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As a new freshman student in Baruch College, I am trying to join a club. There are more than 150 clubs on campus, so I want to chose one which I like the best. I would like to join a club about my major Marketing Management, so I am looking forward to finding a professional business club.

Delta Sigma Pi founded in New York University on November 7th, 1907. It is one of the largest, most prestigious, and respected business fraternities. This is my first time joined their meeting, so some of clubs members introduced the club activities to me. They usually organize some community service to help homeless people. During the workshop, we made some sandwiches for homeless people. We worked as a group and each person did the different part of work. I put grapes jelly on the bread and my partner put peanut better on another bread. Then we put two sides of breads together to make a peanut better jelly sandwich. In the activities, I knew some of new people and help the homeless people.

In the workshop, club members helped me better understand the club structure and what they do. If you want to join the club, you need to at least participate 3 workshop and pass the interview. After you pass the interview, you can get helps from brothers and other group members. There are a lot of successful brothers graduates from Baruch and came back to give a speech and workshop. They share their experience and help you with your resume and internship. I think these workshops will help me a lot in finding internships and work opportunities.

I am still interesting in several different clubs, so I am going to participate in more activities and know about each group. After that, I can chose a club which fit me well.

At club fair, I signed up for anything I had shown interest in. But I knew I had to narrow down my choices. My goal was to check out as many clubs as possible in order to find the perfect one. So I attended three general interest meetings. The first one I went to was Women In Business (WIB). Although the message of their club was empowering. it did not connect with me. There were too many departments and chair positions that made it confusing for me. I could not see myself connecting with the members. The second meeting I went to was FInance & Economic Society (FES). I wanted to know more about this because I am planning on majoring finance. But I am also interested in economic. Although I was overwhelmed with the numbers of people in the room, I thought I could learn and gain valuable skills from this club. They had a mentorship program where first year students would be pair up with mentors to guide them through their journey. I thought that would be really helpful to me. So I applied online, but was rejected. I did not want to just be a general member in the club. I would try again next semester. Lastly, I found Hack For Baruch. i have always been interested in computer science. I think coding is an important skills to learn in today’s world. I attended the general meeting last Thursday. Although it was a quick and short meeting, they introduced their board members and explain what are some upcoming events.They will also hold workshops to teach us coding languages. The most important thing was that it was a small community which I can feel comfortable in. I could see myself devoting my time into it and building relationships with them. Overall,I had a nice experiences attending all three meetings. All the people I met was very friendly and inviting. They all gave out pizza too. 

       The writing workshop was simply a breath of fresh air. I never thought that such a place would have very few students using it nor the fact that the workshop itself is quite a petite rectangular room. On September 14, during my break from English after it ended around 12:00 pm that day, I rushed towards the vertical campus, visited the cafe for my daily sweet black tea and either a blueberry muffin or oatmeal cookie. Indeed, I was in a rush since when I left the cafe I had ten minutes before the session started. I power walked to the express elevators and made it on time. The general area where the staff of the writing center is quite limited and it surprised me since I thought it was going to be a large room with a lot of staff there to assist you.

       Likewise, after arriving, I showed my Baruch ID card and I was all set to go. The actual room for the workshop was a boardroom style with tables in a rectangle. Colors were mostly beige except for the floor and the remarkably comfortable blue-cushioned seats. After about five to ten minutes getting settled in, our workshop leader arrived and began the lesson. He wrote the basics of reading efficiently on the whiteboard. He wrote down reading strategies such as skimming, skipping, scanning, annotating, and rereading. Also, he showed us how to find the meaning of the text by just reading the cover, the title, publisher, author, and genre. After those things were written down in my binder, we did a simple activity by using these newly acquired skills by reading a completely random business economic article concerning General Electrics. By using the notes before, we simply found out the meaning using contextualization skills, such as visual information, keywords and emphasized words. Honestly, I did not expect such a simple workshop lasting ninety minutes would be a great help in college. I might attend more of these workshops and keep the writing center on my academic radar.

At Thursday, September 14, I attended to  Baruch CareerFair Prep Workshop during my break time. I saw the information about this workshop on the poster, so I decided to check it out.  The Workshop was extremely helpful. There were two hosters: Fischer, and Johnson. The two ladies were introducing how to prepare for the fair; what is the need for the fair. After I sat the for like 20 minutes, I finally knew that this CareerFair Prep Workshop is too early for a freshman like me. And yet, for the respect to hosters, I forced and convinced myself to stay. The fair was almost two hours long. Hosters were teaching the audience how to make a good impression during the fair, like wearing a nice suit, acting properly. Then, the hosters gave the audience an example of a good resume and told us that at the Starr Carrer Development Center, there are SCDC staffs helping people to review their resume. Later, hosters asked people to practice for their introduction: a 30 seconds introdution contains background, career objective, experience, and strengths. Moreover, hosters told the audience what should we bring during the fair, such as Baruch ID and tons of copy of resume. Also, during the Career Fair, people have to line up around NVC cafeteria area. Last, the hosters told the audience, when we speak to the recruiter, be sure to establish an eye-contact, shaking hands, introducing ourselves. Smile and thank the recruiter for the conversation. The workshop was not really boring. I learned a lot of things from this workshop, such as how to prepare for an interview. This would be necessary when I attempt to find a fine job for myself in the future. To sum up, I am looking forward to this nice workshop. It does give people valuable knowledge, helping people to do well in Career Fair.

