LC 24

          Hey guys, our first semester in Baruch College is going to end soon, ha so fast. Even though there were only months but I really met many people here and also realized that it is really hard to be a successful college student.

          I met a lot of friends in this semester, friends in my classes and also friends from other grades. They are mad cool, especially my classmates in LC24. But sadness is most of them live in another city so I can’t really hang out with them often. I met a lot of friends who already are juniors and seniors in Baruch College and they told me many things about Baruch also ways to survive in Baruch. As a freshman in Baruch, I don’t really know how college works and what I should do in college. I think I kind of messed my grades of this semester already because I was so lazy in high school and thought that I could handle with the same attitude as what I used to do in high school but now I find out that college is far different from high school in US. I have to work harder and harder to fit into the college now.

          Like what I said, I kind of messed up my midterms and I think if I can do it again I will definitely study really hard at the beginning of the semester. I have been so lazy for all four years in my high school, have done nothing but still passed my classes therefore I still can’t pull myself out from that slow and free situation in my first college semester. Especially I felt so upset after I took my midterm because I found out that midterm is not that hard if I have study for it but I actually didn’t pay a lot of attention on it. O.0… I can’t be regret now because time will never go back so all I can do is to make sure I will never mess up my finals again.

          After being a college student for a while, I actually realize something that I have never thought about before. Compared to a real college student, high school students are always treated like kids. Like in high school, if there is a student who did very bad in his classes he may get some help from his counselors or teachers and also counselors may warn him when he has too many missing classes. But in college, no one will be there for us to remind us what we should do or not so we have to be so careful with every single of our decision. Responsibility is very important either to our own or to other people. And that is the first lesson we have to learn before we get into the real society.

          That is what I have so far about my first semester, and hope all of us are going to have a better semester in coming spring. lol

        I went to the Bubin Museum of Art for my workshop stuff but actually i don’t really like to go to museum. But after i visited the museum, i actually find out it’s fun to be there and im sure that many people will have the same feeling as i have.

        I took a picture for the window outside of the museum because i really like the stuff inside of the window. It looks really nice even though i dont really know what is that and what is it for.

        As i said, i am not really interested in either museum and art but i walked into the museum. I feel sorry that i didnt even do the research about the museum before i got there. After i went into the museum, i found there are so many collection of religious art from eastern cultures and also many buddhas collections. Definitely i am not in buddhism but i felt so excited seeing those buddhas. I remember there are many temples in China and I have traveled those places with my family many years ago and i have seen a lot of  buddhas before. Also buddhas always exist in dramas of ancient China so i felt so excited to see that.

      Anyway i still dont really like to go to museum if i dont have to but every time after i visited the museum, i always find out it’s awesome and lucky to be there. I know it sounds weird but still  appreciate the exprience i got from visiting Bubin Museum.

     The topic for this post is monologue, but seriously I don’t really know what I can write about. After finished reading other people’s post, I think I’d talk about myself a little more.

     I think you all heard that I had been here for 5 years already, not that long but compared with other people in our class, I came here a little bit earlier than them. At the beginning, I had gone to junior high school for half year. I still remember a lot of things that happened at that time. There were not many Chinese classmates in my class, 2 girls and other 5 boys, but there was Korean girl who was really friend with us. We spent a perfect happy time together. We all couldn’t speak even understand English so we did nothing in school, even though the teacher had asked problems on us, we just stared at him back and said nothing at all. But we always made noise when we were talking in Chinese to each other. At that time, I got nothing to care about even our basic speaking skills. Oh, by the way, I met my best friend who didn’t go to the same high school with me, but we are still closed to each other now.

     After that, high school came. Compared with junior high, my high school is quite bigger. I still remember I got lost in the building at the first day of school. I met many Chinese immigrants there and it definitely made me feel much better in a bilingual school system and then I started study. It was still hard for us to improve our English in bilingual classes with the same native language speakers. But lucky was we met a really perfect teacher who helped us in anywhere. He is a bilingual teacher who taught us history but also English skills, SAT, and even college stuffs. We really should and also did appreciate him. And also he pushed me to AP classes that really helped me a lot with my English.

    I had great junior high and high school experiences, I hope and also believe I will have another wonderful four years with people I just met and I will meet in Baruch.

First when I got the question ‘who you think you are’, I had divided the answer into two parts by 2 different periods of time, from now and in the future. Now I am a freshman of Baruch College in this year. That is who I am today and who really want to be a successful student in the college. But I am a little bit lost about who I want to be in the future of my life. To become a woman who work so hard for her job or just a pretty normal person walking on the 34^th street, of course I hope the first phrase can come true one day but I am also wondering whether I really have the ability to reach that goal or not. But from now, I believe I am a person who will try my best to achieve the goal that I really want.

The top three concerns about my freshman year in Baruch College are how to get high GPA on my transcripts, which interesting club I should join, and who I am going to know in this new community. High GPA is one of the most important topics that always appear in the conversations of people in the college because they all know those GPAs are going to affect their entire life. It directly relates to their future career and I totally realize it. Club is also the thing we can’t ever miss in our college life. Several days ago, I posted a status on my facebook that is ‘it will be so regretful if we are not going to club in college,’ and many people agreed with me. I believe there is a lot of fun in clubs and that is also one of the places that we can meet friends for life. Baruch College has a really large population and I am really excited about knowing new friends here because I believe here is the last period of time before we start to consider about our own interests every day.

My high school experience was really boring, nothing exciting. My high school didn’t have any sports terms and outdoor conventions for fun and neither other interesting parties, maybe I was in the bilingual classes so I knew less things about the school because of the language problem. But all I did was going to school in the morning and leaving after my classes had done every day. Sometimes I even think my junior high was more interesting than my high school. So I can’t wait to join a club in the college or to participate in other activities for getting into the community much more than what I did in high school and to make it fun.

I think after the first year in Baruch, I will be much more responsible to myself and also to other things. In here, I have to follow up all the things I have to do for myself, there is nobody can help you to fix your mistake or failing grade any more. So we have to understand what we suppose to do and what we definitely can’t do. And I am pretty sure I will be more mature than now a year later.