I apologize for posting late. It has completely slipped my mind. But anyways, here goes nothing…
Who am I? Well, last time I checked, my name is Nicholas, and I’m a student at Baruch College (not my dream school, by the way; but well, we all have to settle for what we got sometimes ~.~). I like to talk, although people only understand 50% of whatever comes out of my mouth (on a good day), which makes me even talk more to make up the other 50% (sorry, guys). I also like to shoot pool (not very pro though…); so if any one of you doesn’t mind shooting pool with an amateur, meet me after school.
As for adjusting to college, it came pretty naturally. I just treat college like I did for high school; and so far that works out pretty well. Yes, there is much more reading in college than in high school, but I wouldn’t complain since that’s basically all there is to it. Occasionally, there are writings to be done; but professors aren’t outrageously unreasonable–there’s always adequate time to complete assignments. So the Red Queen in CUNYLand isn’t too cruel after all.
The bad part, however, is the lack of the college feeling. Strange as it might seem, college, at the beginning, should be like a field trip to Wonderland. You’re finally all grown-up and out of that disgusting, childish place called “high school.” And you just would like to venture into college and roll with the big boys and big girls. And when you realize that isn’t what college is about, you’d get settled down and get your head into the studying game. But before then, you still have that sensational incentive to get yourself involved in college. However, Baruch fails to provide that. As soon as the school year kicked off, we just went right onto school work. The fun and interesting things other than going to classes, if exist, are very obscure. Even after school hours, everyone would just continue on to his or her rest of the day, unlike the college students who live in dorms and socialize and go to places all day long. Not being able to do that is a real shame…
Anyways, like I said before, we all got to settle for what we got sometimes. We just have to work with what we have and get the best out of it. So good luck, everyone! Three weeks down, a lot more to go! =)
Nicholas
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sophia karathanasis // Sep 25th 2010 at 10:10 pm
Don’t worry about posting late you did a good job, nevertheless. I’m not sure what the RedQueen in CUNYLand is but as for your other statements Baruch can’t possibly be your dream college. They are called dream colleges for a reason because they exist only in your dreams and not in reality. Also, “College Life” is primarily a social construct–society gives it certain meaning but that meaning is certainly not absolute.