On Thursday，I attended a club during my break time.It is extremely helpful that if you can come to join which you will hear a lot of information. This is my second time joining “The Actuarial Science Society”，which is great if you plan to major on this field，there are always president , vice president or some club members helping you. If you have any questions，you can come for ask and they wiling to help you. This program provides a useful information to lead you succeed later in the career. They provide you a idea of how internship is important，what are some tips to help you on the interviews，what kind thing you should done before an interview，how to preparing for Actuarial Career and more.   On Thursday, which is a ASNY Career Fair, there is a representative shared his experience at ASNY, give students  advice for how they can be at their best. One of the most important keys to succeeding at ASNY is coming prepared. In order to prepare for ASNY,  students need to do two things: compose a great resume and do some research on the companies with whom they will be talking. The representative  talks about tips to do well on a resume, like write one page document that tells companies who you are,and demonstrates you skills to them,skip the objective, be include your personal information, actuarial exams, GPA, and your past internships and make sure to bring resume reviewed by Starr first. Next, the representative provide students how to do well on a interview, for example,make sure to smile,speak with enthusiasm, be positive talk about past experiences, dress appropriately and don’t forget to ask them for a business card at the end of the interview. I enjoy the time participate in this club, which is extremely helpful for me as I begin seeking actuarial positions.It provides me an idea of what to do for Actuarial Career.

On Thursday, Sep 7th, I decided to go check out the accounting club because I didn’t have any class around 12 p.m on that day. While I was waiting outside the meeting room, A dude came up and started talking to me, we started to introduce ourselves to each other, I learned that he’s name is Bhavik, and he was there to check out the club too. We briefly talked about major and reasons why we came to this meeting. At first I wasn’t sure how to explain it because I was not that passionate about joining the accounting club, but one thing he said was inspiring, “Well, at least we have some interest in this accounting club or else we wouldn’t be here.” I realized that it’s not about which club to join but try whatever you are interested in. Minutes after we got inside the room, Bhavik introduced me to another dude he knew that was also at that general interest meeting, Sam, it was surprising to me that neither of them is freshmen. After everybody settled down, the club members started to introduce themselves to us, and since it was the first general interest meeting, we started off with an ice breaker where we had to look at a zoomed in picture and guess what it is. I grouped up with Sam and Bee, a nickname I call him and formed a team of 4 and we each give our own opinion, but since it was just a game, we started joking around and guessing silly things. Total of 18 pictures were shown, and the club president announced that there were 2 winning teams, and ironically we are one of them, we gladly accepted the price of 2 pens and a bag of chocolates, and the meeting went on. The members started explaining different fields and areas that the club is involved in, and we can pick one we are interested in to join. Bee, Sam and me all decided to join the planning committee, and that was about it, met two cool guys and had a lot of fun on the first general interest meeting of the Baruch Accounting Society. Oh, one thing I forgot to mention, their food/pizzas and cookies were more than enough for everybody compare to the few clubs I went before, but I wasn’t hungry at that time tho :P.

It was excited to meet my secret native speaker partner in the conversation partner program orientation. We’ve been chats on the phone for few times when we finally have each other ’s contact information. During the conversation, I found out my partner is also a freshman. In order to “break the ice” among us, we plan to meet each other before the orientation time started. I was nervous at the first place to meeting my partner, of not knowing the gender and imitate the awkward situation I might face. When I finally saw her, Aja, my partner, who was a talkative girl and has a completely different cultural background with me. But we have a nice 20 minutes conversation of knowing each other ’s interest and cultural events. We hurry ourselves to the room when the orientation time was almost close.
When I step into the CPP ’s orientation class, I didn’t find lots of people in there, which makes me a little surprise of the numbers of the participates. As I sat down with Aja at the corner of the front row, I start to looking around for the food station, because my stomach was so hungry as if I could eat 10 hamburgers at this moment. But to show my respect and behaved attitude, I keep my mind concentrate on Aja and start the discussion about small things like the last events of the orientation day she had to attend and her future plan of other clubs.
After about 10 more minutes pass, the numbers of participates in this class start to increase, from about 14 t0 50 above. At around 1’o clock, the president of the CPP starts with her introduction of the presentation. Each of the member staff of CPP introduces their name and position before the presentation begin. Then the founder of the CPP, who is a retired professor, introduced himself and the purpose of setting up this club. Though-out his discussion, I gain more background information of CPP and more interest in this club, not only CPP set up benefits for both native and non-native speakers, but also the cultural events they provided grab my attention, including “Professional Workshop”, “Game Night” and etc.
I like how the president says “You don’t have to “married” with CPP, you could freely join other club and attend another event, as long as you have weekly conversational with your partner is enough, our main purpose is for you to find common interests friends.” Therefore at that moment, I stick with my mind of joining this club.

I attended first GIM of Alpha Phi Omega on September 5. I heard about this club on convocation day. It’s a community service fraternity. Since I enjoy doing community services so much at high school, I might as well continue doing it at college. So I decided to go take a look with my friend and see how it work. First of all, they introduce what’s the club is about. Three pillars of the club are Friendship, Leadership, and Service. In the powerpoint, they showed us a lot of activities they have been doing. The most exciting activity that I’m most interested in is the Halloween activity. They dress up and give out candies to children. After that, we played ice breaking. It was kind of a kiosk because there are a lot of people and desk, there wasn’t enough room for games. However, we played “move your butt” game, people are running around and try not to get left out in the circle. We have a lot of fun and able to know a lot of new people by playing games. Of course, they bought popeyes for us as a treat. We sat down, eat and talk. Brothers are so enthusiastic and they keep introducing Baruch to us. I’ve also asked a lot of questions about accounting major, what path should I take or what’re their thoughts about this major. They are more than willing to help and answer the questions. It is a very nice experience and opportunity to get know more people and make a connection. After attending this event, I felt one step closer to my short-term goal– which is able to engage in the school. After all, college is not that bad as I think, people are nice and passion. I’m looking forward to more activities that can broaden my knowledge.