My name is Yong Liu but you can call me Tom. I was born in Wen Zhou China on July, 2 1992. I moved to America in 1999, when I was 7 with my dad and older brother. When I moved here, I lived with my aunt and cousins. I used to live and go to school in Chinatown until I moved to Elmhurst when I was 12, there is really a big difference between the two communities, I just graduated from Bayside High school and am now attending Baruch College and is planning to major in Accounting. I enjoy watching Baseball and Football games, my favorite teams are the Yankees and the Jets. Also I love listening to music; I enjoy all kind of music except country. My favorite music artists are Usher, Iyaz and Rihanna. I love the color blue and I don’t a favorite food, but I love food. During my free time I usually chat with friends’ online, browse the internet such as watching Youtube videos, and of course playing some games. My hero is my dad because he works his butt off for the family and never complains about anything. One of my main goals is to graduate college and let my dad retire early.
My Top 3 concerns are adjusting to College life, making friends, and Studying. Adjusting to college life because its way different from high school, everything moves faster and a lot of the information like due dates for papers I need to find myself compare to high school where the teacher reminds you almost every day. Making friends because in college it’s a lot harder than in high school because a lot of the class is in a big lecture hall and you don’t get to communicate with a lot of people around you during class time. Studying is another thing I am concern about because in high school, you didn’t really needed to study that much. So I need to learn how to manage my time efficiently to have enough time to sit down and study.
The differences between high school and college are the professor’s cares less about you, the workload is way more than high school, and the classes are a period longer. The professor’s don’t nag you to do your work like the teachers in high school and most of the professor’s won’t even know our names. In high school, we didn’t really have homework and even if we did it was very little but in college I spend 2-3 hours on 1 class alone. Also another difference is that the classes are way longer than in high school so you really have to adjust to it. I think the first year of college would make me more mature as a student and as a person because in College you really have to be independent and take care of yourself.