Freshman Year
Hi,
I’m James. I’m 18 years old. I was born in Myrtle Beach, SC, later moved to the DC area when I was about 10, and now live in New York. Stating the obvious, I am also a freshman at Baruch College.
Baruch is an interesting college experience, and only having just begun, it’s hard to report my experiences; all I can safely say so far is that it’s very unorthodox. However, I do feel that it’s not that much different from college. Of course, there are lectures, the word ‘professor’, and a lack of worksheets, but that’s just a small part. I feel that freedom is still constricted, strict attendance policies, our schedules are set up in a similar format to that of a high school one, and some of the class conversations are on a shallow, high school level (it makes me glad that I tested out of some of my freshman classes). Furthermore, don’t tell my professors, but I don’t have that much work…certainly not a complaint. Everyone talks about living in the library, but I’ve been there maybe twice to kill time in between a 2 hour gap I have…
On a less academic note, Baruch is a diverse school. Coming from the DC area, I’m not unaccustomed to this, so it’s not that big of a deal having Sikhs, Persians, Pacific Islanders, and so on in my class-in fact it was guaranteed in high school, and it’s carried on to my college career as well, which was welcomed and part of why I chose this school.
I dont know, I just don’t feel it’s too hard, but as upperclassmen have said, we need to make sure we do well our first two years, because afterwards classes get a lot harder. I choose to remain optimistic, that after we spend more than a month at school, things will get more fun and more fluid.