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Walk-In Resume Review at STARR

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On Thursday, November 16th, I attended a résumé review workshop. Once my reviewer was ready, she introduced herself to me. Her name was Michelle. We sat down in a room and I then handed her a copy of my résumé to read. She asked what year I was in at Baruch. I replied by saying I was a freshman. She was surprised to see that I did so many activities during high school. Michelle explained to me that my résumé and its content were very impressive. She said to me that there was no major changes needed to be made to my résumé. The only thing was to bring my award section above my extracurricular activities and to add my work experience, since I have not updated my résumé since I got my job.

After that, Michelle began to ask me questions about the MIT Enterprise Forum I attended in my freshman year of high school. I explained to her that it was an intensive one week summer program available to high school girls only. The goal of the program was to promote females to start their own businesses. Everyday, they would bring a successful, female entrepreneur to speak to us to give us advice and to motivate us. Aside from this, we worked on creating our own business plans in groups to later be presented and judged. My group created our business plan on a shoe with an interchangeable heel, which allowed women have the ability to change from high heels to flats without having to carry around extra pairs of shoes. Armed with our fantastic idea and our amazing presentation, we won the competition. Michelle told me that employers would definitely ask about that in an interview.

The next thing Michelle asked was about Global Glimpse. Global Glimpse was a program I participated in junior year of high school. The goal of the program is to give American students a glimpse of what life is outside of the United States while also helping us develop leadership skills. For two and a half weeks during my summer before senior year, I traveled to Ecuador with a group of students from several different schools throughout NYC and also from San Francisco. We were stripped from all our electronics, such as our phones, iPods, computers, and television, during our trip. We created meaningful friendships. We each had a day during the trip to be the “el lídre del día” (the leader of the day). We were in charge of waking everyone up in the morning, walking to get breakfast together, staying on track with the daily schedule, and much more. During the trip we also were broken up into a pairs to teach English to locals. With my little knowledge of Spanish, I was able to teach a classroom of children ages 10-15. My students fell in love with me and all the little games we played in class to put their knowledge to the test. I continued to explain my trip in Ecuador and the nonprofit organization my fellow Glimpsers and I helped. Michelle was amazed that I was able to participate in such a meaningful program, which distinguishes me from everyone else out there.

In all, I enjoyed my walk in visit at the STARR Career Development Center. I had an interesting conversation with my reviewer, Michelle, who gave me great advice.

Fall 2017 Club Fair

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On September 28th, the Office of Student Life held their annual Club Fair to introduce students to the variety of student clubs and organizations that Baruch has to offer. As 12:30 reached, I made my way down to the Main Gym. Once I stepped into the gym, the sound of music and cheers was all that I could hear. Overwhelmed by the amount of people and different tables there were, I quickly walked around the gym to get an idea of what clubs were present.

On my second lap around the gym, I stopped at tables to find out more about certain clubs that seemed interesting to me. My first stop, FemCode. This summer I participated in a program with Women in Technology and Entrepreneurship in New York (WiTNY), which is partnered with Cornell Tech and is only open to female students in CUNY. Due to the large amount of men in technology, WiTNY’s aim was to convince more women to join the tech field while also creating a community to support one another. After speaking with a club member, FemCode was basically the same thing but only with Baruch students. As I typed my name and email into the computer, I was excited to continue my growing interest for technology.

I continued to walk around and made my second stop at the Hindu Students Association. Here, I talked to a club member about the upcoming festival of lights, also known as Diwali. Since I was younger, Diwali has been one of my favorite holidays. Aside from the eating of sweets, lighting little lamps, known as diyas, and placing them around the house and outside is my favorite activity. HSA will be hosting their annual Diwali Gala on October 24th. The gala will include dance performances, a cultural play, food and much more! Coming from a small, diverse high school with only one other person having the Hindu faith in my grade, it was great to see a group of people who had something in common with me.

In all, I enjoyed attending the Club Fair. From the playlist of songs to the different clubs, student life at Baruch has shown a wide variety of cultures. Clubs are a place to feel welcomed, comfortable, and have fun! I can’t wait to become active members in clubs at my time here at Baruch!

A Day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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I personally love learning new things. What better place to do that than a museum? Baruch College has a great location of being in New York City. There are so many museums, such as Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn Museum, and much more, all throughout the city. This Wednesday, I made the most of free student admission when I hopped on the Uptown 6 train and took a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art after class with two friends.

Upon entering the museum, I took a pause to see how vast the museum was in this cramped city of ours. It was breathtaking. When I finally entered, I was captivated by the layout of the lobby; each direction led to different regions of the world. Our first destination: Ancient Egypt. Nothing really caught my eye, until I saw the hieroglyphics. I was fascinated by their invention of an alphabet that was like none other. The hieroglyphic alphabet used images to communicate. This would make it easier for future civilizations to understand what Ancient Egyptian civilization was like.

The next thing to catch my eye was the Baroque painting done by Cristóbal de Villalpando. It was shocking. I learned about Baroque style in AP European History class in my senior year of high school. Actually seeing these paintings proved how incredible art can be and showed me that you can not really learn something in depth unless you actually witness it.

All in all, this experience taught me that there are finer things in life than trying to get good grades in the classroom. It also taught me that school is not the only place to learn. Going to this museum helped me broaden my perspective on the cultures that have lived upon this earth. In Baruch, diversity plays a main role in our successes. Everywhere around us, we see people of different cultures and become aware of the diversity in the world we live in.