LC 14

Hey my name is Stefan Nawoj and i’d like to see myself as a nice fellow thats fluffy on the inside. I’m mostly very outgoing a bit too much so i believe, because the overall norm unfortunately in New York is to be isolated to yourself or cold to strangers. I feel like i actually care about stuff like how people feel, what goes on, how people treat others and i don’t know i guess that makes me a bit emotional haha although i try to hide it best way i can. When it comes to money i can be very hardworking, yet when it comes to studying and school i have room for improvement due to my bad procrastination habits. As i am writing this blog it is already approaching midnight on Wednesday. The people i care most about would be the people that don’t do wrong to others in anyway in general good people. i like good happy vibes nothing else. I really enjoy it especially when people laugh, whether having a good time or whatever, when you go out and have fun laughter is a natural by-product. Sadly i believe i have a need for people, i don’t know why its so. For example there are times i just feel lonely and i just really need someone to talk to, thats all. It just gets the better of me, for someone with so many acquaintances as i do, i have few real friends.
My three main concerns in my freshman year is first my lack of time management skills. I feel like it is a HUGE problem and i need to get on it immediately, if i take care of that it would honestly benefit my life greatly, i always feel rushed, and as if there is never enough time for life. Second would be to achieve a high GPA, this i know i can accomplish but only and only if i can manage to fix the first concern. Thirdly i feel like because of all the stress i look to go out and have fun too much. Basically i go out to hang out to relieve stress, i’m stressed because i need good grades, my grades are suffering due to lack of time management and sleep, and my lack of time management and sleep is due to the fact i go out to much, on top of traveling about 4 hours a day,a messed up internal clock, and attempting to join a social fraternity. As you can see its a very unhealthy cycle, but i feel like if i push myself i can hopefully fix everything. I’m actually looking for a job too but until i can manage this i will have to stall.
My college experience will be different mainly due to the fact that i will be surrounded by people who actually want to be successful with their lives. I feel like i actually will get something out of college learning wise, and socially live my best years of my life here. I feel like high school is full of too many low-lives and people who like drama or think they are alpha. I look forward to hopefully eventually making some close friends during my stay here at Baruch.
I believe that the first year at college will change me only in fixing the negative. Hopefully develop better studying and work skills and that will overall improve the quality of my life.

My name is Matthew Song. I’m from Plainview, NY. There isn’t anything special that really describes who I am. One thing I love is basketball. Growing up, that was one thing that I truly loved doing and had a passion for. I wouldn’t describe myself to be the brighest person. At times I am very closed and try to isolate myself. I guess that’s because I can’t really trust anyone? Well, that’s besides the point

My top concern about college is whether if I will do well in school. During high school, I never took any of the work seriously and messed around a lot. I know I shouldn’t do that here because not only am I paying for all the classes, these classes determine my future. My second concern is not being able to make new friends. A part of me wants to be open to new people, but at the same time I don’t. I guess the main reason why I feel that way is because I lost majority of my friends in my senior year. I guess I’m still overwhelmed at the fact that people left for no apparent reason. My third concern would have to be whether if I can really trust myself. What I mean by that is, I live away from my parents, so no one tells me what to do. I can say I control my own life. The decisions I make whether it be coming to school or not, no one can really take responsibility of that, but myself.

I honestly feel like college and high school has not much of a difference. I guess it’s like a new beginning. No one knows who you are and what kind of background you are from, so you have a clean sheet of paper to write a new chapter of your life. One thing that I know I want to see a difference in is my work ethics. At the end of the day, I want to feel like I accomplish something and feel good about it.

Hopefully, my first year in college will help me move on from the past and be open again. I was never really shy or anything, but I guess people change. So all in all, I want to be myself again.

a. I think I am a nice, somewhat smart girl who tries hard most of the time to be the best person she can be.

b. My top 3 concerns of my freshman year at Baruch are the increased amount of work, time management, and fatigue. The work since high school has definitely gotten much more challenging. Also, at the moment, I am having a hard time with time management. I find myself so busy all the time and doing homework all the time also. I haven’t really gotten much time to myself when I can just relax and take it easy. That’s where the fatigue comes in. I go to school and do homework and sleep for 4-5 hours. I know, its bad.

c.I think that between high school and college, I have definitely gotten to encounter many more types of people rather than everyone acting the same exact way as it was in my high school. I also have much more independence and responsibility in college.

d. I think it will mke me more focused and responsible. I already feel the change happening. I’m becoming more involved in my work than in the social aspect of my life.

