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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.

Career workshop #1 was extremely helpful; it made me realize I am not the only one who is unsure of a major, or having trouble choosing one. I realized most people are undecided, and many of them are second-year students which made me feel like I have plenty of time to explore.

The activity we did, analyzing our personality and interests, helped me realize what kind of classes I should probably take next semester. This activity gave us a list of values and interests, and based on what we picked we were shown possible majors and minors we could be interested in.Unfortunately I could not attend the second part of this workshop, but  even just being at this first part of the workshop was very helpful.

During this past summer I volunteered at St. Francis Hospital, which is located very close to my house. My work consisted of helping patients and their families as they were being discharged from the hospital, bringing the newspapers to current patients and helping the nurses with their paperwork.

I would wake up early in the morning on the days I was off from work, and go to the hospital for about 4 hours. There was always something to do, somebody to help out; even on the days that were slow I could find somebody to talk to, and sometimes be the listening friend that everybody needs every once in a while.

The time I spent at the hospital, which was only about 2-3 months, was extremely rewarding, and I would love to have the opportunity to do it again. Maybe over the winter break, or next summer.

Career Workshop #2 was very helpful. In the session we discussed what majors one should take in order to steer yourself towards the career you want. I learned that if I wanted to do Real Estate, Marketing would be a viable major. I also learned about the necessary credits for the Baruch Business school and the required classes.

I know I’m writing this months after everyone else did, but better late than never right?

My name is Michelle Powerman and I was born and raised in Staten Island, New York. My mother is from Ukraine and my father is from Russia (both countries are now considered one), so that would make me Russian American. I speak Russian, but unfortunately not as fluently as I did when I was younger. I have an older sister named Susan who actually attended and graduated from Baruch College. She’s the main reason I decided on going here. She seemed to have a really great experience here at Baruch and that’s definitely what I wanted for myself as well. I speak fluently in sarcasm. 90% of everything I say is usually a joke and I love people with a sense of humor cause they understand my sarcasm. I love laughing and I love making other people laugh as well. A past time of mine is singing. I’ve been singing for as long as I can remember. I record in my spare time (my YouTube channel is www.youtube.com/MichellePowerman if anyone wants to check it out) and it really serves as a stress-reliever. I don’t plan to make a career out of singing, so I’ll just leave it as a hobby for now.

So far, I love Baruch. I can’t put my finger on it but something about the energy of the school makes me not mind being here early just to chill out before class. It’s a big difference from high school but a good one. The only thing not so fun about college so far is the work load. I knew college would be hard, but I guess I wasn’t as prepared as I thought I was. Currently, I’m trying to work on my study habits and figure out how to kick my procrastination habit. I’ll definitely need to do that if I want to survive college. In all, I’m looking forward to the experience this school will bring me.

Due tomorrow? Do tomorrow. Due today? Do today.

This, unfortunately, is the story of my life.

Hello everyone. My name is Michelle Powerman and I am a chronic procrastinator.

Procrastinating is the act of putting things off that you have to do until the last possible minute, and I have been doing this for as long as I can remember.

Now, in high school I got away with it with no problem. I was lucky enough to do well in classes without ever actually opening a book to study. Homeworks were B.Sed right before class and still got full credit, and the best part was that my teachers had no idea.

This is no longer the case. I knew before I started college that  I had to change my study habits, but I never really thought about how to do that. Now that I have started college, it seems like the work just piles up by the second. This is a procrastinator’s worst nightmare.

It’s really sad how bad it’s gotten. You could put me in a room.

No windows, one door. Just walls.

You can give me a desk, chair, pen, paper and my assignment, and I will STILL manage to find something else more interesting to do rather than just complete the stupid assignment.

It’s a sickness really. Do you think people have considered making a cure for procrastination?

I blame facebook.

But then again, I can’t really blame facebook. It’s not TELLING me not to do my homework. It’s just another distraction.

I have to take control of this disease before it becomes my downfall.

With 4 years of college ahead of me, and maybe even Graduate school after that, there is no better or more crucial time to get rid of my procrastination once and for all.

Starting now, I will try my very best to complete or start my assignments on the evening that they are given, and not at 2AM or 10 minutes before class.

