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Coming into college, I was very upset. Senior year in High School was the best year of my life and I didn’t want to ever leave the school and friends I had finally become so familiar with. My first day at Baruch, I came home crying. The day was so long, and such a hassel. The teachers were so serious. The people were so different. I didn’t see myself making friends at this school, and I told my parents there was no way I would commute by train every day; I wanted to drive. Eventually after one week of adjusting to my new life, I met some new people and I started liking the school. Now my only problem was getting into school mode. Usually its hard to become serious again after the summer, but this time it was especially hard because my summer began second semester of senior year. Luckily I was able to finally get my school work on track. But just as I was beginning to get stable my friends and I met a new crowd of friends and got thrown off. We started staying out very late every night. For a good 2 months I forgot all about school and didn’t open a single book. By the end of the semester I realized I could be failing my classes, but it was too late to get myself back together. My goal for next semester is to keep myself focused and do well in school. If I could do it all again, the only thing I would change is to balance schoolwork and friends.

All my life I’ve been with my best friends every day. Same school, same friends, for 17 years. All of a sudden college started. I no longer see my best friend, Ashley, every day. We never thought about this effecting us. Our relationship normally consists of fighting harshly one day and then being like sisters the next. This cycle worked out pretty well for us in high school because neither one of us enjoyed going to out lunch alone, so we were forced to make up. After the first month of college we got into a big fight, which isn’t rare, but this time it was different. Neither one of us really cared! Being in different schools our lives went on. I had a new guy in my life and she just made up with her old best friend after being in a fight for over a year. Both of us were extremely happy in the moment and only remembered about our fight when our friends asked us if we made up yet. One night it hit me… We always told each other that boyfriends suck because each fight could be the end of the relationship, but the special thing about out friendship was that wed always make up the next day… This time our lives were going on without each other, which was scary. I began to cry. I called her without even thinking about it. When I heard her voice I couldn’t talk. Then she said “Sim, can we be friends again?” After a minute of sobbing I said yes and everything was immediately back to normal!

I can’t believe we’re already at the end of our first semester. I still remember the first day of class where i got to see so many new faces, how big the school was, how expensive the books were and how much i would have to study to get a good grade. Its been a good semester i would say, i met a lot of interesting people, especially in LC26, i learned a lot of new things in my classes, and found out that when in doubt, either bullshit your way out of it or pretend to understand whatever the teacher’s saying (cough sociology cough). I can’t say i’ll miss you guys since after all we’ll still be going to the same school and i’m sure i’ll still see you guys around and we’ll look back on all the wonderful things that have happened, like jack getting yelled at by professor charles, all those times we corrected mccaffrey, and how we’re all fly like a G6. And don’t forget to hit me up on facebook

I’m supposed to make a post regarding my reaction to the monologues. I have to say I was pretty clutch with them since mine managed to get chosen to be read alongside Martin’s. That was pretty cool. :]

First semester at baruch. It was ok. My LC is pretty chill so thats good. But, the thing i like least is how expensive everything is. Its all good though. I dont know if im coming back next year. I might transfer somewhere with a campus. I really like the city but I want a more college lifestyle. I hate not having all my friends from home here but, I have made a couple new cool friends.  I might go upstate somewhere, gotta stay SUNY plus all my friends are up there. Except my one friend he goes to school in connecticut. Don’t think I could go all the way there though. Rather be upstate. Cortland maybe or New Paltz maybe somewhere further so I can be closer to syracuse ithaca and genesseo. Maybe ill apply to ithaca. Who knows? Baruch is alright though if i get alot of money between now and next year i’ll stay here.

It’s 9:44 a.m in the morning and I just woke up and found out from a friend that I don’t have to go to English class this week, so I’m in kind of a good mood. This is my last post, so here it goes. This is for you Clemente and for you guys at LC 26. :]

My first semester at Baruch has been truly amazing. Once my friend said she likes Baruch because it gives us the chance to make new friends while also allowing us to stay in touch with many of the people we became friends with in high school. This is true for me as well, I’ve met many new people and new friends. Some of you are reading this blog right now. To be honest, I consider all the people in LC 26 my friends. I think we were extremely lucky to have such a wide variety of personalities that always kept class interesting, like Jack’s questioning the legal standpoint of any far fetched situation he found himself in or David’s spot on impersonation of that one substitute we had. Of course, you can’t forget Clemente whose been extremely helpful in Freshmen Seminar. Especially since if he didn’t have us go to those career and academic workshops a significant amount of us would be still have that part blank on that orange sheet of paper we got some undetermined amount of time ago. I forget because I just found it underneath a pile of menus and old English papers.

College has also presented a fair amount of adventures for me. The least of which was supposed to be a short 30 minute walk to my dorm that turned into a 2 and a half hour trek through lower Manhattan. I’m pretty sure I got turned around near NYU or something, I probably should have asked for directions but unfortunately men don’t ask for directions. But perhaps the biggest adventure was probably going through Pre-Cal with you guys at 10:45 a.m. Suffice to say, some of us just didn’t make it :/

Now the real challenge is the next semester and scheduling new classes. Trust me on this, I’m the guy who still has one stop on his record. -_- Despite wherever our new schedules take us, I hope we all stay in touch. A simple head nod will do as we pass in the hallways or even a nice “Hey Christian!” to which I will wholeheartedly respond “Hey!…..guy/girl :D” I don’t know if you can actually insert smileys in real life conversation but I sure will try.

I guess this is time to wrap this up. But let’s reminisce over our favorite LC26 moments. Remember that one time (insert story here) and that other time when (insert story here)! Yo, great times, great times. Oh yea there was that one time we went to the movie and dinner, that was pretty chill as well. Alright time to get off because I still have to go to the Rubin Museum today before Freshmen Seminar (I won’t lie to you Clemente I’m cutting it really close here lol). Hope you enjoyed my last blog post here at Live@Baruch. For those who read all the way to the end, congratulations! You should get a cookie. Find me in class or the hallway and ask me for a cookie, but just to make sure you really read all the way through I will ask you what I talked about in the sixth paragraph. Hint: It’s a trick question. Alright xoxox, Gossip Girl 😮

P.S. You should all do yourself a favor and go to Fast and Fresh near the 6 train station. Best chocolate milkshakes ever. Don’t get strawberry, it taste like ass.

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.

wow i still feel like i just started college and already the first semester is over. the experience i had at baruch was very frustrating to the point where i wanted to quit several times. i came into this school year with some bad habits (not studying at all) and it had a negative effect on my grades. i know that i didnt do very good this semester and im fine with that because now i know what to expect and how to prepare for the next semester. my main problem during my first semester was i had too many distractions at home, pulling me away from my school work. i decided that i will move to new jersey with my aunt so that i can focus on school without a lot of distractions. i certainly changed since i started baruch, especially after doing so bad this first semester. i have grown more responsible and stopped being lazy. i know my next semester will be better than my first and i am prepared to make it happen.

So the question is what do I think about my first semester of college?, Well  definitely   slacked, didn’t put in a lot  of effort, got distracted with making money, and let my grades slip. Its pretty challenging for me since im not giving it my all , but when I focus I can get things done. As of the teachers , most of them are cool, I have a couple I can be better off with out but thats life and i cant blame them for what I do . Ive realized its all about what I put into it. Ill do better next time

I guess this is pretty late but it has to be done . My presentation was alright it was extemporaneous to begin with , and it was a little blunt. But it was alright I guess, Nothing really special about it