Who Are WE? We're PR3!

Coming to College everyone wants to make a lot of new friends. On of the best ways is of course joining clubs. But for some people like me who don’t really have that much time to join clubs. Thats why i have not  gotten involved yet, but I want to start joining clubs maybe starting my sophomore year. I didn’t want to join this year because I don’t have time to go to meetings every week and most of the clubs doesn’t really interest me. The club that I am willing to join is accounting club since I am going to major in that field it should benefit me. Also I would like to join some Honor Clubs because it just looks good on my resume. I would not be interested in starting my own club because it is just too overwhelming. Since I am lazy and unorganized, even if I started one it would be a disaster.

My dad has been a role model throughout my life. However, there are times, when I just can’t stand his lecture, especially during dinner time. I mean, come on, I’m trying to enjoy my meal here. He always repeats the same stuff every time, over and over. I decided to just ignore him, but In order to prevent him from become upset; I just nod my head and pretend that I’m listening. But I can tell, by the look of his face, he is so not buying it. Sometime, I just wish the phone would ring or just anything, as long as it would stop him from yapping at me. I’m just going nod that head of mines and finish my dinner as quick as possible so I can return to my room and be free and peaceful.

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.