Author: s.answar

Last week I peaked into the Tech startup function at Baruch hosted by the Hillel. The function was very Jewish interrelated and included Kosher food and beverages that provided cultural awareness for me because I’ve never had Jewish food before. Needless to say from that experience i’ll be trying out new Jewish food. It was an interesting and useful experience seeing as I had been questioned  whether or not to study and major in a technology related field. The function had a huge panel consisting of multiple entrepreneurs and startup tech companies, most of which were from israel or had some relation to Jewish heritage.  I think it was interesting to see how technology and business go so hand in hand with one another and they made it very prevalent that they need more people in tech fields because it’s almost become a necessity for the society that we live in currently and would be continually growing field in the future. It made me reevaluate what I want to study and actually start taking an interest in the tech field. Honestly I think this function served an enlightening experience as I learned a lot and kind of safe guarded my decision to invest my time and money in choosing to major in cybersecurity.

On Thursday I thought it would be fun to go out to the Museum of Moving Images because it’s a museum that’s relatively underrated but has some really cool exhibits, and also I’m a huge film buff.

The museum is basically split up into 2 categories. The first being the history of film and how they film certain shots and another exhibit dedicated to a specific director this time, it was Jimi Henson. Also throughout the museum there’s a lot of cool interactive things you can do. In one of the exhibits they had placed out all the cameras and equipment that that were used in classic hollywood and how those progressed. Some of the early equipment to film movies were gigantic compared to today’s technology. They also showed the relative progression of the Television. I got to mess around with the sound booth and create a cool project where you I did like a voice over in the Wizard of Oz, and also got to create a quick little stop motion film. I think it was smart of them to add these features because it really allowed you to understand what kind of effort and techniques that are involved in making a film, and how all those factors put together help to create depth in a movie.

In the Jimi Henson exhibit, there were a lot of costumes and puppets which were used in like Sesame street and The muppets movies. It was a very colorful exhibit compared to the museum’s other exhibits. Jimi Henson had created a lot of really creepy movies that all circulated around the use of puppets some of which were really disturbing and kind of freaked me out. The museum also had this creepy “set” of like a classic movie theater with cool hidden passages, and then an interactive classic arcade feature. I wasn’t exactly sure why they had the built in movie theater because they weren’t screening anything, but it was a good photo op though. The arcade had classic games like pac man, donkey kong, and other games that I guess were before my time because I couldn’t recognize any of them. This part of the museum was probably my favorite because it felt like you were in an actual movie set because of how everything was set up and displayed, it was kind of like you weren’t in the actual museum anymore but rather in another alternate place.

 

On Thursday I went to check out the first general Lexicon meeting. And it was really cool. The club seemed very relaxed and laid back and the members were really nice and easy to talk to. They showed a really cute video on how to get to Lexicon and previous yearbooks they had worked on. I learned  that they are one of the oldest clubs at Baruch. It was a really nice experience because it seems like Lexicon has a lot of school spirit and are involved with almost everything on campus. Everyone in the club seems very welcoming and close and I think it’s great that the clubs at Baruch bring people together creating a close knit group of people. I think I’m definitely going to consider joining.

PS: Taking the selfie was really awkward.