LC 24

Hello friends,

                           Our semister final is knocking at the door. We are almost at the business end of this semister. My first semister at Baruch college is finishing. Altough my grade so far has not been up to the mark, there are a lot of positive things to talk about this semister.

                           Our group has been one of the finest group in Barcuh College. I think all of the students are very friendly to each other. I remeber how Han Yang helped me a lot in almost every subjects. Then how Chen Min tried to teach me Mandarin which was very hilarious. Shaan gave my spme Piano lesson. Anyway,  my first semister at Barcuh College has been full of ups and downs. So I will start with my bad things. My grade has been pretty low so far. So I need a miracle to get a god grade in this semister. probably I will end up with an ordinary grade. My experience in Baruch College was really good. But I didn’t participate in any clubs or sports due to lack of times. I hope I will have more time in the next semister. Otherwise, it has been a memorable journey so far. My journey has been a satisfactory one.

                 If I could get my chance back, I would probably study hard. I was really very inattentive to studies. I didn’t do home work for a single day in Math class. I think it has been an incredible record ( the one that I shouldn’t talk about). I also wanted to be more participating in the class discussions. I also want to hold those precious friends.

                After I get admitted in baruch College, I feel that I am becoming more responsible, not only in studies but also in every spheres of my life. Personally , I was a lazy person. But now, I am a hard working human being. I hope I could have a little more motivation which will drive us forward.

              In conclusion , I wanted to tell that I might not be part of this group in the next semsiter becasue I choose different courses from my friends. When I grow old and leave the Baruch, I will remember this blog and think about this people . I will miss every one of them. I will feel nostalgia. Thanks to each and everyone. Thanks to : Han yang Yip, Chen Min, Somar Ketwaru Shaan , Yong Chen, Xibei Liu Toni, Mary Ann Lee, Jin Lin, Michelle Kim, Wei Feng Li, Oleksandr Tkach, Luyao Zheng, Jonathon Wong, Ru Fang Zheng, Minglu Liu, Wendi Huang Will, Marsida Guzia and Wei Yao Cynthia. Finally , thanks to our dear teacher Michelle Li. I wish everyone of you a happy future and a beautiful life.

In many ways the first semester at Baruch has been in line with what was expected and it went well . The workload is manageable, although that wasn’t what I expected, but it had helped me making the adjustment physically and mentally. Senioritis had definitely carried over from senior year. Compare to high school, the biggest difference is the commute time, and it has been one of my problems. The 3 minute drive to school is now changed to 3 hours a day on the ferry and train; just sitting on seats for an hour hurts my but-.-. I regret not managing my time wisely throughout early parts of the semester and making a lot of mistakes. Many times I was late to Theater, made silly mistakes on math exams, not posting blogs on time, and constant physical absence for a boring class. Fortunately, I got bailed out by nice and lenient teachers, replacement exams, paper revision, and friends that write name for me.  With new friends, new environment, new unfamiliarity, it gave me the curiosity and motivations I embrace for the upcoming future. Looking back as this semester, I wish I would have done whole a lot more.

It has been depressing seeing this semester coming to an end…I can still remember every detail that I paid attention to in the game room, the basketball court, swimming pool, the piano room, Thetre class, seven eleven, Popeye, English class, multipurpose room, computer lab,and even political science class. The remainder of this semester is going something I’ll cherish, hope you will too, aightt?

I can’t believe this semester is going to end in less than 2 weeks! I felt like it just has started and I’m still adapting to college life. It is tough at first because there are tons of assignments, readings and adjustments of time between studies and work. Moreover, this is the first time I work and study at the same time. It is not easy but thank god, this semester, i got cool and nice professors for all my courses. They are not as scary and strict as I imagined. I actually regretted that I did not study hard enough for my midterm and got bad results. If only I have a second chance to do my midterm again but, there is no use crying over spilt milk. I will take this semester as an experience and work hard for another semester. There is another thing I regretted for not doing which is to get to know more about my fellow classmates of LC24. You are all nice friends but i’m too shy to approach all of you. I hope that we are still friends although in the future we all might have differents paths.

In this three months, I learned a lot in Baruch College. Its totally a different experience from high school and there are lots of different people from different country. This makes my college life in Baruch College an interesting one and fun. Next semester I will work harder in my studies and will not procrastinate anymore. That day my friend from Malaysia asked me about my life here and what I am studying in college. She said I should change my education info in Facebook to “I’m doing Bachelor degrees of Procrastination in Uni of FAcebook”. haha. Yes, I spend too much time in facebook. But not anymore next semester!!

Good Luck to all my fellow classmates in LC24!

