For my student life workshop, I attended the FUSION Fear Factor event. The event was held in the multipurpose room, where a myriad of clubs competed in a food eating contest. Based off the stunt and dare television show, “Fear Factor,” contestants were racing to eat ‘exotic’ foods ranging from chicken hearts to silk worms. Pairs were chosen from each club to take on the challenge. The last pair standing failed the challenged and were immediately eliminated. As the game progressed, the foods that were given became more and more uncanny and eventually contestants had to result to the drink and chew method. Although I didn’t stay for too long, the event was unusually fun and offered me an insight into what club events in Baruch were really like.  

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Today I completed the “Vark Quiz.” The questionnaire provided me with more information about my learning preferences. There were 16 questions consisting of four choices, and to my knowledge, that had no wrong answers and that profiled you on the type of learner you were, In the quiz, I scored a 6 on visual, 12 on aural, 9 on reading/writing, and 15 on kinesthetic. Through those scores, I was classified as a multimodal learner, who is “keen to learn with several modes switched on to assist my learning, and I do require a long time to collect all of the information that I require to learn a new task or take on new skills.” Through this quiz, I was able to see the type of learner that I am and hopefully, feel I can now look back and recognise different learning styles at different times in my life.

Today I went to the Networking 101 career workshop. At first, I had trouble finding the room, but I was able find it after navigating through a multitude of doors. My instructor was really ‘natural’ to the point where everything she said seemed as if it was scripted and she wasn’t afraid to step out of her comfort zone to teach us how to act and not act during an job interview. She made it a rule we had to be presentable in every interview that the first impression is the most important. From there, she branched off to how much eye contact should be used, the different postures, and hand gestures. Afterwards, she paired us up with other students and made us pretend as if we were the employer and student. She also taught us icebreakers when the interview gets uncomfortable and awkward. This career class has taught me a lot about how job interviews were like in the real world and has given me a heads up for future interviews.