Monday, November 1, 2010

Advise to Baruch College

As everyone knows, Baruch College is a top rank college in the United States. There are many people from other places want to know more about our college. Even though we already have our school website, but I think it is not enough for others to know more about our college. If they are interested and wanted to transfer to our college, they might want to see how the campus looks like, how people behave and what the comments are about the school. Our official website does not provide enough information like that. If we have a website can tell the transfer students more about our college, that would be more convenient. People can ask basic questions, leave comments and post news about our school. Every student and faculty have his/her own login names and guess would have his/hers as well. That way, people can communicate from different places through the website. People can also make friends from our school's  website.

When people complete the transfer to our college, they would not afraid of the new environment in our college because they already got some useful information from current students. I was a transferred student and I was nervous when I came to this school. I did not know anything about the school, like where is the classrooms, cafeteria, bookstore and all that. If we have a website for students to interact each other, that would be great. We can share some secrets about the school like where we can find the best food or a quiet place to study during club hours. Isn't it fun?

On the other hand, almost everyone is holding a cell phone. I think we can contact our professors and classmates not only by e-mail, but also by SMS. We can log on to the Internet with WiFi and send messages for free using our cell phones. Many people do not use school e-mail or always for get to check it. Therefore, they always miss some important announcements. Baruch College is always overwhelming by students everywhere. Sometimes you can't even find a seat in the afternoon or during final week. If we can't get a computer to use, there is no way to access our e-mail. So, we can get our first hand information through a text message, I think it would be a better and easier tool than e-mail.

Hopefully, a digital notebook will be available for professors and students soon. So we do not need to bring all the physical books with a heavy book bag to school. All the study materials are stored to our digital notebook and we can write our notes on the digital notebook. We can save papers and ink. Professors also can connect their digital notebooks to the computer and give out notes that way, so we do not have problems seeing some professor's difficult and unreadable handwriting. I think it is a little bit too expensive to do so now. Eventually, as the technologies are improving, the new media is going to replace the old media soon (It might not be completely, but it should be a in big range).

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