Two weeks ago after class, I went to go to the Baruch Voices to fulfill my Career post. However, I had a problem: I had no idea where exactly the event was going to take place. It took a couple of minutes of walking around the Newman building with my friend to finally find it. Thankfully, my friend and I arrived right before the event started. The seats in the room were almost completely filled so we quickly swiped in with our cards and sat down with some of the other people in our freshman block. Two announcers opened the event and started to call people up from other freshmen blocks. Several people went up and delivered their monologues, but there were two that I can remember more strongly than the other ones. The first one was about how people judge her skin deep and what clothes she wears. Her monologue was quite inspirational (and she was rocking that afro)! The second one was about a hospital job/internship (I’m not sure which one) and the way he told his story was hilarious. Some parts of the monologue were when the old man went “oof” when the speaker tried to lift him up to put him in a wheelchair and also when the old man went “flying in the air” because the wheelchair hit stop. Although normally I would be concerned for that old man, I couldn’t stop laughing in my chair. Other speeches were mainly about the struggles that other freshmen had when they started to go to Baruch or New York: the amount of time it took to commute, drivers vs. pedestrians, and even the amount of cockroaches. I originally thought that it would be a bore to sit there and listen, but I was unexpectedly having a good time listening to everyone share their stories.
