Last Thursday, I attended Baruch’s Majors and Minors fair. There were different tables for every major and minor from business majors to science and art majors. It was really interesting because I got to see and ask questions about the majors and minors I’m interested in. When I came to Baruch I thought I was set on Economics, but during the past few months I have notice other majors that could also suit me. Furthermore, it encourage me to question myself what I really want to do in the future. Do I want to work in the business world? Or do I want to work for in the government? Which I think will be decisive at the time of choosing a major.
Author: m.achury
Monologue
Don’t you feel sometimes that you are on the edge of a cliff about to jump into a pool of endless possibilities but you feel a big pull that you fight every time with? There’s great stories about the people who jumped in before. If you ask them, they will certainly tell you all the things they accomplished, the learning experiences, and just bare feeling of it. You hear stories like these all time in the news or in social media pages. However, every time I find myself hearing one of these stories I asked myself the same question: How the hell did they dealt with the ever pulling fears?
If you do you ask how overcome them, people will list time after time all of my qualities, my achievements, my goals, my strengths. But thing is that they don’t see is the fear pulling me back more and more every time. Or maybe they decide to ignore it. Ignore the fact that the pull doesn’t see your achievements nor your qualities. The pull sees the impossible work, the disappointments, the consequences of failing, and your inability to do deal with the upcoming situations.
And even if I try my hardest, I can’t seem to get rid of it. You guys might think right now that I’m super insecure, which I’m probably am. But it’s more than just believing in myself because I know me. I certainly know my strengths, my achievements, and my hard-work. I don’t have amnesia. I remember all the work I did through high school to get here, to become the person I am today. The thing is when I picture myself actually jumping in, I see myself like a hamster in an exercise ball, working my hardest to achieve that goal, but for some reason never going anywhere.
Although there’s sometimes another thing that actually pushes me into the endless possibilities, and ironically it’s the fear about my future-self blaming me for the things I denied her. It makes me realize that I can’t let this thing pull me back nor haunt me. At the end of the day, it’s only my illusion.
Internship Seminar
Everyday at Baruch you often either hear or get emails about companies that come on campus to recruit people for their companies. It’s overwhelming sometimes because even if you do want find more information about them and maybe get an internship there, you feel like you don’t if you have enough experience to even get an interview. These is why I often throw this information at the back of my mind.
Last Thursday I saw there were two events at Baruch that seem interesting for career, a internship workshop and an event with Fes, where a consulting firm will be presenting. I was surprised to hear that for once it wasn’t a finance company coming in, since most of the companies that come here are mostly for finance. However, I decided to go to the the internship workshop because I felt it would help me more in the long-run, instead of going to an event with a company without a clue of what I should be doing.
I’m glad I went there instead of FES because I found out things that I had no idea that were a thing. For instance, I was very happy to hear how we as underclassmen can get internships because it feels like most of the time companies that come into baruch are looking for juniors and seniors. That was one of the reasons why I decided not to go to the career fair, earlier this month. Moreover, I was surprised to find out that most internships either have academic credit or they are paid, which is something I didn’t know. I thought most students went to the companies for free. Overall, it was good a experience that will help me make my college journey easier later on.
Thursday Club Hours
Thursday club hours can be a bit hectic, in my opinion, because there’s so much to do. You don’t know where to go or what to do. During the past few weeks, I have been to a different club every Tuesday and Thursday. Last Thursday, I decided to go to the Opening of the Latinx Heritage Month and the Unicef Club.
My first stop was the Latin celebration that was going on in the second floor during club hours. It was really nice to stop by for a few minutes and see how a lot of students were celebrating the Latin month. This is new for me because at my high school there were really few people who are Latino, so I didn’t really celebrate anything like the school did last Thursday.
After stopping by second floor and getting some food, I went upstairs to a GMI meeting of the Unicef Club. There were a lot of people in the meeting, people had to bring desks from other classrooms so everyone could sit. We had some icebreakers, which gave us the opportunity to get meet more people. One of the things I liked was their mission and how the club works and helps children by fundraising. It remind me of a club in high school that I used to run, Global Connections because we raised money to help build a school in Ghana, and over the four years I got to see how it went from nothing into a school. I really hope I can have the same impact in Unicef as I did in my high school club. I’m hoping to get into the fundraising committee.