Category Archives: Workshop #3

It is a great pleasure for me to go to Rubin Museum of Art. This museum have the largest Western collection of religious art from cultures of the Himalayan mountain range, the birthplace of Buddhism. As a Buddhist, I felt so excited about it and enjoyed this meaningful experience. Among all there are some pieces left me deep impressions. The piece “Samvara in union with Vajrayogini” is a gilt copper statue that from Tibet, circle 1400. In the piece “Samvara in union with Vajrayogini”, there is a Buddha embraced by two divine couple dragon and looks like wearing scarves on. The whole piece is bronze and gilt copper. It looks shining in the window under the light. It also has many pearls on the Buddha. The jewelry and pearls are big and heavy perhaps to represent wealth and happiness. In the piece, Samvara is the meditational god of the Kagyu schools and Tibet people. The great art and shape of the Buddha reflected the art attainment and talent of the artist of this statue.

In my opinion, this piece of Buddha statue is developing a feeling of wealth and happiness because of the heavy and big jewelry which were wearing on the Buddha. The Buddha also embraced by dragon which means the people of the Tibet would also be blessed by the Buddha. The statue also is bronze and gilt copper. The shinning color tone also shows that this Buddha is representing a good life. In this piece, the posture of the Buddha is bending his knee in one side and smiling looking at the dragon. It also shows the power and wealth that the Buddha has. Because of this Buddha is representing wealth and happiness. In my opinion, the function of this Buddha is for the Tibet people to pray for good life. The people of Tibet built this piece of art and people could come to pray every time if any people feeling bad of their life. This Buddha also represents power because of the dragon on its body. Therefore, People may go to pray for power in real life also and have a good life.

The piece “Diverse forms of Mahakala and other protectors” during central Tibet, Gelugpa school 1805 to 1820, there is many deities trying to protecting some deities. In this painting, numerous deities established a scene of grandness and shake. The fire on the deities’ body is shining and looks like moving to somewhere. The painting used a dark color tone to illustrate the power and threating of those deities. The deities in this painting all have the same skin color and fire. This seemed to unite and protect for the same purpose. The content of this painting said, “The painting is dedicated to nine wrathful deities held prominently in the Gelugpa School.” Therefore, it told us its nine powerful protectors in this painting. Every protector in this painting seem has its own power and story could be told by other art sculptures.

It is a great pleasure for me to go to Rubin Museum of Art. This museum have the largest Western collection of religious art from cultures of the Himalayan mountain range, the birthplace of Buddhism. As a Buddhist, I felt so excited about it and enjoyed this meaningful experience. Among all there are some pieces left me deep impressions. The piece “Samvara in union with Vajrayogini” is a gilt copper statue that from Tibet, circle 1400. In the piece “Samvara in union with Vajrayogini”, there is a Buddha embraced by two divine couple dragon and looks like wearing scarves on. The whole piece is bronze and gilt copper. It looks shining in the window under the light. It also has many pearls on the Buddha. The jewelry and pearls are big and heavy perhaps to represent wealth and happiness. In the piece, Samvara is the meditational god of the Kagyu schools and Tibet people. The great art and shape of the Buddha reflected the art attainment and talent of the artist of this statue.

In my opinion, this piece of Buddha statue is developing a feeling of wealth and happiness because of the heavy and big jewelry which were wearing on the Buddha. The Buddha also embraced by dragon which means the people of the Tibet would also be blessed by the Buddha. The statue also is bronze and gilt copper. The shinning color tone also shows that this Buddha is representing a good life. In this piece, the posture of the Buddha is bending his knee in one side and smiling looking at the dragon. It also shows the power and wealth that the Buddha has. Because of this Buddha is representing wealth and happiness. In my opinion, the function of this Buddha is for the Tibet people to pray for good life. The people of Tibet built this piece of art and people could come to pray every time if any people feeling bad of their life. This Buddha also represents power because of the dragon on its body. Therefore, People may go to pray for power in real life also and have a good life.

The piece “Diverse forms of Mahakala and other protectors” during central Tibet, Gelugpa school 1805 to 1820, there is many deities trying to protecting some deities. In this painting, numerous deities established a scene of grandness and shake. The fire on the deities’ body is shining and looks like moving to somewhere. The painting used a dark color tone to illustrate the power and threating of those deities. The deities in this painting all have the same skin color and fire. This seemed to unite and protect for the same purpose. The content of this painting said, “The painting is dedicated to nine wrathful deities held prominently in the Gelugpa School.” Therefore, it told us its nine powerful protectors in this painting. Every protector in this painting seem has its own power and story could be told by other art sculptures.

So, I went to the Small Talk 2 workshop.  For the most part it had to do with small talk that we as future employees would engage in with our coworkers, managers, bosses or possibly, CEO’s.  This workshop was beneficial in the fact that it emphasized the idea that small talk is in essence, small, and as a result is not meant to be a full blown conversation.  It is simply meant to possibly exchange a few thoughts, show your personality and get your name out there.  The fact that you have the courage to engage in small talk shows that you are outgoing and not afraid.  Small talk is something that I typically undertake in on a day to day basis, so I feel that this workshop gave me valuable pointers on how to really use it in a business environnment.  Overall, the workshop was valuable.

