LC 24

The second post should be a monologue developed in seminar but I’m embarrassed to say that I can’t recall any topic we had in seminar. So, if I may, I’d like to write about how the school life is going lately.

We have A doll’s House quiz for Theater class on next Tuesday, Anthropology mid-term on Nov 2 and Politic mid term(+the essay) is two days after that, coming on Nov 4 (I looked up on calendar for you guys!) and also Fieldwork Data Collection Work Sheet is due on Nov 9, Rubin Museum blogging by Nov 19. And if you have MTH 2207, we are going to have the second test pretty soon, just don’t know the exact date yet.

Oh boy, I feel like I’m being chased by a serial killer. A friend of mine who is a senior in Baruch once joked that I will be dead until Thanksgiving. But the truth is, he didn’t joke it. He prophesied it and now I worship him.

My first impression about Baruch after first week of this semester was a hell packed with mad smart kids. Are they all came from Bronx Science and Stuy? Is it only me who came from one of the worst high school in NYC, namely Newtown? I’ve never been daunted this bad. I asked my friends who went to another college if they are having trouble assimilating like I do. And they responded ‘hell no I love my college:-D’       ………I know they are going to take that back soon because it’s mid term season for them too.

Well, I guess I habituated myself to an early-bird life and jammed subway in 8 a.m., but I still have trouble catching up with where we are now in our classes. Isn’t there a time that you tried your best to keep concentrated but you just can’t? You heard what professor said but next second you just have no idea what we are getting it and why we are talking about it. It’s like the lecture went in one ear and out the other. You don’t want to stop the class to ask question. Well, technically you CAN’T because you have no sense where we are and what it is for. You are just lost as a whole and you can’t help it. All you can do is just sit there and look pretty. That’s what happens to me almost everyday in Politic class and sometimes even in Anthropology and Math. I feel as if I’m treading on thin ice everyday. I’m desperate that the ice will break in any minute and I’ll be drawn. Not knowing when the Politic exam would be put more anxiety.

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And voila, he just announced our mid term will be two weeks from today. I hear the clock ticking.

I’m Wei Feng and I was actually born in China, but I moved here with my parents when I was really little and since then I stopped speaking Chinese and instead adopted English as my primary language.

I graduated from Baruch High School which is on 25th and Park, and we in fact use to go to school in the 23rd street building. However the college decided we were taking up too much space, despite the fact we only used 2 floors and the gym and they kicked us out. So then we moved to 25th and Park instead.

One thing i noticed different about Baruch High school and Baruch college is the amount of residents. In Baruch high school, there was roughly 400 kids; 100 kids per grade. So it was pretty crowded back in my high school and one thing i liked about Baruch college is the amount of free space there is.

One thing i see in common was the amount of clubs. Baruch High school also had a lot of clubs and i see the same thing in Baruch College especially during club hours, where they try to promote clubs.

i see myself as a guy who knows a lot about technology and is also cool and helpful at the same times. Although i spend a lot of time on the computer, i also like to go outside and hang out with friends too.

I have recently looked at myself in the mirror and I noticed a few changes. I looked more confident than I normally did. This is maybe because I have improved my physical appearance. This could be the result of taking a self help course on public speaking. It could be that I have become a college student and it requires me to stand out from my peers. I am not sure.

I am a shy person and like others, I feared getting up to make a speech. In the past I often hide as long as I could to avoid speaking in front of my classmates. However, now with a boost of self esteem and confidence, I am able to deliver a speech when called upon. Each time I am required to give a speech I think of it as practice. Practice for me to work on my articulation, eye contact, hand gestures and possibly enthusiasm.

Overall, I no longer doubt my capabilities to give a speech in front of a group of people. Although I am not a great public speaker now, I believe I have the potential to become one. This could possibly be my biggest ongoing challenge next to leaving my comfort zone. In the end, I think now that I am an adult I need to start improving myself to better succeed in the future.

Actually, I do not really know what my character is, because sometimes I will be in different way to face same problem. But in some way, I would like to say that I am a shy girl who is afraid of taking with people, a self-abased girl who will question about herself and a sanguine girl who is really good at inspiring herself.

I think I am a really shy girl. In China, I never raise my hands in class. And I never answer teachers’ questions, if teachers did not call my name. And after I went to the United States, I did not make any changing about that. But one day, my teacher who taught me something about SAT called me “3R” which means I really quiet and silence in class, because I never answer his questions and never ask him questions. He said it is okay if you are a girl in China, but in U.S.A, this character is really bad. No one will like a person who never talks. So I start to change my character. And I am more active for talking with people. Even though sometimes I am still shyness, I can say I am not “3R” anymore and I can talk with people.

