Author: s.patel4

On Thursday, October 5th, 2017 my friends and I attended a Starr workshop on obtaining an internship. I picked this event along with my friends because I felt and still feel that an internship is beneficial, not only to the college exigence, but for the experience needed before entering the world and looking for a job. Furthermore, I felt that I could learn so much from interning at a company, but before I could do that I had to learn how to obtain the internship. I went to the meeting around 12:00 and signed in. We leaned so many things, including the steps to obtain an internship. One of the major things we all learned was the needed and improved resume. We were shown the format, and the update needed to make our resume look good. The objective was a necessity on our resume, as was our work experience which we learned most of us had if we looked hard enough. Next we leaned about the skills that the employers wanted. The first was leadership, than problem solving, the third was being success oriented with results, the fourth was being bale to work together in teams, and the fourth was the art of effective communication. All these skills were looked at as something each applicant needed. However, if you were good in all of these, than you would be considered as a star applicant. The last major thing we leathered before we left was some statistics. Around 68.9% of college seniors did at least one internship before they got a job. As the pre-conceived notion of having to start your internship on your junior year is wrong. Sophomore years when you internship should be started. In fact 58.9% of the students started their first internship before their junior year. This information section was something that I was looking forward to. It allowed me to learn about internships and see why they are so vital.

 

  Picking a club that I really wanted to join was a challenge for me in high school. However, in college the Baruch Investment Management Group sounded perfect for me. Finance was a world I was always interested in. I liked understanding global markets and the growth of un-liquidized money through the investment of shares. On Thursday September, 14th I visited the club at the trading floor. To join that club is hard and you have to pass the interview process. Since the applications were due on Thursday, I had a interview with Leo almost immediately after I introduced myself. He asked me about myself and my understanding of Finance. Furthermore, he explained how the club had different divisions and that each division worked with a group of people. In the end, the goal of the club is not to make money, rather to understand markets, and the investment of stocks. The interview went well (at least thats what he said) and I feel like this club will truly be a place that I will enjoy.

 

On Thursday we went to the MET. We picked this museum because of its beauty, and all of our interest in history. We walked in the museum, bought our tickets and showed it to the security guard. As soon as we entered into the museum we were greeted with an immense and beautiful room full of statues and a very detailed ceiling. We left this room to go into the one about Roman and Greek artifacts. This was my favorite one as I have been always interested in Greek myths and Roman culture. One of the artifacts we saw, that was interesting was a cup. This cup was part of a rare Roman collection and, therefore was very precious. After this we went down and soon found ourselves in the Egyptian section. We saw a tomb, and the caskets that were used to put mummies. Next was my second favorite part, the section of knight armor. This section was full of different types of knight armor and weapons. The center of attraction was knights on horses. The horses were detailed to the fact where you could actually see the veins. Next, we headed to the American section. The American section was not that big, however as soon as you enter you see a humongous painting of George Washington and his fellow comrades during the Revolutionary war. After admiring this picture, we checked the time and it was time for us to go. We headed out, unfortunately, we didn’t know the way out so we went into a circle on our first attempt. On our second attempt, we were able to find the exit. On our way out, we were looking at the building from the outside and admiring it. The building itself was marvelous and the architecture itself was unique. We were all happy that we experienced this amazing museum.