Author: r.wadolowski

Starr Development Center

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On Wednesday, I was flowing through life without a care in the world when Keven and Mike called me over. They started interrogating me on weather or not I reserved a stop in the Starr Development seminar. Me being me, I had no idea what they were talking about, so Kevin explain to me that I have to go on the Baruch website and make a reservation because they are only once a week and I don’t go to the one that was taking place in ten minutes I wouldn’t be able to write the blog for Friday. I went on the website and the page to make reservations showed that it was full. But being the resilient man I am, I walked into the seminar… and no one cared that I didn’t have a reservation, so I claimed a seat.

During the seminar Adia was talking about all the components of a resume, the main thing that stood out to me is that people going through resumes only send an average of around 8 seconds skimming through them. This gave me laugh because I thought to myself that I could get a job position over some guy in Yale just because the other guy had a shitty format, and mine look properly structured. This seminar gave made me extremely optimistic because Adia mentioned that employers greatly appreciate job experience, and I’ve been work as long as I could walk it seems. The best part of the entire seminar was at the very end when Adia asked if anyone had any questions and the only person that responded was Kevin. He asked, with no context, “Can I take a picture with you?” A feeling of confusion and comfortableness flooded her face because normally they ask for a signature in their freshman seminar booklet, she wasn’t used to weird kids asking to take a photo with her in the middle of a silent classroom. Mike and I were laughing the entire time.

The experience was pretty cool overall, the main thing I need to do is format my resume in an appealing way and make what I did seem a lot more interesting and important then it actually is.

Example:

On Resume: Handled financial transactions quickly and accurately for a multi billion dollar corporation.

Reality: Was a cashier at McDonald.

The MET

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Today, I went with Daniel Mastebowski to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. When I found out that the blog was due of friday of this week, I began to panic because I didn’t think I had anytime in my schedule, but somehow some higher power heard of my struggle and my thursday math class was cancelled. With this beautiful chunk of time now in my schedule I made my way to the MET. When I got there I was surprised to find out that admission wasn’t free so after a fierce back and forth with the cashier, not really, I coughed up a dollar.

Once in there, I was admiring all the statues and artwork. For the blog I need a picture of me in the museum so while I was standing next to a photograph of a couple on a date, and employee at the MET started yelling at me about the how everything is delicate and how he would personally sue me if I broke anything. After a second of confusion I realized that the man didn’t even work there so I started to touch as many things as possible in front of him. When Daniel and I saw him starting to talk to an actual employee we left rapidly.

I am actually really glad we were assigned to explore New York City because it reminded me of all the good memories of me visiting a variety of places on school trips back in the day. Now I am really considering going to the Museum of Moving Images with my friends after school one day. Another thing I learned today was that Alexander the great was a total badass, there was one war in which his army of 40,000 was able to outsmart and entire Persian army of 250,000. Most leader would not be able to win this kind of battle but Alexander the Great used techniques such as the hammer and anvil technique where the opposing army would be attacked from two fronts. In addition to this, even when his own army outnumbered the opposing army, he would never surprise attack them when they weren’t ready because they viewed that as a cowardly way to fight.

Some guy screamed at me not to touch stuff, so I touched everything I saw

Joining ToastMasters!

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Rafal Wadolowski

Today a couple a of friends and I joined ToastMasters. In this club people come in to practice their public speaking not only to get over their fear of public speaking but to also excel in the art of speaking off the cuff. I wanted to join this club for a variety of reasons, the first one being that archery club is on Saturdays, so thats a no from me. But in addition to that, I want to get used to standing and talking to a large crowd of people before I have to do it for an important presentation or social setting.

Some of my old experiences that could have been improved had I been attending this club for a while was when I was a finalist in my high school story telling competition. I was telling a story to a group of 50-60 students, from memory. I remember being really excited , which may have led me to speed through parts of my story, also my legs were pretty wobbly just because of the amount of eyes staring at me.

What I am looking forward to is being around dozen of other students that have the same goal in mind as me, also not only will mr wobbly legs eventually go away after time, but the other club members will offer me constructive criticism and advice on how I could keep the audience engaged all while appearing cool and collected.

And lastly, I got to talk with the president of toastmasters, who’s name is mike, and just like me he is Polish. His family and my family both immigrated to America, which is pretty neat.

And lastly(real this time), I also wanted to join other clubs such as Polish Culture club and adrenalin club, depending on which days the clubs meet up.

(Every time I tried to upload the picture it said error, but its the same photo as the one on Daniel.Maslowski’s blog.)