My first semester at Baruch has definitely not lived up to my expectations but I should not have expected much especially since Baruch is a commuter school in the city. I was nervous at first entering college but it’s really no different from high school. I feel like nothing has changed from what I’ve been experiencing since high school and this college experience is not something I want to keep up with for the next four years. I guess college is pretty much what you make it out to be so I should be trying harder to achieve that true ‘college experience’ or lifestyle. It seems that there is nothing really challenging with my classes and that I’m doing pretty well in school. The workload is a lot at times but mostly because we’re assigned so much reading. It’s also a lot more fast-paced compared to what I’m used to but I’m sure I’ll adjust in time. It helps that I’ve never really liked procrastinating so I have good time management skills which I believe is a factor to my grades. However, it’s more difficult to get As because you only have one semester whereas in high school we had three semesters. The stakes are higher in college but you also have the option to drop classes which is new and helpful.
Staying in the city, I think that I have not changed at all. Everything still reminds me of high school but maybe part of that is because I had an eight class schedule in senior year so I never really had a break from school. My high school helped transition us from high school to college so perhaps that’s also a reason why nothing seems different and also why I don’t feel any different either. Perhaps if I chose to dorm instead I would have seen more significant changes but as far as I know, I don’t think I have made any change. That doesn’t mean I haven’t though, sometimes you just don’t really notice the change you go through yourself but others see it.