In the beginning of school I got lost walking down the third floor looking for one of my classes during club hour. I ended up near the Starr and the Small Business Center. I only heard about both of them but never really cared to look into either. From Fro, I learned that these would be both beneficial to me, I just never thought I would have the time to look into it. I first attended the start up company one which taught me valuable skills and help me develop my ideas on my already thought out company. They connected me with a academic advisor that deals with businesses. I set up a meeting with him. He taught me everything there is to know about starting a business. From how to make patent to how to get my idea out in the open to how I should start. It was quite amazing to know that Baruch had all of this offer me with no cost at all. Next was Starr. I learned there how to sign up for internships and create a resume. There were students there to help guide you to do these things and to help you make a star account. This was beneficial for me because I thought to interact with professors who can help me develop and add to my resume and connect me to people where I can get an internship with. At the end of the day, being lost was the best thing that can happen because I was able to attend these two amazing programs during club hour and learnt so much.
Author: r.kleiman
Student Life
As a orthodox Jew, coming to Barcuh was terrifying to even thinking about, especially coming straight from Israel. In Israel I learned all about Judaism and for one full year that’s all I did. So coming to a conservative public school, I wouldn’t have any of that here. In Baruch, it was all math, science, English, and barely anything to do with religion.
Before I got here I received an email from the Hillel at Baruch and they told me to stop by during orientation to which I did. They took both my email and my phone number and would constantly send me messages to update me on what was going on the upcoming week. Hillel is a organization that is run by Jewish people to help inform either people who are either Jewish, not Jewish, or not religious about what they do and how to be more connected to the Jewish world.There is one in almost every college. If they don’t have a Hillel, they definitely have a chabad. They organize programs, events both in school and out of school to help students meet each other and interact with each other. They also have programs with different Hillels fromother schools in the city. They bring in phenomenal speakers who are Jewish to help students find their passion and what they want to do with their lives. They recently brought in someone in the army to speak about his experience.
There was one event that I attended with Michael and Stephan that basically just brought all the jewish students a Baruch together and made everyone feel at home. It was really nice and comforting to be in such a great environment and to always know that even at a place like Baruch where religion isn’t so prominent, you would always have the Hillel there to guide you.
Academic Workshop
Wednesday after class, Michal, Stephan, Taja and I went to Arlette Tebele’s Pop-Up Art Galler. Arlette Tebele is 23 years old and a New York Based Artist. She grew up in Brooklyn and went to FIT for college. According to her bio, she always loved to draw and paint and got most of her inspiration from the streets of Brooklyn. Her motto is “just a girl who was born to dream- minus the sleep.”
Before going into the Pop Up Gallery, I honestly did not know what to expect. I’m to the biggest fan of art, but the pictures that I saw of the gallery were so cool and I decided to go. We walked in and all I saw was a lot a lot of yellow. Yellow walls. Yellow stickers. Yellow smiley faces. And most of the paintings had some type of yellow in them. Arlette Tebele’s logo is a yellow smiley face with the younger sticking out. We were also were the only ones in the gallery at the time. There was paintings of Kanye West, Michael Jordan, and cartoons of just about everything. The gallery also included a basketball hoop and a bunch of quotes throughout the store such as, “I dream of you in colors that don’t exist” and “don’t worry baby”. I loved how she made the gallery so personal and relatable to her audience. She had this huge poster with a smiley face in it and sharpies where everyone can sign their names and kinda add to her artwork. My favorite part of the store was as soon as you walked in, on the side there was a big empty space on the wall. Starting at the top where a bunch of Polaroids of people who visited Arlette Tebele’s art gallery. We took a Polaroid, signed our names, gave to the guy to put up on the wall. I haven’t been to many pop up shows, especially not art ones and this was really interesting.
Raquelle Kleiman
I like to swim
I want to major in business or international communications
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