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When I first stepped foot in the museum, I thought to myself “I’m juat going to get my ticket then dash out the door. When I went in though the ticketing person said I’m not going to give any of you tickets unless you actually stay because everyone elese just got their tickets and left immediately. I honestly was going to do it anyway, but no on else would do it with me, so I decided to stay for just afew minutes.

I was actually happy I stayed. I thought the museum would be a bunch of modern art paintings that looked like somebody finished in ten minutes, and that frankly, I could also do. I was surprised though to see so much eastern art. Although most of them focused on Buddhism the art is very similar to some of the statues in the hindu culture, probably because buddhism came from India. I have seen so many statues like those before, and it’s weird because I have never considered them art and didn’t realize that other people did. The hindu temple that I used to go to has many statues like that, and also my home, except they are less extravagent.  I was glad that I stayed, because I realized I would have missed out on a great experience.

We finally got to meet Charles N Li at this workshop. It was an honor to meet the man who wrote the Bitter Sea, the book that was a major part of our first semester and transition from high school to college. Although I didn’t stay very long because of other responsibilities, I enjoyed listen him talk about reality and identity, and his struggles and the changes he had to make in his life, which was a very emotional story, one that I felt that everyone in the audience could relate to in some way, as we all have had some struggles through our life and had to change to overcome them, although our problems were not to the degree of his.

Luckily for me, I had already been to one of these career advisement workshops before, so I knew pretty much everything that was being said in the workshop about how to dress, the types of questions interviewers would ask, and etiquette before being interviewed, during, and after. The workshop I went to actually wasn’t a workshop, it was more like a lecture, and it was from my dad. He taught me all that I needed so that during my interview, at which became my first job at Winthrop University Hospital, I was able to answer the questions confidently.

One thing I took away from this workshop though, was learning of the STARR Career Development Center. Now I know where to look to find internships and jobs that can build my resume and help my references for when I search for a full time job in the future

When I am usually asked this question I automatically associate myself with race and religion. I say i am an Hindu of Indian Guyanese descent.  I also like to throw in that I am 6″5 and some of my likes and interests, which include shooting pool, playing cards and dominoes, and basketball used to be one of them until I tore my ACL my junior year of high school in a game. Who I really am though is much different, especially depending on the setting. At home and with my family and close friends I act much more wildly and am somewhat of a charloton. As my grandmother says I laugh very heftily and make too much noise. In school though with people I am not that familiar with I am shy and reserved. I still talk but I am much more calm and seem alot more nice and pleasant than I really am. I am not saying that I am not a nice and pleasant person at home, but at school that’s what people define me as. My top three concerns at baruch right now are obviously grades, my organization and management of my life and also fitting in and getting to know some people. Grades are obviously my biggest concern. In high school I was a big slacker and thought of every situation and every excuse to not do work. Once for some reason my teacher thought that I was really down about something in my life, because I wasn’t doing homework but still getting good grades, so I went along with it and made up stories of how being injured for basketball was really bothering me, when in reality i was just really lazy, but intelligent, which was why i still maintained good test grades. Here in college I realize I can’t do that and have to study a lot so my biggest concern is changing my bad habit of laziness, which will take some time. Organization and management of time are also a big concern for me here at Baruch. In high school I just threw all my papers in my bag, and didn’t even right down my homework, I would just remember it. Now if i do that my grade will be reflected in my organization skills and we are loaded with so much assignments, that if I don’t write it down I will forget. Getting to know people is also another problem for me here at Baruch. Since there are no dorms or parties and everyone just goes home after class it is hard to get to know people, which I have trouble doing anyway. I really don’t feel college as much of a big difference from high school except for the massive workload we get here compared to high school. This is probably because Baruch is a commuter school and everyone just goes home after class like in high school. There is no experience of what the media put into my head as the ideal college lifestyle, which is dorms, parties, and other fun things. Hopefully I think that my first year of college will make me a more disciplined student and that I won’t be as lazy anymore. I can sense that it is already working because in high school I had to write blogs for Spanish but I rarely did them, and they were only supposed to be a hundred words. Now I am writing close to a 600 word blog. I just hope that I can stay on track.