This was a very late workshop at 6 P.M. it was very unusually to be around the school at this time because I usually never am. Much of what was talked about in this workshop I already heard on freshman orientation. The guest speaker talked about saving money, not having credits and staying out of debt. They gave out gifts at the workshop, but unfortunately I didn’t win anything from the raffle.

Right after attending the freshman reception for a bit, I went downstairs to another fair. This was the study abroad. This was one of the most interesting workshops I went to. I found it to be so interesting because going away to study gives you a lot of opportunities to explore the world around you. There were many places to go two places that caught my attention were France and London. They had a very cool atmosphere to them. Hopefully at one point of my semester, I do take the opportunity to go away and explore the world.

On November 5, 2009, I attended the the play “A Doll’s House” at the Engelman Recital Hall from 1:00 to 2:00. Not much of a play, to be honest, but had some good acting that took place. In high school, we had to do a similar version in our English classes. I remember one of my classmate’s groups had to do an act of this play, which wasn’t as good as what I saw at Baruch. I wasn’t expecting the 5 actors to express emotion, so it impressed me to some extent. It was about a married woman who never had her chance to experience her life in her own point of view because she was somehow always somebody’s “doll”. This led to her path to independence as she seceded from her family to create her own path. Sort of like “the path not taken” by Robert Frost ( I think). It’s a good story to tell, which is why I wouldn’t mind going to another Baruch Play.

-Steve V.

On Thursday, October 29, 2009, I attended the Career planning seminar located in Room 1-107. We first had to register for the seminar online. The Starr development center did a seminar on what Basic interviewing was, and the importance behind why you need to know what to do before going into an interview. She handed out some papers that helped give some insight on the STARR center. She also gave some helpful tips to success in the job world. The workshop was beneficial because it was the first step into the STARR center that may be the first of many seminars that I will be attending. However, this seminar was kind of like my high school business club, DECA, because we already had a couple guest speakers give us the same kind of insight shown in this seminar.

-Steve V.

I learned a lot from the Academic Enrichment. The teachers were great and helpful on what type of majors I needed

Student Life was cool it was a good experience

There is a workshop for this on the 23rd unfortunely from 12:30-1:30

Another fair I attended in September was the club fair. This was an interesting fair because they had many of the clubs Baruch offers at the main gym. Some clubs I saw there were management club; computer science, art, and some cultural clubs. Like the pervious workshop there were so many students all rushing to get in to the main gym. Luckily there was a side door to get passed all the rushing students, so I didn’t have to stay and wait there till everyone swiped in. After I walked around and saw the clubs I saw some break dancing and freestyle, this was the best part of the club fair.

A little late on this post. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize we had to write blogs to pass this class. This workshop would’ve been a lot better if there weren’t hundreds of students trying to bum-rush in to the center for academic advisement, and if the lines were a lot more organized. Even though, they were broken in to small groups the advisors talked about the usually tiers I, II, and III, and about majors and minors.

12:50-2:20. It ended early. WOO-HOO!!! and i got to finish my easy sudoku.

Basically, this was a long and boring, with instances of interesting thrown in there, workshop. The real problem was the woman who was administering the workshop. She had no spirit, no heart. I would not hire her if i was interviewing her.

She gave us a lot of tips what to do during the interview and afterwords. The thank you note was something that i had heard of, but had never really thought it was very important. Another important part was what you should do afterwords. She pointed out that we should come back, and even though I had heard of this, I had not seen an official bring it up.

The other points were not that important, and anyone with common sense could have thought of them. Don’t do certain things with your body, maintain eye contact, don’t be stupid. Basic, basic stuff.

Don’t wear a black suit. I thought that was interesting.