Category Archives: Journal Entry One

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Scholar is mostly defined as a specialist in a given branch of knowledge. Not only high academic goals, Baruch scholars are people who need to develop social skills.  It is no doubt that scholar should obtain high GPA-an inevitable requirement for a scholar. Besides school study, Baruch scholars should serve a role model in student […] Continue reading →

An experience that has shaped my life is an incident that occurred in the year 2003. My mother was hit by an inexperienced driver while crossing a 6 way street (Ocean Parkway) in Brooklyn NY. I thank g-d everyday that she was able to make a full recovery. Today my mother  is better then ever! […] Continue reading →

            I remember my first day in high school as a freshman. I walked into the school to my first class. I looked around, I didn’t know anyone. The same thing happened in the next class and the class after that. By the end of the day I had felt lonely. None of my […] Continue reading →

Four years ago, I was a freshman in Brooklyn Technical high school. I remember going home and crying on the phone with my best friend the first few weeks of school because I missed her so much. I remember telling her that I wish it was junior high school again where we didn’t have to […] Continue reading →

My mother had always told me the story of the frog in a well.  Looking up from the bottom of the well, the frog could only see the world as a piece of circle of sky above him.  That is how small his world was, but when the bird flies over and tells him how […] Continue reading →

My father is a serious and stern person who barely expresses his emotion openly. Like most of kids who pursue help and win approval from their fathers, I try my best to impress my father. However, my efforts seem to be in vain as my father seldom praises me in my academic performance and other […] Continue reading →

Sungho, this is my official Korean name. However, I introduce myself to others with my American name, Brian, in order to make sure that people who I introduce myself to remember me. I am an immigrant from South Korea. I have been living in New York for about five years, and this long span of […] Continue reading →

This seems to be the easiest topic, but the hardest one at the same time as well. All of a sudden my life, my past becomes ambiguous. It is not that I don’t know about my life, but rather I know it too well, too profoundly that I can’t pick up specific examples to chat […] Continue reading →

I can’t really think of any specific experiences that have shaped me into who I am today, but what I do know is that my friends, my family, my culture, and where I grew up have all been significant factors to my values and beliefs. Although I was born in Poland, I currently live, and […] Continue reading →