In all honesty, the leadership workshop wasn’t the awe-inspiring moment in my life where I finally realized that I should go out in the world and make a change right that instant, but I guess it did have its benefits at least. I’ve heard several presentations like this before, so it was somewhat of a generic motivator. I’m not too sure if I fully agree with what everything the professor described leadership as, but I do agree it’s important to have at least some leadership skills. It is necessary to know how to lead at times when people around you need one. So um, I actually took down notes during the presentation so:

• Talked about the cruise turn-over (bad leadership) and the hudson river airplane landing (good leadership)
• The building of the Brooklyn Bridge: Was the first suspension bridge
• John and Washington/Emily Roebling: died before it was finished
• Did something no else would have attempted even if no one thought it was possible=leaders
• Abraham Lincoln
• Goal: Wanted the country to stay together
• He put his president candidate rivals on his cabinet-only president to do this
• Wanted the best and the brightest
• He claimed the moment to be a leader when he realized that slavery is the problem of his generation
• Asked questions with other people:
• What makes a leader one? Can anyone be one?
• What kind of leadership roles in Baruch?
• Went to session with a intro and questioning of Baruch students and super-seniors who has some leadership quality/role to them
• Told us:
• Time management is important. Only way to balance leadership roles and academia. Should always put academics first b/c you are first and foremost a student.
• Join clubs to make long-lasting friends and network connections for internships and job-opportunities and leadership opportunities.
• Because your “freshman friends as your current clusters aren’t real friends”….since you won’t be seeing them much ever again….
• Residential Assistant…one of the jobs they were talking about. A lot of fraternities’ positions.
• Get involved in student life to make the most of Baruch and to put yourself ahead of others.

I found it interesting that there were so many super seniors still in Baruch. Are they just graduate students or are they real “super seniors”? I do agree that joining clubs really do help you in the long run to make friends, since I have experienced that in high school. It is sad that because Baruch is so big and the way classes are organized in college, it’s really hard to make long-lasting friends, so clubs really are the way to go.

And then there’s time management.

…let’s not get into that, eheheh…

Soo, student life. I’m not quite sure what exactly is “student life” even to this day, but I’m guessing whatever it is, it means more extracurricular activities pertaining to school. I would agree it would be a good thing to do, both for social/mental reasons and humanitarian reasons (…and resume reasons  //SHOT). It also reminded me that I should really get a job. Oh, the pains of growing up.