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I can’t believe my first semester of college is basically over! When I enrolled in Baruch College, I honestly didn’t expect too much. I thought it would be just like high school, with the exception of the long commute. However, I did expect the work to be much harder, which was in a way sort of true. I mean, it wasn’t like I was overwhelmed with work, but it just felt like I had more of a responsibility to do well and study in college, since I’m paying for it! I studied pretty hard in high school, so i didn’t find it extremely difficult to study now as a college student, but it was pretty difficult to keep up with the textbook readings and the syllabus. I don’t think I would really do anything too different if i was able to re-do this semester, maybe just try harder to keep up with the reading. I’m still not completely sure if Baruch is the right college for me, but one thing that I’m sure of is that I don’t regret coming here. I met many many many awesome nice people, which I really didn’t expect! I’m glad that I had everyone in LC26 and Clemente to help me in my transition from high school to college!! I had a great first semester at Baruch, despite some of the bad professors I ended up with.

omgomgomgoshhh so late, I spilled water over my laptop so my keyboard doesn’t really work D:!! ehhh & then i totally forgot! So anyways, well I didn’t expect myself to have a super duper awesome monologue, cause I mean talking to myself in front of a bunch of people just seemed weird and I’m never really good at presenting stuff, nor do I like it either!! As I sat and listened to everyone’s monologues, I realized that they were all either meaningful or funny, and mine was extremely boring! So as I sat there I crossed out like an entire paragraph, and randomly added stuff!! I was as nervous since we got to sit on a chair while presenting! So I got up there, sat down on that comfy chair, and began talking gibberish. The presentation of the monologue was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be since we all pretty much know each other in the class now, it’s just not as awkward and nerve racking (if its spelled of phrased like that..). I enjoyed listening to the monologues by my fellow classmates, and did no completely freak out over mine either!

What makes me, me? This question always seems to randomly pop up in my head. My name is Kristie Ching, I am Chinese, I am a female, and the list would never end, but even with all these details how can I distinguish myself from everyone else? Well maybe what makes me, me, is my past, my dreams and how I plan on turning those dreams into realities.

As a young girl, I was always really shy and quiet. I barely talked to anyone outside of my family and I was afraid of pretty much everything. It was weird how my shyness reduced when I taught those who were younger than me. Eventually my weird shy personality changed when I moved back to Queens. Here, I made new friends and began learning how to be a better person, while still holding onto my love of teaching and finding new interests along the way.

Today, I am a student at Baruch College, although this was not my first choice, I don’t regret making this choice, because here I met some great people that helped me in my transition into this new learning environment. At first, I was so worried that my shyness would make it extremely hard to make new friends, which was probably my main concern about college, but I’m glad to see that it wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be. I’m starting to enjoy coming to Baruch every day, and no I’m not talking about the commute. It’s nice to make new friends in a different environment while learning things that I’ve never learned before. So I may not be completely certain of who I really am or what exactly I want to be in the future yet, but I’m hoping that I’ll be able to figure it out here at Baruch.

hmmm. this is supposed to be 2 minutes long right? lol..

Hey, I’m Kristie Ching! I’m Taiwanese (ish?), My mom and dad both came from Taiwan, but my dad is Fujinese, and my mom is some other Chinese thing, I have no idea what it’s called in English. My parents have been divorced since I was born, I think? Haha I never asked. I honestly don’t really like my dad, or know him. My role models while growing up were my mom and my sister. I also have an 8 year old Shih Tzu named Golden; I love him more than anything! I’m a crazy animal lover, one of the reasons I dislike eating meat (yeah I know I’m pretty weird). I also love kids! I’ve been working at a family daycare/tutoring center for about a year now and love teaching them and playing with them, although I’m not too crazy about changing their diapers and wiping their butt! My dream career is to own my own daycare, and build and design it myself (I also have an obsession with interior design and architecture).
I’m really quiet and shy at first, if you didn’t already notice haha. I can be pretty awkward around people I don’t know well, so don’t mind my awkwardness too much, it’ll eventually go away. I’m a goody good, never cut class, never cheated, never stole, never did anything pretty much, yeah boring huh? I lived in Queens for about 9 years and in Long Island for about 8(hated it!). I have many interests and many dreams, but I’m just and ordinary girl trying make the best out of college.

After the first week of Baruch, I came to the conclusion that I was going to hate it. It seemed like it was going to be so hard to make friends! Everyone around looked like they were in a rush or had no interest in making friends. But after these few weeks, after making a few friends, I’m seeing that making friends will be easier than i thought! Like I said I’m a pretty quiet girl, and I hate talking to strangers and especially adults. So I’m always worried about calling or going in person to ask difference College Offices about things that I need and should do to succeed in college. Another thing that scares me is the work that professors are going to give us. Coming from high school, like everyone else, I’m used to having the teachers tell us what to study, when to study and constantly remind us about everything. I hope I won’t forget to do any assignments or to study for important exams!

So far, Baruch hasn’t been too different from high school. It almost feels like, it’s high school all over again just in a different environment with different people. The only difference is that in high school I knew where everything was, who everyone was, and how everything worked. Here at Baruch, I will need to learn everything all over again!

I think the first year at Baruch will make me more outgoing and social, not that I’m antisocial or anything. Regardless of what career I end up pursuing, I know that an extremely important skill will be communication and having the ability to get along with others and work with others.