I don’t think that the enrichment workshop was significant. It wasn’t even during the actual Freshman Seminar class, so that was kind of annoying. Everyone was anxious to leave, I know I was. I think I wouldn’t have minded as much if it was during the scheduled class, and if we didn’t have to take a “tour” of the place. I don’t hate art galleries, I just find tours boring. I think the one thing I learned was that this gallery even existed.
So, about a month ago, we had an enrichment workshop which was part of our Freshman Seminar class. Everyone showed up to class that day because that’s how excited they were. Or maybe it’s because we needed to attend the workshop to pass the class. Whichever one you prefer really. Personally, unlike my classmates I enjoy looking at certain types of art. However, the art collection at the Ruben Museum was rather lacking to be honest. I understand that the museum is small, and a part of a city college, but still, I would have liked to see some more diversity. Furthermore, I think that if students are working in a place like this, they should at least have some sort of enthusiasm towards this field, because students are already bored when they walk in the door. But other than that, I think it’s great that our school has some sort of method for us to experience art so close to us and for free.
I want to be honest when writing my blog post. Saying that, i thought the Enrichment Workshop was a waste of time. It was long and boring, and out of schedule meaning it wasn’t even on a monday. i wasted my time, but I’m not that mad. we basically just saw a bunch of pictures, some were historic, some were abstract, few had meaning and some were sexually graphic. but i guess when it comes to art anythings possible right? well I’m not the type of person to have an out of body experience when looking at colors or pictures. if i like them i like them, but other than that i don’t feel anything else. Im not the type of person to be inspired when looking at a simple photo, i mean i don’t even know what’s so special about the mona lisa. i mean its vintage but it just a woman who was originally a man.
The enrichment workshop was quite interesting. I actually looked at the pictures carefully and found it pretty amazing. Even though I am not into art, there was one picture that stood out to me from all of the rest. That one picture where there was a man in Time Square in front of a movie theater I believe. This stood out to me because Time Square back in the days looked quite different from what Time Square is today. If you walk through the streets today, you would see so many flashing lights from all directions. You would also see this red stair case where you can actually get an amazing view of the whole city. I feel as if over the years, they turned the city as a tourist attraction and lost the original values that it contained. It made me realize how much money was spent here and how this city is truly revolved around money!
Well since the enrichment workshop happened a while ago, I honestly don’t remember much of it. It didn’t really inspire me at all because I don’t have any real interest in art. I mean some of the images were nice or interesting but this didn’t change my life or leave me with something to remember. Besides finding out that we have an art gallery I fell i didn’t get much out of it. I don’t see myself going back there unless I have to. Basically I didn’t really get much out of it, being there didn’t really do anything for me.
Since the enrichment workshop was a month ago I don’t really remember any specific details about it other then it was boring. The trip to the Rubin Museum was pointless because I did not learn anything from there. Some pictures were nice and captured my attention like the picture of New York but most of them were just portraits of arts that I have no interest in analyzing furthermore. The structure of the Museum was rather boring and plain and it was lacking to me, maybe that’s usually how all art museums are but I don’t enjoy art to appreciate it. Therefore this workshop did not inspire me at all as blunt as that sounds, and I will not visit any art museums in the future.
In all honesty, I didn’t find going to the Art Gallery helpful. It felt like some sort of a waste of time. The only thing I did get out of it was that we had an Art Gallery which I never knew before. It was interesting watching all the images that were taken and seeing the stories behind some of the photographs that were taken. Other than that I don’t think I’ll be going there anytime soon.
The last couple of months… first started out with my parents constantly on the phone with me, asking if I was in Baruch on time… to me being completely on my own through it all. Waking up to the same sound of the my alarm clock everyday at 5am, getting dressed and sleeping on almost every train ride was what I’ve been dealing with these past couple of months. But I loved coming to the city, and the new things I encountered. It was defiantly hard getting adjusted to this kind of change, but gradually I realized where I needed to be. My transition in Baruch, I would say was a sense of reality. College isn’t at all like how high school was. Although we had block schedules that made it seem like high school, the work in each given class wasn’t at all the same. However, seeing the same faces over and over again made it feel comforting and easy– in a sense, but trying to manage my time accordingly was difficult. I’m not going to lie, it was a challenge adapting to the changes as an incoming freshman. The amount of work my math teacher gave me felt almost impossible to complete. The turnstiles were a pain in the neck and the elevators, I could swear to you was about to fall one time, from the amount of people that were on it. But you have no other choice but to get used to it. Fro class on the other hand, was more of a laid-back kind of class. I mean we had blogs like these to post but it wasnt so bad. Oh and lastly, I’ve never been so addicted to coffee ever since I started coming to Baruch. I just gotta say thanks, my heart has never raced so fast.
I feel that enrichment workshops are waste of time. I have not gone to anyone of them. I did not if they even existed in Baruch. Reading the blog posts, many people when to the Rubin Museum. I really do not like art museums, I am really into science and stuff like that. I feel like going to an art museum would be a waste of my time.
I felt that the enrichment workshop was pretty boring. I mainly think this because art is not something that i have a strong like for. The Rubin museum was probably not somewhere that I would visit or recommend someone to visit. Some of the art was nice but not something that I enjoyed. I just simply do not have a passion in art so Rubin museum was not the best place for me.
