Freshman Seminar Spring 2017 DTD

Wednesday, March 1, I had a meeting with my Peer Advisor, Andrew, to discuss about my classes and their registration. The meeting was really useful and helpful. He asked me a few questions to know me better before beginning. I discussed with him my possible major and minor and we planned out my schedule for the near future. Andrew, the sweet man he is, gave me possible options in my course of study and also spoke about his personal experiences, guiding me accordingly. I was made aware about the requirements of Baruch College, The Zicklin School of Business and my major, Finance. I was taught how to use the school website to browse through my choices and their requirements.

Overall, I think it was worthwhile and made me more aware about my resources and their use. The meeting also helped me think about my courses and interests and I learned from someone’s personal experience. I would definitely recommend every Freshman, actually every student, to make use of this opportunity we get in Baruch.

On Thursday March 3rd 2017, I attended meeting named “Carry the Love’’.  From the very beginning, everything seemed quite well – free food, excellent service and so on.

As I entered the room were that event was held, speaker who was giving her speech attracted me because of her enthusiast presentation skills. Her speech was about the story from Bible in which Jesus raised someone’s daughter from the dead

At first that event, didn’t look so weird until I realized that everything at this event was connected to Jesus. It was a religious meeting and there was nothing mentioned about that in flier.

I think everyone would agree with me that title “Carry the love’’ sounds totally disconnected from any kind of religious affiliation.  In my opinion “Carry the love of Jesus “would be the best title for that meeting.

Today (03/01/17) I have been to an event called “Carry the Love”. First when I arrived, people were very nice, I sign in and then I found myself in the same room than the first day for the orientation. There was many people all listening to a girl on the stage. She was telling story about love, faith, and Jesus. Then I realize that it was a religious event, and that people from the organization was trying to make people believe in Jesus, and in their religion.
It was quite interesting because people were really into the event, and we could felt that she was talking about something that passionate her.
Anyway, I left 30 minutes later because I wasn’t felling good staying there, I felt that it wasn’t my place.

This event really disturbed me, because no one told me that it was a religious event. And as I come from France, it is unusual to see people expressing about their religion in public space.

Even if I didn’t fell confortable assisting to this event, I recognize that people were very nice.

 

Robin Barth

I visit the internship and career fair I found it very very interesting. When I got the fair everyone was to wear suits and bring resumes. The fair had many jobs and internship but not Continue reading “Internship/career fair”

To be honest I felt more at home working than studying. So coming in to Baruch I have years of credible work experience and was looking more for career opportunities. When I entered the Starr Career Development Center I immediately felt at home. Though it was my first meeting they gave me a preview of one of my top three goals here at Baruch: to find a particular fit in finding the proper career through building my networking and communication skills. I learned of upcoming internship seminars and even a Suit Up for Success, STARR’s annual charity event spearheaded by the Peers for Careers in collaboration with several campus organizations. Which is coming soon. With extensive career experience under my belt it feels like one goal is almost within grasp and it’s only my 3rd week here. I recommend it highly to anyone who hopes to have that foot in the career world way before they graduate or transfer whichever comes first.

Learning of another’s cultures’ intriguing foods, traditions, and the reasons for them etc. is always unfailingly fascinating and valuable. This fact led me on an expedition with my friend/classmate Natari, a fellow freshman at Baruch, to the floor 11 room 130 inside the Vertical building on Lexington Ave. During the initial 10 seconds of entering the room, we appeared to be incognito to the rest of the gathering who were caught up with talking to no end and eating up some fresh cooking. Not long after we were confronted by an oriental person who could clearly perceive our newness to the group, “welcome to the Hong Kong club, venture in, get some food, we don’t bite” he said. The room was majority female, yet it was still loaded with the Asians except for Natari and I. When we conversed with a couple of them to ask them a few questions, we acquired a multitude of stats. An intriguingly ironic one being that almost everybody in the Hong Kong club wasn’t actually from Hong Kong. For some, the path that led them there was unknown, but for others, it could have been that they were simply grasping their ethnic foundation, following after a companion and/or to my perception hunger was a big motive. Finally, I met up with the President and Vice President of the organization, Rebecca and Derek. We spoke about what type of club it was, its events, its members, “we are for the most part a social club,” Rebecca stated, “although we have some consistent individuals week after week, nevertheless, we don’t stop seeing new faces at every gathering. Derek, VP, told us the basic schedule for the social club which consisted of General Interest Meetings, movie nights, and every so often Cantonese class. Overall it ended up being a cool environment, quite homelike despite the cultural dissimilarities.

This is not my first time to visit the museum. But the each time when I visited the museum, my feeling always changed. The museum is not only a place to see the artworks, you also can through those artworks to know the background of the art and why this artwork was significant for the people. For my opinion, studying sometimes make the people feel boring when the people just reading and writing to get a new knowledge. But the museum can achieve the different goals for studying. Usually, we know the more information about our own culture. For the other countries, we just know a little bit information. So, the different artworks were not only shown the how the creator through their artwork to show their ideas or purpose, but also the artworks can show a country’s culture and civilization.  I don’t know did anybody have the same feeling like me. The museum likes the ocean of knowledge, in order to understand how the artworks change our life. You can feel when you visit the museum, you do not only learn the knowledge, but you also can see the roots of the history.

This club is a non-membership club, which means that their’s no real commitment. You can come, talk about music, listen to music, play music, or just enjoy yourself, then leave. It’s as simple as that. I could tell that everyone was friendly from the moment I walked thru the door. They told us about the club and how things actually worked. We went around the room getting to know each other and ate some bomb ass pizza. Activities such as “Lip-Sync Battles” and “Open-Mic Night” are a couple of things that make this club unique and fun. This club is ideal for people who want to put out their music and gain CONNECTIONS. Whether you’re a rapper or singer, produce dope beats or EDM, write song lyrics such as hooks/verses etc, there’s a place for everyone. Even if you don’t do anything and just like to listen to dope upcoming music, come and enjoy yourself. It’s open to anyone and everyone, so POP IN and POP OUT!!

 

Last Thursday I went to the orientation for a club called Conversation Partners Program. It was the club that was explained to us in class where English speaking natives and non-natives get together and talk in order to help assimilate the non-native student both into the language and the culture of New York and the USA in general.

I’m a native speaker so I went so I could have the opportunity to help a foreign student learn to talk more comfortably and to make friends while I do it. In order to stay in the club you must meet with your partner 7 times over the course of the semester for an hour each. I haven’t yet met with my partner but I imagine the majority of the time will be dedicated to getting lunch and talking about our respective backgrounds. I’ll try to give helpful tips on how to speak more eloquently and how best to socialize and get around the city.

 

Noah Yamamoto

Last Thursday, (February 16th 2017), I went to the Baruch study abroad fair event, there were around 20 table, and each of them was representing a University from another country. It was quite interesting because I didn’t know that exchange with other country was possible. there was two desks for French university which I found really interesting, because as a french, I know those University and they are quite good, so I could speak with them to understand how it work and they explain me everything, also I could talk with students who made these exchange, it was quite interesting to have their point of view on the subject. I also could speak with someone from an university in China, because it may be an idea to go study there for few months and it could really be interesting to discover a new culture.

Everything was very organized, we had a mad of all the desks, and everyone there was nice and it was a great experience which made me realize a new study opportunity that offer Baruch College.