Monthly Archives: November 2010

I have enjoyed my experience thus far at Baruch, with some minor problems. Baruch College had a friendly environment and was helpful for the most part. Most of the professors I had were interesting and knew their subject matter well. It has taught me lots of things in subjects that I knew nothing about, like art history. I also liked the wide availability of a variety of clubs and took the opportunity to join the Archery club. It has exceeded my expectations in the services offered to students. The free databases offered by the Library seem to be very useful, in addition to all the resources in the physical library. There was one area that did not live up to my expectations. That area was organization. This is because they assigned all incoming freshman a course schedule, then conflicted it with mandatory workshops instead of organizing the workshops in a way to avoid conflicts with other necessary classes. I think my first semester at Baruch went well. I have good grades in all my classes and am not struggling in any subject. Though that may be because I did not have a math this semester. If I could re-do my first semester, I would try to take a math course. Math is a necessity in my school, and after they dropped it from my schedule at orientation, I didn’t think to try to get it back on during the first day of school. I would also plan out workshop attendance weeks in advance and make sure nothing conflicted with them. I do not think I changed much since entering Baruch College. I try to procrastinate less now, but there has not really been much change other than that.

I really didn’t have any specific expectations going into college, I just knew that things were going to be very different from high school, and people were not going to be baby me around. My experience in Baruch College has kind of exceeded my expectations. I didn’t expect to get used to the college life so well, nor did i expect the amount of hard-core studying required to stay on top of some of my classes.

I think my first semester at Baruch went alright. I had plenty of fun with my new friends, and I kept myself sane the whole time and didn’t break down once. when the work got a little bit too much for me, everything found a way of working out for the better. i think i handled myself in a mature manner, and the only thing i regret is not studying PreCalc enough, and trying harder to pass the course before i dropped it.

If I could do my first semester all over again, I would probably join a student life club, but not one that required too much of my time and would make me go crazy,  but just a simple club to meet and get to know other people. I would also take advantage of all the tutoring services tat were available to me in order to pass my precalc class, and then maybe drop Art history in the begging of the semester and take theater or something.

I really don’t think I’ve changed a lot, or even at all since i started attending Baruch college. i would like to say that i grew a lot more independent than i used to be, but at times i find myself relying on my friends for information. But then again, i think i’m a lot more responsible if anything with my work. In high school, i was such a procrastinator because i found out that I worked very well under pressure, but in college, i haven’t put any pressure on myself and I see myself trying to get things done and out of my way.

Some things at Baruch this semester were like I expected, while other things greatly exceeded my expectations. One thing that surprised me was all of the work I had this semester. I knew that when college started that it was going to be a lot of work, but the last couple of weeks it seems like my professors have been piling it on. Another things that exceeded my expectations was how easily I got used to being in college. In the first week or so I was having some trouble just getting to my classes on time, I thought I was going to have some trouble getting used to a new schedule. However after a few days I got used to it real quickly and I haven’t had any trouble since.

I think that my first semester at Baruch has gone pretty well. I have gotten used to most of my professors and their teaching styles. That is not to say that I liked all of my professors, I’ve just learned how to learn in their classes. My grades this semester have also been pretty good. I have mainly been getting between an eighty and a ninety. I am sure that by the end of this semester I’m going to have a pretty good GPA.

If I could do this whole first semester over again I think that I would probably try and study more. I have always had a little bit of trouble studying. This semester, while I did study, I might not have studied as much as I could have. I think that if I had maybe spent a little more time studying I probably would have done better on some of my tests.

I don’t really think that I’ve changed all that much since this semester began. I have gotten better at doing work and not waiting until the last second to do it, but I think that I’m pretty much the same person I was three or four months ago.

a) Tell us how your experience at Baruch College has lived up to your expectations? Not lived up to your expectation? Exceeded your expectation?

To be honest I had a vague idea of what college would be like from what my siblings told me and my experience at Baruch college has met my expectations. It is a whole lot of work, there is a lot of freedom and free rein given but in the end, grades all come down to exams. I enjoy the fact that I am given a lot of freedom to roam and walk around as I please. I knew how much work I was going to have when I saw I had 6 classes and I wasn’t dissapointed. It seems that my entire first semester is completing one assignment after another like a machine. I am definitely not taking this many classes next semester as I am often left sleep deprived and tired from all the work.

b) How well do you think your first semester at Baruch College went?

