l.wang7 – Freshman Seminar Fall 17 LC06

Student Life Blog

This is a student life blog. I am going to introduce my experience for watch the theater show. This play is call Arden/Everywhere.

Arden/Everywhere, the “As You Like It”, directed by Jessica Bauman. It is a contemporary dramatic rendition of Shakespearean play that tackles the controversial issue of refugee of immigrant. Also, it is a powerful and profound story reading refugees’ life.

However, it only runs on October 8^th to 28^th. If you interesting, you can search the play in the YouTube or let me introduce it.

Arden/Everything was set in a country which there has been a coup. The old Duck moved into the Forest of Arden, where they have become refugees. The good Duck’s daughter, Rosalind, embarks upon a mission to find her father with her cousin Celia, after falling for Orlando. Rosalind disguised as a man for protection. In the other line, Orland runs away to Arden to save his life from his evil brother Oliver. However, Orland’s brother comes to Arden to find Orlando and kill him but he attacked by a dangerous gang of man in Arden. Orlando saves him immediately and they reconcile, but Orlando is hurt. The daughter of Duke Francis Celia approached Orlando and fall in love with him. In the end of the play, Rosalind takes off the disguise and be a woman, she is reunited with her father and gets marry Orlando. They leave Arden, leaving the rest of the refugees to continue their life.

Each character has vivid body movement and expression which the audience can easier to understand the story. For example, the fight is exciting and fierce when the Orlando fight with a dangerous man. It attracts the audience to focus on the stage when the fight in slow-motion. The light and background music make the action stronger. Also, this scene is a turning point which they change the relationship between Orlando and Oliver. Orlando gets hurt and lies down on his brother and they reconcile. According to their verbal language and action, the audience realizes family love can overcome everything.

Arden/Everywhere is a success story. It conveys the main theme of love and overcoming reality situation. The character came from different country and own experience but they into the Forest of Arden and live together. People will understand refugees’ experience and life. The audience has a different perspective to analysis this play. Love, family, and friendship. I strongly recommend you watch the play and enjoy it.

Career Blog

Career workshop is a good opportunity to learn more about the resources and career experience at baruch college. Every student can join career workshop. The upperclassmen and professor will teach students how to prepare interview and some skills.

Student can ask office or seek the board information to see the workshop information, time and location. I went to workshop with my friends. We had to sign up our basic information including name and student ID. Many students in the classroom and four students stood front of the desk. They started speech when everyone is here. The speech was about prepare a personal pitch, resume model and sample and leadership skills.

For example, when people interview themselve, it should be 30 seconds to 2 minutes long. Introduce must be clear and include personal skill and goal, it must indicate the your decision and strategy. Also, dress is an important point, the first impression and outfit can make up interviewer’s mind. For instant, wear the business type of shirt and skirt, simple earrings and necklace. No sandals, boots; No big earrings or bangles; No strong perfume; No tight or revealing clothes. Those tips are best for women dress.

They finished speech and students can ask some questions about interview. They answered those questions which help me a lot. Finally, I got the career workshop signature and a career fair preparation guide. It was a good opportunity to learn the interview skill and students should be join it. It would a help you a lot in future.

My experience at Museum of Modern Art

Hi!! Everyone, welcome to my first blog in Baruch college.

My blog is about my experience at museum of modern art as known as MOMA. MOMA is a famous museum in the New York so i am really excited to visit here and enjoy the great artist work. MOMA has a free ticket time at Friday after 4pm. If you have the time, please don’t missing out.

Me and my friend get the free ticket and enter the first floor, there is a huge lobby and we take the elevator to the second, there is a helicopter hang in the midair. It called Bell 47D1 helicopter which it designed and produced in 1945 and has been used for crop dusting.

In the other room, there are differents structures and artist works. On the table, there are many ipad and people can use it to create the 3D paint and the children can play the puzzles. Many kids like to do the puzzle which it can help them to create their imagination. In addition, we saw a lot of ancient art and tools which it came from different age and different country. I admired the ancients can create those tools without the advance technique.

When we go to upstairs and see many inconceivable paint. Actually i don’t understand what is the paint meaning, but the annotation is help me a lot, when i looking the artist work, i can image the background of the artist and reflect on it. This paint is weird, a human and a lot of colors, i see the annotation and i get it that is the paint meaning the history .

My most favorite paint is the starry night , it painted by Vincent V an Gogh. This paint shows a highly exaggerated deformation and the starry night. The huge and curly cloud is near the big yellow moon. When i see a while, my mood become depressed . This is why this paint can be most famous paint in the world.

MOMA is a amazing museum, i will visit again!