Today, I attended the HSBC Corporate Event, which talked about internships as well as other potential job opportunities for upper class men, such as juniors and seniors. They talked about how if you get accepted into the program, you start off for ten weeks working with one singular division, as you truly get a feel for the workload as well as the roles everyone plays over the course of 10 weeks. If you do good in this program, we learned you get moved up into an eighteen month program, where you go through three six month courses in certain divisions, so you become a much better more well rounded potential employee. I found this meeting very helpful to my growth as a person, as it showed me the steps needed to get into an internship. We learned that last years program was twenty students all together, from all over Manhattan. Out of the twenty selected, only one was from Baruch College, and this person was not even necessarily selected for the six month program. It is very competitive, but also very beneficial if you end up making it in. Besides this event hosted by STARR, I will continue to attend other events that lean more toward my major in order to score a internship before I leave this school. I would love to intern with a major real estate corporation, and even though I may not be able to start in the commercial or industrial field I want to end up in, I’ll eventually work my way up to there from the residential field. Starting in residential is what most potential brokers do, and while only a select few have aspirations to go into industrial, this is the way to do it. I will try to attend the STARR workshops as often as I can, and I hope to grow both as a college student and a person in general to achieve my goals in life.
Author: s.schwartzberg
Student Life
My impression with Hillel is insane. It seems like an amazing club with some interesting people who I’d definitely like to get involved with before I graduate from Baruch. I am not Jewish, but you do not need to be Jewish to join their club. They’re an awesome group of people, and their meeting was one of the coolest meetings I’ve been too. While their I learned about various other clubs as well, and ended up joining one other in addition to Hillel. This club was a group of investors who wanted to teach us the ins and outs, as well as get involved in real estate which is my major. While they were more concerned about the residential side, and I on the other hand are concerned with the commercial/industrial side, it will still be fun to collaborate with them. The major difference between the two is that residential is very much based on emotion, as couples either love or hate the house. With commercial on the other hand, its not an impulse purchase, and people are not attached to warehouses or buildings like they are regular homes. In the future I’d like to get even more involved in these clubs, possibly becoming a leading member or even a president one day. Even though I doubt I’d ever be a president, being a leading member and making speeches is right up my alley, as public speaking does not bother me as it does most. I also ended up getting free food, which was a common occurrence when I first came to the school and got a tour. I was told I would always be given free food and they were not kidding. They ended up ordering Chinese, and we all feasted and enjoyed our fortunes from the fortune cookies afterwards.
Academic Blog Freshman Seminar
Going to this museum truly showed me the power of having a Baruch ID. With my ID, I was able to get into the museum completely for free, and was able to walk around for as long as I pleased. I ended up bringing a friend from the freshman seminar class, and we walked around for about an hour just exploring the vast artifacts that are contained at this museum, such as African Gold, Greek and Roman stained glass, and many other artifacts. I learned things yesterday that I would’ve never known if it were not for my student ID, because I would’ve never went in the first place if I did not have incentive. Our Baruch IDs also let us get into various other museums around NYC, and I plan on continuing to go, free at cost, throughout the rest of my semester here, as you learn a lot of things going to these museums. You would think that walking around a museum is not a lot of fun, and probably the last thing you’d want to do as a freshman in college, but it really opened my eyes and broadened my horizons. This museum will also help me in my government class, because we saw artifacts from collapsed governments, and were able to witness just how greedy these governments got before they ended up separating. As a freshman in college in one of the biggest cities in the world, their are probably a million other things an average college student would want to do, but these students also do not have access to these free amenities like we students at Baruch have. I highly suggest everyone take advantage of all the free stuff we can do, because people around the world come to NYC just to do these activities that we have access too everyday, and they pay a lot of money to do them!