When you walk into the Whitney, you will be faced with this tall, wide, and blue elevator where it takes you to the 6th floor. Located on the 6th floor of the Whitney Museum, a painting that almost took up the size of the wall with a lifeless aura around it. The painting is called Felix Partz, June 5, 1994, by the artist A.A. Bronson. The painting features a deadly, skinny man with brown hair and brown bread dressed in a black and white collar shirt that looks far too big for him. Lying down on a polka dot bed with a black and red plaid blanket over his lower body, the man, Felix Partz stares ahead into the distance with his hollowed-eyes. His cheeks were sucked in due to the contraction of AIDS, his mouth slightly opened. There are many colors in the background surrounding him; the yellow, blue, red, purple pillows, but the sullen look on his face makes the colors look so dull. The painting depicted Felix Partz few hours before he passed away and A.A. Bronson wanted to show that even when one is near its deathbed, they are still part of us. A.A. Bronson was very detailed with the colors and had a special way of painting. If one looks closely, you can see that this painting was painted by dotting the colors on. Looking specifically at the polka dot bed sheets, each circle is created by dotting the colors, CMYK on top of each other. It is really intriguing, as you take a step closer to examine the colors on the canvas. The colors that lay on top of each other to create another color.
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Investment Management Club
The Investment Management Group (IMG) is a group of ambitious undergraduate students at Baruch College who manage a portfolio of stocks spanning across a variety of sectors.
During their general interest meeting – which was completely full – the chief officers explained how the club is managed and what we would expect if we joined the club. They also told us that IMG was very selective, and explained how to join the club. At the end of their presentation, I asked several questions to show my interest in the group.
After two successful interviews, I am now a part of IMG. I was very excited when I received the congratulations email from the CEO, which read:
“Congratulations! On behalf of the Investment Management Group, I would like to extend you an offer to join our group as a Junior Analyst. It was a very selective process from a pool of highly talented individuals; this semester’s acceptance rate was 7%. Your interviews demonstrated tremendous potential in your ability to become an Analyst in the group. We look forward, and are very excited, to see you put your abilities to work and develop the necessary skills for becoming an analyst.”
As a junior analyst, I’ll be attending training seminars and will have first-hand experience working with different teams. Since I am majoring infinance and I aspire to be an investment banker in the near future, this club is perfect for me.
Club Fair
Although I was already in United Chinese Language Association club, I still decided to go to the club fair to visit them and support them! Even though I am in a club, I never went to a club fair; I didn’t go to the one during conviction day because I just didn’t bother. I heard of the club from someone I know and joined their Facebook page for updates and that’s how I joined their first general interest meeting and it just went from there. Back to the club fair, I was amazed by what was happening, even though all the clubs weren’t present there. A lot of major clubs were and they were all welcoming and giving out free stuff, like free food, free drinks, free water bottles, free mugs, free t-shirts, and free condoms. It was interesting as this guy walked around the whole gym handing people condoms and people just hanging around for free stuff. I didn’t bother with the free stuff as I was too lazy so I stuck around for an hour at my club’s booth helping them pitch and taking their candies. Since standing around was boring, the chair members of the club decided to play limbo with the club sign and I joined for one round. Overall the club fair was fun, a lot of free stuff, too bad I was lazy that day or else I would’ve gotten the free t-shirts, they were cute. Anyway student life for me has been great, tomorrow we are having a mooncake DIY workshop, where we will be making mooncakes because today is the Moon Festival. I am looking forward to it because it is my first time making mooncakes, I don’t know how we will make it in a classroom but we will. Happy Moon Festival!
Economics Club Meeting
For my second activity for the freshman seminar, I went to the Finance and Economics Society meeting on Thursday during club hours. I initially joined this club because I had to join one for freshman seminar, but also because economics is my favorite class and I could put it on my resume to impress places that I’m looking at for internships or jobs in the future. To start off the meeting, I introduced myself to some of the club members because I hadn’t been to the club before. I talked to one of the clubs directors who gave me the sign in sheet and told me to put my name and email down to join. He told me that although I had missed that weeks activity of having my resume looked over, that I could still bring it In next week to have it looked over even more. Besides this, I was told that the club talks about economic issues going on around the world, concepts that are taught in certain classes, as well as how the economy affects us daily. For this meeting however, we went over the resumes and as soon as that was done, we then were allowed to talk to one another. I didn’t know anyone else at the meeting so I talked with another freshman at the club, Michael. He turned out to be a very interesting person and we share the common interests of the company Alibaba, sneakers, and the stock market in general since he is an investor as well. Overall, it was very interesting going to the meeting and I look forward to staying with this club for the rest of the year.
