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Attend a Starr Career Development Center workshop

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Tonight I attended a Starr Career Development Center Workshop in the dorms. It was very convenient for me because I just had to take the elevator down and sit on the couch. There were about 6 or 7 people there, along with Zoe, the peer mentor from Starr career development center. After the presentation, RA Paul, who hosted the event, got everyone subway sandwiches and cookies. They tasted very good

 

The event was about resume building.  I don’t have a resume so it was very informative for me. i learned a lot of things about resumes that I didn’t know before.  I learned that you can only put information about high school on your resume until you are a sophomore in college.  After that, you are advised to remove that information because it is no longer relevant. The Starr career development center is a very very very helpful free resource for student at Baruch. I don’t have a resume right now, but when I do make one, I will definitely stop by there to have it edited by them.

Baruch Baseball- Student Life

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I am on the Baruch College Varsity baseball team.  I came into Baruch College knowing I was already on the baseball team here.  I had a meeting with Coach Torres in October of my junior year of high school.  At the time, Baruch wasn’t my number 1 choice, but coach said I had a lot of talent and he liked me and he said if I did come to Baruch, I had a spot on the team.  I am one of 6 freshman on the team.  We have been practicing tuesdays, wednesdays, and thursdays for the past three weeks. We have a game this saturday also.  But after saturday, the fall season ends and NCAA (national college athletics association) prohibits us from having any team activities until exactly one month before the first game of the season in the spring.  I have made a lot of friends on the baseball team, and going to practice is definitely something I look forward to.

 

I have been playing baseball since I was 4 years old, so practically my whole life.  A lot of my closest friends are baseball players who I have played with throughout my career.  I knew I wanted to play baseball in college so the fact that I had a guaranteed spot on the team here had a big impact on me deciding to come.  As you can see, I wear number 44.  Now this was definitely not my first choice.  My whole life I have been either 2 or 23, 23 being my all time favorite.  And I am lucky because the guy who wears 23 now is a senior, so next year I will happily hand off 44 to one of the freshman and take 23 for myself.  Most people choose their number because it’s their birthday or it means something to them.  However, I just think 23 looks really good on a uniform so i have always chose that number.  We play our home games at MCU Park in Coney Island, so if any of you are baseball fans you can hop on the train and come see us play!

Reptile Exhibition

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Today I attended a reptile exhibition is a museum.  Reptiles aren’t my ideal choice of pet, so normally I would have had no inclination to attend.  However, my girlfriend really wanted to go to it, and I knew I could write about it for my blog post, so I thought I should just go.  And that’s exactly what I did. In all honesty, I wasn’t very excited to go.  I was just gonna go in, take my picture, do a lap around all the reptiles, and then go home. But my whole mentality changed the second I walked through those doors.

When I think about reptiles, I think of lizards and snakes.  And that’s exactly what was there, along with frogs, crayfish, and turtles.  But what amazed me was both the hundreds of different species of each of these animals, as well as how the prices of each animal differed.  There were these two lizards that were identical besides a spot of one of their heads.  The one without the spot sold for $125, and the one with the spot sold for $800! I couldn’t believe it.  There were tiny snakes and huge snakes, as well as tiny lizards and huge lizards.  There were even a couple of people walked around the museum with these gigantic snakes around their shoulders just chilling.  I think those people are crazy and I would never do that in my life.  All in all, it was actually very interesting and it was definitely worth it to go.