Freshman Seminar Fall 17 BRB

Author: s.natanov

Starr Career Workshop

On 11/7 I attended a stars careers workshop. I attended the cover letters andother business correspondenceworkshop. In the workshop, the instructors taught us the do’s and dont of writing a cover letter. They taught us how to organize a cover letter (with the intro, body and conclusion). Then we had an interactive group session where we all got into different groups and were given 3 different cover letters by the same person and we were asked to rank the likelihood of hiring that person based on their cover letter and explain why. Not only was this workshop really informative but it was also really interactive which (in my opinion) engaged everyone to want to participate.
I really enjoyed this workshop because it is so relevant to my life. In the past, when applying to jobs, I would be asked to write cover letters but I had no idea what that was. Generally that would result in me asking my brothers and cousins to send me theirs so I can get an idea of what I should write. After this detailed workshop, I know I no longer need to guess about what I should write rather, I have now gained the knowledge of writing one on my own.
PS I also have a sheet that was signed by one of the instructors
-Sarah Natanov

Metropolitan Museum of Arts

This past week, my friend and I took a trip to the metropolitan Museum of Art. Out of all the amazing exhibits that they have, we chose to go to the European exhibit. We walked around the beautiful art pieces, from sculptures to paintings. Out of all the art pieces we passed by, two Italian pieces stood out. One of the paintings that was interesting was a portrait from 1470 of a young man painted by Biagio d’Antonio. Biagio d’Antonio was influenced by Andrea Verrocchio. The depiction of the young man himself was drawn in great detail, but the background scenery was drawn with even greater detail. Biagio detailed the hills, a lake, trees and drew it wonderfully, using different perspective techniques (that we learned in art history class) such as overlapping and atmospheric perspective. The second art piece that I had admired was a piece painted by Francesco Francia in 1550-1540. This picture was painted for a great Renaissance collector, Isabella d’Este. Her son, Frederigo Gonzaga was taken as hostage by the papal court in Rome as a hostage, therefore they gave her this painting (that was of her son) to help console her. These paintings, amongst many others, are magnificent to look at. Each piece of art has its own history and reasoning for it, and it is so interesting to look into. Another reason why this trip to the museum was so interesting for me is that I can understand techniques and reasoning’s for these art pieces. Taking art history gave me a different outlook on the pieces of art and left a long-lasting appreciation for it too.

-Sarah Natanov