Hi! My name is Camille Hart. I am eighteen years old. I like to think I am a really kind person. I try to be easy to get along with. I love to have fun and to be relaxed and to just enjoy life. I like for everyone around me to be happy. If your uneasy or troubled about something it will take a toll on me as well. At the same time, I don’t like to constantly worry about things. I don’t wanna wake up one morning and think, “What did I do with my life?” I hate wasting time. Regrettably, I can be really shy sometimes. I love music, singing, dancing, and choreographing and I’m pretty sure the arts is my true passion- but I never pursued it for some reason. But I think that’s one of my flaws, a lack of confidence  stemming from a fear of failure. But let’s not get too deep here. Anyways, I’m a really motivated person and I have a desire to succeed so that should help me in the near future.

My top three concerns about freshman year are: going about it all wrong, not making strong bonds with people, and having the same “something’s missing” feeling that I had in high school. The first one, going about it all wrong basically means starting off my first semester wrong. I don’t want to make a bunch of mistakes in my first semester just to get it right in the next one. I want to take advice from others now to avoid the common mistakes later. My next concern is not making strong bonds. I want to meet friends who I’ll have strong bonds with. Not just acquaintances I see during school, but people who I can confide in. Lastly, having the “something’s missing” feeling. In high school I had a bunch of close friends. But I only had one best friend, and when she moved away at the start of high school I felt kind of abandoned. Whenever something good or bad happened, I could only tell her over the phone because she was never there with me. They say in college, the friends you meet will be your friends for life… I wanna see if that’s true.

I know my Baruch College experience will be different than high school because the location is totally different. In high school, I rode the school bus and knew most of the kids from grade school. Mostly everyone was from Hicksville or Westbury. In college, people are from all over and have been raised differently and taught differently. Everyone did not go to the same elementary or middle school. Plus I commute now, no more cheese buses.

My first year at college will probably make me more outgoing and I’ll probably learn alot more about myself.

Hi, I’m Jacob.  I’m kind of a big kid, my sense of humor can sometimes be considered a bit childish.  I’m usually glued to the television, one of my biggest concerns about my future is would I have access to cable.  I watch a lot of sports, television shows and I watch a lot of late night (because theres nothing else on).  For those of you who don’t know, I’m actually biracial, so I was never able to identify with a certain race until my later years in high school.  It actually turned out to be a good thing, since I was able to interact with a lot of different people and not have to worry about if I would fit in with a certain demographic, since the answer was pretty much no anyway.  Before I had a problem with it, but now I actually prefer being just a little different form most people.

I have a lot of concerns about my freshman year.  First of all is the grades.  In high school students had the option of checking their grades online, and I never did because I was afraid to look a them.  It would always be that one class that wouldn’t look too good on the progress report, so I did my best to steer clear of the website.  Now, I have to more closely monitor my grades, and I have to be more responsible; especially now considering I’ve never been graded as a college student before.  The second concern I have is time management.  I was never that good at it in high school, since I didn’t have a lot of homework I could just do it the night before it was due.  I’m older and (theoretically) more mature now, and I don’t be working all night like I would do the night before a project is due.  It’s something I was never that good at which hopefully I will get good at…and fast.  Another concern I have (among others) is what to do with my spare time.  A lot of this time should be spent studying, but when I spend all day doing schoolwork my brain kind of shuts down.  A lot of people want a job, but I worked my senior year in high school and I found myself wanting to go to work rather than go to school or do homework, which is not good.

I think my Baruch experience will be very different from my high school experience.  My school didn’t start giving midterms and finals until my senior year, and even then it wasn’t perfectly put in practice.  So basically, I am nowhere near prepared for midterms and finals at Baruch, which in some classes count for a large part of our grades.