Author: r.wu4

The workshop I went to was the second part to the Lets get starrted program which seeks to help students get familiar with themselves in their passion and interests. The workshop consists of 4 parts and because the workshop was the second part, I did not take a personality test like the rest of those who were there for the first part. Those who did take the test got their results back and she went over the test to tell them what each part meant in their respective sections. The test basically measured what your strengths and weaknesses were and gave you the best occupations were best suited for you. After going over the test, the adviser told use to fill out a worksheet based on your skills in that field. The first section was public speaking and since i’m terrible speaking in front of a group of people naturally everything was zero. After filling that one section out we were told to compare our results to the people around us. Funnily enough the person I was talking too also had the same results, zeros in everything related to speaking publicly. Afterwards we ran out of time and the adviser let us out. The workshop was really informative. It basically gave us a bunch of info on what we could use to help us decide what we like and don’t like which would then help us decide what major would best be suited for that us.

On  October 5th, I went to the Whitney museum with a few friends and I didn’t know what to expect. I’ve been to a few museums before but I don’t remember any of them, so I’ll be looking at all of these art pieces with fresh eyes. The outside of the building was huge which was to be expected, it’s a museum after all. Everything looked elegant and fancy and upon entering the interior was just as big. I thought we had to pay for the tickets but luckily the tickets were free for CUNY students. After scanning our tickets,we arrived at the sixth floor and we were hit with a bunch of art from paintings, to photos, sculptures, and some video clips. The theme of the sixth floor was to show the incomplete protest of america. This was interesting as I got to see many different styles of expression. There were art pieces depicting things during the time of the Vietnam war and things from present day. On the seventh floor the themes were family and community, work, home, the spiritual, and the nation. There was a lot of different things going on in this floor and it was a lot to take in. But my favorite painting while roaming that floor was the white painting on a white canvas. It was really funny when we saw it because we were talking about this exact painting when we were walking to the museum. After that we walked outside which was basically a huge balcony. We also took this thine to walk up to the eighth floor and that floor was showing art in motion. Sadly we came too late and we couldn’t see the art pieces move and I was confused when we were roaming that area. I thought most of the art were huge baby mobiles when I saw them and when I asked my friends they told me it was about art in motion. Since this was the last floor we decided to leave and the elevator we took was massive. It could probably fit 50 people considering the size and the interior had a painting of a basket which was really unique. This experience was really cool, although it was mostly sight seeing I saw a lot of cool art pieces in the process.

On Thursday I went to the chit chat club’s GIM. Chit chat club’s ideology is to make a club where anyone can join and make friends regardless that person’s background. I went with a friend and met 2 new people while i was there. There was about 20-30 people in the GIM. The first thing everyone went for was the Chinese food which included fried rice, egg rolls, fried chicken wings, and soda. After the food, we started playing an icebreaker where it was like telephone but through acting. This was interesting because even though we didn’t know each other we had to cooperate with each other to get the right answer. The topic was jobs, so we had to act out the job to the best of our abilities and the last person had to guess what the job was based on what he/she saw. Some of the jobs we did were ninja, lawyer, and trucker. In the end we all introduced ourselves stating our majors and our year at Baruch. This club is really interesting because it’s a cool way to meet new people and to learn new things. I think Thursdays are a “speak your mind day” where you can talk about anything without having to worry about backlash which is really cool because some people just need to speak their minds and not hold back and this a perfect way to do this. The goal of this club is to bring people together and i think they plan to meet/party with every club at the end of the semester. This club is really cool and i think i will go back there and try to connect with more people.