LC 14

It’s hard to believe that my first semester of college is coming to an end. At the risk of sounding cliche, I really feel like I was just walking through the halls of my high school and now I’m concerned about the classes to take for my spring semester of my freshman year. The workshops we attended were beneficial for me.  Although I had heard that information before, hearing it reiterated was helpful.  Such as, I didn’t realize the classes I would not be able to take without having completed Bus 1000 or Calc 2207. The workshop on STARR was also informative and hopefully I will be getting involved with that in Peers For Careers since I applied to TEAM Baruch. In the Thanksgiving spirit, I’d like to say I’m thankful to have made it through this semester successfully (for the most part.)  Getting adjusted to college wasn’t the easiest but I think I’ve got the hang of things.  I’m also thankful for the great peer mentor I had and the wonderful job she did teaching us about Baruch and what we should get involved in to become more well-rounded individuals.  I must say, I am glad the semester is almost over and cannot wait for that month off.

I didn’t really have much of an interest in visiting the museum.  Seeing the artwork, though, was surprisingly interesting.  I love antiques, so I found things like the prayer wheel interesting.  I never thought about Himalayan culture but have learned it can be quite interesting after viewing some artifacts.

Attached is a picture I took of some statues of the Dalai Lama

Wow. My first semster of college is just about through. I can’t believe it. When I came to Baruch I envisioned something different. A lot of what I pictured did not happen, but overall the experience was good. I enjoyed it. I got to meet great people and learned how to travel on the subways by myself- something honestly so different to me. I’m really glad that I did decide to join a LC because it gave me a good foundation for starting college. I got to know peers like myself, met some real good friends, and had a peer mentor to give me a heads-up.

I think I handled the first semester pretty good. My patterns were kind of the same as highschool. I always did my work, it was just the managing-my-time factor that tripped me up. In the future, I plan to manage my time more efficiently and get more sleep.

There are only two things I regret. One, I wish I would have gotten help earlier with calc. (Analucia warned me but I thought I had it down.) Obviously not. Lastly, I would probably ask more questions as well as answer more questions in class.

Have I changed since I started at Baruch? I don’t think I did. I mean, I definetly know what I want more clearly then I did a year ago. I’m definelty more motivated to finish school. I definetly want a car. Finally, I think I learned to take other people’s advice better and to listen to constructive criticism.

Anyway, it was real. I’m glad I came.

This is the ugliest picture, sorry. So I usually am a fan of museums, I think they’re really fun at first but usually get pretty dull because it would be about the same things over and over again. I usually get bored about 2 hours in when I go to museums. When I was looking for the entrance to the museum, I say a lot of religious looking figures that looked VERY creepy.. I didn’t like that much, but I guess its all interesting. So the museum was gorgeous and looked very fancy, not like some of the other art museums. I thought Rubin kind of looked like the Frick Collection place. I kind of liked it, besides all the creepy stuff. There were a lot of buddas, and they all pretty much had the same heads. 

Not really sure what this blog’s supposed to be about, so I’ll just write about the registration workshop. Honestly, I have heared everything that woman has said about FIVE times already, but regardless, I wouldn’t mind hearing it another ten times because its so easy to forget what your requirements are or what you should take when dealing wth the stress of getting into ANY class! I’m not happy about such late registration because I wanted to be in the same class as everyone, but I doubt those classes will be open. Whatever, not much I can do about it now except try to make a schedule I’m okay with. I’ve made like 4 mock schedules already but I’m not happy with them. I’ll just have to keep working at it.

I’m happy freshman seminar is almost over because staying that late on Weds is brutal. But I’m definitely going to miss Analucia 🙂 Thanks for everything, you’ve been a really big part of helping me adjust to Baruch, and I appreciate it so much.