Now that I’m at the end of my first semester as a Baruch college student, I can honestly say I am going to enjoy the month of vacation. This semester wasn’t an easy one but every year of school gets harder and harder. I know everyone says that the first semester of college is your easiest, well I need to get ready for all the hard work awaiting me in the coming semesters. The semester definitely lived up to my exceptions. I made some close friends and had some fun. School is school as usual and I’m happy I’m adapting. Since starting at Baruch, I think I’ve grown up a little more. I think I am figuring out what I really want to do with my life. I wouldn’t do anything differently if I could. I live by the belief that everything happens for a reason and if I went back in time and changed things, I would just be changing myself as  person and my circumstances.

So far this year at Baruch, I can't complain too much. I like my learning 
community. The people in it are cool and we actually get along. My classes 
are... classes. Some, well most of them, are boring. I can't pay attention in 
most of them. Well, I try but it's hard to focus when I can't understand due to 
an accent or a really annoying voice.
However, I'm enjoying my time thus far. I've made 18 new friends and I've 
already got a close bond with some. I can't imagine what I'm going to do next 
semester when we aren't all together. I'll just adjust, I guess.

I am a daughter, a cousin, an aunt, a sister, a friend, an enemy, and a student. I am Haitian, a girl, funny, bubbly and outgoing. I am the person who enters a room knowing no one and leaves with at least one friend. I am social, serious, and very observant. I am Ashley Claire Bazile.

My top 3 concerns about freshman year:

1. my grades – i am terrified of failing a class ( History class is kicking my butt right now )

2. KPA – i am really interested in a sorority called Kappa Phi Alpha & i hope i get into it

3. having fun – college is a growing up experience but i also wanna have fun during my time here at Baruch

My Baruch college experience, so far, is already different from my high school experience. I never had the freedom I have in college. I surely didn’t have classes that lasted over an hour in high school. I feel like college is a place where you grow up and your considered an adult. You have to be more responsible and remember to do things on your own. There are no teachers checking your homework everyday or telling you to put away your cell phone or they’ll take it from you. Your recognized as an adult and its either you pay attention in a class or you don’t, either way the professor is going to teach and there will be a text on the material. College has definitely made me realize I am no longer a little girl. I am an adult and shortly i will have a job and other responsibilities i wont always be able to depend on my mom or my teachers or my peers to remind me of.