Author Archives: Daniel Donis

I honestly expected baruch to be a little bit more interesting. I mean dont get me wrong I’ve met some pretty cool people but the number is a little bit under then what i expected. This might be because i had a higher expectation of how college would be but thats what my expectation of school life would be like. As for life on the swim team i think my expectations have been exceeded. There are a lot of people on the team that are not only interesting but they, like my other swim teams, became like my second family. I look forward to the rest of myyears on the team.

I think my first semester went well but it could have gone a little better. Here is why… for one I wasn’t able to make it through pre-calc in one piece so I had to drop it. To be honest I didn’t try too hard in the beginning and then I gave up after a while so yeah I ended it with a 48 average when I dropped it haha. But luckily me other classes that I have left, communications (aka public speaking), english, history and psychology are all in good shape. Next semester I’m sure I’ll try a lot harder than I did this semester for sure. Plus I have some pretty interesting classes with some pretty fun sounding teachers since I actually got to pick everything I wanted, Thank You athletes privelages.

Now what would I do differetly if I could do it all over again? probably study a little harder and do more stuff in my classes cause I slacked a little this semester. I blame it on coming off senior year where I didnt do $#*# for a whole year since it was smooth sailing. But yeah it would have been nice to not have math next semester and probably be done with anything math related atleast until next year.  How have I changed? I dont know. I guess I’ve gotten more independant, seeing as how I now take the train back and forth from school instead of being driven to school by my mom or dad. I definitely have gotten more generous cause I keep finding myself giving a dollar or two to random black guys in the subway. I used to be such a jew with my money before Baruch and even though it kills me to spend my money I still do it for food and when a person in the subway has some almost believable sob story. I usually dont give to the black guys that start of saying “I’m homeless and I’m hungry” I mean come on guys use your brains and come up with some creative story about how you fought in ‘Nam but got screwed over by your slut wife when she took everything in the divorve and still makes you pay child support. My top stories that usually get me reaching for my wallet are when a random mexican kid not much older than me came running up to me asked me in spanish whether I spoke spanish,I thought about for a moment saying no but i decided to hear him out, and then told me how his dad was deported leaving his mom, sister and him behind and they needed some money for food or something. That one pulled at my heart strings so I gave him two bucks cause i think the next bill i had was a 20 or maybe i only had two dollars in my wallet i cant remember. Another time I gave money was when some guy came on the train gave a sandwhich to a homeless guy and told us how he was a part of some organization that went out and gave food to the homeless and he was showing some certificate so i pitched in with a dollar.

If you dont know already my name is daniel donis im 18 years old, i live in woodhaven, queens. Queens is alright but i like the city a lot better. Some things i like to do are swim, watch movies, watch baseball, and when i have some down time and i feel like it i play xbox. I came to baruch thinking that i would major in business, like many people do, but i see now that it was a mistake recently i’ve been mulling over the thought of majoring in psychology and becoming a psychologist or go to med school to be a psychiatrist. I dont really like the school that much because other than the swim team it doesnt offer anything that i wouldnt be able to find elsewhere. Now your probably saying why not just transfer? but i can’t for a couple of reasons, one i really like the people on swim team and my coaches. The team is where i met the more interesting people in the first couple of weeks of school. Two I’m paying for baruch out of my own pocket and i have just enough money saved up for next semester and half of next year’s first semester which means that I have to work my ass off to get the other thousand dollars or so. A lot of people take for granted the help their parents give them, normally some people would have their parents paying for their college or they were smart enough to get a lot of scholarship money I unfortunately am not among that group. My family isn’t rich, my parents are both immigrants and we’re spanish, you do the math. Now dont get me wrong my family isn’t poor either, we just struggle sometimes. My parents were good enough to put my sister and i through private catholic school for the past 14 years instead of just going public all the way so that alone took up a good deal of money and I refuse to burden them further by having them pay another cent for my education. Sometimes I wish I was smarter, or a better swimmer so that maybe i could have been somewhere else and possibly even dorming there but whatever I just have to work with the cards im dealt, besides baruch might have some surprises down the road.

Everytime someone asks me a question like this I go one of two ways. I either don’t know how to answer it and simply say I’m still working on it or I say whatever i feel is the answer that day. Today I’m going down the second road, I think I am a complicated individual whom, in a way, is a different person to or around certain people. It’s a little complicated to explain and I also don’t feel like elaborating on the matter.

My top 3 concerns about my freshamn year here at Baruch are as follow. Concern numero uno, That I’m not working as hard as i should be and i need to get my head in right damn place. The key exaple is one you can see now I didn’t do the easiest thing i was assigned to do by not posting this blog on time. I mean really I dont know what i was thinking I was pretty busy with things over the past few days but not THAT busy that i couldn’t do this. I need to get my head out of my ass and start working harder starting now. Concern number deuce, I really don’t like the people i’ve met so far here at Baruch. Well actually thats not all true, I sould say that I don’t like all the people i’ve met in my classes and school cause the people i know on the swim team are really cool. The only people i stick around during school are my buddies Joe and Seamus, (but he tends to go by james in classes) The reason why is because I’ve known Joe for 14 years and I’ve known Seamus for about 12 years i think. I’m hoping there are some more interesting people somewhere out there in this College. 3.) I’m concerned about that I really don’t know what the hell I wanna do, major wise, I originally came in thinking business but now I’m thinking thats not the way I wanna go. Recently I’ve been thinking Psychiarty because the mind and all those disorders really interests me. Now I would say i’ll just transfer out but thats out of the question for two reasons, reason one I really like the swim team and the people I’ve met on it plus I’m that good yet for D1 and some D2 schools and I wanna swim in college. Reason two I CAN’T AFFORD IT. I’m paying Baruch with my own money right now and I’m pulling my hair out wondering how i’m gonna pay next year. I cant go to my parents cause they’ve done enough for me so far and i can’t burden them anymore plus I’m basically a dumbass so Its not like I got scholarships coming out the butt heading my way.

So far I dont know what will make my Baruch Experience different than my highschool experince other than class size and length.

Hopefully my first year of college will make me stronger academically and a bit more mature and definitely a better swimmer.