After having taken the Vark Qui, I came to realize that taking it just only reinforced by belief that I learn best by doing and listening, essentially the Auditory and Kinesthetic abilities. When put into a series of questions pertaining around situations and one’s reactions, it became transparent that learning hands on has always been one of the ways I learn fastest and it always sticks in my mind. I think that one isn’t born with the innate ability to just be one of one certain learning style, but an accumulation of their upbringing and environment. Listening has always been something that I’ve felt attached to because music, stories and people’s accounts of their personal life experiences all influenced me in ways that single handed shaped my past and my future. When together, a Kinesthetic and Auditory learning style is for the individual who likes to learn individually and decide for himself what action to take after listening to previous accounts. This style of learning reminds me of toddlers, arguably the time where we adapt the fastest and pickup information by listening and trying. The Vark Quiz helped me just realize this in the form of a quiz. Therefore, I will be able to study and learn more effectively from now as I will be keener towards listening and actually writing things down just by knowing that I am more of a Kinesthetic and Auditory learner. One of the main reasons why Vark is so helpful is that students who struggle preparing for exams or learning in general may not be consuming information the best and most effective way possible. Sadly, decent amount of students in the world might not know their style of learning and thus they have to dedicate more hours and effort into learning than they actual need. Vark Quiz should be mandatory to take for all of the students in every country so that students would improve their learning and thus push academics to a whole new level.

China @ Baruch: Business/Economy of China

On April 19th at 6 pm I went to an event called China@ Baruch, which occurred on the 14th floor at Vertical Campus Building in the Sandra and Lawrence Simon Conference Room. The event was mainly for those who were interested in pursuing business in China in the future. It had a lot of interesting people speaking and attending, so I had the chance to practice my Chinese language once again as I’ve been taking it since 9th grade because even back then I decided that I would want to have some sort of business connections in China. This event was very informative, and some of the speakers were graduates from Baruch College whom managed to make a career for themselves. Every single one of them managed to point out different important aspect of Chinese Economy. For example, Kam Wong ’81 The President of Municipal Credit Union explained why Chinese government decided to give a huge credit loan to American government and lower down the export prices in exchange to American government selling their government bonds to China in order to fulfill their debt. Mr.Wong stated that China needs America to continue trading and buying products from China because it keeps their economy going, if they will stop selling and keep producing then the whole bubble will explode. Daniel Rosen The Co-Founder and China Practice Leader of Rhodium Group talked about business opportunities for foreigners, as it may seem that China is a very hard market to get into there are certain ways that one can start his/her own business in China. Steve Barclay, Director of Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office in New York also underlined the importance of trade between China and USA, he also mentioned Hong Kong’s stock exchange and its importance in Asian markets and World markets overall. Penny Chen Head of China Tax Team from KPMG audit firm stated that corruption is slightly decreasing in China but still very present, although if you go through the right firms you will be able to most likely avoid frauds and corruption. The funny thing was that I was very under-dressed for the event, so it took me a solid 10-15 minutes to decide whether I should come in or not because everybody was very well dressed in tuxedo’s, while I was wearing sportswear. But luckily enough all the people in front were very welcoming and they told me that its totally okay for you to come because the main goal for this event is to spread knowledge, and the way you’re dressed shouldn’t affect your opportunity of getting in and seizing it. I really enjoyed coming in and sitting next to a lot of unknown people as we had a couple of conversations in Chinese. This event opened my eyes on how connected Baruch is and on how much you can get from it if you seize all the opportunities.