I attended a Starr Cover Letter workshop on November 7th.  The workshop centered around trying to assess the skills and techniques needed, in order to build a coverletter. I believe this helped many of my peers and myself by understanding what needs ro be done in order to attain a job position preferably one in association with your intended major.

The workshop was very active and discursive as there was plenty of useful information along with participation from the crowd and lots of participation from everybody involved. We watched the person present a power point to successfully write a  Coverletter.  In this presentation , we went through some postive and negatives of what a coverletter should be like and identified several factors.

It was a great workshop anf would recommend.

For my blog, I decided to visit the Met museum which offers a variety of exhibitions showcasing the many aspects of human life and development, as well as an anthropological insight on our world. The museum has three floors including a roofotop and it is actually quite diffucult to get around pretty easily, so i suggest you get yourself a map to navigate yourself around. Out of all the exhibits I decided to specifically target the Egyptian civilization exhibit because I find it really interesting how Egyptians were able to construct such a complex state of society with relatively no means of machinery or tools such as those used in our contemporary world. In order to better understand this and gain a better perspective of what it truly meant to be in this era it was essential to look at the many forms of art and symbols that shaped their social construct.

In the exhibition I was exposed to pieces of art from 2010 BC -1300 BC all of which were recovered from archeologists as well as architectural works which helped build the framework for Egyptian history. I was most astonished by the tomb and the pyramids that were constructed in the exhibition along with the detailed marking known as hyroglyphics engraved in each. This systematic system of writing seemed so complex to me yet so simple in their world; reflecting how advanced Egyptian civilization was at the core of human excellency.

Not only did they device all these early developments in that time period, but they were also able to paint. The paintings shown in the museum were said to have a one to one scale and they accomplished painting through a candle light. It’s pretty amazing how they go from tracing through a candle light towards something much great as they transfer the art to waterless paper.

Overall the experience let me be more aware of the cultural influence of Egypt and allowed me to develop a new found sense of respect that’s stems from early civilizations successful attempt of an ideal society as well as their intuiveness .

On Thursday, I decided to visit the finance club in hopes of acquiring a better understanding of how this club can essentially prepare an individual for what they intend to major in. Accompanied with the fact that it could propel you to an internship or pave way towards something greater and outside academics in general ; so I was more so interested in what that experience would be like.

In this meeting, I came to find out that the club consists of a Mentorship program and an Analyst program which primarily focuses on financial analysis and investment banking to achieve a clear understanding in finance. They hold various events ranging from annual case competitions, resume reviews,mock interviews, to various tours and site visit weekly workshops. All these events which help students develop their skills intuitively and becomes a gate way towards career readiness and overall growth.

The assignments that they discussed in the meeting were said to be due every single thursday, so I believe the club shouldn’t affect a persons performance in every other class they take and they also stated a newsletter was to be read every sunday night. The workshops that each member must attend to occurs every tuesday and each member is required to attend a total of 6 workshops.

The application for these programs the club is offering is open to freshman and sophomore students. It is a ten week program to give a solid foundation in finance through assignments and projects. They stated that members are paired with graduated professionals who have already achieved success in their fields. The analyst program is a semester long program where a key concept known as investment banking will be discussed and looked into deeply to focus primarily on topics involving M&A financial modeling,  company valuation,  deal research, and Industry discussions.