Bloomberg 2 Workshop

This wasn’t something I planned on going to nor did I have known that this kind of workshop existed at Baruch. I first learned about this workshop from a friend of mine and decided that as a group we would go together. I thought this workshop would be an influential person making a speech on how he or she got rich. I mean it is called “Bloomberg workshop” and the guy is the 11th richest person in America and the former mayor of NYC. But as I came into the workshop I saw a professor giving a lecture in the stock hall and didn’t think that was the workshop. It didn’t take long before I sat down and began to understand what they meant by “Bloomberg workshop”. Everyone inside the room was eager to learn about this program called “Bloomberg”. I never knew such programs existed before. It was my first time using this program and I have to admit it’s a pretty nice program. I believe the professor told us the reason why there are only 10 Bloomberg terminals in this room is that it costs $2000 a month to rent the program out per computer. During the workshop, I got to experience many different aspects of the program like exporting a stock list onto an excel sheet and also to be able to maneuver through the program. Although many of things that were said in the lecture I didn’t know at first I started to get a grasp at what the program was meant to do and why it’s important to have knowledge of this program. My favorite part of the program has to be when the professor showed us how social media directed at the company’s affect the prices of the stock. Overall it was a fun experience going to my first workshop with my group of friends not knowing what to do on the Bloomberg terminals and having a fun experience trying to follow up with the professor.