My first semester at Baruch has not lived up to my expectations. The classes were not has hard as I thought they would be, and the professors were very easy on the grading. Also, there weren’t as many social events and parties as I thought there would be, but I guess that could be a good thing for my grades. Overall, I believe that my first semester at Baruch went great; I really don’t have any major complaints. I am really enjoying the basketball courts and workout gym here at Baruch, I am using them alomst every day that I’m here. If I could do this semester over, I would probably focus more on my work. Most of the time, I leave assignments and readings for the last minute so they all pile up on me to do the night before. I don’t think that I have changed that much after only a few months at Baruch, but I do feel more independent then when I was in high school. I really enjoyed my first semester here at Baruch and I hope the next one is just as good.

Last week Saturday my friend and I decided to go to H&M on 7th ave. When we got there, we went to the men’s section and I was checking out a jacket while she was on the phone with her cousin. While I’m examining the jacket, there’s another guy that’s also there looking at the same jacket as me. We start talking about the jacket and everything seems to be going fine, until when I try on the jacket and he starts caressing me ever so gently saying, “Yea that’s a nice jacket on you it looks real good.” That was when I knew something was wrong, and then a guy saw that and came over. He put his arm around that guy and told me, “This is my man, get your own”, and when they walked away I saw him grab the other guys ass. At first I didn’t really care I was just gonna let it go but a voice in my head was telling me, “Don’t let him talk to you like that you deserve better”, and some other stuff that was just gonna get me in trouble but it sounded good at the time so I agreed with it. The next thing I know I told him “Yo I will take your man….if I want him.” I realized everyone around that area was looking at me like I’m crazy and my friend looked shocked, so I had to explain that I’m not gay they were being gay first and I was just trying to out-gay them, if that makes sense. After that happened I didn’t even feel like buying the jacket I just went straight home.

I am Christopher Sean Ryan Persaud. My whole family was born in Guyana, but with me being the youngest, I am the only one that has been born in the United States, so I am the only one at Thanksgiving that talks without an accent -_- . I have been living in Canarsie in Brooklyn since I was born. I still like to call myself an athlete, even though its been 3 years since I have actually played for an organized team. I have played on baseball, basketball and football teams finding that football is the one I am most drawn to but I play basketball the most. On my free time I like to hang out with friends, play ball at the park, go to the gym or do anything that just gets me out of the house.
My three concerns about my freshman year would be procrastination, parties and maintaining a job. In high school I would ALWAYS put off doing any hw assignment for the night before its due no matter what it was. I know in college that if I keep that habit I wont last very long so I hope I can change that. People always told me about how live and crazy college parties were and I thought when I got to college that was what I would be doing every weekend. Thank God I haven’t been doing that (yet) and I’m able to stay focused on my work, when I get around to it. I am trying to find a job right now but I’m not sure I should get one if I’m not able to do my job and stay on track with work for all of my classes.
I have attended Catholic schools my whole life so now that I am at Baruch it feels good not to have to wear a uniform and be able to keep my hat on all day. Also, my other schools were pretty small ( only 90 seniors in my graduating class last year) so everyone knew everyone, but at Baruch you’re lucky to see the same faces 2 days in a row. Even though I hate getting up at 5:30 AM to make it for 7:50 classes, I love being done at 10:30 before everyone else. Also, my high school was only 4 blocks away from my school, so I use to sleep late, go to the store and get something for breakfast and still make it on time ( although I did end up being late more times than not). At Baruch, I have to wake up to early catch the B6 wither headed to the 5 train on junction or the L train in Rockaway and then take that to 14th street and transfer to the 6 which takes me right to Baruch. It’s a big change from waking up at 7:40 to be in school at 8:10, to now waking up at 5:30 to be there at 7:50.
I hope that my first year at Baruch will help me adjust from my high school ways of barely getting-by and procrastinating every week, to doing my work on time and be on point with my assignments.