Hello my full name is Kyunggoo Chang but most of people can’t get my name right so I just use my initials as my name. I’m a very easy going person. I rarely get angry or offended by something. So you don’t have to worry about anything when you are talking to me.
My main concern is, of course, my grades. I think I will get a decent GPA for my freshman year. The classes so far are not that challenging than I expected. Another concern is knowledge. Up until now, I only studied for my my grades not for my own good. Therefore, I forgot everything that I learned in high school. However, now I want to have some legit knowledge that will help me in future. Last not but least, friends. I want to make some good friends who I can trust.
Baruch college is different from H.S. in a way that I only have to take three classes at most. When I was in H.S. I took 6 classes a day which was just annoying. Things I learned in school got all mixed up and confused me. Now, it is manageable since I only have to take several classes a day.
My first year at college will lead and adapt me in to the college life so it is easier for me to take more challenging classes next year.
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I see your main concerns are grades and obtaining, retaining, and applying knowledge. These are both understandable concerns and very possible achievements. I want to point out to you that both of these concerns are related and if you achieve one, you will have an easier time achieving the other.
So lets look at the goal of having “legitimate” knowledge. As you probably already have learned, college classes are different from high school classes. In your first couple of weeks, you probably have gotten reading assignments and probably these have been assignments where you are reading about things that the professor has yet to go over. You have to learn things on your own and professors expect you to understand what you have read and expand on it in class.
Obtaining this knowledge? Don’t just read to memorize but read to understand. Take your own notes about the readings and write it in a way that you understand it. And then when you get to class ask questions about what you learn. Question things when you read and this will help tremendously if you want to you want to remember and be knowledgeable of what you read. Don’t just take everything for face value.