Mid-November Blog

by malisa.basic

Now that I have been attending Baruch for a couple of months now, it seems as if I have been here for many years.  It just took some time getting used to the long breaks and figuring out where each class is.  Baruch is also what I expected it would be.  I am from New York, and have always attended New York City schools.  Since Baruch is a commuter school, not much is different from my experiences when I attended high school on the Upper East Side.  At first, I found the classes to be very difficult.  This has changed over the weeks because I know which methods are useful for studying on exams, and what materials are usually given on the exams in each class.  Though I found some of the workload overwhelming, I am trying to have better time management skills and therefore, it has made it easier for me to complete takes on time.  Now that I am long way into the semester, Baruch does meet me expectations.

My first semester at Baruch was a rocky one, but I am only improving.  At the beginning, I was used to the summer where I slept until any time I felt, and was as far away from school work as possible, until I had to cram in The Bitter Sea reading. However,  now that I know what professors put on their exams, and have learned their methods of teaching, I am taking better notes in class and preparing better for exams and projects. In addition, I am starting to enjoy classes like Psychology that I look forward to going to.

If I would do anything different for my first semester, I would have tried to prepare better for the workload of each class, and evenly distributing and putting attention for each class.  I would also try to read more, and not rely on procrastination for information.

I do not think I have changed much since I started Baruch college.  I am still doing old habits from high school that I wish to change one day, such as procrastination, and not taking useful notes, as I should be doing.