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Earlier this month, I went to the tech fair. There, I learned about new start-up companies and how they developed since they have started.  People spoke about how they started their companies and gave tips on how they developed it into what it is today. The question and answer section was very beneficial about the students received answers to their concerns.The students’ questions allowed the speakers to go into depth about their companies, for example, who they networked with and their trial and error. Also, we had an amazing opportunity to associate ourselves with the people from the start-up companies. It was a great opportunity to network and put ourselves out there so that maybe in the future we could possibly have a job waiting for us outside of college. We were also welcomed to bring our resumes to show the employees of these companies that we were interested and to also see if we met the qualifications for these jobs. Start-up companies are very important because they share the skills you need to have in order to be successful in the business world. Even though this fair gave many students an amazing opportunity to network, it gave me a lot of insight and information on these companies.

There is a great museum in the Upper East Side, not far from my residence called the Museum of the City of New York. It is one of my favorite museums in the city and everyone under the age of 19 can get in for free. One of my favorite exhibits is the one on the right side of the first floor. It has a bunch of information about the history of the city as well as some very old artifacts from when people first began settling there. The museum overall has 3 floors and it would take someone days to explore the whole place adequately.

I believe visiting a museum is something that we are allowed to blog about for this class. One of my favorite museums in NYC is the Museum of the City of New York. It is located at 1220 5th Avenue in the Upper East Side, not far from the building in which I live in. Every one under the age of 19 can get in for free. The museum has a bunch of exhibits about the city and has a grand total of 3 floors. One of my favorite is the first room on the right of the first floor that has a bunch of information on the history of the city, as well as some artifacts from hundreds of years ago. You could spend hours in this museum and not even make a dent.

I attended the Portfolio Workshop this past week on Thursday. Although I did have my on LinkedIn account and made my own website and published it on GitHub, I was hoping to get some more information on buying a domain and getting my actual webpages on that domain. Unfortunately they went over stuff I already knew and did not help me as far as learning anything new. I knew most of the basics regarding html and css being taught and felt that I had wasted my time in terms helping me market myself to future employers. We didn’t even use html and css, but wix so that was kind of off putting for me. Fortunately, a friend of mine introduced me to an internship I could sign up for over winter break from Witny. I would have an paid internship with a tech company over winter break giving me a chance to build my resume in the future should I ever decide technology is something I’d like to pursue.

I attended the majors and minors fair Thursday, November 9. I really didn’t want to do this but I had no choice. While I was there, I might as well try to learn as much as my major so I approached the Finance table. They informed me about the differences about finance and accounting, and how hard it is going to be trying to get a job. Not going to lie, it was an in and out thing so I didn’t spend much time, but it was enjoyable for the little time I spent there.

Last week Thursday my friend and I went to the Major Minor Fair offered at Baruch. Although the fair was interesting, and very inviting, I was not really all that captivated because I’m sure as to what my major will be. I’ve decided to be an English major because it’s what I love, and for many years I thought it wouldn’t be possible to make a career out of my passion, my recent internship proved me otherwise. Most of my bosses at Grove Atlantic, a leading independent American publisher, were English majors and inspired me to pursue a degree in English–and hopefully at publishing company much like Grove. As for my minor, the fair did give me some ideas as to what I could possibly do, although I’m nowhere near sure as to what I want to do with that, and I’m in no particular rush to decide. I was thinking either Finance, Sociology, or Journalism, but with Journalism I was considering that as a double major. It’s a lot to think about and the fair did give me that push I needed to start getting all the details of my major and minor together.

Over the weekend, I visited the American Museum of Natural History. I explored and stopped by most of the exhibitions present at the museum including the Hayden Planetarium and the Space Show. I decided to watch the Space Show because I have always wanted to visit and many people I know also recommended to watch it.

The Space Show, titled “Dark Universe” is about the vastness of space and the Earth’s perspective of it. It was also narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, a famous astronomer and scientist. Although the show was short, it explained a lot of things about space that I didn’t know; details about other galaxies, about the Big Bang Theory. The show was displayed inside the very large planetarium dome with a near 360-degree view.

After the show, I also visited other exhibitions such as the Hall of North American Mammals, Hall of African Mammals, Halls of Dinosaurs, and many more. I found the dioramas present in the Halls to be very intriguing. They were detailed and obviously took a long time to complete. Standing in front of one really brings you to the scene, especially the super-sized ones of mammals such as the wild buffalo diorama. Everything is built to life-size dimension which only made the experience that much more amazing.

The last time I went to this museum, I was on a field trip from elementary school. I didn’t understand much of it at the time, so revisiting it after almost a decade really made me notice the things I hadn’t before. Overall it was a cool experience, revisiting old exhibits and seeing new ones for the first time.

For my second blog I went to the club fair. I went with my friends  Abdullah and Carl. There wasn’t that many clubs there I was interested in. I put my name down for some of the stocks club and some finance club, but I didn’t wasn’t really looking to join a club like that right away. Im still unsure of my major, so if I was gonna join a club now, it would be something more for fun. Still a very cool club fair minus the music being was too loud… Looking forward to joining a club in the future.

For my first blog, I went to the SAAC for Pre Calc tutoring. I just wanted some help doing some of the recent homework’s on MyMathLab and there was an older student there that helped me with no problems. I can’t remember his name, but I only had a few questions about the homework, so I figured instead of going to my teacher, I’d kill two birds with one stone and get a blog done as well. Really cool atmosphere and not what I was expecting. I would definitely go there in the future if I needed any help.

Sports have always been an important part of my life. I started playing hockey at the age of 5 and started playing lacrosse in 3rd grade. In high school I started football, and proceeded to play for the remaining 4 years. I knew Baruch was my top school because it had my major and was in the perfect location. Unfortunately, they did not have any of the three sports that I played. I decided to go anyway, however, since I really liked the school, and was betting that they would have some club sport and I was right! When I was going to class at Baruch in the summer time, I saw signs in the hallway for the roller hockey club. This was perfect because I had just received roller skates from my dad as my high school graduation and could the same equipment that I used for ice hockey. I got in contact with  the Captain, Pete, and he is a really great guy. He is a senior at Baruch and helped me get to tryouts in Long Island back on September 25th. At the first tournament last weekend in Feasterville, PA, we were short guys and only got two play two games. I scored 3 goals in the first game and 1 in the second for a total of 4. We are having troubles with our funding from USG right now and might not have the money by the leagues due date on November 1st. It’s a really complicated situation, but I hope we can still play for the rest of the year. I plan on becoming the club president next year since Pete, and a majority of guys on the team are graduating.