EG 4B

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.

My name is Julia Leung, I just recently turned eighteen on September 13, and I live in Queens, New York. These are just substantial facts that do not define me as a person. I am an entity of confusion, doubts, hopes, and dreams. I thought I knew who I was back four years ago, as I began my freshman year in high school. But since then, I had realized that I was not exactly who I thought I was. With the loss of my track team captainship, my position on my high school yearbook committee, my boyfriend, and close friends upon graduation, I find myself asking: who am I? A question that I hope to find answers to in four years’ time, when I graduate from college.

As I enter my freshman year at Baruch College, I find myself worrying about the top three things that plague almost every other freshman students’ mind: grade point average, finding a place for myself in a commuter school, and my future. It is a fresh, clean slate for all of us – a new chance to make amends to past grades and mistakes. It is something so pristine that I hope that I would not ruin, as many would wish not to. Finding my own place in this vast commuter school is another worry on my list. I am a sociable person, but I feel that many of the friends that I make here will be nothing more than passerbys that I wave hello and goodbye to in the hallways. I long for a more deeper and committed level of friendship to keep past the length of college. My future is another thought that often consumes my mind. I’m worried that, perhaps, business is not the right career track for me. I find myself conflicted between listening to my parents and following their foolproof plan to a financially secure life and between following my own passions in a area of study completely opposite of business.

Baruch seems to be not much different than my high school in the regards that I am still commuting and in a large student body, but the atmosphere seems to be a welcomed change. The students seem to be more open and friendly and the air is always tinged with an electricity of busyness. There are also options that were inconceivable in my high school – such as the opportunity to study abroad, something that has been on my mind constantly and, hopefully, something that I can endeavor in my sophomore year. This first year of college is one of excitement and a beginning of a journey that won’t be completed for a while. The change that I anticipate for myself would be mostly introspective – maturing mentally and emotionally. This first year will allow me to embark on a personal revelation of what I want for my future, how to accomplish these goals, and, also, to find out, for myself, what sort of person I hope to become to be.

Who am I? My name is Nicholas Anthony Taylor, most people call me Nick. I am 18 years old and my birthday is July 23rd. At first i can be a very quiet person but once you get to know me I am a fun person. I would say I’m a nice person, fun to be around, and athletic. Sometimes i can get very lazy though and that is one of my main problems. I am from West Islip in Long Island, I grew up here and lived here my entire life. In my opinion it is one of the best places to grow up. I live 5 minutes away from the beach, which is one of my favorite places to go. Aside from the beach i enjoy hanging out with all my friends, playing sports, and going to parties. In high school I was on the wrestling team, the soccer team, and the baseball team. Playing sports is a very big part of my life and really made high school fun for me. There is much more about me, but this is mostly who I am.

I have a couple of concerns about Baruch. My first concern is maintaining a good GPA and getting all of my work done. This can be difficult for me because i commute from Long island. It takes about 2 hours to get to school and another 2 hours to get home every day. This makes things difficult because it makes me tired in class so i can not pay attention very well. Also, after about 4 hours of commuting, i get home and the last thing i want to do is more school work. Another concern I have is having an online account for every class. It gets annoying having to check every account to see if i have any work to do. It is alot different from just getting a worksheet in highschool.

Baruch is completely different from my high school. First, my high school in Long Island was 98 percent white people. It is one of the least diverse schools. Then i came to Baruch which is one of the most diverse schools, making it much different from high school. In my high school every one knows everyone and in each class pretty much everyone would be friends. In baruch no one really knows eachother. The school work is also much different. In high school it is easy to get away with getting good grades and not doing a lot of work. In college this isn’t going to happen.

For starters, obviously I’m a human being. A tall, dark, and Asian one as a matter of fact. Seriously though, I am a person who can get along with just about anyone and love making new friends. Although I can be quiet at times, once that barrier has been broken then people see how funny and interesting I can be. I come from a family that highly believes in hard work and dedication. I try to follow their ideas but like every other young person out there, procrastination gets the best of you. Oh! I’m a great cook as well so if you ever need a chef, I can hopefully fulfill your pallet.

One of my many concerns at Baruch like everyone else is maintaining a respectable GPA. Balancing work with the rigorous workload I’ll face is going to be a challenge regardless of my multitasking skills. Another concern I have is that making friends in Baruch is really tough. Most of the people here commute so I don’t really get the chance to see anyone after classes are over. Sure I could always join the clubs and sports teams here but they don’t really fit into my work schedule. Also the students here from what I have seen are split up into people that hang out with others from their country, fraternities, and people that just want to be left alone. It’s rare to see anything different from that. My final concern would be the escalators and elevators. What is the point of having escalators that don’t work? It’s as useless as having a horse-drawn carriage without the horse. The elevators also aggravate me. There are five elevators yet they barely come. I have a better time walking up to my class on the 7th floor than wait for the sluggish mobile room.

What I think is going to be different from  high school life to college life is the people I’ll be meeting. Back in my high school sure we had diversity, but Baruch takes it to a whole new level. In almost all of my classes I have a foreign student from countries I probably would have never thought of. The transition from suburban to urban life is also a big step for me as I normally don’t travel or live in the city. Being at Baruch will probably give me more time to explore different parts of the city. The workload here is going to hit me hard also. I’m unfamiliar with the way my professors handle tests and quizzes. Ah yes, there is also the note taking. A lot of note taking. One of my professors speak as soft as the wind and it’s ridiculously hard to hear them. When I ask them to repeat, they just shout at the top of their lungs what they said in front of the entire class. However, I love how much more freedom I have here at Baruch. I can finally go out to different places and eat. Oh how I love to eat.

