Freshman Seminar Fall 17 BRB

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

The Academic Advisement Office at Baruch offers a range of ways to help future planning not only at your time at Baruch, but also outside of Baruch as well. At Academic Advisement, their main focus is to help students apply and sort classes in such that they are able to meet the requirements needed to enter the school of their choice. They help you to select classes that are necessary and helps you to reach the credits needed for that semester/year. Utilizing the Academic Advisement Office is vital to student who need help with organizing their years at Baruch. Learning more about the Academic Advisement Office helped relieve an overwhelming amount of stress as I would be guided along the path of academic success.

Moses Choi

Last Friday, I attended the first meeting of the Ascend Legacy Leadership Program that I got into. This program was pretty prestigious and I was surprised when I got accepted. I had applied to this program the night before the deadline after hearing it from a friend. The group interview, in my opinion, didn’t seem to be in my favor since the other two interviewees were both more experienced. But I was glad I got in because I felt I can learn a lot through this program.

Arriving a bit late to the meeting due to train delays, I felt kind of awkward when everyone looked at me as I entered the room and took a seat. It was a day where the mentees were suppose to meet all the mentors. I felt kind of nervous because I didn’t really know anyone, but I also felt excited to meet new people. Although half the mentors were not present, the meeting turned out to be a success because we were able to learn a lot from the present mentors as they were all experienced in their field. Afterwards, we even went out to eat at Nyonya in Chinatown and I quickly became friends with the others.

-Junjie Gao

I’ve actually been quite excited and eager to go to this trip for the past week actually. My art history professor said the photo gallery is quite a a good place to visit. However, the only downside was that it officially opened on October 6.

I was still able to visit today however and the photos that I’ve seen looked absolutely amazing. There were photos of authors, leaders such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and even just commoners who willingly posed for photos. A lot of them were from the 1940s.

Overall, the gallery was quite intriguing and interesting for me. I would recommend this place for anyone who love art, photography or utilize their art history skills to analyze these pictures.               

–CALVIN HUANG

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

It isn’t always easy to adjust to an environment you don’t know much about, especially when there are so many lives and events going on around you. But sometimes finding something that interests you or something you feel like you can take part in makes the transition less tedious.  For me this happened with the Club Fair on September 28. I decided to spend my break with my friends participating in the Club Fair and to see what opportunities my school had to offer. At first it was a bit overwhelming with the groups of people rushing from table to table and so many people interacting with you all at once, but slowly we focused our attention towards one club at a time and went with the flow of the event. I came across clubs and events that I never knew existed such as the Archery Club, an anime club and even an ESports club. The representatives from each club did an excellent job advertising the benefits and lifestyle of their clubs, with some relating back to their experiences as a Freshman and giving us advice moving forward. Although I didn’t select any club in particular, it was great to see how much Baruch had to offer in the form of its clubs that weren’t exactly traditionally academic. It certainly peaked my interest and actually had me considering my plans and priorities for the future.

-Amrit Singh

 

 

With over 160 clubs, Baruch offers every student a chance to engage and meet up with people who have similar interest. When I first learned about how many clubs Baruch had I was really surprised. I was not sure about which clubs I wanted to join, so I went to a few of them to learn what they had to offer. While walking through the club rooms, I saw that one of the rooms was pretty crowded and went inside to see what it was about. The club turned out to be an anime club called the Japanese Anime Asylum. Since I was curious about what the club did, I went in to ask a few questions. While anime did not really interest me, the people were nice and told me about what they did and how the club worked. I am not sure if I want to join the anime club, but was very happy about how pleasant everyone was. I am really pleased that Baruch has so many clubs and was surprised about how warm everyone was. Other than the anime club, there are several other clubs that seem very interesting and fun. Baruch’s wide variety of clubs allows for everyone to find a club or place that they can enjoy.

– Jenny

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

On October 3rd I went to the Interview Prep Workshop with Target. The room was quite big and comfortable so I already knew I was going to enjoy myself. I wasn’t really sure of what I was going to learn and if I will need it any time soon. This is because I already have a job and don’t plan on going on and an interview anytime soon. However, what I learned is very helpful and useful for the future. There were three representatives from Target that each discussed a portion of the powerpoint. We started off by each person giving an introduction about themselves and the presenters talking about their role at Target. For the most part I knew everything. It was straightforward and pretty self explanatory. However, they taught me a different way to look at interviews. Before I used to think of interviews as something in which the other person tries to figure more about you and nothing more. However, the people at the workshop taught me that in a way it is you selling yourself. So its okay if you are a little cocky. You need to sell them why you are suitable for the job. What was even more surprising was that they told us that we need to tell them our weakness too. This would show honesty and that you truly know yourself. I will definitely  keep these two things in mind when preparing for an interview. Overall it was a great experience in which I learned more then expected.

Rahul Rajput

P.S. I forgot to take a picture because I thought I only needed the signature for job related blogpost. Attached is a signature of one of the staff members.