Delta Sigma Pi
My name is Irene Kerpelev and I am currently a freshman undergraduate student at Baruch college. Many of the older students and teachers started off the semester by saying how important clubs were in Baruch and how different the students’ college experiences would be if they became part of at least one. A commuter school by nature, Baruch makes it simple to attend classes without creating bonds. However, with clubs friendships and community participation flourishes.
A friend of mine, also a freshman student, told me about a business fraternity, Delta Sigma Pi (DSP). I decided to attend a meeting and see if I liked it. The meeting involved free food (always a bonus!) and a panel of older students discussing their successful internships. They talked about choosing their majors, applying for internships, and how much help they had received from DSP. Each member had their own unique stories, experiences, and advice. Well fed and attentive, the potential new members sat in silence and took in their words seriously. Many of the things the older members talked about felt very relatable to me, and certainly to most, if not all, of the audience.
I really felt like I understood Baruch and its students more after the meeting, and every member was extremely nice and approachable. I remember the names of several of the older members and I felt the bonds and strength of the beliefs they shared. After the meeting, I understood what older students meant when they said a club would make Baruch a completely different experience. I can say with certainty that I will attend more meetings and become a full fledged member of DSP, because I am truly interested in the club and the people who are part of it.
Beta Alpha Psi
Beta Alpha Psi Icebreaker’s was a very entertaining workshop. It is a business fraternity and I know they all put emphasis in connections and brotherhood. I was unsure if I wanted to join, and went solely for the interest of seeing what it was like. I went with a couple of friends just to see what the environment is like.
There were basically several bonding getting to know people games. The first one was sharing our embarrassing stories, fun facts, and dreams and goals with each other. We had to get a skittle and based on its color we would answer a questions. Second there was a egg breaking challenge, where we had to create inventions that would stop an egg from breaking after being dropped 10 feet. We used bubble wrap and cotton balls, as did everyone and it still didn’t work. Lastly, we all wrote fun facts about ourselves on a paper, and tossed it around the room. The goal was to find whose it belonged to
You need to attend a specific amount of meetings to join. I will see if I am still interested but I really did enjoy this workshop. It showed me a new side to what Baruch has to offer in terms of social life.
Suicide Prevention
Hi! My name is Noor and I’m a freshman here at Baruch. I recently visited a workshop that was for suicide prevention. They had this event on the 2nd floor to advocate suicide prevention. Last Sunday was National Suicide Prevention Day, so the people were trying to educate students and explain to them that there is help if you need it. This years theme for NSP day was “Take a minute, Change a life”. Basically what they are trying to say is that anyone can help. Even if you’re a super busy person, you can still help someone out. You don’t need to pay a ton of money or physically lose something to help a suicidal person. Sometimes all people need is a few uplifting words to give them hope. Sometimes they just need someone to listen to them so they don’t feel alone. Some people don’t realize how much of an issue it is because they have never been in that place or they never knew someone that was or lost them because of suicide. Sadly, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in The United States for all ages. Around 105 people die EVERYDAY in America from this. In the event they talked about Baruch’s counseling center. They really help people out in general. You don’t have to be suicidal to go there. They help if you are feeling depressed or angry or an bad feeling. You can even just go in to vent if you need it. They are a great place to know about while in college and I strongly advice people to go there whenever they need it. Statistics show that of the people that seek some sort of therapy for depression, eighty to ninety percent of them get cured. If you can at least get a person that’s depressed to seek some sort of help from therapy, they most likely succeed from it and it will help them in some sort of way. So remember, spare a minute or two whenever you find the chance. You can save a live.
