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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.
Last Thursday I went to an event hosted by the Hong Kong Club. The day before that, Wednesday, had been the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a holiday that’s celebrated, as opposed to holidays that aren’t celebrated for whatever reason. Is it a shame that the two days didn’t coincide? Maybe a bit, but calendars and scheduling don’t always like to play along. Hosting an event about a holiday that occurred the day before just happens sometimes.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. This day is supposedly when the moon appears to be the biggest and brightest. I think it depends on point of view and where on Earth a person is, but that’s purely from my own unscientific observations made with eyeballs and more often than not, cloud interference. One major part of this holiday is gathering to watch the moon with one’s family while eating mooncake. There are various types of mooncakes, but the general idea is that its a circular pastry (round, like the moon) comprised of mostly filling (lotus root paste is a sweet classic) and a thin dough shell that is decorated with designs and writing on top. Sometimes a yolk from a hard boiled egg is placed in the middle of the mooncake, so when it’s cut, surprise! It’s something else that’s round, like the moon.
After providing people who went to the event with some food and telling some information about the Mid-Autumn Festival, the members of the Hong Kong Club set up a game. The closest thing it reminded me of was musical chairs, but with two teams and instead of taking away chairs one person per team had to try to guess how many people would stand up per round. To win, a team needed to correctly guess the correct number twice. The losing team would then be forced to eat pieces of mooncake covered with hot sauce. As strange as that might sound, the lotus root paste was overpoweringly sweet so the hot sauce taste was lost within seconds.
So for this second blog post, I visited the Starr Career Development Center for aresumé review session. Well, technically I went because I want a job, but regardless, I found that it was a really informative session and I learned a lot.
When I first went in, I was a little intimidated, because everyone around me was in a suit or formal business attire, and I was dressed casually. Everyone looked so confident, while I was literally trying to be invisible. I signed in and sat down in the waiting area, for my name to be called.
By the way, in order to have your resumé reviewed, you need to bring a hard copy of it – it can’t be saved on your computer or anything. When they called my name, a friendly, very pregnant woman came out to greet me and bring me to her office.
We went in and she took a look at my resumé. I was nervous for some reason, even though it’s not like she was going to grade me for it. I was pleased to see that I had no reason to worry, because she didn’t make me feel bad for any mistakes on it. In fact, she made the entire experience really positive, where she told me what was good and what could be improved.
I was given a packet of information on resumés, with some templates and examples, too, which was really helpful for when I got home and tried to revise my resumé. Additionally, she provided a few websites for me too browse to find potential jobs and internships.
Overall, it was a pleasant experience, and I walked out feeling a lot better than when I came in. I think I’ll go back to the Starr center again one of these days, for some more tips.
Hi everybody.
This past weekend I took the chance to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art or MET for short. The museum has “suggested admission” so in theory you could pay as little as a penny in exchange for a ticket to enter the museum. My sister and I thought we would be able to get in for free because we had student IDs but we ended up paying a few bucks.
It was a Sunday when I went so it was not unusual for the museum to be packed with families and tourists from all over the world. Being in Art History I walked into the museum my second time in my entire life with a little bit more knowledge on art and the history. Almost 70% of the art shown by my professor can be found in the MET according to her but when I walked around I did no recall any of the art pieces we saw in class. It is quite funny because whenever she would ask us where a particular art piece could be found, the class would unanimously say the MET. However that did not mean I did not appreciate all the other art pieces. The ability to create art is one of the few reasons why I believe humans are amazing. There paintings so large that it reaches the ceilings, sculptures carved so smoothly that it looks fake and items that just look so priceless. The MET is definitely a place you will not get bored for visiting more than twice. I mean you will definitely need more than one day in order to reach every corner of the museum. My sister and I explored the museum for about 3 hours until they closed at 5:30 and we could not even see everything in those 3 hours.
Unfortunately it did not seem like there was any special exhibits during my time there but it was definitely worth it. I will be visiting again on the 26th for the mandatory art trip and I am so looking forward to it.
Hi everyone!
I went during walk-in hours to the Starr Career Development center to have my resume reviewed and polished. I was nervous when I walked into the office because everyone was dressed up. I thought that my resume was really bad and I feared that the person who was going to review it would tell me to change everything. But I was wrong. I was greeted by a nice lady and she told me a little bit about herself. When I walked into her small office she told me to bring out my current resume. She looked at it for a while and told me that it looks pretty good but that I should change the format a little as well as the wording for some leadership activities I took part in. I had to make minor changes which wasn’t a big deal because it meant less work for me. She gave me a booklet as a reference if I needed immediate help with writing a cover letter or updating my resume. During our conversation she told me how impressed she was to see a freshman so early in the semester at the Starr center because she rarely meets with them.
After we were doing looking at my resume I asked her if she could show me how to navigate the Starr website because it was confusing for me. I found out which sections I need to fill out on the profile and I learned how to filter through all the internships to find the right match. Overall, it was a great experience and I will definitely go back again for an interview and cover letter workshop. Although I’m just a first year student, I can already see myself using the Starr center a lot because of the amazing resources they provide.
Hi everyone!
After hearing about the SACC Tutoring Center, I decided to attend a workshop because I needed help with math problems that I did not understand for my math test. Before the workshop, I signed up online through the SACC website a few days in advance. I chose which tutor I wanted, what time and day, which math course I am currently enrolled in, and what questions I had to ask them. On the day of my appointment, I entered the SACC Tutoring Center room, (which is located on the second floor) and the desk lady asked for my Baruch ID in order to check my name into the system. After that, I entered the tutoring room which had a few tables with name tags on it. The tutor was sitting at the table with a white board next to her and I sat at the table. Then I asked her some questions I had trouble with. She was very kind and helpful because she answered all of my questions. Also, she used the white board and wrote out the problems so that I can visually see what how she solved them. Coming out of this worksop, I felt confident because I was able to understand the problems that I did not understand before. I am glad that I attended this workshop because it can help me do well on my math test and future math tests.