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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.

The following might differ (slightly) from my performance in class…

Greetings ladies and gentlemen, my name is Adam and I will waste the next 5 minutes of your lives.

I am absolutely terrified of making public speeches. I just find it really hard to stand in middle of a room with everyone’s eyes on me. I get really tense and my legs start shaking. I’m sorry I need to sit down.

Yes, this is better. What can I say about myself? Similar to everyone else here, I am a freshman, I’m from queens. I went to Grover Cleveland High school, in which similar to Bill’s high school barely passing is an achievement. I took 4 years of honors math, honors math A, honors math B, AP Calculus and AP Statistics, passed each.

I love keeping fish, it started with me stealing my mom’s betta fish. I got the little guy a 10 gallon tank and he’s been living happily ever since, he even swims up to me every time I’m next to his tank.

I am absolutely terrified of wasps. A couple years back my parents took me to Pennsylvania for vacation, I was so terrified I walked around with a can of bug spray. I also I think I beat the world record in a 200 meter run because I used a different spray (one for roaches and ants) and apparently it does not kill wasps. So I just pissed them off and ran like hell.

I can’t get myself to do my work. When I try to I immediately get tired. I procrastinate a lot. Before I even get to my work I need to take a shower, I just have to. If for whatever reason I just stop doing the work I’m fine and awake, the second I get to it. I’m tired and sleepy.

Okay, was that 5 minutes?

Yeah, I don’t got anything else. Thank you everyone for your time.

I chose the chameleon, because I tend to blend into my surroundings. I prefer sitting back and spectating, rather than actively taking part.

Well, similar to all others in the class I am a human being. My name is Adam R. and I am a person who hates things like those blogs and the seminars from the very bottom of my heart. I’m not going to lie, I am not very happy about having to wake up 2 hours earlier to get to a credit-less class, as well having my school day stretch from 9:05 to 5:25. I don’t like the idea of the whole seminar which just takes me back to middle school.

My topmost and currently the only concern is the blackboard, simply I never remember to check it. and some teachers just talk and talk and then under the cover of the night put assignments up, anyone know how to get the thing to send me remainders about new assignments and if possible how to redirect mail from my baruch to my yahoo email?

The experience is much different than high school. It’s much more liberal, you can take a walk in your free time if you feel like it and you are not constrained within the walls of the school.

How is the college going to change me? I don’t know… So far I’ve been here for a month and still am the same person I was before it, only time will tell.