Well, this time I simply decided to go to a tutoring session, because I had some math questions about some problems I thought I had no idea how to solve. Yes, I thought I couldn’t, but really I don’t know what’s wrong with me that everytime I go to ask some questions to someone, I answer them myself, and when that happens, frankly I feel like I just lost my time even bothering to ask, but if I wouldn’t have asked, then I wouldn’t have been able to come with a solution to my inquiry. It’s weird. Anyway, so I just went, and told the tutor what was the problem. He didn’t really help me; it was like he knew I could do it, and well it’s funny because the way he told me how to do it it’s how I tell others. I don’t tell them the answer right away, or do their work; instead, like the tutor did, I tell them each step, but not how to do that step because they probably already know, until they come up with the answer. And well I just did that. I had done the exact same thing before, and it didn’t give me the answer, so I didn’t see the point in doing it again, but whatever I just did. Then I realized that I was getting something different, and at the end got the correct answer. I was like lol, the tutor just told me “there you go”, I said thanks, and that’s it. I don’t know, it was strange, and I felt like I shouldn’t had been there, but well, thinkin about it, it was actually useful that I went there.
Author: f.cardona1
Oh well, I know I did this a little late, but boy it’s been a long day of pure writing. Anyway, I went yesterday to some meeting of a club. But then I saw all those people going in very well dressed, while I was just as casual as ever. All of them seemed professional, I didn’t. And in my mind, it was a big alarm telling me it wasn’t gonna be fun. It was almost 1 pm, and the meeting had started at 12:45. I said to myself forget it. I looked quickly in baruch maps, and saw SOCA ( Student Organization for Caribbean Appreciation ) and said, well, Colombia kind of is in the Caribbean, so why not? I ran to the fourth floor, room 4-120, and got just in time. They guy there was really cool, knew how to make people laugh. He quickly showed the most important members of SOCA, and quickly went to the icebreaker, the part I liked the most. You has to say your name, school year (fresman), where you live, ethnicity, and a fun fact or nah. Everyone went even the people who came late. I had to quickly think of my fun fact, and I just said that i for stuck in a refrigerator, because I wanted to see if it was true that your tung would get sticked to cold metal. Well putting that aside, the guy talked about other future events, and they even had a game to test howith much you knew about the Caribbean. The questions were so trivial that I didn’t even bothered after the second one. I didn’t know anything unfortunately, but man I’m glad I went to another place, and that I enjoyed what they did there, though they again brought pizza and thats something I don’t eat, but well, it couldn’t be perfect of course. 
Well, I went to an ALPFA presentation. For a while I couldn’t find the room at all, and when I thought I was late I realized they were waiting for the pizza to come and then they would begin. Took a slice of pizza and then they began, though I interrupted, not on purpose, because I didn’t know where the garbage was. Anyway, the purpose of ALPFA is to help students develop abilities that will most certainly be useful for their career. In this presentation, they explained how to do an interview right, how to connect with people that can help you progress in your career, and how to follow your if they keep contact with you. For interviews they told some pretty obvious stuff, such as keep a good posture, don’t look arrogant, speak loud enough, but other things weren’t as obvious, such as making the interviewers talk about themselves simply because they love to do that. They also mentioned to respect their time if they have many other people to talk to, or include those others in the conversation to show that you’re willing to work with strangers. For the follow ups or thank you letter they mentioned that you shouldn’t right away be asking for a position, and that you should be careful about giving names out. Instead, you should, well, say thank you, mention what yiu talked about before, and see if you can meet each other again. Well, I’d say that attending this made me think that there’s a lot I still don’t know, and a lot I will have to work on, and get involved into. But well, most likely I will get used to what I have to do, and thankfully I have friends that can advice me, and have already adviced me actually, about what I should do.