Author: a.celestino

I had the pleasure to sit in a LinkedIn workshop, hosted by the STARR career center. This workshop was educational and showed me how to create and start using the site LinkedIn. This is a site that helps you get jobs and internships, based on what field you want to work in the future. The workshop  wasn’t very long so it wasn’t as informative as it could’ve been.

They had me set up my account, which was similar to signing up for multiple social media sites such as Instagram and Facebook. The layout of the site was easy to maneuver and it is good for you to be able to gain internships during your time in college.

I think this site should be used by every student at Baruch because it is easy to  maneuver and because it will help get you internships that are needed if you want to get a job in many fields of work. Internships provided by this site gets you an edge over people in job searching as those who don’t get an internship during college, don’t have a resume that is as good as yours.

My time at the writing center was educational and inspirational. I learned how to write academic essays in the present and past tense. I also learned sentence structure which I struggled with most of high school. The atmosphere was quiet but you could tell everyone was learning something from the experience just as I was. The past and present tense were difficukt for me to grasp at first but after a while, I began to get the hang of it and now can separate the two at will.

Sentence structure was the down part of my essays throughout high school and my first two college papers. A comment I would always get on essays were “sentence flow was poor” or “writing was sloppy” or “had could points but your writing was disordered and sloppy”. But now after my time at the writing center I can now write sentences clearly in a certain tense and I don’t have poor sentence structure.

My time at the writing center was enjoyable and allowed me to realize my mistakes in my writing skills. This experience compels me to want to go there again if I’m having writer’s block or I feel my writing is not clearly getting my point across to the reader.

I had recently attended a Latino Heritage Event on Thursday, it was family feud. The atmosphere was great and I enjoyed myself as the audience seemed to be more into it than the teams competing, except for maybe USG. They were jumping and cheering at every right answer and really seemed to be into it. The crowd had many outburst at some of the answers. The crowd was screaming out answers just to maybe, if they were lucky, have a person on any team hear it and use it. An example of this is, a person answered that he ate rice with his hands and the crowd went crazy. They couldn’t believe it, they were yelling better answers and he came up with “rice”. The diversity is what astounded me the most they were all kinds of ethnicities there. I met a Pakistani senior, his name was Zain and he made the night more enjoyable for me. Some of the questions for the game varied from “Best Latino athlete” to “What food do you eat with your hands”. There was so much joy and laughter throughout and I felt that it was a great night for everyone not only myself. Sadly, I wasn’t able to see how it finished out but I will be going to more of these events in the future.