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Last week in freshman seminar we attended the the rubin museum. By the time we got to the museum it was closing so we only go to stay for a little bit. The museum seemed very interesting and fascinating. There were many pieces of art collected about the himalayas. The history has alot of past and history and in our short tour guide, we got to learn alot about the museum. The rubin museum has a wide collection of himalyan art. In the tour guide we got to see the Tibetan shrine room from the Alice S. Candell collection. The shrine has 170 pieces of created from the 13 to 19 century. All the work was collected by Alice in her visit there. I was looking through the rubin museum website and i found some new interesting pieces of art they have now added to there collection. Some of the artworks included the Sahaja Chakrasamvara, Great hierarch and the Vajravarahi. all these type of arts vary n different ways they are displayed. The Sahaja is on a piece of cloth, The great Hierarch is a statute and the vajavarahi is also on a piece of cloth. The rubin museum is an excellent way to learn about past himalyan culture and to learn about its past history.

My first semester at Baruch has gone well. Coming into the school, I expected it to be a lot of work and it definitely has been. There were many things to get adjusted to including commuting to school everyday after walking three blocks to school for the past four years, dealing with getting out later then I ever have before, and handling the big workload I was going to get from my classes. So far, Baruch has definitely lived up to my expectations. I knew coming in that it would be a tough school and it has been but it is to my benefit. One thing that exceeded my expectations was the campus. I didn’t think it would be that nice and I also underestimated how important the library can be. Whenever I have a break, I usually spend my time in there.

I believe I’ve done pretty well in Baruch so far. I’ve adjusted nicely to all of the changes I mentioned above and as I type this, I haven’t gotten lower than an 80 on anything I’ve done to this point in my classes which I’m pleased in. The semester’s far from over since there are still more tests to take and papers to write but overall, I’m happy with how the semester has turned out. There isn’t much I’d do differently but there are a couple of minor things I would change going forward. One thing is studying better. While my studying habits have improved from high school, they still need to get better. I’m one just to go over notes I took and say I’ve done enough but it has burned me with some questions where if I made a study guide or something to that extent, I would have done better. Also, I still want to plan out things better. While I have when I’m doing stuff set out pretty nicely, I’ve gotten lazy and pushed things off. The next couple of weeks coming up are going to be tough since I have tests and papers due so I have to cut out some days where I decide to do nothing and focus on my work.

I have definitely changed since I started at Baruch back in August. While I considered myself mature coming into the school, I’ve become even more mature since then. Between work and school, I feel as if I’m no longer a kid and actually an adult so I’m starting to act like it. Also, I’m always busy with different things so I’m never sitting around bored. Last year, I napped everyday and just acted like a bum which is extremely different then this year where there’s never time for me to lay around the house especially during the week. Overall, I’m happy with how my first semester at Baruch went and I hope the future semesters go this well.

Last week we attended the Rubin museum as a freshman seminar class, sadly we were only there for thirty minutes. Honestly i was quite interested in this museum because it related to me. My family enjoys rock climbing and hiking a lot so my father and his friends travel quite a bit. (Himalayan) Mount Everest is on the borders on Nepal and Tibet so it was nice to learn a little culture about the place my dad wants to go one day.

Usually i hate museums because they are long, boring, and i can find most of the information on the internet but i actually enjoyed this museum. I learned about how you don’t wear jewelery when you are enlightened , gain an extra bump on your head to show you gained knowledge, and how the position of ones hand showed your status(teacher).

One thing that stood out more than anything else was the environment of the museum. Maybe it was the emptiness of the closing museum but the quiet darkness of the scrolls and eerie “flame lit” shrines were cool beans.

I would recommend this museum if i ever did recommend a museum.