was early but when I got there, the entire place was already packed.

The information provided was pretty good, most of the things were not just common sense as I had thought before the workshop. There were some things I hadn’t about before the workshop and now that I know about them, I’ll probably use them in the future. Though  liked the speaker and her tips, I didn’t like how we all had to find a partner and do a self introduction. Most of the people in there were sitting near someone they knew and it was a lot more easier than if it were in front of a few professional interviewers who’s opinion might effect you a lot more.

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ING Marathon

Posted on November 1, 2009 by michelleurs

OH MY GOD! After all my typing and checking over the post, I accidentally clicked back and lost everything I wrote .. sucks to be me.

Well anyways, the marathon started off slow with just a few bikers here and there, most of which have some sort of physical disability. Whenever one of them came close to where we were standing, we started raining our cowbells and cheered like there was no tomorrow. It made me upset to see that no one was cheering on the regular folk who were probably working just as hard if not harder than those that were disabled in anyway. So Helen cheered them on as well.

After about an hour, the marathon finally started to heat up a bit, with lots of runners passing by. By then, there was a big crowd starting to gather at the sidewalks and the Steel and Brass Orchestra , which happen to be really good by the way, started playing their music. This music caused many of the people who were on the sidewalks to start dancing in their spot. I was trying to capture them dancing in picture but of course, all the pictures just made them look like they were walking or standing.

Most of the runners were dressed in the usual attire of shorts and a shirt but some of them decided they were either too special to not stand out or they thought it was still Halloween. Numerous men in skirts and tutus, clowns and jesters of all colors and sizes, and people of all nations ran in the marathon today. It was more than just running to these people, it was a time to show off their personalities/countries to the world – or the people who were cheering them on at the least.

It was amusing to see that not only did the gathering crowd bring cameras with them, the runner did as well. Many of them were recording while they were running by us and one runner even stopped to take a picture of Helen, the sign she made and me. It was a pretty fun experience.

So today not only did we get to experience a group of strangers and their enthusiasm toward more strangers and their success in this marathon, we got to hear a live orchestra (without paying!) and scream our heads off in the freezing cold. Also, in exchange for our volunteering our time we got a shirt and a cowbell each. There were also some pretty okay pictures that I managed to take while cheering them on and though they’re not the best quality (does anyone want to donate to the Help Michelle Get A Digital SLR fund?), they’re the best i got and well, I’m just glad I managed to get something before my batteries decided to give up on me.

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Interviewing Techniques

Posted on October 31, 2009 by sbian

So after not blogging for a long time….

The workshop was pretty interesting, they had useful information such as some tips and tricks to get over anxiety or some hard interviewing questions. The workshop itself was handles pretty well, compared with the first workshop that all the freshmens went to. There was still a large number of people, but they had people sign in by rows which was a quick and efficient process. They also gave the option of further pursuing more interview strategies such as setting up a mock interview and being critiqued on it. However the workshop took longer than I thought and since I had to meet with a professor I was getting a little irked that they kept us for so long.

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