When I first came to Baruch, I actually wasn’t sure what to expect. I had gone to the Open House, attended the Orientation, and did some research. I knew it was a great business school but I didn’t know what the atmosphere was like or how my classes would run. As the semester continued, I started to assimilate into the world of Baruch. At the very least I didn’t become lost and learned where all my classes were. It was interesting to me that the classes had a high school atmosphere to it in size. I thought that all my classes would be like our Music Class, one hundred or more people and an eccentric philosophical thinking professor. I kind of figured if I didn’t have high expectations or any at all, I would be able to be pleasantly surprised. I definitely was.
I think my first semester went reasonably well. I’m really glad that I had chosen to join a learning community, especially one as awesome as LC 10, because I got to meet some really amazing people. I always knew who I could turn to for help in our classes, what people I can have crazy conversations with and laugh with in the middle of class, and who I can always hang out with during our breaks. This semester I think that I was lucky to have all our professors that were relatively good teaching wise. I hope I’m able to earn pretty good grades this semester and do even better the next.
My biggest problem this semester was time management. There have been multiple times that I’ve pulled all nighters for speech outlines and English essays. I can never seem to find motivation to sit down and write all of them until the night before and even then I still don’t have a clear idea of what I’m writing. If I were to do something differently in my first semester if I had to do it again, I would probably try to organize myself and not procrastinate so much. Even now this blog is kind of late because I couldn’t get myself to write it. (Sorry Joanna!) That’s still a constant struggle in my academic life that I hope I will be able to improve as I continue to delve into the life that is Baruch.
This semester I may have been forced to write more scholarly like papers and expand my views on certain aspects but I feel like I haven’t had a ground breaking moment of change. In an essence I’m still the same person only learning more and working harder.
Thanks to everyone in LC 10 for making this first semester here at Baruch really memorable for me. I’ve had a lot of laughs, shared in many grieves of all our classes, and knew that there was always someone I can turn to if I had a problem or if I was just bored and wanted to talk to someone. Each of you have made me smile and taught me something new in your own way. Love you all and I hope we’ll meet up again soon.
The best LC that there ever was: LC 10 😀 <3
