Year One – Semester One – Check.

My first semester at Baruch was nothing like what I expected it would be. I think things changed once I started going to school here. At first I was just like “yeaaaaa!!!! COLLEGE!!! In the best city in the world!!!” lol. As time went on I think i started losing a lot of momentum and that “drive” to do perfect. Academically even though I’m doing well,  I know I could have done better but I’m not upset. I know how much I need to know in order to really do well academically and how to approach things differently from now on. Being the first semester I think I was very lucky and fortunate for things to turn out the way they did even though that’s not how I expected.I think I got a lot of breaks here and there which I wouldn’t expect on a college level. For example, a really good and generous Calculus Prof. I have always struggled in math and it was one of the things bothering me coming into Baruch. I made new friends and adjusted to the Baruch system well.  If I could do something differently for my first semester, I wouldn’t have procrastinated a lot. I don’t think as a person I have changed but my outlook towards my future has. At first all I thought to myself was “just go to college, get that degree, and become an accountant”. But now, I’ve been thinking about ways to combine my passions with what I will gain from my education to do something enjoyable in life rather than for the sake formality. At the same time, with so much competition these days, things seem scary sometimes. Life is just one big race. If you dont’ run fast enough, you’ll get trampled and left behind. Heck, even to be born we had to race against millions of sperm cells. smh.