LC 22

Who am I? This is a question commonly asked by many but the answer is understood by few. It is hard to define who we are and what kind of person we are in words and in it’s entirety. But this is the question I will try to answer in my monologue.
First and formost; my name is Steven Ta, I am 18 and a freshman at CUNY Baruch. I like sushi, Mean Girls references, sleeping in and long hot showers in the morning. I find interest in different cultures and religions as well as taking to people with different experiences and backgrounds.
Since I started attending Baruch I have found new interests and people to share conversations with. One of which being Russian language and culture. Although I don’t intend on studying the language or culture heavily, I do find fun in learning bits of information here and there. I used to take Russian in high school but during that period I found it kind of annoying and difficult to learn. I still find it difficult but I have a new found interest in re language. It makes me wish I had put greater effort in learning the basics during my highschool years. If I did I’d have an easier te trying to pick up the language now.
Something else about me is that I think Ke$ha is an awesome singer. Many people think she just talks to a beat but she actually is a certifiable genius and has an amazing voice. On the topic of music I also like techno music.
I’ve only recently started listening to techno however I think it’s an awesome genre of music. It gives a lively energetic feel. Some of the artists I’ve been listening to are Basshunter, Scooter and Tiesto. I’m also looking for new songs and artists to listen to but not many people I know have an interest in techno music.
I see myself as a semi-Asian. I like and grew up with many Asian themes in my life but as I grew older I began to realize I had some interests and views that differed from the stereotypical “Asian” mindset. The main difference was that I did not particularly fond Asian girls attractive. This was odd. Almost all of the Asians I had known or spoken to had been madly into the “Asian girl” type.
I personally like white girls, mainly eastern European type girls. Most Asians I know consider this blasphemy, the equivalent of tretchery, which I find funny because the way I see it white girls surpass Asian girls in many ways.
In closing, I still don’t know entirely who I am, but that’s fine because I don’t think many people really know who they are. Trying to define oneself is a journey, not a destination. Many experiences in our lives shape who we are. The Baruch experience has helped me in trying to figure out who I am. The experiences and people I have met so far have helped me on that everlasting journy to define myself. This is who I am.

In this event we learned what we needed to graduate from the three schools of Baruch and it helped me make my schedule for the spring semester of 2011. It also gave me options for backup courses.

This workshop was the most helpful out of the three. It actually told me a few things that either we didn’t know already or suggested helpful classes to take. They told us all about the three graduate schools and the degrees they offer, as well as the number of credit requirements for each.

They also told us about which courses we should take next semester. This would have been helpful had my registration date not been so incredibly late. But hopefully next time registration comes around my registration date won’t be as late as it was this time and I may be able to take some classes with good professors or at good times.

This was a pretty decent workshop, I didn’t really have that many complaints about it. except of course that loud-mouthed peer mentor was there again and as luck would have it, I hadn’t slept the night before and had another bad headache. But what ever, this workshop was far better than the first.

The career advisement was moderately helpfu. Most of the things they told us were pretty much common sense, like not to dress like a skanky hoe during interviews or to send a thank you note afterwards. Some of the things they told us helped alittle, like to be confident in the interview and research the company you’re interviewing for beforehand so you can answer their questions better. Also that asking questions about their company was good too, but not about faux-pas things like starting salary and such.

This workshop, although mediocore, was much better than the first with Charles Li. But as a side note, the peer mentor in the front, on the left, was incredibly annoying and obnoxious. I felt that she put way more importance on herself and her authority than what was reasonable. Also I had an insane headache that day and her foghorn mouth going off every 5 minutes didn’t help in the least bit. I don’t mean to be mean but really, she took her authority way too far, and it really did ruin part of the experience for me. Too bad huh?

We went to the discussion panel, Adam, Nadya, and myself, even though no one was there to make sure we went. And I’m kind of glad we went. Charles and the rest of the panel told us their personal stories of feeling “foreign” in a place or like and outsider. Honestly it was a huge bore and the speakers had no idea of how to tell a story and keep their audience interested. They droned on and on about the things they went through while the majority of the audience, including myself, quickly lost interest and began to wish that we hadn’t gone.

We could see that while each member of the panel was talking the others were greatly bored and empathized with us because we had to listen to them drone on about the “hardships” they had to endure and how it made them the person they are today. We knew everyone’s story was more or less bullshit besides for Li’s who actually went through some intense hardship.

In the end, we all wished we hd skipped the lecture, it was truly a waste of time and even made us late for our next class, which our professor did not appreciate. This lecture/discusion panel was a failure in my opinion.

I found the Academic Advisement workshop quite helpful as for a long time I had been confused what classes to take. It was probably the most useful workshop out of all workshops we had. I also learnt about the requirements for each school as well as of any tests I’m obliged to take in the future. I strongly believe that this workshop is a great opportunity for every freshman to learn what Baruch College has to offer.

The Academic Advisement workshop was very helpful. I was able to figure out what classes I must take. I also figured out I must take the SimNet Exam before the end of this year. It was also stressing because it will be impossible for me to get the classes I would want to take. I will need more time to fulfill the tier requirements. But I don’t think it will get any worse in the future.

I think this was a very useful workshop and it helped me pick out my classes for the spring semester. It was probably the most useful workshop out of all of them especially for freshman. The woman was really nice and made everything extra clear. I found out all the class I need to take and which one I should take a little later on. Everything was straight to the point. I think it’s really good that there is such a workshop for freshman.

I thought that out of all the workshops, the academic advisement workshop was the most useful. It helped me prioritize and organize the classes so that I had a general idea of what classes to take next semester. It was also very useful because it told me the requirements for each school and for graduation. This way I know what grades and classes I need to graduate and to get into one of the three schools.

the academic advisement session very clearly and articulately fufilled its purpose. It would have definitely interested me if i hadn’t already gone through the baruch website a plethora of times checking out the requirements for each degree and so on. I wish it was held when i was wondering which courses to take and what i needed to graduate, rather than after i had all that figured out. Otherwise, greats session.

thanks

adam