I personally don’t feel left out of anything. However, a lot of people claim that a true college experience is embodied by dorming, frat parties, and forming blood-buddy relationships with the people on your floor. As we all know, Baruch is a commuter campus and dorms aren’t exactly a priority to most students. We are all getting a great education at a respectable school, but does that small setback take away from the whole meaning of college?
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Anam, you took the words right out of my mouth. Could not have said it any better. As a 1st semester freshman, I felt very similar. I went back to being an introvert when in 4 years of high school I grew into being an extrovert after becoming class president and remaining in that job for all my 4 years. I made a couple of “temporary” friends and some acquaintances but nothing that made me go gaga, you know?
My close friends attend Hampton, Binghamton, Lincoln, City College, Spelman, Buffalo State and they love the dorm life and it adds to having a social life whereas I had to really go out of my way to plan to spend time in the city outside of classes.
Both you and Zainab show a considerable amount of thought on this issue. What I notice is that after a while the unhappiness and stress of commuting begins to show on your face and you wear it around and it pushes people away from you. Trust me I know this firsthand.
Sometimes at Baruch I feel like I’ve been cheated out of the college experience. So many of my friends are dorming in SUNYs or other private colleges and they have these amazing experiences that a commuter school can’t offer. And all this traveling (hour and a half commute) makes me TIRED. I just don’t want to get out of bed in the morning, I don’t want to get on the bus, I don’t want to ride a boat, and I don’t want to get into a hot train station so early in the morning.
But this experience does make me a more responsible and timely person. Unlike my friends who are dorming, I manage my time better. I know exactly where I have to be and at what time, and I’m becoming very punctual. My friends who dorm just roll out of bed, take their time getting ready, and go to class late. They take the fact that their classes are a few minutes away for granted.
Hopefully I’ll have the true college experience soon. Maybe I’ll dorm for Grad School. BROWN UNIVERSITY. I DREAM BIG!
~Anam
Good insight Zainab! In answer to your original question, I believe that Baruch students lack the true college experience only if you want to. There are tons of opportunities presented and based on incentives, certain choices are made that dictate your college experience will progress. It’s like that movie Yes Man with Jim Carey, eventually if you say yes to every opportunity that comes along you will have changed your entire lifestyle and viewpoint on life. Baruch students have the same chances. It has to do a lot about how spontaneous you choose to be sometimes.
Dorms would help, but then more students would complain about the overall cost of living expenses but it might be better then commuting all the time but given that we are in NYC, its kind of a given that students might have to do some extra walking and occasionally drfit into a heated subway once in a blue moon.
I agree with your points though. Nice post! =)