The first thing everyone tells you about the “College Experience” is that you get a lot more free time to yourself. With morning classes, Working 30 hours a week, Family responsibilities, Prior commitments, and friends there comes a point where it feels like there’s not enough hours in a day to get through life. You start out studying for a music test get side tracked by a call from your boss and end up having to drive your mom to your aunt’s house and forget about the paper due in 48 hours and the test you have to study for that’s the following day. Overall college life has just been a big step for me and i’m trying to adjust.
This morning my friend Noor asked me “what did you write your blog post on?” it sent me back in a spiral. I completely forgot that we had a blog post due Wednesday night. She told me about the event she was going to with a group of my fellow pears from our freshmen seminar class and would count towards the career workshop section of the blogs we had to have written. Going to a Bloomberg seminar brought back a lot of memories from me. As the presenter went on to explain what stocks were, what a Bloomberg terminal was, and the amazing facts behind not only how expensive they were but the vast opportunities that it offered took me back to my days as an intern working at Macquarie. My favorite part of the internship was the fact I had access to a Bloomberg terminal and got to physically trade with it. The charts on Bloomberg are so much better than the ones I use now on Trading-View. The instructor advised us on many details about the terminals. Facts that I didn’t even know. One for all was the amazing fact that there is a small key at the bottom that when pressed you get live help from a Bloomberg operator. Using one for 6 weeks I was not aware of this at all and instantaneously regretted all of the minor questions I asked my boss while on the job.
Overall the experience was great. I had read online about Baruch being one of the very few colleges to have a live trading floor and was excited to be able to see it. As a future finance major it felt nice to be welcomed with open arms into the trading floor and learn about the different learning programs offered by Baruch. Ill definitely be signing up for more in the future after I can finish all the work I have on my plate now.
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