Blog Post #1 Attending a Heritage Month Event. (Student Life)
Something that should be known about me is how much I love to travel. With traveling comes being introduced to new culture, making me super excited to know that Baruch had heritage months. Heritage months mean being able to travel while staying close to home. With that being said, Iwas beyond excited to attend Baruch’s “Latinx Heritage Month.” The opening ceremonies took place last week, on Thursday, September 7th; which I knew would be taking place based off the newsletters sent out weekly as a courtesy of Baruch Student Life. The opening ceremonies included a wide array of activities, which surprisingly were able to fit in the second floor area.
Let’s begin with my favorite things, THE ENERGY! It was honestly lit, in simple common slang. The energy of the people regardless of if you’re apart of the Latin community or not was high-spirited and lively. Everyone came out to have a good time, and it was welcome to everyone. There was multiple tables of the various cultural clubs that were present with great people who open themselves to make everyone feel welcome. Like the picture of me below, with the promoter of the “Ecuadorian Club” whose mottos were centered around the concepts of “never [stopping] exploring.” The Ecuadorian club also showcased their culture through bringing dishes that are familiar to them, such as Empanadas, and their version of rice and beans. There was also free “Mamitas” ice cream, which I got in the flavor of coconut cream– only further verifying the emphasized point of free campus food. Throughout all this there was a D.J who did not fail to let himself be heard as the whole building felt the music of Latinx’s opening ceremonies. There was a dance off, which I did not take part in but had the joy of watching to the popular song “Bodak Yellow” by Cardi B, however the one including Spanish lyrics. Which if you follow her on Instagram have been heard before. Along with this there was only a photo booth!! Who doesn’t love a photo booth ?? Ultimately, this was the perfect timing and very much needed as a moral booster in light of discontinuation of former President Obama’s DACA program by current President Trump (president CACA). Baruch won’t be robbed of their dreamers, wherever they are from and these heritage months continue to emphasize Baruch as a school of great diversity, I look forward to what each month has offer.
The Counseling Center
On Tuesday, September 12, 2017, I decided to visit the Counseling Center that was taken place on the 2nd floor in the Newman Vertical Campus lobby. They had a mini table set up with brochures and information on the prevention of suicide. What made me interested in going was actually from a song 1 – 800 – 273 – 8255 by Logic. Walking up, they greeted us with small gifts such as a stress ball and a credit card holder that you stick to the back of your phone (I honestly don’t know what they’re called but let’s go with that). Immediately, they introduced themselves and what their role was in Baruch. I was drawn fairly quickly due to the fact that they were so welcoming and how they are important to the Baruch community when it comes to the students’ emotional health. When asked about how a student can overcome their depression, they answered with confident about what the student should do and how they can help. A positive outcome to the Counseling Center is the fact that it is free for all students. They also offer many services for students who are looking for the one that suits them the best. Students can visit the Counseling Center if they are stressed, depressed, or have suicidal thoughts. The Counseling Center is definitely there to help ease their mind. Besides the mass amount of information they presented to us, they also displayed an information board on suicide, that includes statistics, to further educate Baruch students about suicide. At the end of the short meeting, I was content that I decided to go and learn about the Counseling Center and what they do. It is a possibility that I will be visiting the Counseling Center when I need to destress myself in the future. If you need to speak to someone in private about how or what you’re feeling, I highly recommend going to the Counseling Center. 
Baruch ESA Blog#1
The Baruch ESA Club doesn’t ring too far from home. When I was in high school, I was a part of a similar club. Although I had already plan to go to other clubs that would serve a more practical purpose in helping my college experience, a few of my friends who are upperclassmen, are already a part of this club. I had only plan to visit this club for the first few minutes before I would move on to meeting the other clubs.
One of the perks of joining this club is that you are allowed to access a computer lab, which has a set of high end computers. My friend who was a part of the ESA division one team told me that I would only have to join for a few minutes, and I would be given the rights to the computer lab.
Although I did intend to only stay for a few minutes, I decided to give my respect and stayed for the entire presentation before moving on to seeing other clubs. The club was in a small room, not enough seats for all of the members, however it is a friendly community. Everyone who was a part of this club already knew the interest of others. After the presentation was the refreshments, pizza from 7-eleven, which I personally only took one bite.
Overall it is a club that I could relate to. The environment, and the gaming culture of the people around the club are of familiar territory. I am searching for a new experience as I embark into the life of Baruch. This club is not my first choice, but I was able to kill two birds with one stone. Access to the computer labs and the experience to write this blog. 