After coming home late Tuesday night, I was suddenly realized that my last blog post was due this Friday. Confused about which topic I didn’t fulfill, Kevin Zheng gave me a call. He told me that we were missing a career topic for our blog posts(both of us did the same topics) and to RSVP for the Starr Career Center event that was happening tomorrow. I went on the Baruch website and RSVP’d.

Coming into the workshop, I was eager to learn about resumes and the functions of getting a job in the real world. I hoped to have a few takeaways so that I could make my resume better, Adia T. was the staff member hosting the event. She gave us a first exercise of placing us in groups and handing out four resumes. We were to determine which one seemed more legit from the choices. Funny thing was, the resume the entire room chose had a small error on the header (name of Baruch College was spelled wrong) and Adia told us that this resume, despite it being full of intriguing info, was unacceptable.

She then went over slides on how we should be making our resumes. I found this very useful because I was getting tips on how I was going to update my resume for future employers to accept. Adia also mentioned an online survey that would determine a potential occupation based on our answers, but I guess I missed that part. It’s cool to have this resource here at Baruch because it would probably be hard to find someone willing to take time out of their day to explain such a topic like resumes. Adia was very patient and since it was a small room of students, it was easy to ask and have questions answered.  

For this week’s blog post, me, Kevin, Aliou, and Sergio decided to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art located around 85th Street. It was going to be a 20 minute ride so we decided to go out of our comfort zone and go to a museum. If I didn’t have a particular reason to go to a museum (aka this assignment) then I typically wouldn’t go. On the train ride, there was a lady with a Chihuahua puppy. The first thing that comes to me when I hear Chihuahua was an annoying dog that constantly barks. However, this puppy was rather obedient and well behaved. Once we got out of the train, I realized that we were around Central Park. I haven’t been in Central Park since the Summer and the weather was beautiful that I wish I could take a stroll the park.

We decided to go to the Met because we thought that admission was free to college students. We were wrong. When explaining to the lady at the kiosk, she explained that only Columbia Students get free admission. With a group talk, I decided to donate a dollar and Aliou donated a dime. Desperate times call for ridiculous donations when the sign clearly states “suggested donation”.

The exhibit we viewed was a statue from Ancient Greece. It was cool how the statue was one of the first known marble statues in a life-scale. I found it unique how the statue was missing a part of it’s face, showing that there may be multiple interpretations of who it could be. After walking around for a while, we decided to leave because frankly, we don’t like museums.