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It was a pretty interesting place. I saw that many people just got the tickets and left and i thought it was funny. I mean your there already. Why not just look and see why someone would tell you to go to that place. Obviously something had to be interesting. So i didn’t follow in those people who left right away’s foot steps. I looked around and saw that there was a lot of Eastern Art. I have never seen any art like that. I have seen Buddhism statues before but never in works of art. I saw some interesting things and I liked going. Those people who didn’t actually stick around missed some interesting stuff.

I like Mr. Lee. I’ll always remember the first line he said, which i thought was pretty fun. He was saying that he felt kind of like naked because we all read his book so we know so much about him. I liked what he had to say over all the others. It was just more interesting to hear what he had to say. From reading his book, i was really interested on his childhood. I felt that way because his childhood is not the way the generation of today’s kids see their childhood as.

I felt that the workshop was kind of helpful. I basically knew everything expect for one thing. I already have a resume but I had like included something that was before high school so i had to take that off. For someone who hasn’t done a resume then this workshop would of been really helpful because of the way they explained each step. Also a person from the Starr group came to talk to the basketball team about resumes also so I kind of heard it twice which isn’t bad sometimes.

I am not too shocked on how my first semester went. I love my schedule and that the fact that not one of my classes exceeded past 1.

I play basketball for school so it defiantly takes up time. I feel like I’ve made a lot of close friends on the team and also defiantly made friends in the entire sports teams. It had to happen I mean we spend so much time around each other and we support each other at thee games. I know the basketball team is like a family. We bond and by us going on trips makes our bond better.

The experience has been good. I learned some things and it kind of exceeded my expectations because Baruch is a commuter school so I didn’t expect much to happen. But I was wrong.

I think I did well but if there was some things I could change it would definitely be that I should of never slowed down on how I was doing my work. I took a little break that I made my grade change a little but that was a wake up call because I have a lot of semesters to come and to know that I can’t let that happen again.

I don’t know if I have changed but I do know I will by my senior year. 4 years is a long time and by the time I graduate I wont be a 17-year-old teenager anymore.

Who am I. Well that is a pretty good question. I see my self as a kind, understanding, helpful, generous and good teammate. People see me as a brother, a son, a nephew, a uncle, a teammate, and a good friend.

There are good things about me but not everything is good. I don’t like that I take things way out of control and that I don’t stop talking when I know I shouldn’t be like during class. I like to be an out going person and that hurt me sometimes.

The things that make me happy is playing basketball and being with my friends.  I like to eat and that’s not good because I eat a lot so I got to work extra hard so that I can be in shape to play.

The things I don’t like are liars and people who think their tough. Obviously if your lying that means your scared of the person that your lying to because you couldn’t just be straight forward and say the truth.

Everyone knows I go to Baruch and that I’m 17 but definitely don’t look like it at all. Also people know I play basketball for Baruch and that I like to play sports. I like the city but I’m used to it because I went to high school but it isn’t the same as in that I have so much more freedom. I’m just waiting for my apartment and everything will be great.

i play basketball and i love doing it. Thats my thing.

Who do I think I am? Well that is a pretty good question. I feel that a lot of people don’t really know who they or they try to be something there really not.

When I look at this question my first thought would be  that my name is Adam Elfassi. I am 100% Moroccan.  I am 17 years old and I’m from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. But that isnt really what the question is asking. So who do I, myself think I am. Well I think that I’m a nice guy. I like to look out for others, especially my teammates. I try to get them better by doing what I’m supposed to do. I think that i have a good personality.

I kind of really only have one concern for my freshman year and that is that I dont do as well as I wanted.  I’m on the basketball team and the grade that you need to be on the team is a 2.0 and I feel like that is not the grade I should be aiming for. I want to be going for a 4.0 even though that might be hard to do, I can defiantly be right near that. The only thing that is good is that there are kids on the team that have good grades so I can always look at them and say I can do it also.

Well as of right now the biggest difference is that are girls in the school. The school that i went to was an all boys Catholic high school, Xavier High School. Also i think that playing basketball in college changes me from a kid that is not on a team. Its a different feeling and it gives you a bigger and easier chance of making a lot more friends rather if you weren’t on a team, it would be harder. In the end i will always be able to look forward to basketball at the end of the day even if im having a bad day. thats the good thing about a team. We become a family and will always look out for each other and have each others backs.

I don’t think i will really change. I like to just stay myself and it has worked all my life. People like me for who I am. They like my personality. I went to a high school that thought and prepared me for life in college. They made things harder there so when I came to college, everything would feel easy or simpler for me.