LC 14

Hi! My name is Serena Chung. Who do I think I am? I think I am a great friend and a great listener. At first I may seem to be a quiet person who doesn’t talk much or give much feedback, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t want to be friends or talk to you. I love making new friends and talking to people, it just doesn’t come as second nature to me. So please, if I don’t talk, talk to me :).

I certainly have concerns for this freshman year at Baruch college, maybe even more than three. My first concern is about the homework load. There is such an overwhelming amount of work that I think is unbelievable and crazy. I don’t think professors should give that much work out because students do have other classes with homework as well. I am worried that I will fall behind because I am already getting lost with the reading. My second concern is with finals and midterms. I don’t really feel like i’m learning much at the moment, or it’s just not sticking in my head. Hopefully when midterms and finals come, I won’t draw a blank of what I have learned and fail. My third concern is regarding whether I can handle all this school work and my job and be able to excel in both at the same time. I recently got a job at a x-ray clinic and I am still learning a lot of new things. Taking in all this new information is hard and this college work load sure isn’t helping the situation.

Baruch college is certainly a lot different from high school. In high school, nobody really forces you to do anything, neither do they in Baruch but now you just know that you have to. Cramming information before tests work in high school but I have a strong feeling that it will not anymore. In lecture classes, you are supposed to pay close attention to the professor and take notes as he/she talks, but back in high school, everything was about copying off the board. Calling out “wait! I’m not done writing down what you said” will no longer be effective. Its all on you and its your responsibility to get everything down.

I already see change in myself after college had begun, in a good way though. I feel as if I have grown a little, maybe because of knowing the fact that I am in college now. I feel more comfortable opening up and talking to random people and making friends. This is only the beginning of everything, school had just begun. I know in the future, maybe a few more months into college, I will see a bigger change in myself. After this whole four years of college experience, I know I will gain a lot of new experience and become a little stronger and more independent than I am now.