Author: m.abreu2

Today I visit the Starr Career Development Center in order to go over my resume and check if it was alright. I went because I needed something to write about for this post and didn’t really have anything else going on. It was pretty hard trying to find something to writ about for a career related blog and then while I was walking past the Starr office it hit me and I went in. I was pretty naive thinking I could just walk in there without any appointment and without any thing on me to show them. So I then figured out the walk-in times and I decided to fix up my resume. My resume was pretty good because someone already helped me fix it up and I had the right format and I already took out all the odd jobs I’ve done in the past. I also took out the jobs that I had only been at for a short time and made my resume one page.

So to fill up some space I’ll first talk about why I had to take so much work experience out of my resume. It is mainly because I started working way before I was legally able to work and I’ve always held multiple jobs at a time while also filling in for people and I’ve been a temp once or twice as well. So yea, that’s that. When I came in with my resume it ended up being pretty quick since I had so much done already. They educated me on several aspects of the whole resume charade like making sure it’s always on special resume paper and the sort. They looked at my resume and fixed some things here and there, mainly being small mistakes and I was out as quick as I came in which was pretty cool because that means that I did it right on my own.

On Friday the 13th, 2017 we had to take a visit to the museum in order to write an essay based on one of the pieces we chose in the exhibition. At first I had two appointments that day but had to cancel one just to make it and even then I was still in a rush since I didn’t have time and I was late. I had to take the A train to 125th st and then take the B or the D to 86th st and then from then on take the m86-sbs crosstown in order to get to the museum without doing too much walking.

When I got there it wasn’t too hard to find the group because they were right next to one of the big statutes near the entrance. We waited a bit for other people to show up and then we put on our stickers and went in through the Egypt exhibit. I’ve been to the MET many times and have already seen many of the pieces we were seeing but it was like I was viewing it from a different lens since I had some context to many of the things we were looking at and it was helpful that our professor was going into detail about all the different pieces we were seeing.

After we finished looking at the Egypt exhibit, some of us went to the Mesopotamian and the Chinese exhibits to get pictures and to pick other pieces to write about. It was a breeze and we took a lot of pictures before we decided to leave and get something to eat. We decided on pizza but for reasons I have forgotten about, we ended up getting Shake Shack and arguing about mangos. It was a pretty chill day and I’m not that mad about going to the MET instead of doing something else.

Before the loft party started I met up with my friend from high school at the cafeteria. She was with her other friends that she met through SEEK and they were all really nice plus she helped me make new friends. The loft party didn’t start until 7 p.m. so we did our homework as we talked about a million irrelevant topics that just came to mind. We had snacks and shared them, but we were really hungry and kept talking about getting food every other 20 minutes. Alas, this didn’t ever happen and it was already time to go. The line was surprisingly long and I bumped into my other friends who I knew were coming. Our group of 6 became a group of about 11 and as we go closer and closer to the front of the line we saw that they were serving burgers and fries.

We were so excited to be getting free food and the burgers were so good although the fries could’ve been better. The party was starting so the lights were still on but the music was playing and people were already dancing on the dance floor. Once the lights dimmed everyone was still a bit timid and there were still a few people actually dancing. There was also jumbo chess, jumbo jenga and jumbo connect four. When I finished eating, my friends and I started to dance and our group became slightly bigger. At one point I stopped dancing because people started to fist furiously fist pumping to a bunch of songs. I actually almost got hit in the face because people were fisting pumps so quickly in such a small vicinity. People also started to pick up the chess pieces and fist pump with them in their hands. They did not put them down until the party was over and I was so afraid of someone getting into an accident. I made more friends while I was dancing and it was really exciting because at the end of the night there was a group of us ready to go out to eat.

We spent a really long time in front of the school trying to figure out where we wanted to eat. A bunch of ideas came up and we were obviously trying to figure it out for about 20 minutes. In the end, we just started to walk in the direction of 23rd to try to figure out what we wanted. Once we got to 23rd we started to walk down the avenues and we finally landed in Schnippers where we found a big table to seat all of us. I got a classic burger with cheese fries. The cheese fries were really bad and I was glad that I had gotten the cheese on the fries. My friend needed up giving me the rest of her Oreo milkshake and that was a turning point for me since now I was get a cookies and creams milkshake everywhere I go. At the end of the night I ended up taking the 6 to the 4 to Yankee Stadium and then taking the Bx13 home. I was really glad I went because I had so much fun and I made a lot of new friends.