Author: phillip.mai

The Baruch experience so far has been along the lines of my expectations. My expectations for attending Baruch was that I would get a quality education and make friends. So far its been well I’m making friends and finding out more and more how the college works, and things are coming along fine. The papers we do are grueling but down to the core of things they’re pretty interesting to write (even though my grammar sucks). Finding new friends are always interesting, I met a lot of friendly people this semester that share the same interest as me, so that was fun. There were awkward moments but things work out for the best, i’m definitely feeling the college vibe now but I’m still slacking and procrastinating .

This semester is going well except for the fact thats I’m not doing as well in English that i thought i would, other than that I’m pretty happy about this semester. I can’t wait to see my grades though, good or bad I’ll accept my fate.

If I can start my semester over again I will probably try to be more out going right off the bat and try to make as much friends as possible. Also I might try to study a little harder to please my parents but I know that is not going to happen.

The only thing that changed about me since I start to attend Baruch is that I got way better at procrastinating, i got a 96 on a 7 page paper that I did in 3 hours and 5 hours before it was due. This is a bad habit that I didn’y have in high school but I’m starting to like the pressure (sounds like a I’m masochist academically).

Hi, my name is Phillip for those who don’t know me. Some things I like about myself is that TEND to be sociable, key word tend I am shy some time and barely talk. What I like I like about myself is what I also hate about myself  like: I like that I am calm but sometimes I’m too calm and i procrastinate on things that are important, I like that I’m never really angry but because of this not to competitive and since I like playing sports I get weird looks from time to time, and I like that I am polite but there are times were I’m too formal. Also other things I hate about myself is that I’m very lazy and I’m very awkward.

I like Baruch so far like we have more freedom but this i also don’t like this because this is lacking the normal structure I was use to during high school. Also the school work is a bit to easy like there wasn’t really any big assignments and this also what I fear. I fear that now since we have so little work to do the instructor will later on in the semester start piling massive amount of work on to us. My other fear about school so far is that my grammar isn’t on a college level because my English professor has commented a few times about it, and my general

fears are ghosts and the supernatural, and the funny thing is that “Supernatural’ is one of my favorite show and also “Dexter” and “True Blood”. My other major fear is expectation, it’s just to much pressure on me and I don’t do well under pressure.

Some of my hobbies are Anime, sports, Facebook, music, dancing. For music I like rock, trance, techno, hip hop, basically I listen to any thing that sounds good. I’m also trying to learn how to dance and play the acoustic guitar, I think I’m doing all this because I feel like i’m need to be more artistic. For my major I don’t really have any thing in mind, but isn’t this what the college experience about and as my motto goes, “be smart to be lazy”, work hard and have a easier time later on in life.

Oh yeah! Since I’m an Anime fan I’m going to Comic Con this weekend and hit me up if your planning to go!

Picture: this is the lazy side of me

Certainly college is nothing like I imagined it to be, it’s actual simpler than I thought but some of the older student said that this will change as u advance. Currently I’m just sitting around wondering how am I going to pass my classes and I’m coming out blank, but it will hit me soon enough that I need to step my game up. For me as a 3.8 Gpa student to enter college I’m starting to think I’m not as smart I thought I was, but all this is fairly new. I expect that sooner or later I will get into the school spirit and thing will be better until then I’m just trying to get my time management down.

The only thing I am really concern about is Sociology but this has been said so many time 1 more time won’t hurt. During that class i can’t focus at all I blank out and same with English. During English I’m always concerned about my grammar; my grammar is not the best in the world and when I think about it more the more grammar mistakes I make. So  during this school year or semester I hope my grammar improves and Sociology I think I’ll cross my fingers and hope that when we confront the instructor things would turn for the best other than that college is fine. Also I need to start socializing .

At first I thought college is going to be ground breaking and the changes will come down hard, but so far my experience at Baruch has been pleasant. The instructors and professors have been very patience with us freshmen. I haven’t really been talking/socializing, so that’s one thing I expect to change in the near future. In my head I’m still processing that I’m back in school, and not only that I’m in college. I expecting in the near future that I will stop slacking and really start absorbing the college experience and i hope to learn a lot. Yes, I’m kind of a slacker but things will change once I the time management down.