For the first time in maybe five years, I visited a museum. This museum trip was a part of my history class. The trip was on a Friday morning and about half the class present to attend the trip. Since we were studying about the Egyptians and Mesopotamians at the time, we visited the exhibits for each. We went the MET for the exhibits. We started with the Egyptian exhibit, which sadly took the entire trip or hour to go through. The museum provided us with a much better representation of the effect the people have on us today. They have left many traces and clues to how they have lived in the past and their entire or most of their history. While in this part of the museum, we saw many clay figurines show casing Egyptian life at the time. We also saw many clay tablets with hieroglyphs inscribed into them. The papyrus with hieroglyphs have disintegrated a long time ago and didn’t preserve as well as the clay tablets. We also saw the mascot for the MET, a little blue hippo figurine named William. There were also showcases filled with ornaments and jewelry the people wore back in the day. However, I found the statues of a pharaoh the most interesting. There were many statues of the same pharaoh throughout the same room. There were also large statues of the ancient Egyptian gods erected outside the room as well. After this trip, we were instructed to find an object the teacher didn’t talk about and write an essay on it. After walking around the museum, I laid my eyes on a giant statue outside. Once I gotten close to this statue, I realized it was Cleopatra’s needle. I was so amazed on how they were able to move such an object here, I decided to do my essay on this. Overall, this trip was very exciting.
Author: j.james6
Career Fair Day – Jeramia James
The day before the club fair, I took some time to think about the clubs I would like to join or think about joining. I did some research through social media like instagram and facebook. I found a couple of clubs interesting such as the E-Sports Association, Finance & Economics Society, and the Traders Club. The club fair took place during club hours on september 28. It was a very lively and interesting atmosphere to be in. I was surprised at a couple things. The first was the fact that there weren’t many adults there and the entire event was managed, or so it seemed, by students. Secondly, the amount of clubs that were present at the club fair was amazing. I have never seen so many clubs that were at a club fair before. I was also shocked to find out that the clubs that were present at the fair, wasn’t all of them. The atmosphere of the club fair was very lively and people looked very happy and enthusiastic to be there. There was even a DJ playing music at the fair. The music too was very modern and they didn’t play any songs that were too overused and old. Although I only looked up a couple of clubs the night before, I walked around talking to many of club officers and members. They informed me of what the club does and how I can get in and fit in. They also advised me how to become officers in the club and all the information regarding meeting times for the clubs. Overall, I think that this club fair was a very important event to attend. Not only did I get a lot of information regarding clubs and organizations at Baruch, it gave me an insight into the student life part of the school.
STARR Career Fair – Jeramia James
While I was sitting on my bed the night before staring at my resume, I was wondering if this would be enough to impress the employers at the career fair. I tweaked my resume to its best and started to think of things to say to the employers. However, when it came time to go to the career fair, I’ve realized something, I might be the youngest one there. At the career fair, I was shocked to see a line that stretched down two floors from the main floor. It was at this moment that I realized that ids that go to Baruch care about their future careers. I also realized that getting a job will be very competitive seeing as how so many people attend these fairs to get an internship or a job. The career fair really helped me to understand and taught me to understand what I have to do when I am a junior and start looking for internships and jobs. I have learned how to introduce myself to the employers to present the best part of me. I talked to many employers ranging from the CIA to Bloomberg. From all these companies, I learned that accounting and finance play a major role in all of them. The first group of people I talked to was the CIA. I learned that CIA offers many jobs with a major in accounting. The internships are offered in the summer and require the student to relocate to Washington DC for the period of the internship. The same was said by the FBI, except the internship could be taken in their field offices like the one in New York City. For the FBI, I was mainly informed by a current intern that was being given a part time job, while still a sophomore. The MTA also offers internships for accounting majors. Rana Constant, who was the person I talked to, told me that people who worked in the MTA with accounting degrees turned out to be successful, mainly because other employers love to hire employers who worked for the MTA. The most interesting employer I talked to that day would be US Customs and Border Patrol agents. I was really surprised to see an employer who seems like they only hire agents for the field, hire many people with majors in accounting and finance. I learned that it was accountants in the department itself that handle all the money. It doesn’t get contracted to any company and the department does it themselves. I also talked to other companies that day like Bloomberg LP and Citi Bank. I wasn’t too surprised to see they business majors and I pretty much knew what to expect from these two companies. This is what I learned from my time at the career fair. For the time I was there, about two and half hours, I was able to learn so much more about the hiring process. I also learned that accounting existed in so many different companies including the FBI and CIA.
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