Daily Archives: April 19, 2016

Community Service

        

On March 19, I went to my elementary school to help them with their “Community Help Day”. Honestly i wasn’t going to go because  i would have preferred to sleep in, but since my mother was going, I figured “hey, why not?”. My mother complained that i didn’t want to spend time with her, so i went with her. So this “Community Help Day” wasn’t like i expected it to be. I thought people would just be in class room help children do homework, it was more than that. When my mother and I got there, they gave us three color with numbers on  it. The colors represented the activities you were going to do with the kids. The numbers was the order you were going to do the activities.  My first activity was homework, which wasn’t all that fun, since it was homework. and homework is never fun. While helping the students with their homework i realized that the instruction was so unclear, it honestly took me a good minute to understand what they were suppose to do. My next activity was builder. So basically the kids were given a word and the had 1 to 2 minutes to build that object with legos. I actually like this part because it was kind of cool to watch them figure out exactly what color the wanted to use and size of the legos they choose.

Major/Minor Fair

A few weeks ago, I went  to the Major and Minor Fair, it was located on the first floor of the VC building. And if i  am being honest i got lost a little because i unfortunately lack good sense of direction. But this post isn’t about me lacking direction but about the major and minor fair.  When i first walked in the room, the first thing that i saw was the color blue and a lot of tables. Each table had its designated subject, with information about that subject as a major and then as a minor. I learned a lot about the different majors and how your minor doesn’t necessarily have to relate to your major.  I want to major in Business Management with a concentration of operation management. Not really sure what i want to minor in, i am interested in journalism or communication.

Monologue

“Give me five more minutes” I said

When time was quite forgiving.

Breakfast was waiting for me

a big bowl of Cheerios and a tall glass of OJ

Because Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

I ride my Fisher Price Yellow and Red car

Mr. Softee around the corner! my most trusted dealer for ice-cream

“Give me five more minutes” I said

When time was not forgiving

A lecture was waiting for me

In a huge lecture hall, a professor with a thick accent is speaking

There’s no time for breakfast, education is not important right?

I pay a price of $2.75 to ride the MTA

The 7 train, and then the 6.

Starbucks around the corner! My most trusted dealer for coffee.

Alexander String Quartet

On April 11th, 2016, I attended one of Alexander String Quartet’s performances at the Engelman Recital Hall. Although I was brought to the Recital Hall during my orientation, I could not remember how to get there. After wandering around countless of times around the Baruch Campus, I finally found my way to the Engelman Recital Hall. The quietness and stillness of the whole Hall really helped set the atmosphere of the performance. This was quiet different from the rambunctiousness of the floors above it, with students scurrying to their lectures, exchanging small and quick conversations to their peers on their way there. As I took a seat that’s not too close or far away from the stage, I took this time to look around, and obverse the interior of this hall. Baruch’s performing arts Recital Hall has been said to be one of the best acoustic hall, architecturally. I noticed how the walls were made up of separate consecutive walls lined up vertically like a domino blocks. The texture of these walls seemed rough, assuming that this was for the purpose of absorbing sound waves as they are projected from the stage. The performance itself as a result, was really good, acoustically. Nonetheless, it was great to experience an music performance at Baruch, and I am willing to attend to another performance at Baruch’s Engelman Recital Hall.

ALT MANGA SYMPOSIUM

On April7th, 2016, I went to a meeting called “Alternative manga symposium” in room 5-165.  In the meeting, we had speakers to talk about the culture of Japan literature, and how it gained it gained a lot more popularity throughout the years. I wanted to attend this meeting because I was interested in minoring in Japanese, and I was not sure if Baruch had a strong Japanese department. One of Baruch’s professors, Shigeru Suzuki, spoke at this meeting. After hearing how passionate he spoke about the Japanese culture, i was eager to register for one of his classes in the future. At the meeting, I was surprised at how many people attended. Initially, I expected a few people, but a lot more people showed up than I expected. I’m glad that I attended this meeting, because now I am sure that I will be minoring in Japanese at Baruch College.

 

Monologue

Day by day

Step by step

I know we make the time for the thing we fight.

“A love so deep I gave you my all —
From my mind & body
To my spirit & soul.”

– Kobe Bryant

A young man who come with dominate heart.

A old man who gone with magnificent ending.

Honor to you forever.

Jewish Study Center

My MSC professor informed me that there was going to have a conference host on Apr. 19th, which was Dissent and Dissention: Approaching Ultra-Orthodoxy, the Wasserman Jewish Studies Center’s sixth annual conference. I went to the conference, it was a special experience to me. As we know, Hasidic community is distinguished from any other community. Hasidic community is a branch of Orthdox Judism, they follow different nome and practice Judism. The conference I attended was about the experience of how LBGT people recognize their identity and left their Hasidic community. Those people have to dealing with not only to leave their family, but also how to survive after they left their community. It was extremely tough decision to make to leave their community, since their family will be labeled OTC, and their sibling’s marriage will also be affected. For them, it is not only a decision
about to leave their religion or not, but live or die. I admire their great courage to overcome the difficulties, and I appreciate the Jewish Study Center host this lecture to help us understand and learn from these people who have great courage to chase the real self.

Writing Center

On April 5, Me and my friends went to Writing center, We have the same question about how to write thesis statement of our paper of English Writing class. It’s very tough to get A. All of us must redo our paper. Then I went to there, it is hard to make reservations. We also we have learned how to organize sentences and analyze the data. This is a little different between college and high school. My high school English teacher did not ask us too much about thesis statement, but college is difficult. He said my professor may want to see the point and evidence that can convince him. He make a certain examples. The tutor is very nice, and he help us figure out the question step by step. Finally I finish my paper,but I think I would not come to the Writing Center again, because it to hard to make a reservation. I tend to work there if I m profound knowledge in the future.

Writing Center is a good place to go!!!

Monologue

Waking down the street,

Trying to find another shadow besides me.

However, there’s no one and  no more.

I am alone.

Lights are alone.

Turn back to the street and hope to find a similar figure.

Do not hold the hope because whenever you lost love, it is meaningless.

 

People can make mistakes, but don’t make the same mistake. Socrates.

Monologue

This week is kind of tough

many projects that is due.

I am so regretful not to do projects earlier.

Now,,

have so many things to do.

Theater paper, and watch show

English paper not easy like make a dough

Math quizzes and tests

Anthropology’s paper tomorrow is due.

Now.

What should i Do