I think that my first semester went pretty well. I am averaging an A in all my classes with the exception of calculus which requires me to put in a lot of extra time and effort. I am pleased with how my semester went because I have worked long and hard to achieve the grades I currently have. I consider my first semester as a freshman a success. Still I remind myself that the semester is not yet over as I still have many finals so it is still too early to claim a victory. I hope to continue working hard to ace all my finals.

c) What would you do differently during your first semester if you could do it all over again?

I pretty much gave this semester 110% but I know there were times when I could have studied more or worked harder. Working to achieve beyond my best is my goal if I had to do this semester all over again. I would also study a lot more for calculus as it is my hardest class. I only started putting in genuine time and effort to studying after I got the first test back. Next time I would have put in extra time starting from the first day of class.

d) How have you changed since you started at Baruch?

Since starting at Baruch I have become a lot more responsible. I budget my time well to ensure that I don’t end up cramming at the last minute for an exam. I also am more money conscious considering all the money my dad shelled out on tuition and books so I am more responsible with my money and how I spend it. I cut out a lot of unnecessary spending and understand the value of money better. I still have no idea what I want to major in at all. This is normal according to a lot of people I’ve spoken to. I hope by the end of next year I’ll have a somewhat clearer idea of what I want to do with my life. So career wise I am still the same as I was in senior year of high school.

a. Tell us how your experience at Baruch College has lived up to your expectations? Not lived up to your expectation? Exceeded your expectations?

I didn’t know what to expect from a college, so I didn’t really expect anything, just went on and hoped it won’t suck. Right now it just feels like any other school.

b. How well do you think your first semester at Baruch College went?

I’m not sure, but somewhat average. I do great in my politics class, good in history, fine in anthropology  and crappy in english (right now I’ll be happy with a D, just to get this class out of my way). I won’t be a valedictorian thats for sure.

c. What would you do differently during your first semester if you could do it all over again?

Keep up with readings, do the blog posts, start assigments early.

d. How have you changed since you started at Baruch?

I don’t feel I changed, maybe I will by my senior year, but not now. 1/2 year is not enough time to feel any change.

my experience at baruch has lived up to my expectations for the most part. everyone is nice and helpful, the professors are very knowledgeable and the work load isnt too bad. but i think preparing for the finals will not be as pleasant.

i think my first semester has gone pretty well so far i only did bad on one of my midterms which i will hopefully make up for. and the classes that i thought i was going to do bad in turns out im actually not doing bad at all

if i could do this semester over, i would of studied more for the midterms and have kept up with the reading from the beginning. now i know what to do for my following semesters.

i dont think ive really changed in these couple of months. maybe ive gotten a bit more independent but the only thing that definitely is different is that im always tired. but i could of seen that one coming.

Currently, I think my experience at Baruch has somewhat lived up to my expectations. I knew that getting to the college was going to require dealing with a crowded, one-hour train ride. I was expecting more homework than the work I did in high school and to have trouble with time management, and I was right. However, the sheer amount of mandatory reading and note-taking really caught me off-guard. I also did not know that I would be getting many pop-quizzes, unlike in high school.

I think my first semester is going pretty well so far. Initially I thought my English and philosophy classes were going to be very boring but ironically they are innovative and thought-provoking, so they are my favorite classes out of the six I have. I find history and economics to be very boring, music class to be occasionally interesting, and freshman seminar to provide a decent overview of Baruch. Grade-wise, aside for being unprepared for some pop quizzes, I think I’m doing fine.

If I could do it all over again knowing the nature of my classes, I would probably change my history class because I have a very hard time staying awake in my current one. I would also study more in case of any quizzes and go to the events during the beginning of the semester as I heard some were very entertaining.

I have made more friends and I believe that I have mentally and physically improved since I started my first semester. My English and philosophy classes have opened a wealth of interesting issues in life that I never would have thought about. I feel better about my physical health after constantly going to the gym in the college. I hope to continue making more friends and learn more exciting things in my future semesters here in Baruch.

I didn’t have much expectations in the first place. I came in thinking all I had to do was to do good in exams and study once in awhile. I didn’t think attendance and homework was such a big deal in college as I heard from everyone else. I still can’t find much to do at Baruch other than to do your homework and kill time.

