For my first student life workshop my friend suggested that I attend a rush event for a professional fraternity DSP (Delta Sigma Pi). For the student life workshop, I wanted to attend a club/organization event and possibly join one because I quickly realized in the first week of the semester that if I didn’t put myself out there, I wouldn’t be able to meet new people. I’m a finance major and I’m looking towards investment banking, so my friend Josh suggested I try to rush for DSP to increase my network and to surround myself with intelligent people. Before going to the rush events, I honestly had no idea what I would be looking forward to and thus every event was a completely new experience. Since every event was a new experience, I was pleasantly surprised to be met with outgoing and intelligent people as well as to be able to eat free food.

I attended many rush events, so the event that I would like to highlight is the Alumni Panel that DSP hosted on February 11 from 7-9 PM. Much like the other rush events, there was free food! Normally the events serve free food in the form of pizza or Subway sandwiches, but for the alumni panel event DSP went all out and bought pasta. It was very interesting to hear alumni of Baruch with successful careers at Barclays, BlackRock, and Razorfish to name a few speak on their own experiences at DSP. By the end of the event, I learned a lot about business in general and received a lot of insight into Baruch. I would recommend others to attend rush events next semester because they are very insightful. And if you don’t enjoy it, at least you get free food! –Ian Chi