Instead of attending an actual career workshop, I chose to attend Baruch Voices for my final blog post. Mostly because it seemed to be the more entertaining option and wouldn’t take up too much time. While waiting for the event to begin, the choice of music played only made me kind of hate being there. That feeling fleeted as soon as it came once the presentations began (primary reason being that the music was turned off).  I enjoyed all of the monologues presented and the range of topics touched upon. It was great seeing Vanessa and Illias give their presentations again. There were some touching presentations, a rap, and then there was the monologue about Pokemon. Honestly, I zoned out for a bit throughout the Pokemon piece. It was a lot longer than it really needed to be, considering it was supposed to be no more than 3 minutes. Anyways, I really enjoyed Candace’s commentary given after every presentation, it was one of my favorite parts of the whole thing.

On Saturday, I attended the first baseball game against the Maritime College Privateers at MCU Park in Coney Island. When I got there, there was about a total of 10 people in the audience and majority were sitting on Maritime’s side. Both teams were warming up on the field, while a mix of Katy Perry songs played in the background to get us all ( all 11 of us) in the baseball spirit. Once the game began, the Bearcats fell behind quickly while Maritime had 2 home runs within the first 20 minutes. From there it got incredibly boring, and I don’t know much about baseball but I’m pretty sure that the person batting is supposed to hit the ball. Both Bearcats and Privateers barely attempted to hit the ball, and in some instances when they didn’t hit the ball they were allowed to go to the first base. Although the Bearcats caught up to Maritime, they did end up losing 10-8.

On Thursday, I attended a workshop at the Writing Center. The workshop was held from 12:30pm-2:00pm. Considering I have absolutely nothing better to do during club hours (except watch as many episodes of Parks and Recreation I can before class begins), I figured I might as well use that time to do something productive that will help me out in the long run. The amount of people in attendance were significantly lower than I had expected. There were at most 10 people that had attended the workshop. The workshop was focused on Analyzing Texts, expanding from the basic strategies of close reading to identifying patterns in the text and using what we’ve found to develop essay concepts. It’s been a while since I’ve written a simple essay, much less derive essay concepts from analyzing a short text. This class was a great refresher on writing techniques I have previously learned. It was helpful and I’d probably attend another workshop in the future.