I think it went pretty bad. I wasn’t prepared for this work load nor did I feel I was given the freedom I thought I was going to get. School is the same as always, its not about if your good at something or not but its the amount of work you do. I barely did any homework and only get 80s in test. I’d settle for a B but its definitely going down to a C or D because of the missing homework.

I’d use the planner. I need to organize my day so that I can finish my work and do whatever. This semester I just did whatever I felt like doing and I think its going pretty bad. I dropped the only class I was sure I failed and I would be lucky coming out of this semester with a 2.0 GPA. Other then that I think everything I did wasn’t too bad.

I think I’m too old to change haha. I admit I do need to change on my working habits and get better at time management but I haven’t changed yet. I still like to just relax and go out with friends. Plus, I don’t think going to college is such a life changing event. It’s just another school with the same expectations as the others. Do your work and get good grades. Only difference is, I don’t think I can cruise through this like I did in high school.

Baruch has not really lived up to my expectations because I didn’t feel like this was a “real” college experience. I mostly felt like it was a repeat of a more “serious” high school year. I thought that I’d be living in a dorm out of state but unfortunately I didn’t prepare for those applications. Baruch is too close together for me, it did not take long to get use to the campus in fact, it’s so closed together that it can be considered crowded. Forest Hills High School was known for it’s crowded hallways, I did not need to relive this for another 3 months or however long this semester was. It passed by very quickly.

The semester was fun in it’s own way. I’ve gotten to meet a lot of new people. These new people were different than what I thought they’d be but I’ve grown to love them all. They were the ones who actually made my first semester fun. In the first semester, I also learned to study. Studying was never a habit of mine, school years from before were always easy for me and this semester was the first time I had to actually try. I hope that I pass the end of this semester with a good GPA. As my peer mentors told me, that it is really hard to change a GPA once you get your first.

If i could change things about this semester I would choose to be more prepared. I would get my books in advance, research about my classes as well as my professors. In planning ahead, I would have done better in this semester. I would not have missed that much homework as I did and probably been able to focus better. I would have also saved myself a lot stress.

I changed a little, not much though. I try to incorporate my personality into my studies. The most dramatic change is my care for school. I actually want to succeed in college and do well. Before, it was just easy and set out for me. Now, it’s all up to me, what classes I decide to take, the people I decide to stay with, and etc. Baruch is going to be a different experience and hopefully next semester, things will be the same, but even better.

My experience at Baruch has not quite been up to expectations.  This is mainly because I came into this school thinking I received a scholarship and have priority registration in classes, however this was not really the case.  I was told that because I receive financial aid, I will not be getting any scholarship money.  I did receive the priority registration and selected the courses I wanted for next semester, after making my way to many offices to tell them about the situation.  However, I do hope next semester will be a good one.

My first semester at Baruch was not the best but it wasn’t too terrible.  I managed to meet some great people and I hope to maintain my friendships with them throughout my college years.  As for academically, I am doing relatively average which is not what I expected from myself.  Just last week, I had to drop my Anthropology class because my highest potential grade can only be a C-.  I believe I have at least B’s in all my classes, which is not good start since courses at Baruch will only get harder.  I also need to start making use of the facilities offered at Baruch, although the gym is always crowded whenever I go.

If I could redo my first semester, I would change many things.  I should have transferred to a different Anthropology class so I would not have to drop it and retake it at a later time.  I would have tried harder on my first calculus test since doing good on the second one only got me to a B.  My lateness in history and lack of participation hurt my grade tremendously, so I should have been a better student.  Instead of going out to Chinatown to eat during my club hours, I should have considered joining some clubs with my friends instead.  Now I will have to really do a better job next semester at improving my college experience by setting up social networks.

I did not go through much change since I came to Baruch because I was never the type to go through change.  I am a flat character since I am not easily influenced by the people around me.  The only change that really happened was the fact that I need to work now.  My weekend is dedicated to working for money and time management is something I need to work on.  I am still the weird person that I was in the past and not afraid to act out however I want to.  Although I will come to realization that I must be more mature and handle things in a more serious manner.  I hope college will turn me into a more responsible, mature, and outgoing person.  Those are important traits that I will need to possess if I hope to have a successful life when I get out of college.