Does anybody even really know what they want to do for the rest of their lives? Let alone how to start? Personally, I’m a dreamer. I have so many things that I want to accomplish and for some odd reason finance is at the heart of that? I’m sure at some point that’ll change whether it be 3 months from now to 3 years. Especially being at a CUNY school, it was hard for me to fathom the resources to work at great institutions that will value my identity and the things that I value. SO, since Baruch has oriented me, they’ve been marketing THE HELL out of the STARR center and I’m sure like 90% of first year seminar students end up there for their career related enrichments anyway so I went. I walked in completely clueless, per usual, but definitely held it together. I went by myself, and so I didn’t really ask questions although I wish I did because writing this would be much easier, but it was fairly busy so I didn’t want to intrude. I looked at the walls filled with pamphlets and how to’s, and even the bulletin board outside which I didn’t know would have job postings and internship opportunities for credit and even money. I was most intrigued, as a prospective Zicklin student, the business-y pamphlets. There are fellowships and internships for students like me at amazing institutions like JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs which I had no idea about. It fits because this is New York, but still. I never thought that CUNY schools would have that much presence because the education is so inexpensive. I always thought that investment banks were checking for “prestigious” students, not lil old us, ya know? It actually comforted me because I was actually scared that because I’m getting a CUNY education is have to work a million times harder to get seen by these places.