In addition, I vow to attempt studying DAYS in advance for exams, not (once again) at 2 AM or 10 minutes before class.

Things HAVE to and will change when it comes to my study habits.

The terrible disease of Procrastination may have tripped me up a bit, but it will not cripple me, I can promise you all that.

I went to the 2 workshops in class. and my third was the resume one. Here i learned how to write a proper resume and now i have a new updated and pretty amazing resume i will use when i search for a new job this summer.

For this workshop I went to “Write Winning Resumes”. It was a very helpful experience and I learned important information about resume writing. We sat down in a conference room and watched a PowerPoint for the structure of a resume. Everybody asked questions regarding their own resumes, and we discussed sample resumes. This was helpful because it helped point out and recognize what not to do when writing a resume. In this workshop we were also provided with a packet that included checklists and worksheets to help go over our own resumes. i really liked this workshop because I learned more about how to structure my resume and all this information will be helpful for me.

The three workshops I did were the Career Workshop, The Workshop with class requirements, and The Monologue workshops.

The Career Workshop we did, we sat down and were asked what we plan on majoring and why we want to do that. Then we were given worksheets where we got to check off things that are most like us and see what careers and majors it applies to.

The workshop with class requirements we learned about requirements for all three schools at Baruch. We were then given papers with the core classes we need to take and we had to check off which we did or which we need.

The workshop with the monologues we went to Mason Hall and basically watched the monologues we created and they performed it.

For community service I did the paper where we wrote about the importance of community service.

-D. Singh

So every year in my church we have this thing called God’s Love We Deliver on Thanksgiving and on Christmas Eve morning. Basically you wake up early on thanksgiving and devote time on bringing food to those poor or with sickness who cannot afford a meal for thanksgiving or christmas. There’s three jobs you could do, you could either be a driver who drives around the neighborhood and actually delivers the food to the person. You could be a youth who gets the bags and carries the food for the person to the driver’s car, or you could just help put the food into the bags. I did the latter job this year. So Thanksgiving day since I’m apart of the youth ministry I was supposed to come at like 7 AM to help set up put the tables up and refreshments but I woke up late came around like 7:30ish so all I did was help put out refreshments for the drivers and others devoting their time to help out. After that was mass (church service) and after the service we waited a bit for the company who gives us the food to come. Once the company came we got everything ready the drivers got their cards (people who they have to deliver to) and the youth who came (mainly confirmation students who had to get community service done) were getting the bags ready for food to come into. So once that was all set it was mainly just putting food into the bags for the next hour or so. By 10ish we were done with the event everyone got food this time around (previous years we ran out of food to give to people). It was a success things got done really fast this year and it was good to help out those who don’t have a turkey for thanksgiving.

1) How did your community service work help the community? 
We helped out those who couldn’t afford it for various reasons (health, poverty) to have food for Thanksgiving. We did something generous for people we didn’t even know.

2) How did it make you feel to give up your time and energy to others?

It felt good to know that I’m helping out those who’d have nothing this Thanksgiving. Those who would be starving or hungry on a holiday where you’re supposed to eat. We helped out those who are struggling to have food that day like most families would on Thanksgiving. It felt good, and I hear actually being in the car and delivering the food to them is a better experience from friends who went because you actually get to see the people we are spending our thanksgiving morning for.

3) How has your community service experience change your thinking, attitudes, and actions towards others, yourself, the community, and community service work as a whole?

Well one thing I’ve learned about community service over time is that the more people that are involved the quicker it gets done- this was something a lot of people were involved so it went by really fast. Every person counts when it comes to community service- everyone is a helping hand. The more service you do the more you are willing to help out more. There is a joy that comes when we donate our time and skills to others. So overall of the years I’ve done this and been a member of my church community I’ve really been opened up to a lot of things and I’m much happier in my esteem and what I can do for others. It’s easy to think “I don’t know these people, why should I waste my time and help others who will never help me out?” but when we get out of that “me, me, me” mindset I think that’s when we get happy because we find meaning in our lives through these activities… so this is something good to do I do enjoy waking up early and donating my time it’s important to me and it’s become apart of me.