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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.