KM 3A

For my final make up post I decided to attend the event on Thursday in the multipurpose room, it was basically a monopoly tournament. I missed the beginning of the session because my math class went on a little long but by the time I got there people were playing. Once I got there I sort of realized I hate monopoly and only came to the thing because I was required to do something in order to pass this class. But seriously who plays monopoly for fun? It’s the most annoying game ever. I don’t really like being thrown in to social situations anyway so basically this entire action was a bust. And so since it was rather boring and after getting something to drink I went to go get some real food because I was starving and cranky. The end.

Unfortunately I had to attend an event to make up for the the late blog post. The event that I went to was the “BP Disaster and the future of the energy business” quite a long title isn’t it. T.T I would like to say i enjoyed it but….. T.T not really. I don’t know whats wrong with me but when it comes to school and other stuff i find it hard to stay awake when i get bored. I’ve often been told in many of my classes that i fall asleep to often. Truthfully I would write a compelling paragraph about how this was exciting but i would be making half the stuff up. One thing that i would tell you is that when i was looking at the list of events i noticed that there were large amounts of events that are available to us. One thing that i found mind boggling about the B.P disaster was on how long it took to resolve the problem, but now that its over……., well its over and that’s that no point in dwelling on the past. Hope you enjoyed reading this.

Let me make this simple, Baruch College did not meet my expectations. I came into the college starstruck by its amazing campus, but it was watered down with the students IN Baruch. I honestly felt the only people that had a breath of life in the campus were my high school/middle school friends, and the people in my block program. I came into the college believing that everyone were close knit. However, it wasn’t the case, things seems so lifeless, no smiles, headphones on ears, cigarette smoke, coffee in hand; it was the common things you see coming into the school. It’s a commuting school, so I honestly don’t know. But if you’re in the school for 6+ hours, with breaks, at least try to socialize.

I would have just done better for my first semester. But life circumstances kept me from doing so. Oh well; whatever happens, happens.

I don’t see myself changed, but I do see myself losing my social life. I have friends in my block program, and they’re great people, but it’s the environment that drags on for me, the cold, lifeless people in suits just get to me. Am I going to be like that if I stay in Baruch? Is everything going to be JUST numbers?

I don’t know.

Overall, I would say my first semester at Baruch was at best decent, and at worst somewhat disappointing.

Academically, I did well, averaging in the B – A range for on quizzes and exams for most of my classes. The size of workload in college was comparable to that of highschool, so I had little difficulty completing my assignments. In other words, I did not feel that I was overwhelmed with homework.

I can’t say that my core personality has changed significantly in any way. I did, however, become somewhat more independent, in that I adapted to this new NYC environment and learned to navigate it with some degree of proficiency, sans the help of others. I also enjoyed meeting new people and making new friends.

As I stated earlier, the first semester was also disappointing. In many ways it was merely an extension of highschool, replete with menial courses and their accompanying assignments that were impertinent to the possible majors or careers I wish to pursue. I wished that I had had more freedom in making my schedule.

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My experience at Baruch has definitely been an eye-opening one. In my first couple of weeks, I realized that I was not very good at Math, and therefore had to drop the class. As a result, however, I was able to realize what I really want to do for college. Unfortunately, the program into which I want to enter is not offered at Baruch. I did not see this as necessarily a bad thing. The thought of transferring had occurred to me, but I wanted to wait a little while to see if maybe I could find my way at Baruch. I have a few friends here, and I will regret leaving them. However, I realize that transferring is what I have to do, so I applied to a school that offers the program that I am looking for. In my next semester at Baruch, I will be taking a few courses that will go towards my intended major, and I will be spending my free time on keeping my grades up, so that I will be able to transfer. I like Baruch College very much, and I am enjoying my experience here. I hope to keep the connections that I have made as well as continue to make new ones as I work towards my personal goals.

I didnt expect much when i entered baruch, wasnt really looking forward to anything but an easy degree. But even with these low standards entering the college i feel like baruch has not met any of my expectations. I think it has to do largely because of the freshmen blocks that restrict freshmen from getting any “good” classes. My first semester….. dropped two classes and became a part time student, overall my first semester was like hell. I dont think i couldve done anything differently, i dont blame myself for my performance. I blame the professors that are unclear on what they expect from the student whether it is from the syllabus or test requirements. The only thing i learned from my first semester at baruch is that i have to work my ass off to compensate for poor teaching styles of certain professors that i will not name. Although i think the entire class knows who i am referring to. This post was used to complete an assignment, please disregard anything negative i just said. Thank you and have a nice day. Hmm 183 words, not bad.

Upon coming to Baruch I held certain preconceptions of how the college experience would be like. I would like to say that Baruch shattered all my expectations but I really didn’t know what to expect. Baruch I feel is a great environment and if not for the long commute to school it would be perfect in my eyes. Unfortunately I stumbled upon the fact that environment isn’t the only factor in a successful college experience. It is the will of the student and the ability to progress and learn that makes him successful and I have failed on all fronts. My first semester has gone Way out of my league, I failed muster any will on getting things done and the fact that this blog post is late is proof of that itself. And if I was ever given a chance to do it all over again I would have changed everything, the effort i put into classes the attitude i had when debating on whether or not i would work. Just everything . Upon entering Baruch my views on life as a whole changed, It brought a light that is unfamiliar to me, I’ve always been told to do well in school, work hard but i was always given an easy life, never had to work for anything, never had to struggle in class but now that I’ve experience my first semester in Baruch i believe I can do better the next time around and hopefully not make the same mistakes twice.

A. Tell us how your experience at Baruch College has lived up to your expectations? Not lived up to your expectations? Exceeded your expectations?
B. How well do you think your first semester at Baruch College went?
C. What would you do differently during your first semester if you could do it all again?
D. How have you changed since you started at Baruch College?

baruch has definitely not lived up to my expectations. But thats probably my fault for choosing a cuny. It wasn’t the type of college experience i thought i would have, but it was still good in its own way.

My first semester went by pretty well the classes werent too bad

c. i would leave my first semster just the way it was

i think ive stayed the same through this semester. baruch was pretty much the same thing as high school

Baruch met my expectations completely, only because I didn’t make any unrealistic ones. I came here knowing that as a commuter school smack dab in New York City, one of the best words to define the atmosphere and the people would be rushed – and most people only seem to care about themselves and their classes too much to socialize. So I wasn’t really disappointed. Low expectations are always the best. Not that I don’t like Baruch or anything… I’m just making an observation.

I could have done much better in one class… so I’m kind of upset at myself for that. I pushed myself more than I did in my senior year (which is actually the hardest year in my high school, because I went to an IB school), but I still didn’t put in enough effort. I got a little too carried away with the fact that Baruch’s location is easy access to almost everything.

If I could do anything differently, I’d study more.

I haven’t changed much except for the fact that I’m a lot less shy with strangers and I don’t mind participating.

Hi guys, my first semester at baruch college was ok. It wasnt extremely exciting and yet not really boring and disappointing. I usually dont really care if a teacher is bad or not so i guess the teachers were ok too. The school itself  is ok, kinda gets really crowded sometimes which is kinda annoying but when I have class on friday the school is so empty which is also kinda weird. My grades werent that great but they were ok.

If  I could retake my first semester I would probably try to do better in classes for example i think i couldve done alot better in math I just ended up slacking off a bit. Have I changed since I entered baruch college? Im not sure not really, I did meet some knew people but thats about it.