Author: s.qiu1

On October 27, I went to the resume/cover letter workshop hosted by UCLA. When I entered, everyone was eating Yaya rice balls; I took a Japanese rice ball and started talking with my friends about resumes. We were all ready for our resumes to be ripped apart by the alumnus.

The workshop began with Sunny giving a presentation on examples of contact information formats, what to include in the different parts of a resume (education, work experience, leadership experience, and skills). The presentation also included how to write a bullet point describing your experience in a professional, effective way. I learned that you should have two resumes; one in chronological order and one for a specific position.

After the position, we got into groups with a alumni to help review our resume; my entire group was all marketing majors so, we paired up with David, the alumni who was also a marketing major. We went around one at a time, giving our resume to him to review. I received very good feedback on how to improve my resume, which included adding more descriptions to my resume and writing out the dates. After David reviewed my resume, I gave it to Sunny, who wrote feedback all over my resume. I then went to the other group and we talked about how communication and networking was very important for every profession.

Overall, my experience was great as I got to receive a lot of feedback on how to improve my resume and meet new people.

       

-Suzy Qiu

I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art for the first time on September 30 with my sister, and I was amazed at how big it was and the large variety of exhibitions they had. The first sight I visited was the Egyptian Arts as that was the first exhibition in front of me after I paid for my ticket and entered. I liked seeing the artworks and sculptures of Ancient Egypt as I learned a lot about them in art history so, I was able to make connections to these artworks to the ones we studied in class. My most favorite piece  was the tombs because I heard so much about them in the past, but never actually got to see them in person so, seeing them in person was cool. From Egyptian Arts, I visited the Chinese Arts, South Asian Arts, Medieval Arts, Korean Arts, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, and Musical Instruments. It was amazing looking at all the jewelry, ceramics, paintings, and the sculptures (especially the really huge ones). I enjoyed seeing all the arts, but my most favorite was the Astor Chinese Garden Court. I loved seeing the Chinese-style buildings since, I don’t see it very often in New York; the amount of detail and effort the creators put in was evident in the pieces of art. The scenery inside the Court was beautiful, almost like it was out of a book; I really loved it. I would definitely go back so that I could check out the other parts of the museum I didn’t get to visit, and spend more time looking at the works of arts.

I visited the Met Shop because I was curious what they had, but the prices were too much; a keychain and a bookmark was around $12 each. I also visited the Met Shop where they were selling pieces of art and I saw a vase for around $300. However, the store did have many nice souvenirs that were cool: cards, books, post-its, pens, magnets, maps, etc.

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 .       -Suzy Qiu