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I found the first career workshop to very informative. It helped me see that one major can be used in different ways. My management major with a psychology minor can be used together very nicely. It also showed me that a management position would be well suited for my interests and could be used in various ways. I was unsure if my major was well suited for me before the workshop but it was reassuring to see that it does fit with my personality and interests. I also learned that my psychology minor also would go a long way with my management major as they both would help me in the office workplace.

I found the first career workshop to very informative. It helped me see that one major can be used in different ways. My management major with a psychology minor can be used together very nicely. It also showed me that a management position would be well suited for my interests and could be used in various ways. I was unsure if my major was well suited for me before the workshop but it was reassuring to see that it does fit with my personality and interests. I also learned that my psychology minor also would go a long way with my management major as they both would help me in the office workplace.

The third enrichment workshop was Baruch Voices. I thought it was pretty interesting to hear other people’s monologues. A lot of them were depressing and made me feel so much better about my life, no matter how bad that sounds. It all was just about everyone’s problems which I guess was the point of the monologues, to get things off your chest. But honestly, there are only so much depressing stories one person can hear in 2 hours without feeling sad for the rest of the day.

But at least there were two that weren’t depressing – the one a guy wrote to his future wife and the one about the guy and his band performing at Baruch. “Baruch is on fire” was the highlight of Baruch Voices. I thought the performance from convocation day was more uplifting than the one we went to recently but at least it served its purpose – to be the third workshop and to let people get their problems off their chest.

I live a pretty typical life for an 18 year old girl. I like pretty typical things: books, music, movies, and going out. See? Pretty typical teenage things. I went to a pretty typical high school and had the typical high school experience. I had the high school drama. I had the catty girls in the hallways and snobby girls in gym class. I’ve gone out passed curfew. I made my parents mad. I started going clubbing. I lost friends and made better new ones. I went out with my best friend. I took pictures. See? All pretty typical high school things. I guess I have a not so typical fear. I have a big fear of birds. Like huge. It’s pretty bad. It’s a pretty terrible fear yet for some reason I love penguins. Penguins are birds yet I love them and not scared of them. That’s what everyone loves to point out to me. Yeah, i know it’s pretty weird. But at least my fear isn’t irrational. I do have a reason for my fear and it’s pretty funny. Yes, you can laugh. When I was 2 years old, I went to London with my family. We went to a park with a pond with our relatives and began eating ice cream cones. So there we were, just sitting innocently by the pond, when all of a sudden a big, white swan came running up to me, straight for me. No one else. It went straight for my ice cream and I wouldn’t let go. It began pecking at me and dragging me forward. Luckily, my uncle was able to me away from the damn bird before I got hurt. See? Not so irrational. I’m also scared of heights, but for no reason. All I know is if you put me in front of a bird I will freeze and either wait for it to go away on it’s own or have someone shoo it away. I can’t just walk passed it. But it’s pretty reasonable considering my fear. But my fear of heights? I have no idea why I’m so scared. Put me on a high ledge or airplane and I cry. Hell, I even cried going up the Eiffel Tower this past summer. For no reason besides getting further and further from the ground. That’s the only reason I can think of. So yep, those are my top two fears, always sitting in the front of my mind. Still typical? Maybe.

Hey guys! My name is Michelle Appiah I’m 18 and I’m guyanese [Indian descent, but South American/Caribbean]. I went to St Francis Prep High School in Fresh Meadows, Queens. I was a Catholic school girl for 14 years. I’m Catholic but not overly religious going to church every week but I have my beliefs. I’m pretty shy when you first meet me but that goes away after awhile. I like to go out a lot with friends. I go clubbing occasionally, I can honestly say the events that Daniel posts for clubs are fun. I like to read, I’m a huge bookworm but I don’t look like it. I’m a pretty average teenage girl. Uhm what else… I’m not really athletic, I have a bad ankle and I also have pretty bad scoliosis. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it is when your spine isn’t straight, it has a curve somewhere along its path and causes bad back pain. My main concerns are failing, getting behind in school,  and not having positive memories to look back on. I want to remember my freshman year as a positive one, not only a year of work. I take school very seriously and, even though I procrastinate sometimes, I don’t like to get behind in my work. I think my experience here will be a good one. There is so much to do around here, not only in the school but in the area around the school. The commute isn’t bad and there is always someplace to go. I really want to be done with this semester and start taking more classes that interest me. Okay, hope I didn’t bore you guys that much. Bye!