Author: j.hu11

Today I attend a Starr career development workshop explaining what LinkedIn is and how to properly use it. The workshop was an hour long and I thought the workshop was going to boring and that LinkedIn was not that useful. I was mistaken the workshop was very interesting and I learned quite a bit about LinkedIn. LinkedIn is basically a social network platform for professionals. I was taught how to properly make a good profile, with tips about profile summary and headline. The guy also explained different features of LinkedIn like how you can see who has viewed your profile. He also explained the benefits of using LinkedIn. LinkedIn allows you to connect with professionals in a different way because resumes and emails get lost or forgotten easily. You can search for professionals, making it easier to network. Also there are job postings on LinkedIn and LinkedIn will recommend jobs based on your experience, preferences, location, interests and skills. This workshop taught me a lot and introduced a new resource for my future career development. LinkedIn is very useful resource that I will definitely use. It allows for me to easier create a network of professionals as well as manage them. This will most definitely help me get a job in the future and I have very glad that I went.

For this blog post I went to the Museum of Natural History. The museum was a wonderful experience and even though I had been there once before 5 years ago, the second time is just as good as the first. The museum offers a ton of exhibits and some are new like the mummy exhibit. But my favorite exhibit has to be the Hall of Biodiversity. I saw it on my last visit and it filled me with awe and such good memories that I had to go again this time. I like this exhibit because I really like animals and it has so many models of animals everywhere showing various different ecosystems and the creatures that live inside it. This leads into the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life where the giant whale is. The model whale is life size and its eye opening to realize how small we are compared to such a large creature. The Hall of Ocean Life also houses a ton of underwater ecosystems and model creatures that live inside them giving an insight to a land that would be very difficult to experience in real life.

This trip to the Museum of Natural History really helped me a lot. I was stressing out a lot these past 2 weeks over school work, work, and family and going to the museum really helped me relieve some of that stress. It was a break from all the work as well as helping me cop with the transition from high school to college.

This is a picture of me attending Brother Bingo for Delta Sigma Pi.  The way it worked was that recruits and brothers each had their own bingo sheet and recruits had to find brothers to sign different spots on the sheet and vice versa.  The bingo portion of this event really helped to start conversations with the brothers.  This gave me the opportunity to talk and ask upperclassmen and sophomores about Baruch, their majors and why they chose it, what Delta Sigma Pi is like and why they joined.  These conversations really gave me a sense of what Delta Sigma Pi was like; all the brothers seemed pretty tightly knit like a family.  The conversations also helped me figure out what the different majors were because before I didn’t really know what they were I just picked finance because I didn’t want to do accounting.  For now I feel like finance is still probably the best choice for me but now I have a better understanding of what it is, what it entails, and what to expect.

Freshman blocks really limit the exposure to new people.  Every class is pretty much the same people and this event really allowed me to meet a variety of people, from different majors, to different age, and different interests.  And the bingo aspect let me learn more about them because it forces you to ask questions you wouldn’t normally ask like their favorite ice cream flavor and this allows for a better connection.  This even forces you to talk to new people and it was very awkward at first but slowly after talking to more people it got easier which is important especially during the first semester because being in a completely new environment with completely new people you have to start over making friends.