Well to start my name is Bill Leung and I just turned 19 a few days ago. I like to do a variety of things ranging from playing handball, parties, or just sitting at home playing video games. I have a pretty relaxed personality towards life and all its inner workings. Course I work for the things I want and I expect nothing to just be given to me. I’ve made some bad choices in my life and had one hell of a time correcting my mistakes. In the end, I believe its not the choices we make that define who we are but what we do after the choice has been made.
My concerns consist of not having a good GPA. I want at least a 3.5 if I can manage but I have a serious time management problem. There are so many things I want to do and they usually don’t pertain to school work. Its hard for me to balance my social life from my educational needs. I’m not too concerned about making new friends because I don’t have much trouble talking to people but I am concerned about losing my current ones. Out of my close group of friends, none of them are currently going to Baruch and I’m afraid that our lives will drift ever so much apart because of our ever growing differences.
It’s defiantly different alright. I find people more interested in their academic careers rather then just having fun. Or maybe I just haven’t met the other part of the populace. I so dearly hope for the latter. Professors have more of a professional stance in what they do so I find it hard to communicate with them. I use to get to know my teachers in high school but to professors I feel highly estranged. Lastly, college is huge compared to high school. Finding new things to do practically everyday and inexhaustible knowledge to be gained everywhere.
Lastly I think college will change me into a more responsible young adult. I hope it will help me find what I want to do with my life or at least throughout my academic career. I feel that we’ve all been institutionalized our entire lives. I hope college will prepare me for real life as the subsequent schools prepared me for the next institution I will be going to although I do not believe my high school has prepared me adequately for college. I hope this is not the case in college. I look forward to the new experience in college and what I can obtain for my future while I’m here.
Balancing social life with college can be difficult at first. I urge you to use your planner for this very reason. After a semester, you should be well on your way to developing your routine.