And I am self-abased. I always question about myself. Sometimes when I have a challenge, I really want to conquer it. But I did not. So I feel bad and realize I am so stupid in some ways. I just want to give up. And I don’t want to do everything. I will be very sad after that. Also I will be lazier and lazier. Moreover, sometimes my friends made a joke about me. I will be brush and do not want to face that joke. I will ask myself why I am so bad. In this way, I am a really self-abased person.

I am also a sanguine person. Whatever I think about how stupid I am, I feel I am not that good, but not that bad. I think even though I cannot conquer the challenge, it does not mean I am a loser. I still can be successful in some other ways. I always encourage for myself that God is fair. He will let you be bad in this way, but he will let you be good at another way. So I think even though I am so bad in some way, I will be very good at another way. And I will be much happier and start thinking I am good girl. In this way, I think I am really good at inspiring myself.

I am a shy, self-abased and sanguine person. I believe that if I am really bad at some ways, I will be really good at some other ways. And I will inspire myself everyday and be more active during my life.

<—It is my first time to take picture with my teachers.

I just want to make sure you guys and I don’t forget about next post when we come back sometime in this week. Here we go-

Post #2 – DUE OCTOBER 22, 2010 AT 5PM

T.E.A.M. Baruch Recruitment
o The recruitment process has began and will continue up until October 22nd when applications are due. If you are interested in becoming a peer leader and didn’t get a chance to go to the Club Fair, please stop by the information table during club hours on Thursday, October 7th to pick up an application and other related material. The table will be located on the 2nd floor right outside of the Student Life Office.

Building Your Brand
o Monday, October 4th 3:30PM – 5PM VC 2-190
o Learn and practice how to give a short verbal “advertisement” for yourself to help with networking and job interviewing.

Freshmen Social
o Thursday, October 7th Club Hours Multipurpose Room VC 1-107
o Hosted by Baruch’s Undergraduate Student Government, first year students will have the opportunity to meet their fellow classmates at a party exclusively created for freshmen. Stop by for an afternoon of food, games, and making new friends!

Small Talk: It’s A BIG Deal
o Thursday, October 7th 5PM-6:30PM VC 2-190
o In this two-hour workshop, students will learn more advanced small talk techniques and how they can be applied to various situations ranging from job interviews to social events.

The Club Fair at Baruch today was a fun, informative, and enthusiastic event. The fair took place in the gymnasium during club hours from 12:30 to 2: 30, a time I usually go to Chinatown with friends and eat lunch before class. Although there were some sacrifices I made for going, but it was well worth it. I am here to share with you what I experienced in this extraordinarily wonderful and organized event.

As I was hungrily walking down the stairs towards the gymnasium, I could already hear the music blaring from the stereos. Before I even walked in, the music was so loud that my eardrums started hurting and my heart beating. I was pumped up. I quickly stepped into gymnasium, the first thing that caught my eyes were the hundreds of people crowded in the middle of the gym, each moving in different directions. I wandered around and noticed that there were a lot of people just like me trying to figure out things about all the clubs that Baruch College has to offer.

I began my journey by first signing up for the Chinese Christian Club, because I am a Christian. I found out that this club is Chinese-speaking only, with mostly fobby members in it. Hence the second club I signed up for was the Christian Intervarsity, an English-speaking club with mixed racial members. In the middle of my journey, I saw Oleksandr Tkach from LC24. Oleksandr told me about his true passions and together we signed up for the Black Student Union. Besides black students, the club is also about hip-hop music, tools needed to succeed in their finance, and President Obama. Oleksandr and I believed our passion for black students and hip-hop music will translate into our successes in the club. On my way to more clubs, I passed by the stereos and realized the DJ was taking requests from people. He was playing songs like “Club Can’t Handle Me” by Flo Rida, “Dj Got Us Fallin In Love” by Usher, and “Just A Dream” by Nelly. When all these songs were finished playing, I have already signed up for three other clubs, UCLA (United Chinese Language Association), Archery, and Bowling club. Every single club I approached, the representatives were friendly, sociable, and fervently answering students’ questions.

As I was walking out of the gymnasium and huming “Just The Way You Are”, I looked back at it one last time, saddened to leave, but I had to go to political science. I realized, the music, the people, the intimacy created an upbeat and energetic environment for us to fulfill our passions.

