Career Enrichment

I attended the Majors and Minors fair on Thursday during club hours. And seriously, I found out about Majors I didn’t even know existed, let alone majors that Baruch offers. Like Jewish Studies and  Spanish-English Translation and even Environmental  Sustainability. Which is super cool that Baruch has such a diverse Majors and minors collection.  I spoke to quite a few of the majors representatives and even though I would still like to stick to a certain track, it was very informative and it got me excited and interested in looking into my minor as well as my major. Like, even though I am still a freshman, it just made everything seem so tangible. And after I spoke to a couple of the people, they handed me a paper which listed the required courses and elective courses for whichever track I’d like to follow. And clearly I only went because I had to fufill the career requirement for the enrichment workshops and honestly, I didn’t stay that long but I am actually really glad that I went. Obviously some of the  popular majors representatives were completely  surrounded so it was hard to even here just a little bit of what they were saying,  but what I did here made me excited to just explore these areas. As of now I think I’m going to follow the marketing track, but just listening to the international business representative speak about the requirements and how much fun it would be if you follow the track, helped me changing my mind just a little bit. And that’s OK because I’m still a freshman— I still have time to decide what I want to do, especially since I came into the school with an undecided major. But as I said earlier, it was a way for me to find out more about the majors themselves, their requirements and the opportunities.  What sucks though, I just realized, is that because I was so focused on finding a major that suits me, or something I would love to do with my life, I didn’t really focus on the minors as much as I should have. I’ll be honest— I was one of those people crowding around the popular majors and I kind of just looked at the liberal arts majors and looked away, thinking that wasn’t for me. I didn’t even consider the fact that my minor would have to be liberal arts, so I didn’t exactly speak to any of them. I did hear snippets of their conversations but those people were  talking about majors so it wasn’t that interesting, and  it didn’t apply to me since I’d like to major in something business related. But yeah, overall I’m really glad I went. It was one of those things that I kind of dreaded going to, but then I was really glad that I went, and now I’m like, hey wow, I have freshman seminar to thank for this. So thanks, and it’s kind of bittersweet, this being my last blog post and all. *Insert crying emoji* It’s been real, DTB.  Stay lit.