My name is Yang, Yangde, but I am also known as Max. I am still uncertain of my calling in life, and hope to get a better idea by the end of my college experience as well as encounter people to form meaningful relationships with and learn from.

I am worried that perhaps I am lacking in social skills that would allow me to communicate effectively with my peers. I am also concerned about the crowding on the campus. I fear that I may not able to access all of the facilities and resources offered when I need them. The future workload in my courses is also unclear, but I hope I can manage my time well and develop enough skills in the subjects to tackle the work.

Baruch College is slightly more disorganized than my high school, but it seems to allow more freedom in electronic device usage, including that of personal computers, phones, and media players. Entrance to the building also seem more lenient, as people can pay a visit without much difficulty.

With the passage of a school year, I shall become reasonably more knowledgeable in general academic fields, make some new friends, and discover new interests. I vow to improve my character and attempt to experiment with what Baruch has in store.

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.

My name is Alexandro Araujo but you can call me alex and i guess this is my first blog. I was born in Queens New York in the summer of 1992. The youngest of three kids I’ve lived in Queens my whole life with my mother, my sister, and my brother. I am a six foot two inch Portuguese guy who hates waking up early and likes to make other people laugh. I am also a big sports fan, mainly the Jets and the Mets. I guess I only like the teams that never win.

My first big concern is having to get used to a heavier work load. In my last year of high school I think I only had 3 classes and the work load was pretty light. Freshman year at Baruch is certainly going to be a lot harder and a lot more work. Another one of my concerns about freshman year is just getting to class on time. Like I said I don’t like getting up early and this year most of my days start at around nine in the morning. Though I think that after the initial few weeks I’ll get used to it. I guess that last concern is getting used to the city. Before starting college I would only occasionally go into the city, but now that I’m in the city on a daily basis I’ve just got to get used to finding my way around Manhattan.

There are two big things that I think are going to be different between my high school experiences and my Baruch experience. The first like I said is the work load. College is to be a lot more work and studying than high school was. The second thing is that in high school if you start slacking off with your homework or something there is always someone there to push you. I think College is totally different. I’m going to have to keep on top of my own work because if I don’t nobody there to make me.

As for how I think freshman year will change me I think I will learn how to be more self sufficient and hard working.

My name is Thomas Brock, I’m 18 years old and I hope to express “Who I think I am” in this blog post. I come from a small family and have lived in New York City my whole life. I am fairly quiet and won’t talk much unless I’m talked to first, or I have a question. I was raised as a Roman Catholic and I have more conservative political views. I think that I am a quiet, reserved person, but I am also reliable when I need to be. I’m terrible at public speaking because I get nervous talking in front of a crowd of people who I barely know. I’m pretty easy-going, from a combination of apathy and calmness. I do have some concerns about freshman year.

I am worried about meeting new people since I have trouble talking with people I’m not familiar with. I am also a bit worried about having to find out most things for myself, instead of like high school where everything was told for me, and I had people help me with things. My final concern is doing well in school. The transition from high school to college makes it seem like I will have to work a lot harder and not slack off.

I think that the Baruch College experience will differ vastly from my high school experience. I will have to get accustomed to being more independent, which will help me later on in life. No more relying on parents or other people to help me. I will have to find out important info myself, and do other stuff like choosing my schedule by myself. I will also have to adjust to the larger class sizes and faster pace. Hopefully I can do well in this new environment without much initial struggle. I have always been bad at keeping my attention on anything for a long time, but I will have to alleviate that somehow and develop better studying habits if I’m going to do well in college.

I think that my first year in college will change me a lot. It will help me to become more independent and do things on my own. Hopefully it will also help me to become a comfortable public speaker and increase my public speaking skills. I’m also hoping that it will help me to decide what major or type of career I would like to pursue. At the moment I am completely undecided as to my major and I have no idea what I want to do with myself once I finish college.

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In my mother’s eyes, I am but a small child; unaware of the dangerous world…

In my teacher’s eyes, I am but a student;  desperately wanting to be seen…

In my best friend’s eyes, I am but a companion; a hand that she can always hold…

In my eyes, I am but a soul, wandering to understand what life actually means…

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I don’t want to stay buried inside my coccoon and never finding the way out. I don’t know who I want to become. I don’t know what wants to become me. I don’t know when the day will come when I can finally feel free.

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The diversity of experience and understanding is different. I feel like I can simply approach anybody and he/she would be really friendly.

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I think that everyday something will change a person. It doesn’t only occur in college. But I think that overall, I want my college experience to change me in a way that I can become more expressive.

Eighteen is a big number and before you know it twenty-one is coming. My name is Daniel Kai Shum and I see myself as a very ambitious young man that is always seeking new opportunities to grow. I am very hard headed and like to do everything on my own without the help of others. Hobbies of mine vary immensely from building legos and figures to traveling around the world. Most people tell me I am outgoing but I find myself very shy at times I am selective and hope to one day be on top of the world.

Three concerns of mine for freshman year include not messing up my gpa because after all college is like a new beginning you choose who you want to be and your gpa has a big say. I want to make many new connections and succeed to finally feel that I have achieve something in life. Concerns of mine also lay in being able to find the right group of close friend and the right clubs to join because that will distinguish me from the rest. The close friends and clubs I join will stay with me forever. Lastly I am concerned about the various tests I have to face coming into Baruch and taking subjects I am not great at.

The difference between my college experience to high school experience will be that I am going to try a lot harder and make it count. The real life is waiting for me. The first year of college will change me to getting ready, getting smart and being prepared. I will be a better and more intellectual person