Thanks for reading.

Here are some events organized by the Starr Career Development Center. Take some time to attend some of these events.

Resume Writing Monday, Sept 27, 10 3:30PM – 5:00PM NVC 2-190
Attend this workshop and learn how to develop and design a professional, marketable resume that will be well received. Format and content will be covered.

Resume Rush Day Tuesday, Sept 28, 10 12:30PM – 5:00PM NVC 2-150
Sign up for a half hour appointment via STARR Search for a practice interview with a Baruch alumnus, corporate recruiter, or career center staff. WALK-IN resume reviews and/or mock interviews MAY be available

Introduction to Starr Search Wednesday, Sept 29, 10 1PM – 2PM NVC 2-190
STARR Search is the online database used by the STARR Career Development Center to list job and internship opportunities, coordinate on-campus recruiting, keep the center’s events calendar of presentations and workshops, job fair information, and allows students to RSVP for events.

Basic Interviewing Skills Thursday, September 30, 10 3PM – 4:30PM NVC 2-190
Attend this workshop and learn the steps to follow before, during and after the interview to increase your chances of landing the job you want.

– Michelle

     Two weeks ago, I recived a post card from Baruch College， it says “freshman reception”. I was not sure what it was and I did not realize how important it was. After one week I recived the card, I got a  e-mail from our college which explained to me what the freshman reception was going to do.  It is going to tell us the imformation about majors and minors, how to use Degree Works and what is GPA.  Because college is new to me, I want to know more imformation about college, I decided to go there.

     At SEP 23th 12:30 PM I went to the 5th floor, the Advisment office. It was a long line there, all the students there were freshman, I though they might be facing the same problem as me. After I waited in the line for 10 minute, it was my turn. I went in front of one adviser and she asked me to enter my SSN. After she verified my freshman status as other students, she gave me a quick smile and asked me to follow another group to go to anorther classroon, 3165.  Before we entered that class, an assistor sent us some small books which were introductions to the majors, minors and GPA system. Every student was talking about it to each other. After about ten minutes one adviser came in and gave us a very detailed and patient speech. She told us everything that we were suposed to know. She talked about twenty minutes and then gave us a couple of minutes to ask her any questions that we did not quite understand.  Then we went back to the advisement office and the adviser classed our big group as five small groups.  We sat there and played a lot of games,  We were enjoying there and had a good time there!

     Through the Freshman reception, I had a good time and I am not confused about the college any more. At the same time, I am sue that I and all the freshman are welcome in baruch, it gives us any kinds of progarm to help us to get over the transition from high school to college. I think I make a wise dicision to enroll in Baruch College and I am sure that all the students who study there will have a good future in their lives.

    Hi. My name is Wendi Huang.  I graduate from Francis Lewis High School. I’m a freshman that as a regular student attend Baruch college for the first time. I hope Ican get high grade because it is important for everybody, and I also want to be a successful man. I remember my parents usually tell me, first you have to be successful to your career. Because career is a Chinese one most important thing in life, it can reflect a person in the social value, determines one’s social status, etc.

    The 3 concerns about GPA, language ,and job. First, I talk about the GPA that is very important. I hope my GPA is above 3.0. I’m interesting to business. Iwant to choose business as my major. But my English skills is so poor, and this problem is always beset me. Iworry it will influence my GPA. But I don’t have enough time to think this trouble. Just try to do my best. Second of all, My character is shy and do not like to talk with other people, so let me get less oppotunity to exercise my speaking. In the colloge, most student speak English. It’s really good for me. I think how to talk and share ideas with my friends in class.  I hope Ican improve English by leaning in college. Because I know language is most significant part. If Iwant to get high grade. Third, many student want to get a good job, but it’s hard now. Although Ican get money to pay my tuition from FAFSA, I still want to work. My family income is not high, so I don’t take too much money  from my parents. Before I get a job about election, it’s so tired. I need to walk all the time and canvass for the Republican candidate in the street. I get my The First of Money about 600 dollar.And I’m looking for a new job for reducing my parents’ burden.

   I think many people feel college is different to high school. For example, we need to pay much money for textbook and fragmental spending. When I was in high school, I can ate free lunch in cafeteria. Now, I have to go out to eat something. It’s not convenient. By the way, I feel college court is difficult than high school’s. So I must spend a lot time to study hard. Professor almost never check student’s homework, and we need to get self-awareness.

   I will try to change a lot in my first year at Baruch College. Here will be my new sart. I believe I can do my best for future.