LC 18

Monologue (portion)

When I was maybe five or six years old, my grandmother used to take care of me during the summer breaks, because my parents had to go to work and they couldn’t just leave me at home by myself. She used to take me to a lot of fun places, parks, bus tours around the city, or simply just walk around the neighborhood. That was some good times.

So this one time, she took me to walk around the neighborhood. We came onto this little stone bridge that was built on top of a narrow river. We’d been walking around for the whole morning, so we decided to sit down on the edge of the bridge to rest our feet for a while…

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I love the game Minesweeper! I can literally play this game for an hour and a half non-stop! There are a lot of hours I should be putting into studying but instead going into this game. This is the proof of my best achievement on Minesweeper. Although this isn’t the world record (less than 30 seconds on expert), 124 seconds is still a pretty darn good achievement. Call me lame, but without Minesweeper, the world isn’t going to be the same!

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