For my third blog post, I attended an interview workshop by STARR.  This session was about approaching and how to handle a case interview.  A case interview is the analysis of a business question.  The interview is an interactive process where the interviewer presents a business problem and asks you for your thoughts.  Their was a presentation and worksheet on how to prepare and what to do for these case interviews.  The steps to approaching the interview are: repeat, ask, stop, construct, answer, loosen up, and summarize.  This session helped me a lot and I hope to use these skills in the future.

For my student life activity, I decided to go to the club fair on October 1st.  I went to check out the clubs that Baruch had to offer.  There was a variety of clubs that Baruch students could get involved in.  There were many types of clubs; like fraternities, music club, business clubs, and many cultural clubs.  I ended up signing up to get more information for many clubs like the Hong Kong Club, United Chinese Language Association, Finance Leaders, and Math Club.  The club fair was a great event because it gave a chance for all the clubs of Baruch to show their great qualities.  I attended the club fair hoping to join some clubs.  I think joining clubs are important to meet new people.  Joining clubs helps students make new friends and make connections.  I think the club fair helped me join some clubs and that will help me make connections.

I took the V.A.R.K. quiz in the freshman seminar handbook to help figure out how I learn best.  The point of the quiz is to find out whether you are a visual, auditory, read/write, or kinesthetic learner.  The quiz asked hypothetical and situational questions to gauge what kind of person I am.  My answers to these questions showed my learning tendencies.  My results were very even across the board.  I scored 4 V’s, 4 A’s, 4 R’s, and 5 K’s.  From these results, I concluded that I am a very diverse learner.  I can learn from almost any way a teacher presents things.  I also prefer to see different methods when learning to do things, whether it is academic or not.  I think it is best to learn things different ways and not the same way each time.  This explains my results.  This VARK quiz helps me academically because it encourages me to learn things from different perspectives.  I plan to do this throughout my freshman year to help me do well in my classes.  I encourage all students to take this quiz because it can help them discover how they learn best  and gives them a clear plan.