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a) Tell us how your experience at Baruch College has lived up to your expectations? Not lived your expectations?
Exceeded your expectations?
My experience at Baruch college has been quite a journey so far. There have been the good times, The Bad Times, and The Ugly times. I knew that when I first walked in that door of Baruch that first day it would be nothing like high school. Hell, I only knew one person from high school who also goes to Baruch and I’ve only seen her twice this whole semester. I thought that we’d run into each other alot more which I will consider the bad times because I will be the first to admit; If it wasn’t for me going to work between classes, I most likely would have went insane. It was harder to get to know people at first because I am not exactly the most talkative person. Shyness is a weakness for me. Though it got better. My expectatiions were met in terms of the campus. I love the campus and the computer availability between classes and after classes. Exceeding my expectations would have to be the professors. Besides math, all the other proifessors I can deal with. (Even Vecchio and Sen’s accent, and Pison’s continuous talking.)
b) How well do you think your semester at Baruch College went?
It could have went better. I didn’t want to drop Math and I honestly thought my averages would be above 80. The freaky thing is my averages for Psychology, History, and English are all 78.
c) What would you do differently during your first semester if you could do it all again?
Make sure I didn’t get that Math class and got 2160 like I was suppose to as a journalism major.
d) How have you changed since you started at Baruch College?
I have become more of a person that people can talk to. That never was the case back at Grover Cleveland High School since I was one of ten white kids. Everyone had their clique. Plus now my comedic skills have improved so it’s alot easier to make friends when you can make them laugh.
On a side note, I wish everyone good luck in the next 3.5 years at Baruch since after this term I will probably only see a few of you here and there. I honestly wish everyone success and happiness as they go forward in life. (I really don’t know why I wrote this since I probably will be seeing everyone at some point.)

My name is mark Hulser and as a freshman at Baruch college I am experiencing a uniform but exhausting transition from high school. The changes are well how can I put it so everyone knows what I am talking about; a crapshoot. There are the good times in which I can go to work between classes and make some money. ( Who doesn’t like money) Plus I can get work done, schoolwork that is during these breaks in the computer lab. ( I am doing this post right now as I speak in the computer lab.) Now the other end of the spectrum, I feel as if I am going insane with the amount of work that has been thrown at me by these professors. it doesn’t matter if they have an accent or a phrase in which (I should say and all or am i right) they all give a killer amount of work. For those of you who don’t have Pison or Kim as professors don’t understand why I put the two phrases in parenthesis so just ignore the parenthesis for the last part. About me outside of school, I am a 195 bowler, (thisd has to be the fifth time I mentioned this so if I am boring anyone I apologize). I love my family to the point where they go first before myself which is why I am not dorming since I have to help my mom pay rent. To finish off this monologue I am going to end with two points. First when riding the trains for those of you who travel, Bring your IPOD or something to avoid conversing with the bums of New York. You don’t want to have to talk to them if you come prepared. Finally The Yankees will not win the World Series. Let’s go Texas, (Or San Francisco if the Yankees get past Texas.

a) Tell us who you think YOU are!
b) Share your top 3 concerns about your freshmen year at Baruch College and explain why.
c) So far, what do you think will make your Baruch College experience different from your high school experience?
d) How do you think your first year at College will change you?

Well my name is Mark Hulser and I am an avid Mets fan who has season tickets to watch his favorite team lose every damn game. Though I consider myself to be an optimistic person who knows at some point things will turn in my direction one way or another. Some of you may have heard my life is a game speech, and I am restating the premise because it is true. The point for me is to win at this game and become a success. Right now I am at the beginning stages of my game where you just start to get the feel of the game.

My top three concerns about my freshman year at Baruch college……. Well for one , Just to avoid shooting myself in the head is one. Second making sure that I can keep up with the tremendous amount of work that is assigned every damn class. We would like to avoid having to go on blckboard and our e-mails 24/7. Number 3 would have to be being able to meet new people. Yeah it sounds cheesy but it’ true. It qualifies as aconcern because out of honesty as much as people claim to love being alone, that is a load of crap.
Baruch experience compared to high school experience…….. Well only having 4 days of classes is at least a little easier. Though now it feels as if with becoming more independent in collge it tends to be that you are at the school more than you would think. In high school you couldn’t wait to leave and go party or chill with friends. Now you tend to study more and care more about your work.

I believe my first year at Baruch college will change me to the point where I will start to get the feel how life will be in the next 5 to 10 years. Having a full time job for every day the whole year instead of just the summer like i am used to. It is just preperation and I will feel the change.