College is a new beginning, a new chapter in your life that will ultimately turn you into a mature and cultured person. College is the time in which you prepare for the “real world”, and find your passion. While high school prepares you for higher education, college prepares you to become a knowledgeable individual in not only your major but also the world around you.
I believe that I am a hard-working person. I never give up and I am very determined. One of the motto’s that I live by is, “destiny is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice”. I truly believe that my decisions will be the ultimate factor in who I will become and where I will be in the future. It is only with hard work that you achieve success because nothing comes easy in life.
My top three concerns about my freshman year at Baruch College are time management, balancing social life and schoolwork and achieving to be the best that I can be. The major difference between high school and college is the great amount of time between classes. In high school, I had to sit through 8 classes a day without any breaks and each class met every day. However, in college, I have at least an hour between my classes, giving me an ample amount of time to get a head start on homework, study or simply just catch up on sleep. I like this system a lot better because it gives me time to relax instead of just going from class to class without any breaks. Also, since classes meet every other day, I have more time to complete homework.
As of right now, the workload has been manageable. I want to continue to keep a good balance between school and my social life. I know that at times it will be stressful managing school, work on weekends and still finding time to see friends, and this is something I want to be able to accomplish.
The last concern I have about Baruch College is making friends. Since it is a commuter school, there is no real campus and everyone heads their own ways after class. In addition, since the students are from all over the city, there is no uniform place that everyone goes to. I hope this changes as time goes on. I want to be able to meet as many people as I can and begin networking. Baruch’s campus is the city and the city holds countless opportunities.
Overall, my experience at Baruch is getting better with time. I hope that I can make the best out of it and join more clubs to experience the Baruch life as a whole. I hope by the end of my college years, I have my own story to tell but as of right now, the words are still unwritten.