Author Archives: Nicky Gao

The enrichment workshop I’ve attended was quite interesting to some extent. First off my first experience of looking through the window at the 10th floor of during the workshop was astounding. The view outside was amazing! The workshop helped thoroughly explain the required courses I must take during my next semester to move on. Also the sheet of paper the male adviser provided is really helpful because most of the required and additional courses are listed under labeled sections to choose from. I wouldn’t say that I’m inspired in any way from the workshop experience, but the event really helped out a lot. Also it was my first time using the elevator and eventually explore the tenth floor of the building. I fully appreciate the adviser’s effort in providing as much detail as possible in understanding a bit more about Baruch life.

http://www.snowbombing.com/blog/2010/02/05/976/

My impression of Baruch College during the first three months is vague because I still don’t know where the vertical campus is…:/   The entire facility along with the correlated buildings owned by Baruch is diverse  and yet to be explored by me. I find the swimming pool to be amazing because there are no restrictions for me to not swim in it. Baruch is like Narnia to me, a new land yet to be explored filled with diverse paths you can take(different majors) and new people to meet. I’m like a lost child wandering around the campus and library, trying to gather and associate myself to #CollegeLife.  I’m also trying to adapt to the long class lectures,and trying to not sleep during class 😮    It’s pretty astonishing to see so much college students going in and out of Baruch’s campus. A new journey begins.

Explain how the Assessment Test effect me:

After completing the work self-assessment test, I have learned that my priority is in convention with 0 artistic ability whatsoever. My main focus and interest has always been in math especially dealing with numbers. After completing the survey/assessment, the jobs that matches my interest are mostly accounting and finance related as what I would have expect. However, only a few of the jobs have a bright outlook and many people are competing in the business major. It’s extremely hard to find a decent pay job without having to compete with more people than before. The results reflect upon no changes from what I would expect or plan for myself previously because my expectations was always in accounting. Several marketing jobs were suggested to me which surprised me because I have little knowledge or skills in advertising products or to help a company grow in terms of creating new ideas and evaluations. Participants in Focus 2 help clarify a future direction for myself because many people have the same job interest as me in which motivates me to try harder to get the job. Also, there’s a huge variety of majors/interests in the assessment test that I’ve never seen before which surprised me. I felt more self-directed after taking the test because now I know my goals are the same and I’m not straying from one major to another.

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/chateau/

The link above is to the New York Times project about “Blood Drive”.

My group selected Blood Drive as the main topic of the project because many college students donate blood yearly. Blood donation is important to helping others and freshman are not likely to donate blood because they don’t know much about how to. Generally the articles listed in my New York Times projects explains the dangerous side effects of donating blood and giving helpful advice to other students on what to do before donating their blood. Also yearly the number of blood donors decreases and hopefully more freshmen college students will step it up and help contribute to any Blood donation events in Baruch to help New York Blood Center. Donating blood is really easy in Baruch College, you simply go to the room listed under Baruch Event Blood Donation and wait in line.