Month: October 2017

On October 26th, my Art History II classmates (featuring everyone in freshman seminar with the exclusion of like 3 people) and I went to the Holocaust Memorial Museum. While I was there I was able to learn most about the genocide that occurred due to Jews being used as scapegoats for problems they had no part in. Also due to psychotic man trying to strive for eugenics that were being encompassed by blonde hair and blue eyes. At the trip we were able to see many different art pieces that were made as a tribute to the 6 million plus Jews who had their lives taken from the beginning of 1933 to 1945. My classmates and I were able to meet a holocaust survivor, which made it click in my brain that this atrocity is still very fresh. Which I also knew as well, but it’s so different meeting someone in which an extermination, had a direct and long lasting effect on. Rather then just reading about it through textbooks. Now that I look back on being at the Museum I am now so upset. Since the release of the JFK files which claimed that Hitler was seen in 1955 in Columbia, 10 years after the end of the Holocaust but they never tried him as a war  criminal because of the years that passed. But instead that is left was a apology to the events that tried to extinct the Jewish race and left over 6 million people without lives.

Last week Thursday I decided to go to Soca Club after seeing a poster for it on the wall.  Soca club is a club dedicated to people  on the Caribbean but open to everyone.  Soca is actually a genre of music that  Caribbean people listen to.  When I arrived to the room I immediately enjoyed the vibe.  I came a little late but I came in time for introductions.  They started with some questions of what borough  you were from what is your backgrounds what year you are  in college and a fun fact about yourself.  We went around the room I learned all about each other.   After instructions they gave us some information on upcoming events they host from the fall to the spring.  Are we interested in the carnival event they’re hosting in the spring.  They also mentioned a game night which sounded pretty fun.   After introductions we eat Domino’s and played a game.  The game was a sort of jeopardy on trivia about the Caribbean islands.  One of the questions actually helped me with my history midterm I just had a question about hatian independence which was actually a question during the trivia and it helped me remember the year (1804).

The one thing I didn’t like about the club though is that they didn’t acknowledge Puerto Rico as a Caribbean island which bothered me. Despite this I would still go back and enjoy the club.

They mentioned that their sister club is the west Indian club and that they are having a general interest meeting this Thursday which I will also be attending. Overall it was a good experience and I plan on joining both clubs for the fun vibes and music.

For my second blog post I decided to visit a museum. Every day on my walk to school I always pass by the Museum of Sex but I never have the chance to go. This was the perfect opportunity for me to finally go. I didn’t know what to expect from it but I knew a couple people who went and they told me how awesome it was. One of my favorite exhibitions was the Zana Bayne Collaboration. They showed many different types of clothing that was very interesting. The museum overall assisted me as a first semester freshman because it taught me many things. I learned to be very observant and appreciate art more. I am also currently taking Art History so it was the perfect time to go to a museum. This activity also helped me as a first semester freshman at Baruch because is thought me how to navigate a little better in the city. Since I am from long Island, I am not really used to the way the streets are. Overall I think it was a great experience to go to this museum because it helped me a lot with my first semester at Baruch.

 

On Tuesday I went to Museum of Sex with a classmate of mine in my block. As a museum with such a unique and interesting name in one of the most diverse and popular tourist regions on earth, it is no wonder almost everyone has heard of it before. Although people have heard about the museum and even tried, there is a required age for admission of 18 years or above. My whole life, I have been “a bit too young” to get admitted to the museum, but now the perfect opportunity has risen. I need to go to a museum for a school assignment and I get to enter the once forbidden museum. Now that me and my friend, Ben, are of age, we decided to buy tickets to enter.
First things first, we had to get there. The walk from Baruch College to the Museum of Sex is actually a leisure stroll through the bustling streets of Gramercy and Flatiron. On our way there, we came across a military tank which was said to have been in the same spot for months. We also came across these 2 vans with a ton of packages from sephora, Amazon, and urban outfitters. The packages were all over the sidewalk, probably put there by the workers, but they could have so easily been snatched and stolen. It’s a surprise nothing happened and the workers were able to complete their job without any situations arising. As we walked up to the building, I was a bit dissapointed to be honest. It looked like any other normal building/store front except with the sign saying “Museum of Sex”.
After entering the building, we were asked to present ID, which I held out like they didn’t believe I was 18 HAH that’s disrespectful! After purchasing our tickets and entering for the first time, I just looked and absorbed everything around me in awe. I don’t want to get into too much detail, but it was a fun experience and I would actually do it again with different groups of people because the experience is different whenever you’re with a different person/group of people. Following this post is a photo of one of the more modest photos that I had took at the museum.

I needed a last minute thing to do for the blog post this week so I decided to go to the Museum of Sex with my friend Jordan yesterday. The Museum is on 27th and 5th ave which is close to the school so we able to go during club hours. I have always been low key curious about the museum of sex and what they have in there. Going into the museum I honestly had no idea what to expect. I was a little afraid to be honest, I didn’t know what I was going into. However, I still wanted to go, I was still curious about it. When we go in we bought tickets and then went into this bar area where there was an exhibit about New York Disco in from 1977-1979. There were photos by Bill Bernstein which showed the New York Disco scene in the late ‘70s. Some of the photos were pretty interesting but many of them were strange and very explicit so I had to prepare my self for what else was in the museum because this was just the beginning. We only saw a couple exhibits but the one that I thought was interesting but also very strange was the sex life of animals. These were sculptures of different animals having sex. The museum wasn’t really what I expected, it was pretty explicit and kind of weird. I didn’t know it was more of an art museum rather than informative. However, it was an experience and was I learned some new things which is always good. Despite this museum having nothing to do with anything I am learning at Baruch, I did take away some things that I can use at Baruch. While at the museum I kind of felt uncomfortable being in there. I’m not really sure why but I found this to be a good example of me stepping out of my comfort zone which can be really useful at college. It is important to be able to step out of your comfort zone some times and be able to talk to people, meet people and try new things.

