The Met experience is fantastic because of the works of arts and cultural difference of different country surprise me every step I take. If the were one word that can describe my tension during the day, it would be a “child.” Everything in the museum seems interesting, and I wanted to visit every exhibit. Every time I walk into a new area, I would drag the person with me and tell them to look at these. The Asian exhibit reminds me of the ancient drama I used to watch when I was little. The European paintings show a comparison between the period where people drew more religious portrait related to religion and the time where people were more sacred and drew pictures of themselves. The armors and weapons area made me extremely excited because I just finished playing a video game that uses these armors and weapons as references. In the Egyptian sections, I expect that there would be mummies in the coffins, but all the coffins were empty.
This experience will assist me during my first semester in Baruch by making me absorb the information I gain every time I walk towards a new art piece. The experience will help me because I studied in a highly-diverse campus. My high school was also a very diverse environment, but the variety of race is not as much because the high school provides a zone program. In College, it’s no longer consist of a neighborhood; it’s consist of the whole world. International students, Transfer students, and students from different states in the U.S. Therefore I believe using the knowledge I gained while touring around the museum could help me to start a conversation or even understand a topic related to the descriptions I saw on the objects.
