My first semester at Baruch was interesting. I cannot say that it was completely different from what I was expecting from College but in a sense there were quite a few surprises along the way. In the beginning I did not like many of my classes and I was not sure how everything was going to turn out and December and the end of the semester seemed like a lifetime away. Now, it is all almost over and it feels kind of surprising to be living today’s days and knowing that you’ve been through so much. As the semester progressed I grew to like most of my teachers more and the fear of this being college and doing bad went away. I realized that there are chances to fix your mistakes if you messed up and I also found out that if you thought something was very hard then chances are that all of your classmates also thought so and then the professor will realize that and allow you to get back on track along with the rest of your classmates. I actually figured out for myself that the hardest thing about college is not the classes themselves and the teachers who are giving you your grades because in a sense it really is a lot like high school and there have always been and there will always be teachers who are harsher graders and who are mean and other teachers who grade very fairly and are nice. The hard part is actually staying on top of everything and keeping track of all that you have to know and do to make sure that you do not fall behind. You have to transfer your college now credits and ap credits and constantly be checking back and forth if it went through. You have to pick classes for next semester and chances are that many of them will already be filled and that is very stressful in a sense. In other words, even though you will not constantly be preoccupied with work, you will always have something to do in college and something to check and look for and worry about. You can never say I am completely free let me enjoy my weekend and not think about anything. In that sense, I think it would be much more beneficial to us if we didn’t literally have to pick all our classes ourselves. We should be given a lot of different blocks with a lot of different choices similar to the one we were given this semester and then we should pick the ones we like. Because registration for regular freshman is so late and because mine is even later then most other people in my block I feel rather worried about picking my next classes for next semester. In fact, I think this topic concerns me more then the tests and all that other stuff in all my current classes. In conclusion, my first semester was pretty good and I cannot really complain about anything because if you do your work and try your best your guaranteed to do fine, but at the end of the day I cannot say that I’m not glad that’s its almost over, because I really am really glad that one day soon I will be able to go to bed at a normal hour and not have to think about anything for once.