Freshman Seminar Fall 17 DWB

With the stress of college taking its toll on us freshmen, it is no shock that we would also be stressing about our future. At the Starr Career Center located on the second floor of the Newman Vertical Campus just past the escalators. When you walk down the hallway towards the Starr Career Center, you find posters of beneficial facts and helpful tips for leading your way towards a career post-college. I walked into the center and was greeted by a warm smile at reception. He asked me what he could help me with and I wondered about how to make an appointment with a career counselor because it is never too early to explore options for the future. He told me that walk-in hours were from 3:00-5:00 and gave me an instructional guide on how to schedule an appointment online. I left the Career center feeling more confident about my distant future of a career and my near future in making an appointment!

I went to the walk-in consultation that the the writing center offers; it is located on the second floor of the library under the glass canopy at the Reference Desk. It works on a first-come first, serve basis and the consultation lasts for about 20-25 minutes. To be honest, I only went to get this Blog done, but I found it very useful and helpful.

The people there are very nice and so smart, and they really help you with what you need. They don’t fix it up for you obviously, but they just tell you what you need to work on and the areas you need to improve on in the essay you show them. They give very good tips and helpful suggestions and they do help to make your paper better. I wanted them to look over an essay I have to write for my English class, which is a literacy narrative about academic writing and how I successful I think I am as an academic writer. I had the whole paper written, and I thought it was pretty good, but I wanted them to see what I should fix in order to make it the best possible. It was the first paper I had to write for my English class, so I wanted to show my teacher that I am a good writer, so I wanted to make sure that what I was going to hand in was good. The people at the reference desk looked it over and showed me where I needed to improve my writing and gave me great tips on how to do that, and I think it made my paper better.

I think having a place like this at our school is good for students since a lot of people usually need help with their writing. Also, you don’t have to make an appointment so it’s good that you don’t have to think ahead of time to go; you can just show up and they help you. I think this was very helpful in fixing up my paper, and I will definitely use it again in the future.

For my second blog post I decided to visit the American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West side of Manhattan with friends. Within this museum I saw a great deal of interesting attractions. My friends and I watched a presentation on the Big Bang in the Hayden Big Bang Theatre. This theatre is located in the lower half of the Hayden Sphere in this museum. The Rose Center for Earth and Space is where one can find this fun interactive. This presentation was shown on a concave screen enclosed in a small room and it showed the journey that our virtual universe has taken over the course of many years. This presentation was very informative, but at the same time I have more questions about the topic after having watched it than I had before. We also visited the Eastern Island Head which is located in the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples. If I’m being honest, the only reason we decided to see this was because of the movie Night at the Museum. Pictured below is me with the Alaskan Brown Bear. This was taken in the Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals. This Hall is also home to many other furry tailed mammals. Another interesting sector of this museum was the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life. This Hall had countless underwater species on display. I found the Giant Blue Whale Model to be the most interesting part of this Hall. This fiberglass female whale model is ninety four feet long and weighs in at twenty one thousand pounds! The Giant Blue Whale is the largest animal alive today and can weigh up to one hundred tons. Unfortunately, the Mummy exhibition was closed by the time my friends and I reached the floor it was located on, but following this we went to the Ornithischian Hall of Dinosaurs and saw momentous displays of prehistoric dinosaurs to make up for it.

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So I actually rsvp for two development workshops and I can’t even attend the second one due to class, but this blog post is about the first one I rsvped for. I attended an interview walkthrough workshop taught by target representatives with some public affair class friends. The target representatives talked about confidence and being prepared. Although, everyone in the room knew most of what was talked about I learned a couple of new things. I learned to actually prepare all-round situations you can talk about in your mind before the interview. Any situation with a problem, solution, and involves you will work because the interviewer will most definitely ask you a question about a past situation and what you did. I will definitely make sure to prepare situations beforehand now. Another great point they made was about group interviews. I have had two group interviews and still have no idea on what to do. But, I was informed today to just be myself, be concise, and be confident. In the end employers, especially target, just need a feel for your personality before giving you the job. I also learned about telling the employer you can not wait to hear back from them. Do not phrase it the way I just did but, remember to thank them for their time because even if they did not like you this keeps your options open. I definitely recommend going to a workshop event if you have not. You may learn things you think you already have mastered and end up surprised like me. I have already RSVP for a future workshop with the STARR center and I hope I remember to take full advantage of such an opportunity provided to me by my college. This has been Darren thanks for reading!

Hello my name is Peter Famuyide. I am a first year student here at Baruch.  I attended the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA)General Interest meeting and after attending the meeting I joined the club.  I was refered to the group by many of my older Baruch friends and they all said i woould not regret joining especially is i became involved. On my first day in the club i knew i was going to like it. I liked how the members of this club bonded whether it be in the club room or whenever we saw each other in the school. I have gone out to lunch with many of the memebers of these groups to lunch and they are very welcoming. As a new member they gave me the opportunity to attend NABA’s Eastern Regional Student Conference in October. This conference would help network me with some of the biggest accounting firms on the east coast and gives many chances to score jobs and internships as well as build relationships with CEOs and other important people in the business world. Not only did they give me this amazing opportunity but they also offered to make it an all expenses paid trip. Inside of the Genera Interest meeting they spoke to me about the importance of their motto “lifting as we climb”. They spoke on how they help students build business skills as well as network at many conferences. My favorite part of the General interest meeting was the  free food. They had an entire buffet spread of many different foods that I enjoy. My favorite would have to be the Macaroni and Cheese it was surprisingly good. I look  forward to spending more time with NABA members  and i will definitely be spending alot of time in that club room.

