Author Archives: Jennifer Peng

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 name is Jennifer Peng, today I will be posting up a monologue about myself. I was born in Manhattan, raised in Brooklyn, and then transferred to Queens. Queens introduced me to diversity; it is also the most diverse place in America. I moved to queens for 8^th grade and it was horrible. I hated it at first and nobody really liked me. Thank god, that the following year was a fresh beginning, I was a freshman at Forest Hills High School. I will be discussing my fears, accomplishments, empowerment, embarrassing moment, and some things about my new experience at Baruch College.

The roles I play are a daughter, girlfriend, and friend. I never really had a true best friend because I believe every one of my friends is equally loved. The closest person that I consider as a best friend is my boyfriend, Ivan Martinez. I love my family because I know that no matter what they’ll always be behind me, supporting me all the w ay as they have been doing.

One of my biggest fears is change. Although I have learned over the years that change results into something great, it’s hard for me to get use to things. I am a person of habit and I like keeping it that way. Of course, along the way I’d like to wash out my bad habits as well as improve on my good ones. There’s always room for improvement, which is one of my mottos.

My accomplishments as well as a time a felt empowered is moments where I produce the exact image in my head to paper. By this I mean my artwork, I take great pride and joy into my art and wish to pursue in a career that revolves around business and art. I hope that one day; my legacy will be shown through my art as well as my generations to come.

My most embarrassing moment does not exist because almost weekly, I have an embarrassing moment. I get embarrassed easily because of little things.

What I like best about Baruch is its open environment. Everyone is very friendly here including all the professors and my classmates. Although it is different from my easy going high school years, Baruch encourages me to do well and try harder. I ran into some troubles in my calculus class but the solution was not hard to find. I instantly found a study buddy and she has helped me a lot. It’s been a month since college has started, and I can’t wait to see what awaits me.

I believe that I am an old soul. Ever since someone told me that my friends and I that we belong in a different time period, I believed it. It makes sense because I’m not a person who really likes the way our society has become. It’s a very hard and long opinion to explain but yeah. I think about weird things, I ask weird questions, and I do the un-do able. I like how I am, although there are faults. I am why why I am.

My top three concerns about my freshman year at Baruch College is getting use to the self-work thing. It’s hard for me to keep track of my own work, I was always use to being told a due date a week or day before, now I have to use something called Blackboard. I’m not good at being focused outside of school so I’m also afraid of falling behind. The last thing I am afraid of is the fact that I’ll go through college not doing that “something” that makes my college experience a, college experience.

It already is different from my high school experience because college is like the adult version of it. No one will tell you what to do or what you shouldn’t do it’s all up to you to work out the kinks and to figure out what happens next.

It will help me learn to be more devoted to school work because if I really don’t catch up soon enough, I’ll fall behind so far that it’ll be too late and that’s just bad. First year of college, honestly, maybe it won’t change me much, personality wise.