Month: October 2017

For my second enrichment workshop I went to the American Museum of Natural History. I went to the Museum with classmate Enesi. I actually did this for an Anthropology project. For Anthropology we had to go to the museum and visit the hall of human origins. In the hall we had to make up a test on stuff that we deemed important on the hall. At first when assigned the project I sort of dreaded having to go to the museum. This was for two reasons. First off, Ive been there almost every year on a field trip with my summer camp as a kid. And second being that I already spend near four hours a day and nearly 6 dollars on mass transit and didn’t want to add to that.  Growing up in New York I am very familiar with the train systems and had no problem getting there. On a Thursday afternoon during club hours me and Enesi went. To get there we took the Forest Hills 71st ave  bound R train to 34th street Herald Square. From there we took the Bedford park bound B train to the 81st street which is conveniently named the American Museum of Natural History. In the Museum we spent ten minutes in line for security check. From there we proceeded to wait another 20 minutes in line to purchase tickets. Since we had a class later that evening we couldn’t waste time. As soon as we got our tickets we began to look for the Hall of Human Origins. After almost a ten minute journey trying to find the exhibit we were finally there Once in there we spent a grand total of five minutes in the exhibit, taking pictures of everything and planning to write our quiz questions later. It was hard passing all the interesting exhibits on dinosaurs, space, and even prehistoric times without being able to stop in for pictures as these places are constantly changing and adding new things. I feel like I would want to go back in the future on my on time, and just enjoy the museum for what it is.

On Sunday, October First, I went to the American Museum of Natural        History. I went to the museum because my anthropology homework required me to go to the “Hall of Human Origins” in the American Museum of Natural History. For the assignment, I had to create nine questions based on what I learned in the museum. In other words, my professor wanted the class to create a set of questions that proved we  went to the museum and learned something. After understanding the assignment, I took about a hour long train ride to the museum. Once I arrived at the museum, I was asked to open my bag and a staff member searched it. Afterwards, I waited in line to buy my ticket and also asked where the “Hall of Human Origins” was. Even though I acquired a map of the museum, it took me a couple of minutes to figure out where the “Hall of Human Origins” was. When I finally made it to the “Hall of Human Origins”, I began observing the displays to acquire information for my questions. The first display that I noticed was a display that explained the evolution of humans. It explained that at one point in time, humans began to branch off from primates and created a new species called homo sapiens. The display also explained that many of our primate ancestors died off due to their inability to adapt to the changing environment. After I finished studying this display, I created a question that asked why the diversity of primates decreased over time. For this multiple choice question, four options were provided. Once I finished creating the first question, I moved on to the next display to create my second question. I repeated this process until I accumulated a total of nine questions. Since I was finished with my assignment, I no longer had a reason to stay in the museum. After fumbling with the map to find the exit, I left the museum and went to eat lunch before returning home.

I decided to go over to Randall’s Island for a Baruch Vs. John Jay soccer game. It ended in a Baruch loss and it felt like the longest game ever. I played soccer in High School and it was a fun quick paced game and seemed to go fast. I loved soccer and had a great time playing it. But the Baruch Soccer game i went to was so slow and had a few injuries causing the game to go even slower. There were two games that day but I showed up for the second game i could not have imagined what it would have been like if I was there for both games. Soccer is a great sport and teaches you to work as a team because in soccer you need your team. There are ten people on the field for each team and one person cannot beat the whole other team so you have to work with your other teammates in order to get a goal or win. If the team does not work and co-operate together than you will lose and lose bad. Soccer was a fun sport to me and that is why I enjoyed playing and I was interested in seeing Baruch play but the game did not seem to be a great one but it reminded me about the fun days I had playing soccer. I will always respect the sport and will love to mess around and play with my friends whenever we find the time to. It is one of those games that is easy to get together and play and a great thing to do when you are bored and do not wanna sit on your phone. Talking about this now makes me look forward to the summer when I can get together with my friends and play soccer together.