 

Yesterday, I attended Sigma Alpha Delta’s general interest meeting. There was a bit of a SpongeBob theme going on, and it was both fun and informative! I managed to get a selfie with the VP, and ended up winning a contest with a group of other attendees. Fun afternoon overall!

 

For this weeks blog post I decided to go to a museum, the Museum of Natural History in particular.  It is a very diverse museum with exhibits on animals from every region of the planet, as well as exhibits on space and the earth itself.  My favorite exhibits were the rooms focusing Totem Poles made by Native Americans and the Mexican and Central American rooms.  In the Mexican and Central American room I took a picture in front of a reproduction of the Aztec monument, the Aztec Stone of the Sun.  I learned that all of its symbols relate to the sun and accent the sun’s role in Aztec belief and religion.  It is crazy that it weighs more than 20 tons.  I thought it was really interesting how the Aztecs threw done the monument and buried it in order to preserve it during the conquest of Mexico by Cortez.  I walked through the entire museum and while there were a lot of diversity and different kinds of animals, I was surprised at some of the similarities between the animals on different continents.  I hadn’t been to the Museum of Natural History since I was in elementary school for a field trip and I enjoyed it, however this time I was able to retain and understand more information that I was unable to when I was a kid!  There are also a variety of new exhibits that I had the opportunity to see that the museum added in the years since my last visit.  

After hearing about the SACC tutor center, I decided to take a tour, to check the place out and learn more about it. Its located on the second floor, in the back all the way to the left. I came here because, i know when i take calc next year im going to have a problem, so might as well get familiar with the place and for the blog post. I learned that you could walk in, if no one is busy, but its better to make an appointment online, so that you can chose your tutor, subject, day, and time. You should also bring your BARUCH ID or know your EmpID. Reason being is that, that person behind the desk will ask for it. I learned that you can make back to back appointments. All the tutors are highly educated in their subjects, but that doesn’t mean that they are all good tutors. I got a quick glimpse of some people getting tutored and it looked like they were both engaged. The tutor was answering questions and helping them on a small private white board. But i also saw one tutor getting frustrated at a student, i thought it was pretty funny. Im happy that i came because i now know the SACC tutor center better, and i recommend to come here because its free but it also gets very busy during test so schedule ahead of time.

 

Hello guys, I decided to go to the Museum of Natural history over the weekend before my surgery. I look totally healthy right? I feel horrible now. However when I look back on my weekend, I feel a bit better. I decided to go back to the museum because I wanted to reminisce my childhood. I can still remember the first time I went in 3rd grade and remember it being a magical time, so I totally just went because of that. I went with my significant other and he told me that I was really excited the whole time there. I visited old exhibits and we watched a few shows together there. It was a really exciting experience because not only do I have a more extended view on what I saw during the trip I took over the weekend; I can now really remember the experience I had when I was about 7 or 8 years old.

The exhibit I enjoyed the most was the one where I took the picture, and I honestly forgot the name. However I can remember all of the contents because it was really vivid. All of the “animals” and ecosystems the had looked so real and if you know me you know I love science.

Another exhibit I enjoyed was the Rock exhibit because I would compete with my significant other in naming the rocks before looking at the names. This takes me back to when we first met in our Earth science class where we competed to get the highest grades as friends at the time. The whole experience was a blast and I had so much fun with them. I won that competition, but they think otherwise.

Anyways, I really think that you guys should really go back to the museum of natural history because it’s just really fun to look at all the exhibits with friends or with you significant others. I really recommend going back.

Hi guys!

Over the long weekend, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the first time. After confusion of I was excited because so I decided to research the different exhibitions being offered that week. I was particularly interested in Renaissance era European art. I’m exceptionally fond of Jan van Eyck. I’ve been a fan of Jan van Eyck for awhile now, but have never had the opportunity to witness his work in person since I lived in Virginia, and a trip to New York City was just unrealistic. However, now that I live just fourteen blocks from the Met, I am able to easily visit and admire the artwork that lies in the historic and iconic museum. The fact that I’m taking an art history course this semester made the trip even more meaningful and substantive, because I wasn’t mindlessly looking at images and not understanding the context or importance of them. When I saw depictions of Madonna, I was educate enough to understand that the gold halo represents holiness and that it was painted during the High Renaissance with a romanesque style. Otherwise bland images were brought to life by the understanding and knowledge I had from the course. I went alone, because I don’t like having to go through museums at someone else’s pace or be expected to discuss what I’m seeing; I like to go to museums by myself and appreciate the productions in solitude. I enjoyed my first trip to the Met, and will definitely be back soon. I’m also excited to visit other museums like the Guggenheim and the Modern Museum of Art.

I highly recommend taking the time to visit the Met!Me with a painting I found. Shoutout to the French lady for taking the picture. Her name was Jeanne and she was cool. Stairwell to the historic European section of the museum.