So, I went to the Small Talk 2 workshop.  For the most part it had to do with small talk that we as future employees would engage in with our coworkers, managers, bosses or possibly, CEO’s.  This workshop was beneficial in the fact that it emphasized the idea that small talk is in essence, small, and as a result is not meant to be a full blown conversation.  It is simply meant to possibly exchange a few thoughts, show your personality and get your name out there.  The fact that you have the courage to engage in small talk shows that you are outgoing and not afraid.  Small talk is something that I typically undertake in on a day to day basis, so I feel that this workshop gave me valuable pointers on how to really use it in a business environnment.  Overall, the workshop was valuable.

The third workshop that I went is called Email Excellence. It was a lecture about writing proper emails. It was a very interesting and impressive workshop indeed. First of all I think the speaker is really professional and articulate. He prepared some useful notes for us and during his talk, he made me understand why people should care about writing proper emails, although most of them do not. Communication does not just limit to face-to-face nowadays, there are so many more technologies that facilities business and daily conversations, email is one of  the most important ones. When a person send an email to someone, the receiver usually judges the writer based on his/her contents in the email if they never seen each other. This makes sending proper email critical because when we seek for job opportunities we usually do it via email. If the procedure is not done correctly we might end up losing the chance. The speaker not only taught us how we should write specifically in an email, but also how to name a proper subject for the email. Email is a serious business and it mat entail serious risk. I gained pretty much knowledge from this meaningful workshop and I hope that other students can attend this workshop if there’s a chance.

The third workshop that I went is called Email Excellence. It was a lecture about writing proper emails. It was a very interesting and impressive workshop indeed. First of all I think the speaker is really professional and articulate. He prepared some useful notes for us and during his talk, he made me understand why people should care about writing proper emails, although most of them do not. Communication does not just limit to face-to-face nowadays, there are so many more technologies that facilities business and daily conversations, email is one of  the most important ones. When a person send an email to someone, the receiver usually judges the writer based on his/her contents in the email if they never seen each other. This makes sending proper email critical because when we seek for job opportunities we usually do it via email. If the procedure is not done correctly we might end up losing the chance. The speaker not only taught us how we should write specifically in an email, but also how to name a proper subject for the email. Email is a serious business and it mat entail serious risk. I gained pretty much knowledge from this meaningful workshop and I hope that other students can attend this workshop if there’s a chance.

Perfection in a resume isn’t just for perfectionists, but rather anyone who cares about landing a job.  Employers only pay 30 seconds to each resume, if that, so you need to be able to grab their interest upon first glance and lure them in to read more.  They advised us to utilize “power verbs” to describe your responsibilities at past jobs.  They took all our questions and advised us how to tweak your resume based on different employment opportunities to show your employer that you are a proper fit.  I certainly underestimated the amount of time, energy, and attention needed to make your resume stand out from the others.  I feel as if I can produce my resume effectively, but I can use resume review offered by STARR to help identify any mistakes made.

I attended a workshop titled “Between Two Worlds”, and i realized that we are really lucky to be in the United States. This workshop showed a documentary about the struggles in Israel. This film showed that there are people in the world who stand up and would die for what they believed in. People were upset when certain facts that they believed to be false were shown in the film. The saddest part of the film was when it showed how the tanks ran over a girl named Rachel who was protesting peace in Israel. I believe that everyone should know the positives and the negatives about the country. Once the negatives are identified, we should work towards solving those problems.

I went to the workshop “Build Confidence! Improving Your Interpersonal Skills.” I was a little late on that day and when I came to the class I saw Mindy and Lalit sitting in the class. There were many other people sitting around and they definitely were nor freshmen. The first impression I had was that this class may be helpful since many others came here not for the reason of freshmen seminar. The professor was an Asian and she looked like she knew what she’s doing and what she should teach us. The class was not boring as I thought I would be. Instead, I found it interesting even though it was a little awkward at first. We first stood up and made a circle, then introduce ourselves in a weird way. We had to put our hands together like when praying and pointing it at someone else to introduce ourselves. She said that by doing this she can tell immediately who is not confident because someone avoided eye contact or couldn’t do the movement fluently. The lessons she tried to teach us are that eye contact is a very important way to show confidence but in some culture people avoid eye contact to show respect. After seeing some power points she had, we stood up again and did another activity. We paired up and tried to copy our partners’ movements while. She taught us that it’s human nature that people copy other’s gesture unintentionally. She also pointed out that it’s actually helpful when you doing that because it makes the person who you are talking with feel comfortable. The workshop ended very fast, and I had to run to my next class. However, I found the workshop helpful for the reasons that the professor taught us how to communicate and advices for interview.

Had it not been for this class I probably wouldn’t have gone to a single workshop. I went to the resume workshop which was actually helpful. The workshop stressed the importance of resumes and supplied a bunch of samples of what to write and what not to write. On the down side they kept on stressing about how so many people can make simple mistakes. I know resumes aren’t easy, but the instructors made them look like that they are almost impossible to make. In my opinion if you know the format and stick to it, then there is nothing to worry about. Yet going to the workshop makes me think that there is something to worry about………. Well at the very least, since I attended the resume workshop, I can now get any resumes I write to be reviewed and corrected.