Freshman Seminar Fall 17 LC05

At the end of welcome week the Baruch undergraduate Student government hosted a loft party in the multi-purpose room. The party was in celebration of the end of welcome week. There was Burgers and fries with tons of drinks. The room was filled with students from every class and major. There was giant board games throughout the room with the DJ spinning in the middle of the room. There was people playing giant Jenga, chess and connect four just to name a few. People were dancing and having a good time sharing good vibes. It was kinda of awkward that people were partying with their backpacks on, it was definitely funny to watch. I feel like this is the only reason why I kinda wish I went outside of NYC for college because we don’t parties like all my other friends do at their state schools. But at the same time partying is literally all that one can do in the middle of nowhere so I feel like it’ll get old pretty quick and I’ll miss NYC in no time.

   I noticed there definitely a ton of Bearcat pride at the party and everywhere I looked there was something happening. This is the first time I actually say people being kinda social with each other and making an effort to make new friends at Baruch. since Baruch is a commuter school it has been kinda of difficult to make friends since everyone just goes to class and heads home or work. Therefore it’s super nice that USG is trying their best to create chances for students to connect. Overall it was an interesting experience and I’m excited to see what Baruch has to bring to the table next.

-ANGEL (Hanjing) Zheng

 

 

Last Thursday, I went to a club meeting that I had been interested in before college even started. I heard amazing things about this club from my classmates from high school who knew club members. I went to Baruch’s South Asian Student Association first general interest meeting! The executive board members, along with their other dedicated members, were very warm, welcoming and inviting. They made it a very comfortable environment to mingle in. The president, Alvin, spoke about what this club is all about, introduced the club’s executive board members and what they are planning to do throughout the year. Right after that, we played the ice-breaker game ‘Move Your Butt’ so that we could get to know a little bit about everyone, just like how we did during Convocation Day. During the game, I felt so shy when I was the last one standing. I did not feel this way on Convocation Day however, I felt super reserved and clueless when it was my turn. Maybe it was because I was in a room with other Baruch students that I did not know and that were older than me. Anyways, after playing the game, they served us some awesome chaat. Chaat is an indian savory snack that has yogurt and different types of sauces on it. Chaat is usually served by vendors on the streets of India. The purpose of serving us chaat was because their event was called have a “Chit-Chaat”, which I thought was very clever. The rest of the meeting, everyone just socialized with one another. I met two older girls that live in my town, East Meadow, on Long Island. One of the girls is a sophomore and the other girl is a junior. It was nice to see them after a long time. We talked about their daily commute. As they were telling me about their commute, I felt thankful that I dorm because the daily commute would be horrible. They told me how it takes them about three hours to commute back and forth from East Meadow, to the city and then back. Interestingly enough, they both are executive board members, which was pretty cool. At the club meeting, I even made new two friends. Their names are Sahil and Raf. We were discussing our schedules, the other clubs we were interested in, our intended majors and why we chose Baruch over all the other colleges that we got accepted to. The three of us now have each other on snapchat and follow each other on instagram. I see myself staying as an active member of this club. I even told Alvin, the president, how I am interested in being a Freshman Representative for this club. Hopefully I get the position if I apply. Overall, I had a good time at SASA’s first general interest meeting and I am looking forward to the next meeting.

Hello, the club I decided to go to this Thursday was VSA. VSA Also known as Vietnamese Student Association, they are very friendly, informative, and warm people. You do not need to be Viet in order to join, in matter of fact majority of the people in the club isn’t even Viet. The workshop they had was called “DIY Summer rolls and language class” aka “Journey to Vietnam with VSA”. It was a fun experience I learned how to make summer rolls and how to order some common food in viet. Some small catch phrases you can “impress” your waiters when ordering. What was cool and helpful, was they provided all the ingredients and supplies for us.

What wasn’t cool is since I am a germophob I hate that they didn’t ask us to wash our hands before we started the process of making the summer rolls. The whole time I was thinking of all the germs surrounding my poorly created summer roll. You might be wondering how do you make a summer roll. Well the ingredients are and not limited to: rice paper, vermicelli, lettuce, and some form of meat(which they had pork and shrimp). They provided sauce which was a combination of sesame oil and peanut sauce.

I believe this event was not a waste of my time, it was very fun and it was interesting to learn how to make something new and common viet food phrases. They introduced us to simple viet words such as thank you and your welcome. It was interesting to know that when you are saying thank you to people, depending who you are saying it to you add another word. If you saying it to an uncle you’ll say cam on chu. They taught us simple phrases for food and the pronunciations, it was funny how Ben and another club member was teaching us how to pronounce it properly. They were funny and made jokes along the way.

I am very excited that I gone, because  I didn’t go alone rather I went with a group of friends and with my group of friends we teamed up on a game of matching Viet words we have learned to pictures. I’ll admit we kind of cheated but still legal, my friend was actually half Vietnamese, but in defense he doesn’t speak Vietnamese but speaks Chao Zhou. We were first finish and first to match it and get everything correct. Which we all won Baked by Melissa cupcakes. I was happy because I’ve never tried Baked by Melissa Cupcakes before.

I am happy to have went to this club and meet some great people like James, Ruthie, Ben, and other members. They are really nice and help me get to know more about the club. I am looking forward to going to more events and learn more about Vietnamese culture.

 

I attended the General Meeting for the club, UCLA. UCLA stands for United Chinese Language Association. My experience was great with this club. Everyone was super nice and loved talking about anything. Many freshmen were scared to join the club but the leaders were welcoming. There were a lot of people and the room we were in was too small. The leaders started introducing themselves and explaining what their roles were. They also showed us what events they host every year. After the introduction, we did icebreakers. We played many different games and laughed a lot. The first game we played was called “questions only.” In this game, people would need to talk to each others in question form only. If they say a statement and not a question, then they lose. The second game was about drawing. Each person is given a word or phrase to draw. The team that shouts the correct answer gets a point. Our team lost. The third game was called “the whisper challenge.” One person had to wear noise cancelling headphone. The other person had to say a sentence. The person with the headphone had to guess the sentence. This game was fun because they would always say some funny answer. After the games, everyone talked to each others. We asked questions regarding the club. The members were really cool. They would talk to everyone. If someone was lonely, they would go to them and talk to them. Since there were a lot of people, I could talk to anyone around me. I found out that I knew a lot of the people in the club. That means it was not that hard to make friends. We talked about our classes and what high school and middle school we were from. After all the talking, we started eating the food. The free food was amazing. We ate “Chinese” food. Even though it was not real chinese food, it was still good. I ate rice, sesame chicken, noodles and chicken. This club was not a waste of time. Since I am a freshman, this could be a great start to make more friends and start to build my networking. The first meeting was fun. I am planning to join this club in the future so I can gain more knowledge about the Chinese culture. Even though I am Chinese, I do not know a lot about the culture. This club is great because I can learn about my family’s culture and the history of China. This club is not only for Chinese people. Everyone is allowed to join this club. We can all learn about the history, the food, the dances, the teachings, the beauty, the poetry, the landscapes and many more.  The thing that I liked about the club was that one of the members of UCLA befriend me on Facebook. She thanked me for joining the general meeting and she hoped to see me in the future. This was so nice of her because there were a lot of people that came to the general meeting and she stills remembers me after the meeting. Because of her, I would most likely come back and be part of the UCLA family.

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