Author: a.lee15

I attended the Team Baruch meeting in October because my mom egged me on to try out. I arrived there pretty early on even though I got lost for a bit trying to find it since I never went to the Multimedia Rooms before. It was basically empty when I got there. There were rows of chairs and I was surprised to see that many since I didn’t expect a huge turnout. People started trickling in, but soon enough the room was full.

Before the meeting started I talked with someone about the meeting. They seemed interested in Team Baruch and I can tell by their lively personality. It was interesting to hear about their Freshman Seminar mentor and what they thought about them, which was all praise. It was nice to see a different perspective on their experiences.

The meeting overall was pretty normal, like a GIM for a club. I was kind of disappointed to see food wasn’t provided. It went over all the different aspects of it and how to sign up for it, etc. Even some students who are already in Team Baruch came up to talk about their experiences and tips. It’s hard to describe Team Baruch after this but it gave off the impression of some kind of leadership program. It was kind of intimidating because the selection process seemed kind of rigorous. Plus the things they said was hard to apply to someone like me.

Nothing else really happened besides that. It was a typical information meeting and made Team Baruch sound way out of my league. The loud stranger around me seemed more suitable and more mature and there were so many of them. That kind of competitive environment was kind of suffocating. After the meeting though I gained a renewed respect for the type of people at Team Baruch. They seemed so confident and purposeful, very befitting of a leader. Knowing that maybe some of my peers would be similar to that is kind of breathtaking.

Obviously at this point I’ve already submitted the admittance form and I have to do the interview for it tomorrow of the time I’m writing this. It makes me stressed and pained in the stomach just thinking about it. Adding that to the things I already have to do for classes just makes it worse for me. I can’t wait until it’s winter break, free from this cycle of pain.

One day, on a Thursday, I had nothing to do so I decided on a whim to join a Writing Center workshop. The workshop was during club hours so I wondered why it was so long and I hoped I wouldn’t be the only person there.

The workshop was called Compare and Contrast Essays(or at least something similar). Since it was my first time the Writing Center in general I had to sign up and everything first which took a bit since the wifi was still really slow(though when is it not slow). After signing in I sat in wait like I was waiting to meet my doctor or something. Then the teacher came to start the workshop after 10 minutes of waiting.

It turned out to be a small, around 6-7 people in total, group though that wasn’t that surprising. We started off introducing ourselves to pass time in case more people were coming by. Then the teacher handed out packets which would be our example topic for the workshop. The packet had advertisements on them which centered around clothing/body image. The discussion started where we had to find similarities and differences between the first two advertisements, then later we compared the third advertisement to the second one.

The overall feel of the workshop was like one of a class. I felt like I was in a very small English class in middle school learning how to write compare-contrast essays. It felt pretty nostalgic. But because of that I didn’t feel much need to learn from the workshop. Comparing and contrasting isn’t really a hard concept to learn and I had to write it often, though not very well, in history and English classes. It definitely wasn’t bad though. Maybe next time I go it’d be a topic I’d more trouble on or something like that.

I went to the first GIM for the Baruch Accounting Society last week. This was my third time going to one of these so I expected the natural order of these things. That is the explanation, the icebreaker games and the food.

A lot of people attended, but since we were in a big room it wasn’t overcrowded or anything. We got to mingle and get to know other people there through the icebreaker game we played. The game itself was about guessing what a zoomed up picture was. Sadly my team didn’t win, but since two teams had to play a tiebreaker maybe it wasn’t that big a deal.

The food served was pretty nice with stacks of various pizza boxes and an assortment of cookies and even had water bottles on the side. I only had one slice though since I ate beforehand.

This club seemed to be productive since it had events and meetings every Tuesdays and Thursdays. All the officers seemed very nice though it may take a while for me to remember all of their names. The club gave a feel that it was very professional. I think it’s going to be hard planning how to manage days when I should go because I have other clubs I want to join as well.

There are events I’d like to join for sure like workshops and volunteering events. The bake sales would also be fun to participate in since I like to bake when I have free time. Also I signed up to be part of the planning committee so that will be a good way to get integrated into the club.

It feels like it’d be an important experience to join this club especially since I’d be majoring in accounting. Hopefully I’ll have a fun time here.