          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 still  remember  that I applied for Baruch College on the 1st Feb, the last day of  CUNY application. It was just a few days after I arrived to NY and since I was still “new” over here, i had no idea about how colleges here work. Besides that, I was having jet lag and not used with the climate difference, everything I did was a mess . Luckily, I was accepted by Baruch College and got into LC24 and had the first semester with them.

Honestly, I didn’t expect myself to get good grades in the first semester,however, i hoped that I could get myself accustomed with my new life here.  Things went pretty well ,and i made some friends through the freshman seminar. Moreover, I never expected we could get so close even though we live in 5 different boroughs and having different backgrounds. It was kinda amazing that we could get along together while we have some difficulties in communicating. Because of them, i started to feel comfortable studying in Baruch.

My first semester in Baruch is just mediocre. As i mentioned earlier, i was just trying to adapt to the new environment. As long as I am passing all the courses, I am satisfied. Other than that, for me , the first semester is mathematical. I used trial and error to figure out what suit me best and how to tackle some issues. For instance, now I know that I can’t concentrate on study in the morning but afternoon and evening.  Also, i found out that I can barely stay focus after riding on 3 different types of public transportation.

If I could redo my first semester again, perhaps I would do a research about differences of climate between New York and Malaysia so that I could prepare myself well enough to engage into college life. The climates here really affected me much and i always felt sleepy and sometimes i would feel like i am as soft as a jellyfish.I really want to know how to overcome my body condition so i could have a better semester to avoid myself taking summer class( Actually i feel “good and normal” during summer).

At last, Baruch offered a good education throughout the semester, In fact, the great professors in Baruch change my point of view on education. Study is not just about memorizing class material like stuffing ingredients into a sausage case but to learn and use the knowledge to improve myself.  Overall, i believe that Baruch  helps a lot in cultivating me into a better person in the first semester. I hope that there are more improvement in me in the future semesters.


Baruch is a great college, I meet many great friends, many great professors, and I learn a lot new thing. For “Not lived up to your expectations” I think is Baruch college is too far from my house, and because of I have work after school, I kind of hate homework. For “exceeded your expectation” I think is time is going fast, final is only few week later and I think I need little more time. But over all I like Baruch college.

I think I didn’t do so well at my first semester at Baruch College because I drop one of my class, it which make me need to go to summer school in order to become sophomore next year. Also, I think my grade this semester is not so good either. I got poor grammar, so when I do my English essay, and I never went to writing center for help, it which makes me had low grade on my essay. Even on my favorite subject Math, I thought it might be easy, and I’ll get an easy A on it, but I didn’t do so well on my exam, so if I want to get A on my math, I need to study hard from now.

If I can do it again, I would not drop my class, I will try to do my best and get good grade on it instead of drop it, that way I may not go to summer class if I don’t want to. For my poor grammar skill, I will go to writing center for help, so all my easy will have better grade. Also on my math class, I will try to do better at beginning, so I won’t be so tire now.

I feel that I found new passion of learning. When I was in high school senior year, I were kind of lazy, because I feel that I’m graduate and I was fooling around in school every day, now I feel like I waste one year of my time. I should have taken as much AP class as possible, so I can take less class in my college year. Especially my math, in high school I had AP calculus, but I didn’t take it serious, I were sleep in class every day, that make me hate math, but when I come to Baruch, I found my passion for math again.

I thought my first semester of Baruch went actually pretty well because I met a lot of new people, and I got to experience Baruch more than I was able to during high school. When freshman seminar started, and I founded out that my whole class was people whose English language wasn’t their native language, I seriously thought to myself that I was in the wrong class. But then, I founded out that it doesn’t matter; I still had fun with them, regardless of their native language.

To be honest, the semester hasn’t really lived up to my expectations. I never have really thought I would drop a class, I always figured out myself as the person that sticks with something no matter what, but I guess the first semester changed me. Other than that, my semester has went the way I wanted. I take advantage of the gym and library every chance I get, especially the wifi.

I think I have changed due to the fact, that I would always wait for someone to introduce them self to me and talk to me, but now I learned that I must take the lead, and do things myself. I learned that college work is also a lot harder than high school work, but I’m getting use to the work. If I was to change my first semester, I would definitely try to pay attention more, because its essential to passing the course. I feel that I should regret dropping my course, but I don’t.

Also I made a lot of new friends, that were pretty cool themselves in their own different way. This is probably due to the fact that for the whole semester, I have been taking classes with them, so I got to know their personality, their traits, etc. Because of that, I became friends with them, even though it took a while, because I didn’t really talk to them much, but now, we’re all pretty cool with each other.

I can’t believe our first semester is almost over.

