Author: a.ledain

On Oct 24th, I attended the Fall 2017 Diversity Pipeline Career Programs Panel & Networking Event. The event was hosted by the STARR Career Development Center. It included many programs catered to minority students, such as myself, like SEO, MLT, and the T. Howard Foundation.

Before going to the event, I was a bit hesitant. However, I knew that this was a great opportunity that I shouldn’t pass up on and so I went. The fact that it was co-sponsored by organizations such as NABA and Success Network, which I’m apart of, gave me extra incentive to go.

The event was split into two sections. The first section was the Career Panel where the moderator would pose a question and the representatives for these programs would take a few minutes to respond to them. The responses were great and very helpful in terms of understanding how to get into these programs and how they can benefit you. I took notes on the phone on all the seven programs to see which ones I might to be interested in.

After the Career Panel, there was a Networking session where we got to speak one-on-one with the representatives. I took that time to speak with representatives America Needs You (ANY) and SEO. They answered my questions and encouraged me to apply if I don’t know exactly what career path I want to follow.

In the end, I was very glad I went to this event. Three programs I intend to apply to from this event are ANY, MLT, and SEO. One thing I noticed for many of these programs is that they require a high GPA and urge students to participate in clubs and other leadership opportunities. This is very good to know as a freshman as I see what specific steps I need to take to get into these programs.

– Ardouin

On September 25th, I had my first meeting with the Academic Advisement office. Ms. Brown, my advisor, was assigned to me by a program I am apart of at Baruch called the Success Network. She reached out to me a few weeks ago and within a few days, we had our meeting.

Before going to the meeting, I had to print out a copy of my DegreeWorks audit. I looked it up and found out that it’s a worksheet that tells you the courses you’ve already taken and the courses you need to take in order to graduate with a certain major.

When we finally met, the advisement session went great. We sat down and talked about the courses I needed to take next semester in order to be eligible to enter in the Zicklin School of Business. She showed me three classes that she strongly recommends and gave me another pool of five classes from which I have to pick two.

The session was better than I expect because I thought my advisor was going to be so extremely busy and stiff that she would simply rush the session along. However, she was really nice and took the time to clear up some confusions I had about switching majors and other issues related to my major.

In the end, I was very glad I went to this session. Registration for Spring ‘18 opens up soon and I was glad I was able to meet with someone before the wave of students eventually come in. Also, I’m glad I was able to tell my friends about it and they were able to get advisement for the upcoming semester as well.

– Ardouin