Freshman Seminar Fall 17 LC04

I took a brief trip to the MoMA today. I’ve been here a couple times. It is one of my favorite museums. It is filled with Modern Art paintings and sculptures. With some installations as well.

It’s a lot more enjoyable to go to the MoMA then say the MET because it’s filled with art that was created in our era and it can be a lot more relate able than just old artifacts.

I would suggest the MoMA to anyone who is not particularly interested in viewing art galleries, as it’s a really fun experience that doesn’t require as much thought and walking around like the MET does.

The career fair was a very exciting experience. The event took place in both Baruch Gyms and had a large amount of both students and companies. I was able to converse with multiple different organizations and companies and find job listing specific too me. At first I was intimidated, I did not know what to say to the presenters from these big companies, but as I listened and eventually talked to some upper classman, I became a little more involved in what was going on. The students advised to remain cool and confident and try to start off with a brief summary of yourself and why you would be interested in a specific company. After a while it kind of became a second nature, going around to a majority the companies and stores present.

As I got to around to most of the companies, a few stores offered applications to some jobs and some even offered jobs on the spot. Although, I did not visit the fair with the intention of jumping straight into a job, I did contemplate it after receiving all of this new information. After the fair was over I had a whole list of companies to look up and even take into consideration for future job applications. It eventually lead me to open up my Starr account and there were even more job and internship opportunities on their website.

I recommend the career fair for every incoming freshman and even sophomores and juniors. It was a very eye opening experience that allowed me to gain the skills to portray myself as a professional individual. It also made me fix up my resume, for future job references. Overall, the fair allows students to learn to grow professionally while they are partaking in their individual studies. It can be very intimidating thinking about finding a job and working, but the career fair showed me that jobs and internships are readily available to students who are willing to commit themselves.

The career fair I went to was so big. There were so many different companies in both of the gyms and there were also so many kids that were trying to get a job or an internship. When I was in line waiting to get into the gym, I was listening in to the conversations of those around me. There was a sophomore and a junior behind me talking about what they are trying to accomplish and what they want to do in life. I realized that I have no idea what I want to do and I didn’t know what to do when I got into the fair. Another fellow Baruch student came and stood with us in line and began to tell me that it is a good idea to get started as early as I could.

As I continued to talk to the upperclassmen, I began to understand how competitive the world really is and that I have to get myself together. One of the upperclassmen helped me get my 30 second pitch together and told me to target the smaller companies first and then work with the larger companies. I started off with approaching Uniclo. I felt very comfortable talking to the woman and ended up getting offered a job by her. Then, I tried to talk some other companies and found out that they do not take freshmen. It was an educational experience. I began to search up the different companies from the fair and tried to understand what each one has to offer.

This was a great experience because it helped me get more of a feel of how I am supposed to approach introducing myself and it also helped me want to get more involved. I think that everyone should try to go to a career fair because it is intimidating at first, but it an important experience to have.

I was never really keen on visiting museums however, my cousin decided that she wanted to take me to the Museum of Modern Art one day. I was already sick of art because I take an extremely boring art history class. I walked into the Museum expecting it to be full of snobs but I was pleasantly surprised. There were many floors in this museum and each exhibit pertained to a specific time period or subject. One exhibit that I found very interesting was the architecture exhibit. Here you can find all the early sketches architects made for some of the most renowned structures. Moving onto painting and more colorful things one very famous painting that can be found at the Museum of Modern Art is Van Gogh’s Starry Night. To be honest, when I first went inside the Museum I had no idea what I would find. To see a Van Gogh painting right in front of me was actually really inspiring and made me really enjoy my time there.

This actually allowed me to appreciate my art history class and become interested in different styles of art. I think it is important to be interested what you are learning in order to be successful. Although my major has nothing to do with art it is a very admirable quality to be well versed in different subjects. I think it is safe to say that I have a new found respect not only for my art history class but museums in general. 

Today I went to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC!  I normally would not go to a museum for fun, however, when I got my schedule and saw I had to take art history, I had to see what all this fuss was about.  Coming from the Bronx, the only kind of art I really knew about was music, especially form artists like A Boogie and Cardi B.  When I first stepped in to the museum, the piece of art that really caught my eye was “Starry Night” painted by Vincent Van Gogh.  This was a very interesting piece for me to see because I always heard about it in previous art classes from high school, and to actually see it is a cool thing to do.  I am not a huge fan of art, but when my friends told me they were going, I figured I had nothing to lose, and maybe I would even enjoy it, and look into art a little more.  That never ended up happening, but it did help me appreciate art, and made me a little bit more interested in my art history.  There was this one exhibit where they had a movie about space and air crafts, and that was interesting because I never expected a museum to have those kind of visuals, and it was something different from just looking at paintings on a wall.  The museum was also very empty, and there was lots of space left between each work of art, and that really helped emphasize the art works, and it wasn’t overcrowded with people which really allowed me enjoy everything for the little time I had.  I would really suggest checking out any museums you can if you are ever in the city because there really are cool things that you may discover!

I recently attended an after-school tutoring session for my Pre-Calculus class. I have an upcoming test in a few days and I figured it wouldn’t hurt to get some extra help. This session helped me get clarification on the topics I was still confused about. Sometimes, it is difficult to keep up in class, taking notes and listening to the professor, and so it becomes difficult to grasp on to certain topics. This session allowed me the freedom to ask the professor any questions I had on previous topics we had finished in class.

I would definitely recommend these tutoring sessions to anyone who feels like they’re not keeping up in class. The sessions are about an hour long and they truly are helpful. You don’t have to worry about holding the class’ time up and you can also easily communicate with the professor during these sessions. I definitely look forward to any future tutoring sessions because I know that they will only benefit me.