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 Yesterday I went to the career prep workshop. It was a very useful and informative tool that I recommend every Baruch student take advantage of. They did an excellent job teaching us about all of the opportunities that the Starr Career Development Center has to offer that will prepare students to pursue a career in the field of their choice. They discussed broad topics like what an upcoming career fair will entail and how to use functions at Starr like free resume reviews. They also went into extraordinary detail, though, helping us figure out exactly how to approach an employer ranging from advice such as what jewelry is appropriate to wear and how to shake their hand. I feel much more prepared to attend the career fair on Friday and find an internship I’m interested in.

Welcome Guys! My name is Breyahna, I am currently a freshman. I am currently an intended International Business major with a minor in Japanese. Recently, I have decided to join the Japanese Anime Asylum club, the only anime club in Baruch. While being there I was able to meet and bond with many kids that share the same love for Anime as I do. Immediately while entering the classroom where the club was being held , we were given an Ice breaker. We were instructed on saying our name, favorite anime at the moment, our intended majors, and our waifu (anime wife) and husbando (anime husband) if we have any. After the introductions were done, the president of the anime Nova..a.k.a Nova-Kun had brought out pizza for us to eat. While we waited for our food, the board of the club played anime soundtrack low and encouraged us to talk to each other, in order to get to know one in other. By the time club hours were already over I had left with a list of Anime that I should watch and some idea of how the Anime club would be going for the rest of the year. I had a great time! I will sure be going back to the Anime club every thursday during club hours.

For my first blog post I decided to take a trip to the met because I hadn’t been in a while , and it just seemed like a good way to spend some time in the city with my mom on a Sunday. Last time I went was about four years ago , so my freshman year of high school for an art class writing program project. I remember being so fustrated because I had to go to what I thought would be a boring museum by myself. I actually wound up loving it and that was the same case this past Sunday.

Let me just start of by saying the museum is massive, a person could easily spend four or more hours in there wandering the different corridors and endless exhibition rooms. Also don’t be suprised if some popular exhibition are so crowded it may take you a few minutes to view the artwork closer.  My favorite exhibit had to be the seventeenth to eighteenth century Parisan rooms (shown above). They are just so bougie, guady, and extra I really do love it.

My second favorite , and my mothers favorite ; being that she works in the fashion industry herself, was the fashion exhibit that I believe was there in honor of fashion week. Again , we both loved how extra, over-the-top, and truly one-of-a-kind the pieces were.

What I really did enjoy seeing I’m person though was Van Gogh’s self portrait. My mother has numerous reproduction paintings of his framed around the house, so being able to the see the man that has been sitting on my dining room wall for eighteen years really was something special.

It was interesting to see this sculptures (shown below)again because I recall on my previous project trip I was wandering around like crazy looking for them and now just to be able to look and appreciate them without being told by a teacher list to do so was actually very nice.

 

All in all I enjoyed the trip to the Met , taking in all the culture and beautiful artwork. I will definitely be coming back soon and I signed up for email alerts for new exhibits

Hey guys my name is Naomi, if you totally forgot about me! I chose to join a club called The Grid, which is basically a tabletop game club. They are a club where many people who have many different interests get together and play competitive and fun games from 12:40 to 2:30. Many of the people there are all in all types of clubs ranging from, United Nations International Children’s Fund(UNICEF), The Japanese Anime Asylum or the Japan club. I believe that this club is a great opportunity to bond with many other students at Baruch and you should definitely check it out. 

 

At our first meeting Tuesday September 5th, we got together and introduced ourselves. The president Adam(guy in the middle of my picture) is a really cool guy who loves this club. He believes all people need to come together and enjoy life playing these games, even if you don’t have much interest in some of them. The people in The Grid are much like a family, and will continue to be as classes graduate and move on. At our meeting last week, we played  game called Werewolf. Werewolf, also called “Mafia” is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides cards or some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I’d call it a party game, except that it’s a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria. It’ a really entertaining game to play and I really enjoyed bonding with the whole group, even though I totally got killed as a werewolf once(peep the Teen Wolf hoodie). 

I think you should all really pull up to the Grid one day and enjoy yourselves. The club creates a welcoming environment and take you into their open arms. 

I went to an undergraduate student government booth which was located on the second floor during club hours. I do plan on participating in Baruch’s undergraduate student government during either my first or second year here. I was a member of my high school’s student government for four years and I enjoyed the leadership opportunities and qualities that I gained from my experience in the club. For my participation in student government at Baruch I would prefer to just be a member and not hold a position as I did when I was in high school. I would like to keep the management of my school work and class assignments as my top priority, over clubs such as this one. Baruch’s undergraduate student government is very active in giving the students a better college environment based on their needs and also providing the students with activities on campus. This type of organization is something that I would like to be a part of. A club such as student government is also a great way to meet new people and make new friends which in my opinion is all part of the college experience. The representative that I spoke with described to me how student government has positively impacted his college career and that he would recommend it to anyone seeking this type of school involvement. He also said that student government is one of the best ways to maximize your time academic career while enrolled in Baruch college. For example, he said that student government is an extremely optimal outlet where students can  express their own personal political ideologies in a safe, judgement free environment. After he mentioned this, I found myself more adept to joining student government. I believe that freedom to express opinion is crucial to open debate and growth as not only a student, but also as as an individual.