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So me and some of the other guys decided to go to this workshop in the seventh floor of the library building in the Newman office. They were giving out free food and drinks but i couldn’t get any due to me being a bit late. There was a woman on the stage talking who introduced a man and he introduced the main guest, the author of some book. I’ve noticed that there were two cameras always looking on stage and a good amount of audiences. The main star of the show was more interesting than expected, he had a good sense of humor even though I didn’t understand half of it. Also, he read some parts of poems or books, his own books that he wrote I’m assuming and they were pretty interesting besides one of them which just dragged on. After two hours which actually didn’t feel that long, he was done and he took questions which took another thirty minutes since he was very informative with his answers. However, we had trouble finding someone who was supposed to sign our agendas for participating in this event. In the end, I think we let some random lady sign our books and I’m not sure if she was really an organizer.

Well, the only thing i could say about this workshop is that it went way over the time. It started at 5:45 and ended somewhat around 7: 30. Joseph O’conner was a pretty cool author judging from the way he read lines from books he wrote himself or read. The concidence is that the book i took out for freshmen seminar that we have to go through the process of taking out a book from the library was one of the six books he wrote. It’s a pity that I didn’t read it but if I have time, I would definity would read it next time.

Yesterday, I went to the personal enrichment workshop on the 7th floor of the library building with Will, Vincent, Tony and other Tony.  When we got there we were glad to see there was free food.  There were mini sandwiches, cut up cheese and even a bar.  Unfortunately there was no alcohol (Just kidding, I dont drink).   So the thing finally started after 30 minutes after we got there.  Joseph O’Connor, the writer was actually pretty good.  He put me to sleep in a good way.  I was up really late the night before doing my English paper and his voice was pretty soothing.  If the chair was more comfortable, I would have actually fallen asleep.

P.S.: I really liked his somewhat of an accent.

Today I attended the 5:30 personal enrichment workshop with Tony, Tony, Vincent, and Yu.  At first it did not look like a workshop but apparently it was.  It reminded me of a press confrence.  Well in this workshop they introduced a writer who is a professor at Baruch, Joseph O’Conner.  Most of the time he spend reading from some of his books or from books he enjoyed.  over all it was pritty boring to listen to and very very long.  He did read a poem he wrote about New York City and Baruch that I enjoyed alot.  (i asked him to email it to me so i could reread it myself) It was a little less than 2 hours!  It was dark by the time we got let out and we had trouble finding out who was signing our planners.  Glad i got it over though.