This is Sparta!…LOL jk it’s me
September 21, 2010 by dmitriy.guberman
When I think of who I am, the first thing that comes to mind is fun. I love to have a good time with friends, meet new people, and laugh. I’ve always been a class clown of sorts but never to the point of being disruptive. All my life I’ve been top of my class until halfway through high school, which was a real wake-up call. In high school, I learned that I have to actually put work in to get results and that work ethic is what I hope to bring to the table here at Baruch.
One of my concerns about my freshman year is that my work might not be good enough. In high school, I rarely needed to put forth my best effort to achieve good grades, and I worry that I may not get the grades I’m expected to get. Another concern of mine is that I’m going to hate the school because of the daily commute. School has never been more than a 15 minute drive for me and now I need to take a bus to school for over an hour 4 days a week (maybe more depending on my next schedule). Lastly, I’m worried that I won’t be able to keep in touch with my friends in other schools as much as I’d like. My friends mean a lot to me and I don’t want something like college to ruin our friendship.
The amount of responsibility and the amount of work will make my college experience different from high school. In college, you run on a set schedule and have something due almost everyday in class. Failure to do these assignments will, more than likely, result in lowering of your grade. Thus, I will have to learn to balance school and fun on a much larger scale now.
I think this first year of college will be a humbling experience. I have always considered myself smart because of my grades but if I slip up in college, my parents will be dissapointed in me and nothing is worse than when your parents are dissapointed in you. I think having to always do my homework will help me to mature school-wise. However, I hope I am able to still have fun and enjoy school. I don’t want the highlight of my freshman year to be the times when i visited my friends at their schools.