My experience at Baruch College has lived up pretty much as I expected it upon entering the school. I knew traveling to school in Manhattan everyday would be very different from the 5 minute walk that took me to my high school. I knew the work would be much more difficult than I had experienced throughout high school and I was correct. I expected college to be a bunch of huge lecture classes were there would be more than 100 people. It turned out that most of my classes actually had fewer than 30 people in it.
In all honesty my first semester at Baruch College went exactly as my senior year of high school ended, I was lazy and unmotivated. I did alright in all of my classes but absolutely nowhere near my full potential. But on the other hand I did make a few friends along with the friends I had from high school. I saw the way college and high school are different and that has helped me.
Obviously I can say If I could do this semester all over again I would study very hard and get great grades but I’m not a very motivated student and that just wouldn’t be the truth. If I could do it all over again I would honestly not come to Baruch College. I don’t really dislike the school too much but I’m not very happy with my decision.
I haven’t changed much since I started at Baruch College, I’m still a very lazy student who still manages good grades but could do better. I’m in the city a lot more which is fun but it’s not worth almost 2 hours of commute everyday to go to school in my opinion.
