Author: c.mccabe

On October 15, the STARR Career Development Center held an informational session during club hours exclusively open for first and second year students. The session gave the new Baruch students the opportunity to ask questions about expected internship timeframes and what we can be doing now to prep us for the most success possible in the future. After asking questions, the representatives gave out pamphlets that we could use to help us understand all that the career development search has to offer. They introduced a “Peers for Careers Program” that the students can use to help freshman start to understand how we should seek career advice. They have a program that is affiliated with TEAM Baruch that gives the students mentors that can individually guide each student. The mentors can help students to build resumes, help form thank you notes, interviews, LinkedIn profiles, and presentations to clubs. Joining the PEER program is a very useful tool that is offered to the Baruch students. In the pamphlet it says that companies that have hired peers graduates are Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, KPMG, and Citigroup, etc. I have attached a picture of the pamphlet so that you all can get more insight on what the program is all about. Baruch has taught me that it is very important to establish a strong network. It is important that we put time away for events such as these because we are going to school in the hopes that we will get a good job upon graduation. I feel that all of the people in the office are trying to help each and everyone of us because they feel a sense of accomplishment when they see us succeed. I hope I can continue to use the resources that Baruch has for us in order to get the most out of my experience. 

On Saturday, September 9, I attended a Baruch soccer game against Old Westbury. I have never been to a soccer game before and the only knowledge that I had about the sport was accumulated through the very slim amount of PS4 FIFA that I had acquired. For this reason, I was interested to watch the game. The main reason why I attended, however, was that I was given the opportunity to make a little bit of pocket change. They needed a ball runner for the game and I figured what college student couldn’t use a few extra bucks? The game was held at Randall’s Island on a beautiful turf field that was right next to the main stadium at the complex. My job was to supply the ball to the players on the field whenever the ball went out of play. If the ball went far, I would then have to retrieve it and be prepared for the next time it happens. I was surprised how easy the job was. Baruch got out to an early lead after the ball found the back of the net off of a nice bender from the right forward. After some defensive miscues, Baruch was down 2-1. The score remained till the half and once the second half started the Bearcats looked like a whole different team. Baruch got off to a fast start in the second on a nice goal and the score would remain tied for the rest of regulation time. Typically, the league would play two ten minute overtime periods if the game was tied after regulation. However, there was a football team that was looking to practice on the field, but after talking with both coaches, the decision was made that there would be overtime. Baruch had possession the entire first four minutes and they were able to find the back of the net giving them the 3-2 lead. I could feel the excitement through every pass (something I wouldn’t have expected when I first decided to go). I would definitely suggest to anyone to go to one of these soccer games because they get exciting and it is a great way to support our fellow classmates.

On Friday, September 15, my fellow classmate, Rob Raman, and I decided to attend a math workshop in preparation for our upcoming math test. We agreed that attending these workshops from time to time would be a useful studying tool because of how knowledgeable the tutors are. When we walked into the classroom there were two other Math 2003 students in the room. The tutor walked in and had specific instructions regarding the questions that we were asking him. He said that we cannot ask him specific homework questions and we cannot ask him questions that will be graded as a test or quiz. If we had a question pertaining to a test or quiz it was our job to come up with a similar question that would help us to understand the material. He went around asking people if they had questions. If you didn’t have any specific questions we were told to say, “pass”, and if we did he would review it on the board. We recently did a homework assignment that he had handed back to us and graded so I figured I would go over those questions. Our tutor was very knowledgeable about the subject and he helped me with the issue that I had. I was having trouble deciding when I should be using parenthesis versus brackets when giving the domains or certain equations. One of the students also had a question about derivatives. Our class was a class behind her class, so we didn’t get up to that topic. However, since I went to the class I was able to understand the basic principles of derivatives. I would definitely recommend my fellow freshman seminar students to attend a math workshop because it is such a great review for such an important subject. Even if you feel comfortable on your math skills right now, there is always room for improvement!