I mean…then I won’t get to see you anymore? I won’t get to see my angel Mary, my favorite actor Sean, my adorable Johnny, my gorgeous Marsida, my smart cookie Alex, my subway buddy Yong, my smiley Tony, my next Bangladesh politician Nayeeb, my shy Will, my cute Weifeng(I swear to god I KNEW your name), my soft Jin, my big bro Chen, my kinky fb defriended buddy han, my 新女性─the first SimNet tester─ luyao, my kind rufang and my nice big sis Michelle? (I know I’ll definitely see my Weiyaoboo and lucie unless you have a secondthought to change your schedule but you─please─won’t, right?)

with millions of gasp and zillions of sigh I feel like I’m facing an unexpected break up with you. I am just not..ready. It’s just a weekend and I’m already missing you guys, then how can I ever let you go. It breaks my heart.. I don’t want to get apart from you. You were the best thing or maybe only thing I liked about Baruch. You are that who made me come to school, who made me endure loads of assignments, who made me smile, who made me laugh, and who made me happy. I don’t want to lose you. I love you all of my LC 24 family. Now I come to know that I took the every moment with you for granted. I’m such an idiot who left that moment unappreciated. I should have turned my face to see you one more time, I should have smiled at you one more time and I should have tried to talk to you one more time so I can remember you. I’m sorry I wasn’t nicer. I didn’t know how to express my love without saying I love you or that kind of bashful words which would probably embarrass you and me to death if I did say it in your face. But I really do love you all. You are amazing guys and I am deeply grateful that I met you. $2500 were worth spending to meet you guys. To me, you guys were the Baruch experience itself and you were above everything I ever expected. Thank you for being here at Baruch.

My first semester at Baruch College went so fast. I remember that the first day of class made me so nervous. But I was getting adaptive later on. I got what I wanted this semester, such as, great professors, multicultural environment, and good grades. Indeed, my experience at the college has lived up to my expectations. The final is getting close, I wish that I would get some approving grades that is my last expectation.

My first semester almost went well. Every class went well as my expectations except Anthropology. Because of a few issues with professor, I had to drop it after midterm. I planned that I would complete the first semester without dropping any class so that I will get ample credits to become a sophomore in 1 year, but it seems to be hard for me now. Moreover, I got many good friends in this semester, and I want to say that they really helped me a lot when I got confused with studying. I really want to see them again in next semester again.

If I could get another chance to do this semester all again, I would pay more attention on anthropology class so that I didn’t have to drop that class. Actually, I tried my best to understand and memorize course materials of anthropology, but I still failed midterm. It was what I couldn’t face. I guessed that I did study hard around midterm, but I didn’t pay my attention enough on the class before midterm. That’s it.

I think I am not as nervous as before when I speak in public even though I still need to practice more. Also, I made many foreign friends that is what I hoped in my first passage. These two expectations come true now. I think I will be better at speaking in public later on and make more and more foreign friends while I am studying at Baruch. Also, I am trying to manage my time well, which I didn’t do before. I notice that the time management is pretty important. So I will keep doing it in every semester.

At last, I want to thank my freshmen seminar instructor, Michelle Li. Thank you for helping us and taking care of the class this whole semester.

I feel the time is passed so quickly. The fall 2010 almost ends. I always think that this semester just begins and I am still “new” for this college. I don’t realize that this semester almost is over and the final exams are coming soon.

The student life in college is not that hard and not that easy. When I entered Baruch College, I want to get A in every course and try to work hard for it. But after I taking midterm exam, I feel it is impossible to get A in every course. The reason is actually I I am not very interesting at some courses and don’t work that hard for studying. I just waste all of my time on some non-sense stuff and I don’t really know what I did. And during class time, sometimes I just think something else and didn’t pay attention to professors. Sometimes I do pay attention, but I don’t know what the professors are talking about, especially in POL. I felt upset and I feel that I am so stupid. But right now, I feel better, because I think if I work hard and prepare for the final exam as well as I can, at least I can get B. So right now I just encourage myself and prepare the final exam earlier.

I think if I can do my first semester again, I will do better. I will not waste my time again and I will work harder for my class. If I can rate my first semester, the rate will be 2 out of 5. But if I can do it again and rate it, I think it at least will be 4 out of 5. I really need to take a class for time managing and paying attention to class.

Actually I have changed since I started at Baruch College. First I feel there are so many assignments need to be done, and I never feel there are any works in high school. Second I feel busy and nervous in college. There is no marking periods in college at all. Every single test needs to get a great grade otherwise there is no making up stuff for replacing the grade. So I feel nervous.

In the first semester in Baruch College, I feel happy even though the life of college is so busy and nervous. I know new friends and I learn some new things which are totally different from high school. And Baruch College brings me different experience from any periods of my life.