Day: December 7, 2011

Last week on Long Island with one of my best friends here at Baruch, I went in to this abandoned house were four homeless people were sleeping without electricity or blankets. From there we knew what we had to do. We ran back to Jacks house grabbed blankets pillows and hot soup from King Kullen. We quickly went back to the abandoned house and realized that the homeless people had left, but left a distinct trail in their wake. There were muddy tracks leaving the house and headed back towards the town of Babylon. Jack and I followed the trail until we ran in to the group of homeless people. Unfortunately by this time, the soup had gone cold :(. They were headed to there usual camp site so we went with them made a fire and re-heated the soup for them. We decided to see what it was like for a homeless person so we camped out with them for one night and to be honest I don’t see what all the fuss was about. I’m only kidding. When we woke up in the morning, both of our iPhones were gone, and so were our wallets. The thing that got me upset is: How are they going to charge the phones? But we decided not to call the police due to the fact that we didn’t have anything to call them on. The most rewarding parts of this experience were knowing that we expected nothing in return, and instead of the iPhone 3gs I now own the iPhone 4.

Dear professor,

 

It has come to my attention that I am failing. Please drop me. BlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlah

Sincerely,

Taylor Higgs

It’s been around 3 months, and my first semester in Baruch has come to an end. All in All, my first semester went by quickly. I made plenty of new friends and have had some fun experiences. In some ways Baruch exceeded my expectations, in others it failed them. Coming into Baruch i assumed two things. One was that it would be exactly like high school while i was in class, and two, it would be exactly how college should be after. I thought this because a lot of my friends go to CUNY’s and have all said it was very much like H.S. In this regard i was wrong, professors didn’t care about my work, or my attendance. And i was happy because For me this was great, i was extremely tired of being nagged along in H.S. The second regard was my assumption that life outside of college would be loads of fun, but for some strange reason, Baruch a college located in the heart of manhattan is not located close by to any place where you and friends could go, so me and my friends ever wanted to go anywhere, we had to take the train which was very disappointing.

My classes this semester have gone very well, Ive been very impressed with the teachers. Many of them want you to succeed, but they don’t give out grades. I realize that to earn a good GPA in Baruch i will need to put in work. I cant wait for the next 3 and a half years.

-Bernard

Around last week I attended the Google workshop hosted by a business fraternity in the school. The workshop was pretty enjoyable, especially since there was free food and refreshments! During the workshop, representatives of Google spoke about their upcoming texting system that allows you to text companies such as Best Buy, Target, etc questions about their inventory and whatever other concerns you may have  with the company and receive a response within minutes. This is very revolutionary and I believe Google will make a great deal of money from this innovation.

The Baruch Voices workshop was very entertaining. I enjoying hearing the life stories of my peers, most of them were really good! I like how throughout the performances the mood of the monologues changed significantly. The monologues started off with a happy, mellow tone but more monologues were read the tone shifting into a much more depressing one. It was touching to hear some of the struggles that my peers have gone through, It makes me realize that nothing in life should be taken for granted.

Being at the Rubin Museum was a interesting experience. I didnt expect to actually enjoy myself viewing such religious artwork. My favorite piece was the huge ugly mask that was on the the 2nd floor, I think. Although the mask was very ugly it was still interesting to look at, it must have taken a lot of time and effort to create such a large piece of art. Although I would not attend this musuem by myself I do recommend others to go visit.

I can’t believe that my first semester at Baruch college is almost complete. It’s all going by so fast. But all in all I’m happy with the way that everything has turned out. I’ve made lots of friends and I can’t wait to make more. I’ve been able to grasp something that I will be able to carry with me for the rest of my life in each class. And no matter how much I have said that I’ve disliked some of my teachers, I am all the better for being able to be a part of every one of their classes, and I am thankful for their influence and my experiences with them thus far.

It actually turns out that Baruch did not live up to my expectations. I came into Baruch expecting it to be just like high school and for a very long time it really seemed like it was. But the sooner I got out of that mindset, the better it was for me. In high school I didn’t have to study for quizzes and tests, I could hand in my assignments late, I could show up to class late if I wanted and there wouldn’t be much of an effect. But that was because my teachers cared and there would always be a way to make up for whatever I decided not to do. I confused that with the freedom of college and now I guess I’m paying for it. So if I could have done anything differently it would be to have realized that high school and college are not the same. That way I’d feel better about how I’m doing in all of my classes.

Today I attended “The Process Production: The Business of Theater” workshop in the Engelman Recital Hall. It was a discussion hosted by Victoria Bailey. She and three others on the financial side of theatrical productions spoke about the ins and outs of their careers, so to educate the audience about the different technicalities of show business. I learned from people with first- hand experience about the structure of commercial theater and not- for- profit theater, and the differences in the structures of the two. It was a very insightful experience and a pleasure to be able to sit and interact the managers of some of Broadway’s most successful productions like “The Book of Morman”, “Anything Goes”, and “God of Carnage”, just  to name a few.