Take off our training wheels
03/05/11 05:22 AM
At 18 years of age, even our freshman class can legally vote for the next president of the United States, serve our country on the battlefield in Afghanistan, and operate a motor vehicle. At 18, these students are considered adults in the eyes of the law. Many of these 18-year-olds even work their way through school and pay tuition out of their own pockets. This is just talking about our youngest classmates. Sometimes however, the college can forget that it is in the business of higher education and not a higher high school. Overall, Baruch is a fantastic institution, but we still have some policies and practices that treat us like children instead of responsible adults. Some professors lock their classroom doors if students try to enter late. In the real world, life happens and trains...On online courses
02/27/11 19:42 PM
Just a couple of years ago, simply having a website and giving students email addresses was the bleeding edge of technology. If your syllabus was online and you could download one of your readings instead of photocopying it, then you may as well have been Bill Gates. We have grown up alongside the Internet, and we were there at the birth of its half-brother, the Smartphone. Connective technology has always been there for us. We are more connected to our peers and the outside world than any generation has ever been before. We do not simply consume media; we now produce it. We are engaged in conversations and dialogue instead of being passive listeners. For us, all media is collaborative, and any model besides that seems increasingly stodgy and outdated. How do we change the college...The people that you meet
02/27/11 19:20 PM
At face value, Baruch College is, simply, people plus a little bit of real estate. Any institution viewed so narrowly is, but only a collection of the sum totals of its people, but Baruch, since it's inception, has touched over 100,000 individuals. Their experiences, hopes, and dreams are what make up our college's very foundation and we, each and every one of us, carry out the weight of their history daily. Of those 100,000, I have had the pleasure of knowing just a few, but they have nonetheless amazed me. I have met professors who are experts in their fields; one had published so many books that he had long lost count. Some professors worked with presidents, and some worked with titans of industry. While, like every student, I have had one or two unpleasant instructors, the professors...Class of 2011
02/27/11 19:13 PM
When I go back home for a visit, I still see my acceptance letter to Baruch College staring back at me from its dusty frame in my old bedroom. Unsurprisingly, it looks the same as it did that winter afternoon when I first opened it, complete with its familiar Baruch letterhead and photocopied signature. What is surprising though, is the date: 2007. Somehow, it has been four years since I began at Baruch, and now, unbelievably, it's 2011. That fact slapped me in the face a few weeks ago when my Facebook profile automatically switched from "studies Marketing" to "studied Marketing" after the ball dropped. In 2007, not only was George Bush still in office, but also, Barack Obama was a distant second in the Democratic primary race. The iPhone was just announced. Nobody...
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