The enrichment workshop had a good idea behind it, but it could have made its points in half of the time. The person in the video just kept repeating himself, dancing around the same point over and over. I disagreed with some of the things that were said, but at the same time agreed with others. I think that it is important to contribute to the community, but there are better ways that it can be done. For example, students shouldn’t be forced to “volunteer” because that just Defeats the purpose. It makes it feel like more work than it is volunteering. For my new york cares project I had to help with a community garden that provides fruits and vegetables to the homeless. With the amount of time money and effort that is put into it it would make a lot more sense to just devote that time to working and then give that money to charity or just buy the fruits and vegetables which end out being cheaper. Also this FRO class was supposed to help new students adjust to college life, but all it did was make it much harder and more stressful.
Blog Post 4: Enrichment Workshop Response
Unlike most of my peers I did not actually mind going to the enrichment workshop. I was just wary that I might forget the day I had to go. Overall it was not a bad experience as the workshop re-established something that I had come to experience on my own. Prior to entering college, during my junior year of high school I went on a volunteer trip to New Orleans with the organization Habitat for Humanity. At the time my brother was not supportive of what I was doing because he saw it as “working for no pay”, so I had my doubts. Through this presentation I was able to reaffirm that not only did I help the people of New Orleans in their rebuilding process but that the experience was beneficial to me as well. And that as Dr. Stephen Post states ” It’s good to be good”. Overall I would say it was a bit inspirational, not to the point where I will be volunteering every weekend but once in a while I will remember the message Dr. Stephen Post delivered and I will try to apply it in some form to my everyday life.
Blog Post 4
I really enjoyed the enrichment workshop. The guest speaker spoke really well and I agreed with the things he had to say. His speech made me more open minded and I feel the need to help others more often now. This workshop was a success in my eyes because it made me realize what freshman seminar was all about. It really made me more aware of current events and it also shaped me into a better person by helping out others.
Enrichment workshop
The enrichment workshop was a great way to take away from my well deserved lunch break. Unfortunately for me I was in the middle of a very addictive video game, so I had my face in my game device the whole time. It was cringe-worthy watching the guest speaker fish for questions from the audience when no one clearly wanted to ask anything. Luckily for him, he had George to pick on so that killed some time but it was obvious everyone wanted to get out of there. I didn’t really find the whole event to be helpful, although it would have been a bit less annoying if they didn’t pick my time off to do the thing. The video was also a lot longer than I hoped it would be and would not recommend it to anybody else.
Blog Post #4
I thought the Enrichment Workshop had a lot of potential. I understand where they were trying to come from with this. I’m pretty sure they were trying to bring the New York Cares project around full circle, and instill in us a lesson that giving back and making others happy awards ourselves with a much more fulfilling happiness. They were really trying to show us why they made the Project mandatory, and were hoping to encourage us to continue participating in NYCares. I understood where they were coming from , and I’m definitely participating in more NYCares projects considering my last one made me feel really good and productive. From a personal level, I thought it was a nice little lesson. However, I do admit that, perhaps, it could have be organized in a different way. Having the video and then having the professor speak was a bit redundant. Sometimes it was difficult to hear him as well, and I felt bad he had to yell at times. Perhaps we would have benefited more if the video was shown in our own classrooms? Anyway, I thought it was interesting.
Final Blog Post Thank God
The fact that I forgot all about the enrichment workshop until my friends reminded me it was mandatory five minutes before it began should demonstrate my enthusiasm towards it. Not only was it a waste of time in my opinion, but it was also during a time period that normally is allowed for me to go around the school and check out anything I find interesting. During the workshop my thoughts regarding it changed ever so slightly but not enough for me to care. I understood the whole part about doing good makes you feel good from experience but that was about the only section of the presentation that I was able to relate to. Overall, I do not recommend the school making next years freshmen suffer as I have by sitting through the entire program.
Enrichment Workshop Post
The enrichment workshop wasn’t something I was looking foward to because I had to stay longer in school than usual. I went into the workshop knowing nothing and left with a new perpespective. The professor talked about how helping others is basically helping yourself, because you’ll live longer. You’ll feel better about yourself and won’t become depressed. People who help others have a more positive mindset and feel happy with life. After hearing the professor’s words of encouragement, I realized that he was right. It did felt good when I helped the eldery during my new york cares project. It only took a small part of my time but made me feel good about myself. The professor helped a lot with improving our look on life and volunterring.
Enrichment Workshop
I did not retain anything from the enrichment workshop. I didn’t think it was right how the school set up the workshop. The school placed it on a time slot where many students had things to do. Although I had nothing to do, I could see the visible stress that my classmates were under when they learned about the workshop. But what rendered this workshop useless was the way the plain and simple minded message was paraded as something educationally divine. It was that fake profoundness that made me look at everything skeptically. The “do good makes you feel good” theme was established when I was four years old, so there’s no need to break it down letter by letter like it was the theory of relativity. The forty minute video, the workshop leader taking questions, and the incessant need to talk about vague personal experiences were all excessively unnecessary. First, the video should ideally be five minutes long, not over thirty minutes long. The workshop leader rambled on and on about unrelated subject matters. Furthermore, the workshop leader taking questions that weren’t there was humorous, but not a smart way to spread his message. Picking on people that are mandated to be there is an act that resembles poking at a fly after ripping its wings off. Lastly, when he was speaking about his experiences I felt like I was on the train listening to homeless people go on about their past. In all, I felt that this hour long proceedings could have been better expressed in the medium of an email.
Blog Post 4
To be completely honest, I did not expect the presentation to be interesting or useful but it was pretty interesting and got to me. Almost everything the professor was saying was true and did not think about certain things until he mentioned them in the professor. He said that to release stress from yourself and all your problems is by volunteering and helping others with their problems. It changes things up in your life. You take some time from your life to be on the other said of the table and be the one without the problem. I did not think about it that way until the enrichment workshop. The workshop was helpful in showing ways to be happy outside of the common ways to become happy. It was a useful hour to be at the workshop and listen to the professor.
Blog Post 4
I was not expecting the enrichment workshop to be very interesting or helpful but I was pleasantly surprised. We were shown a video about how helping others often makes us feel better and even live longer. The professer used the phrase “It’s good to be good… and science says it’s so.” I like the phrase a lot and I think it is 100% true. In my personal experience I do find that when I do something nice for someone else for no particular reason, it makes me happy. I felt this way about the NY Cares project and this workshop inspires me to volunteer again.