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I can’t believe that it is almost the end of the semester already! It feels like just last week when I first entered Baruch. This whole experience has taught me so much. Time management should definitely be on my top five priorities list! It is so easy to fall behind in such fast paced curriculum, I really wish that I prepared myself more for the workload. I’m glad I went through this experience though, because it taught me to better understand the workings of college and a small taste of adult life. All in all, I definitely enjoyed my first semester, I met many new and amazing people. I wrote more papers in one week than I did in a month in high school. It’s different and very new, I hope I enjoy college even more later on.

Earlier this week, I took a trip to Rubin’s Museum of Art. After visiting the museum, I wondered why I never go to museums. At first I thought this museum would be boring, I never really had a taste for museums to begin with. It’s not that the museum looked old, in fact it was rather new.

I liked that this museum contained art from Asia. I’m used to thinking that all museums contained are art from Von Gogh or something. My favorite part of the trip was looking at the photographs in the basement. Things like that always inspire me.

Over the summer we were given The Bitter Sea to read, by Baruch. At first I hesitated to read this book, because I’ve never really enjoyed reading as much as I should have. However, once I started reading the book I began to get really into it. The way Charles N. Li wrote was really captivating. I almost felt like I was in his story. The emotions he wrote of were really real and raw.

At the panel, we got a closer and more intimate glimpse of the man behind the book. He was just as funny in person as he was portrayed in the book. The panel also featured a few other people who talked about their academic experiences, which was also quite interesting. I always like to hear about other people’s stories of the childhood and education. The panel was very informative and entertaining.

The workshop on career exploration opened up my eyes. The lecturer talked about etiquette when it came to interviews and she gave very good tips. I had gone to a few interviews myself, but I had never once thought about the way I should dress. I never knew that pumps should only be about an inch high.

We were also told about the STARR Development Center and I thought it was really awesome that Baruch has one of these. I’ve checked it out and it seems pretty interesting.

Coming into Baruch College, I had no idea what to expect.  The way college works is completely different from High School, because I now have the ability to walk out whenever I want to, and I don’t even have to raise my hand to use the bathroom. Along with these “privileges” I am now held accountable for everything I do and don’t do. It is definitely a whole new experience.

Education was always a big thing in my family. My decision to attend Baruch was not really a surprise for anyone. It’s almost in our blood to be business oriented. It is also my biggest difficulty when it comes to school. I was most worried about math when I started school. Math was always one of my most difficult subjects. I always had a hard time with it, even in first grade, where the most we were expected to do was to count our fingers. I’ve heard that the math classes at Baruch were brutal. Despite the fact that I was horrible in math, I still had hope to pass this class

As nervous as I was, it was better than I thought it would be. Although the commute is definitely not the funniest thing to do every morning, I could get used to it. As I handed in my first paper, I breathed a sigh of relief. My first month at Baruch was finally over, although things were definitely harder than high school, the workload was bearable.

The age old question “Who do you think you are?” seems to be forever popping up in my life. I am a daughter, sister, friend and a shopaholic. I love clothes and I definitely love shoes, so much that I’ve in fact renovated my walk in basement into a walk in closet. I have shoes laying everywhere. I don’t know what it is about shoes, but a brand new pair of cute shiny shoes can really make my day.
When I first stepped into Baruch, I was so nervous. After being a senior, I’m starting out at the bottom once again. I have no idea where my classes are; I didn’t see any classrooms at the first orientation. I heard that there were about 20,000 students, I wondered if we could all fit into the building.
I noticed on my schedule that I would have math once again, as a freshman in Baruch. I didn’t take math during my senior year, it was a sigh of relief that I was done with it. Math is almost like another language to me, foreign and strange, especially after they started mixing in the letters in algebra.
In addition, I don’t know why, but I seem to always be perpetually 5 minutes late. I know in college, being late will definitely take a toll on my grade. I absolutely have to think of a way to get to the train station 5 minutes earlier every day.
They always say, the transition from high school to college is a difficult one. I always said, “It’s going to be a piece of cake.” Here I was naively thinking that it was no different from high school. I have since learned that I am completely wrong. I hope that by the end of the year, I will learn to become more independent and definitely arrive on time.