I recently went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and I have gone through the Japanese art exhibition. It was a very pleasant experience for quite a few reasons. One of which is that it showed artwork, which I would consider masterpieces, that was very aesthetic and pleasing to the eye. The picture shown on the side is me in front of one of these pieces. The piece shown is a portrait of a buddhist priest named Ingen Ryuki, who created and spread a new sect of buddhism all over Japan. Not only did this piece allow me to learn new historical facts, but it also showed me that seeing is learning too. In other words, visual learning is important. This lesson will potentially help me throughout college whenever I encounter a difficult subject that may be an obstacle in my path to graduation. While my first semester at Baruch College has been fun, it has also been quite busy, especially with many reading assignments and quizzes. In one of my assignments, I was asked to define and explain a term from Economics class known as “elasticity”. The first thought that came to my mind was to read the entire chapter that was dedicated to this term. Although this an effective way to learn it, it is inefficient since it is very time-consuming. Then I thought of a better idea, which was to watch a video on elasticity on an online website. This video was a great, visual way of explaining this economic concept to me since it visually showed people in a market performing examples that can be explained through elasticity. Overall, the experience at the museum was a success since I learned something new that I could use to help me with me academics. It would have taken me a long time to learn about Ingen Ryuki’s piece if I had read it from a textbook instead of actually seeing it my self.