KM 3A

Baruch matched my expectations. It still feels like going to high school commuting back and forth only that there are large breaks between classes. I think my first semester was alright but clearly could’ve been better.  When I say better I mean the professors and the amount of work given, it really adds up after a day. There is nothing I would do if I was given the chance to relive my first semester, in fact I don’t want to relive my first semester. I have not really changed at all after going through a semester at Baruch.

There's so much work!

I’m going to be talking about my fears. As most of us do, I have glossophobia. I do not enjoy or feel comfortable standing in front of a group of people who are all just staring at me and have to talk to them all for whatever given amount of time I have. I guess I have a light case of scopophobia as well in that case. It’s alright if someone glances or looks, but not if someone stare. It makes me feel all uncomfortable. Despite these fears I’m going to have to deal with it. I had to do six speeches last year and I got through them just fine, but I always signed up for the last person to go, that way not only do I go last but I also can procrastinate longer than others.

I also had a fear of needles but I got over them a few years ago. Lastly, centipedes and cockroaches. This fear is really situational. If I normally see one then I would have no problems, but if some random thing happened instead, I would be scared out of my mind. Three events left me kind of traumatized, and they all happened around the same time, 3 – 4 AM. The first two dealt with cockroaches. This one night I walked out into the kitchen because I was hungry and the lights were off obviously, I stepped on one in the dark and I jumped straight into the air from shock, now I take my sweet time tip toeing into the kitchen in case. Another was when one decided to jump off the kitchen counter at me out of nowhere which ended up killing itself when it landed in front of me. Lastly the centipede. I was on my computer and there’s a wall next to my on my right and the only light source was my LCD monitor. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a centipede crawl across the wall and it made me jump out of seat because I was not expecting that and the shadow from LCD monitor made it look larger than it actually was.

I’m really lazy and sleep all the time, but I’m not that messy though.

Well, not really. I’m just your average Chinese guy with glasses like every other Chinese guy with glasses. I’m not amazing at math nor do I have a calculator on me at all times, well maybe I do, I have an iPod Touch afterall.

My daily routine consists of three main things: eat, sleep, and play, unless I have work to do. What games do I play? Take a wild guess. Yea, World of Warcraft. Oh I’m going to fail that math homework on overheads and stuff.

Top 3 concerns of my freshman year and why? Well they would probably be:

1. Passing my classes – The classes are paid now.
2. Procrastinating – I had little to no work in my high school senior year afterall.
3. My math teacher – Ms. Flint’s teaching style is serious business.

What makes my experience at Baruch different from my high school experience would probably the large amount of time I’m given between my classes. Instead of going straight to the next class, I have 2 hours of free time until my next class. I would rather go straight to my next class, that way I can leave earlier.

Since I’m not dorming or anything of the sort, the first year of college isn’t really going to affect me much at all. I commute to school, go home, and follow my routine as I normally would back in high school.

Finally done with this assignment and you’re all probably like: