Monthly Archives: September 2010

I consider myself another person trying to succeed in life. I honestly have no goals right now nor do I have any idea on what I plan to do in Baruch. I originally planned on majoring in accounting but after witnessing so many people in Baruch going for the same major, I want to switch. I want to do something unique. I also see myself as a person who really doesn’t care that much about anything. I procrastinate all the time with everything.

My top 3 concerns about my freshman year at Baruch College is pretty much passing the class. It is so different for me compared to high school. I could slack off most of the time in high school and still get a good grade. You really have to work hard here to get your grade. My second biggest concern is the simnet test that we are required to take because I have no clue what it will be on and we must pass that test. My third biggest concern is the final. It is pretty hard to imagine just a whole year’s work just all down to one test. If you fail it, you will pretty much waste an entire semester and you would begin to question yourself if you could’ve done more to pass.

The differences between Baruch College and my former high school is the work. We have to do lots of readings here and at my former high school, we barely have to read anything. Another big difference is the people. Everyone here is extremely serious and hard working. I think the first year in my college will change me drastically. It is all about self motivation and just working hard everyday. You need to study a lot. I never really studied in high school. I will find myself more independent as well.

Most people would describe me as a weird person, but I must correct their rhetoric. I am weird in a sense that I have a cornucopia of traits that makes me a unique individual. I’m smart, but can downplay my intellect. I love history and politics, but never do I ever want to become a politician. I enjoy intellectual debates and I am unafraid of admitting that I am wrong since no one is perfect. Also, I like being around positive people and being the person who can turn your frown upside down. And, as much as I love to play sports, I love to eat as well. When placed in an unfamiliar environment, such as on the first day at Baruch College, I can be a quiet person, but that doesn’t mean I am drifted in thought. I’m an analytical person who thinks that it is best to observe my surroundings before making my presence known.

I don’t want to make an impression that I am a selfish person. If you see that my class readings are annotated accordingly or that I make a Harvard style outline based on class notes and outside research, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone. Unlike high school, college is voluntary–you pay to learn. Therefore, before classes started, I realized that I must up the ante and put more effort into this task at hand (getting a college degree). One of my goals for freshman year is to achieve the 4.0 grade point average. To most of my friends, just being able to plow through their coursework is daunting. But, I attended a high school (Brooklyn Technical H.S.) that has taught me that the key to success is being able to set yourself apart from the rest. In other words, it is better to set high expectations for yourself and strive to accomplish those goals. Even if you fall short, you will end up achieving more than you would if you had aimed low.

I would be lying if I said that my first full week was a breeze, but it was not “mission impossible.” I wasn’t worried about making new friends. I was more concerned with time management when just a day after I received a syllabus for each class, I had to have read sixty plus pages of size eight, single spaced, and times new roman font, give perfect solutions for calculus homework, and research for philosophy. “They won’t hold your hand in college,” is what most of my high school teachers said.

In high school, I had a ten o’clock bedtime, I never used a planner, and procrastinated a lot. However, I wasn’t a bad student (I finished with a ninety five-ish cumulative average and attained AP Scholar with Distinction), I just feel like I didn’t exhibit my full potential.
Freshman year is a clean slate. I’m more organized, determined, and confident. I must begin my college years on a good note.

My name is Andrew Metri. I come from Hicksville, NY and I’m proud of it, no matter how silly “HICKSville” sounds. I’m a brother, a friend, an employee, a fan, and a student. I love learning and I hope the next four years teach me more about life and more importantly, myself. I want to major in Business Communication but I’m not positive, so I’m leaving all doors open and hoping for the best.

Outside of school, I love playing anything that I can pick up with my friends. Any given Sunday you might find me playing basketball or football. I used to play lacrosse on the varsity squad (I wasn’t very good though) and I loved playing and competing. I’m extremely competitive and I love to win. I also enjoy just hanging out with my friends and just kicking back and relaxing over some Mario Kart or some Monopoly when we’re bored. I think it’s important to enjoy the simpler things in life when you’re with your friends, if only for the reason that those are the times that get the most laughs.

At Baruch I hope to make a lot of friends and really enjoy myself in the city environment. After Baruch, however, I hope to go on to law school and get my JD. I like the idea of being a lawyer and I really think I’m up to the challenge of law school. I know I have to keep my GPA  up so i have a chance at applying to good law schools in the area. Hopefully I achieve all my goals and end up doing well in college while having a good time.

I consider myself a lot of things. First I am a brother, son, student, uncle, and friend. Right now I am just trying to figure out how I can handle work and school. I like to have a fun time, when I hangout with friends and other people. I always have a hard time writing about myself, because I never know what to say.

One of the main thing I am concerned about is just getting adjusted to the work that is given out in college. When I was in high school I had a good amount of work that needed to get done, but I had a longer amount of time to complete it, so now I have to do more work in a shorter amount of time. I just need to learn how to manage my time. Outside of school the one things I am concerned about is how I can work and go to school, I need the money but I can only work one day. This sort falls in the category of managing my time, probably once I get used to all the work I may be able to work a little more.  Other than that, I really don’t have any other concerns about y freshman year, so far it is going very well.

The “Baruch Experience” is already so much different than my high school experience. From just commute into the city to the work that needs to get done it is already so much different. But I think I am doing good from switching to a “high school state of mind” to a “college state of mind.”

Throughout my first year at Baruch, I think it will expose me to so many things that I would not have been exposed to if I went to school on the island. In just the few weeks we have been in school, I have seen so many interesting things not only at school but on my way going to class. I definitely made the right choice coming to Baruch and I am glad to say I am part of the class of 2014!

I would consider myself a student, brother, and a helpful, funny friend who has a passion for sports and uses that to help drive for success. I always want to do well at whatever I am dealing with, my job, playing sports, schoolwork,  and I would say my love for sports (especially playing basketball, and just watching football) has kept me going.  I never give up and even if everything looks terrible, I will keep pushing and at least try to finish the best I can which is similar to the mentality of many athletes who play sports.

My top 3 concerns about freshman year is pretty much similar to everyone else.  My main priority is to not let “senioritis” catch up to me coming from high school and to maintain a high GPA as it is very important especially for the freshman year because you hear everyone else saying it only gets harder. I understand that there will be more work, less time, there will be fewer reminders because everything is on the syllabus…basically telling me to “step up my game” (in sports terms) from high school.  Another concern I have is trying to make new friends.  Many of my friends are out of the city for college, and some of the remaining few in the city are already thinking/planning to transfer after this semester.  Basically, I’m the only one who doesn’t plan on transferring anytime soon but I look forward to this as a challenge.  This will be extremely difficult given the fact that many students’ schedules are different than another that it makes it even harder to catch up or socialize with others.  Also since I have work, that limits most of my time to even hang out with them after my classes end.  Lastly, another concern I have is basically dealing with the work overload that I have in store for me.  I often over think about situations which makes me worried and it doesn’t help at all.  I’m already thinking about the future papers, projects and speeches that I will be doing, what classes I am going to take next semester and how that is going to affect my work schedule.  Not to mention, trying to maintain a social life (friends, playing basketball, clubs, etc) has also been in my thought.

I think the general environment of being in college, let alone, a highly populated one will definitely differ from my high school experience which had only about 600 students.  I will definitely be able to meet more people, make new friends and hopefully improve my communication with others.

I hope the first year of college will help me become more independent, to not over think about every situation, and to become more social as I am not used to a very populated school environment.  In addition, I hope to manage my time better so I do not have to worry as much when dealing with school work, my job as well as social life.

I’m a sister and a friend. I hardly act serious but can still set my priorities straight. I’m learning everyday, about what it means to live and love unconditionally. But truthfully, I’m just dying to get this blog post off my To-Do list. Tonight I gave up too many parties to finish all my homework. There is definitely something wrong with me. I’m done complaining, so I’m going to talk about my concerns with being in Baruch College. My top concerns include transferring, having a high GPA to transfer, and figuring out the finance of transferring. I know I make it sound like I really dread being in Baruch, but it’s not that. It’s just that I swore I wasn’t going to stay home for college and I did, and I’m really disappointed in myself for that. Furthermore, I miss someone terribly who’s in a SUNY that I want to transfer to, Buffalo University! There aren’t that many choices in Baruch for me because I don’t want to do anything business-related; I wanted to do nursing to be exact. I changed my mind about the type of major I intended on going for too late to change my college wishlist, so I improvised and figured I could knock out some core classes in Baruch for a year and then transfer. I just hope all my credits (or at least most) transfer through successfully. What’s so different about Baruch College is how much independence you can gain if you really wanted it. I know a lot of people from high school who are in Baruch with me now, but if I didn’t decide to hang out with them, I realize that I could get so much done. I love the resources that Baruch has to offer, especially in the library building. High school just isn’t capable of having seven floors worth of library equipment for students. My goal during this first year of college is just to work, study and save up enough money to go on a cruise this summer with my favorite people and transfer to Buffalo. Being around my family so much, I’d love to just get away from them for a few years. I need to experience being on my own to learn how to not take things for granted anyway. I think the experience of buying my own toilet paper and such will really teach me something. After this first year at Baruch, I’m hoping to turn out much more mature than I am now, without really killing the fun part of me. If all this goes as planned, I’m going to be real proud of myself. So will my mom, maybe.