Author: y.kim16

For the Career workshop I went to the Lets Get Starrted workshop. At first when I arrived I thought I came really early, because only one other person was there. Well it turned out I did come early, but even then only around 6 other people that came in to the workshop. It was far from what I expected a career workshop to be, since I imagined that we’d do something more interactive with groups and everything when I read the description for the workshop. We did work in pairs but it wasn’t all that difficult, talking casually and exchanging ideas. The workshop was supposed to be a 4 week commitment, and since I wasn’t here for the first week it felt like there wasn’t much to get from the workshop. The assessment to find out the major and career path that you are most compatible with was done in the 1st week. Since they mostly reviewed the test that was taken in the 1st week in the 2nd meeting that I attended there wasn’t much for people that were there for the first time could do.  It was mostly personal pondering about my preferences and trying to analyze my own situation using a sample test result and a hexagon diagram. The diagram gave us six categories, realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising and conventional. I couldn’t really fit myself into any of the categories because none of them seemed to fit me, there was a lot of conflict between my desires and reality. Nevertheless, it was still a good experience for me, as I was able to find out about many of the resources that are available by the Starr career development center.

For the second blog post I went to the Whitney Museum of American Arts. When I first arrived there I was surprised at how much people there were, but after going in I had to admit it was pretty nice. At first I thought who would pay 20 dollar for this, but thankfully I was able to go in for free with Baruch ID. When I finally went inside the first exhibit that was there was the History of Protest, and it was interesting because the artworks were very different from the type of protest that we see in history class. The artworks did not feature a group of people protesting holding up pickets, and not many of them had any texts. They were much more explicit and blunt about the whole thing, with many abstract expressions used to convey what violence really was as to show why it should be stopped. There were also civil rights movement artworks that featured posters and texts that were used to protest other types of violence in the United States, not just war, for example there was a flag that said “A man was lynched by police yesterday”. Then there were  typical artworks that didn’t really interest me in any way, paintings depicting America in the 20th century and other modern abstract arts. What was especially interesting was the abundance of how many colored canvases there were, I mean literally just empty, single or two colored canvases, and I couldn’t help but feel that I can’t really understand modern arts, despite the many arguments in defense for it. A friend that accompanied me to the museum thought there was more to it than just a white canvas to one of the exhibits and thought that there were texts behind the white canvas but there was no such thing. Really disappointing.

It’s a pretty generic way to start off my blog entry, but in the beginning, I went to the Beta Alpha Psi general interest meeting in order to fulfill my blog post requirement. However during the process I was able to learn many things, and not just for the sake of writing things down on this post. At first I wanted to visit a more entertaining club such as the e-sports club that fits more into my interests, but since I was to write about this event, I chose to go to a more formal looking meeting to attend. And I’d have to say, that I chose just the right one. In the BAP meeting I was able to learn about things that I’ve been looking for ever since I entered Baruch. Up until now I wasn’t really able to get a gist of what the future would be like. Baruch thus far had been pretty lax, and nothing really different from high school. But after the meeting I was able to get a better feeling of my future career and how Baruch college would help me navigate towards that goal. During the meeting I was able to obtain information regarding SACC and how BAP would be able to help me plan my career. I heard from the meeting that they offer things like mock interviews, which would help me greatly because I suffer from severe nervousness. Although these things were probably taught to me before, I hadn’t really paid attention to them, so they weren’t really drilled in me. Going to an honors society meeting I was able to see a lot of people who were very much ready for their future, and the things that they said they’ve done really helped me envision my future better. As people who’ve already been through what I am about to, even small advice that they gave, like how I would have to spend more time at campus than at home if I wanted to pursue a better career, was something I could take a lot from.