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The Academic Advisement workshop was very helpful in making me understand what classes I NEEDED to take and helped me know what courses or tests were required for certain classes that I intended to take. It was a perfect timing as well because it was the day before everyone started registering and it helped everyone in the workshop. I got to ask many questions and all were answered. I also visited the website used in the presentation, that same night to get more details on other courses as well. This was a very helpful workshop that helped me become more advised on the requirements for graduation and on the requirements for Zicklen School of Business. I also now will visit the advisement center more often to figure out the best ways to schedule my courses to better myself by graduating earlier and with better grades.

During the Career Exploration workshop, I was introduced to the STARR Career Development Center, which I’ve visited before and knew most of the details and points made during this workshop. I already had done and made my own resume before and it was of the similar format such as the Chronological Format. But I learned about the other format, the Functional Format, which seemed similar but was not. This format was different in the sense that you don’t list your experiences in the order of achievement or experience but instead you list the skills and tools (experience) that you have learned or have gained, and that you can still use in your future career. I was also introduced to the requirement to write a “thank you” letter after your interview with the recruiter, I’ve done these letters unconsciously after my interviews for college applications. But now their fixed habits to my routine in applying for a new job or position. I was also introduced to the “Personal Pitch”, and as stated by the worksheet given, “A Personal Pitch is a thirty second to two minute long infomercial about yourself. It should contain the most important and relevant information that you want the listener to know about you.” And to me the personal pitch was a must, something that I will added onto my future interviews as a way to sell my skills and expertise. I know that this information that I learned will be helpful and I will use the different services provided at the STARR Career Development Center, such as the mock interviews, résumé advice and career opportunities.

The panel at the Academic Enrichment workshop consisted four very diversely experienced individuals. These individuals were Charles N. Li the author of The Bitter Sea, Katrin Hansing a faculty member of Baruch College and a Associate Professor of Black and Hispanic Studies, Tashi Chodron a spokeswomen for the Tibetan Resettlement Project and finally Bruce Payne a director and teacher of programs in leadership and the arts at Duke University, respectively in the order of appearance. The panel discussion was conducted by having each panel from left to right introduce themselves and their stories, then the question and answer portion proceeded. The questions that were dealt with in this discussion were all related to the idea of identity and diversity, for example, all four panel members were of some short mixed origin including the moderator Stan Altman, a Greek Jew. The questions were interesting because they made me think about the friends that I had who were also of mixed decent and what they have to go through in their future and maybe what my kids may have to go through in a future where their identity is not clear. The workshop was what I expected because as I read the paper given out during Freshman Seminar, “What is an Enrichment Workshop?”, the description for the Academic Enrichment workshop fit what I saw during the discussion, the discussion of identity and this was what I expected as we in our freshman seminar class did the same, wrote about our identity.

Nikola Vulicevic
Freshmen Seminar
Monologue

I enjoy my times with my friends; I love playing volleyball; as I played for my school’s volleyball team and managed the school’s girl volleyball team. I enjoy going to movies, from scary to comedies and I enjoy playing handball as a result of the want to be competitive and play my friends. I enjoy the random conversations that I may have with my friends and how these conversations make us laugh most of the time. The least favorite thing in my life is arguments. I know no one likes arguing but if I ever get into an argument, it’s usually a verbal one, I always treat it as if it’s a court case, I always present legal proof and I mean legal proof. I never based my evidence on just the word of the mouth but on actual items that I can use and show to the opponent. I always never liked the moments when people never understood my situation and I was the only person not blind in the society. If I was to identify myself, I would say, I’m not your typical white boy, I am not a drinker, all those typical stuff. But I believe I am a awesome person to hang out with, I am open with everyone, I love doing new things and I love just having fun. I also identify myself as a role-model for my brothers because I am the first generation in my family to go to college and my brothers always looked up to me as an example or destination in their lives. My parents are the most important people in my life because they proved me with all these opportunities and without them, I won’t be here. Baruch has been a very amazing experience so far, I really am enjoying the environment, friendship and activities but I can’t say the same for the work and readings we have to do, especially the readings for sociology and the papers for philosophy but I’m doing well so far and no late papers or bad papers.

I love challenges but what I love more is over-coming the challenges.

Nikola Vulicevic

Post One

a. I think I am a well mannered and educated person who wants to enrich the business and economic environment with the expertise and proficiency of a strong mathematics, science and humanities understanding and involvement. I am a freshmen in Baruch College, a duel-citizen; Serbian and United States citizen, a brother of two, a son of two amazing parents and a friend of many amazing friends.

b. My top 3 concerns at Baruch College for my freshman year are very simple. The first one is the concern to complete the tier 1 course as soon as possible because I want to finish the required courses so I can start on my path to my major and to my masters degree sooner. My second concern is to take all the course required to apply to Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business because that is where I’m intending to study my major and pursue my masters as well; I want to as well apply to the accelerated program, where I can get my masters in 5 years. And my final third concern is the long papers that we need to do for various courses because I was never a fan of writing or English, since I was not born in America and English was my second language, I always had trouble writing well structured short papers. My papers were always long and had too much details as one of my teachers in high school said. I really am going to be spending a lot of time revising and visiting the writing center for the final papers.

c. My experience at Baruch is already different from that of my high school [and I don’t really have anything to say that will make it more different]. It’s different in the sense that the college experience is more diverse, we have students from all around the world and there are enormous amount of courses that you can take, giving everyone the ability to study whatever they want. The atmosphere is also different, you can be walking around and you’ll find a friend on every floor and both of you would stop to talk, it’s not a rush but a social and connected environment.

d. My first year at College will change me by exposing me to more challenges than I’ve faced before, I will have more work, papers, and exams to worry about and as well less time to prepare for them. This will make me become more time concerned and more organized about when I’m free or when I’m not free. It’s going to make me a more focused and motivated person, one who will try his best to achieve the best that he believes he can do.