w.odria – Freshman Seminar Fall 17 FRB

Freshman 15 Career Workshop

I went to the Freshman 15 event held by the Starr Career Development Center on October 18. I was made aware of it by a friend during English class and was convinced to check it out before I went home. It was held in the second floor lobby, in the form of a small booth.

At first, I was a bit shy to go and start a conversation, but one of the sophmore’s from the booth approached and started the conversation. He explained how there were some internships that could be applied for even as a freshman. He handed out some papers that went into greater detail on what internships were available. He also took the time to talk about some of his experiences.

He went on to stress the difficulties of trying to get an internship and how it was important to start early in the search for one. He explained how some people would wait until their junior year to even begin looking for one and how that was late to start. Because of the difficulty in trying to land an internship, starting late meant a risk of not being able to get one at all.

Overall, the event was informative, and I am glad to have had the opportunity to attend it.

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Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

On September 26 I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to write a paper for Art History. Since my normally scheduled history class was cancelled that day, I felt that it would be a great opportunity to go. To get to the Met I rode three subway trains which I felt was great experience in getting used to navigating the subway system.

Once I arrived at the Met, I quickly found that I had no idea where I needed to go. After walking around around a bit, I decided to ask one of the staff members where the exhibit I was looking for was. She pointed me to the doors that were 15 feet away. I felt like an idiot. With my head hung low, I walked inside of the European Art exhibit.

Inside were lots of paintings that with a single glance anyone could tell wrestling of a quality that deserved to be displayed in a museum. After looking around a bit, I found a painting that I absolutely fell in love with. Unlike most of the artworks that displayed scenes of the Christian faith, this painting was of some ships. I immediately knew that this was the painting I wanted to write about. Snapping a couple of pictures, I left and set off to write about this masterpiece.

Delta Sigma Pi Brotherhood meeting

On Tuesday, I visited the Delta Sigma Pi Brotherhood meeting along with my friend Dennis. I learned about it through a member who was spreading awareness of the event at the top of the escalators on the second floor.

It took a bit of the time before we could enter the room, and there were many people who were waiting outside. When we were finally let in, the room filled up quickly showing just how many people were interested. I chose to sit in the back so that I could eat my lunch peacefully. Before long however, they were offering food to all of the visitors. It was a shame that I had already finished eating since the chicken looked really nice.

Soon, several members who had recently finished their internships gathered in the front of the room and began talking about their experiences in said internships. Many of them gave useful insights as to what could be expected of us should we try searching for internships along with what we might be expected to do in the case that we do secure an internship for ourselves.

Something that really stuck with me was when the members stressed how difficult and how important it was to secure the first internship. Basically all of them agreed that it was extremely important to try and reach out to as many opportunities as possible for the first internship. The first internship is the hardest, but all the ones afterwards would be much easier according to them. When going for your first internship, they said that it was unwise to be picky about getting into a large company and that being open minded about smaller companies was important. After the first internship, getting others would be much easier.

I enjoyed my time at the Brotherhood meeting, and I am very grateful to Delta Sigma Pi for the opportunity to attend a very insightful meeting.