Monthly Archives: October 2010

I went to Rubin Museum of Art with Tom and Sid yesterday. The place was small. We thought it has very interesting pictures inside. But it only has historic statues from 19th or 20th century. But we still like to look around and know more about these statues.

But anyway, before we arrived at the RMA, we took 6 train to Union Square. and we had to walk about 5-7 blocks to get to the museum. The funny part was when we went home, we found F train just one block from the museum. And we blamed each other for walking about 5-7 blocks. I also took some pictures from the Museum..

Freshman Seminar Calendar

I’m sorry about the terrible presentation and this is the one what I want to talk about.

Hello, I’m Zhixian Huang and you can call me Pacco. I’m a simple person who is no simple. It’s very difficult to talk about me or I don’t like talk about me too much. So, now I ‘m going to talk two things about me. And you will know more about me.

First, it’s about my dream. As everyone else, I have a big dream when I was young. Because I ‘m interesting in of a lot of things. When I saw someone was happy when he won the first place or he make a good succeed on his work, I hope one day I can be the same place or I can over him. So I am always interested of the study of everything. But it’s impossible to make everything come truth. Dream is dream. You can sleep to get it done, but it become when one’s wake up. Every dream in child-hood seems ridiculous. In the society, most people are working on other people’s dreams. Their dreams comes truth on pc game. For me, my dream is changing the time. Now my most important dream is making money. Money can make everything possible. Every project is completed base on finance. So to become a game designer, it need a better pc and buy a lot of expensive book, software and coffee. So having more money, I can get further on my dream.

The second thing: why I choose Baruch College. First, for a people who want to make money Baruch is a good choice. Second, Baruch is the closed college from my house. In the cold and snowing winter, no one wants to get up early, and walking in the wet street. At lest, I can sleep in bed for more. The third is I can get some experiences. I’m strong on the science class but week in others. So, I think get into Baruch is a big challenge for me, also it can give me more time to study on the hard course.

Three years ago I moved here with great expectations ready to pursue my dreams. Moving to NYC from LA was one of the most challenging but rewarding things I have ever chosen to do.I commuted from my sisters house in New Jersey to New York every day searching for jobs. It was a rude awakening for me. A completely different culture, no parents, and little money. Only my tenacious ambition and faith that God would help me to do everything I needed to. It is definitely a challenge balancing work, school, and married life, but I love my life. The lessons I learn on a daily basis are enriching and are equipping me for my future in music. Songs are pouring from me more freely. I feel like a piece of flint being sharpened with a stone. The pieces cut away from me are my acts of love to the world.

I am happy to be here. I look around my classrooms and see diversity and the potential for greatness. People from all over the world, from different walks of life all united to learn and grow to become cutting edge professionals. It is inspiring to see people putting themselves out of their element. Life is different when you are in college. This is the beginning of the rest of my life. Now, everything I do counts. The accountability I have from everyone puts me in a position where I want to be my best at everything I put my hands to.

I think. NO, I know that we will do amazing things. Believe it. We are unique and wonderful people, created by God to be excellent. I pray that you and I will reach great heights and depths. Persevere through trials, strive to be good people, unafraid of those who oppose us to do the right thing.

Hello everyone, my name is Hao Lin and I migrated to USA five years ago.  I am outgoing and a little bit of humor, although some of my friends always though my jokes weren’t funny at all, but I enjoy my own style of humor. Same as most boys, I do like to play computer games, basketball and read some novels. I played computer because my friends are playing, and I enjoy the teamwork in the basketball game.  Reading novels for me just like to experience other people’s life story and see people views about this world.

It is a great chance for me to meet everyone in this class. Each of your come from different places, have different cultural backgrounds and of course some interest stories about your past.  I believe most of people in this class are new immigrants and you will agree with me that life for immigrants was not easy at all. I was started from the ESL class which refers to the English as Second Language.  I had problem to communicate with other native speakers or I did not want to getting in touch with them because I knew how poor my English was.  However, I realized that my friends did not look down at me because of the language problem, even more they are willing to help out and encourage me to express myself.  It is true that friend is the one who always supporting you.

And talking about friends, college is another great opportunity to make new friends. However, the life in college is totally different from the high school.  I expect my college life will be a lot of easier than high school, but from what I had experienced is it is opposite from my thought.  No one going to push you means if you don’t study by yourself the only result is failing.  It is more about responsibility and self-control.  I was so busy each week, which there is lot of readings in each of class and difficult exams coming up.  However, thing did not come out as I wished.  The grades for some course such as music is badly even i did study for it.  Hope things will get better during next few months.

The earth is one of the planets that move around the sun. Many people believe it is because sun is a really important existence for the earth. Sun has giving its warmth light to the earth so people feel warm when winter season is coming. I would like to be the sun to burn myself to give warmth light to the others. I see myself as a sun because I like to help people when many people need helps. I had been in the student club, services, and also had been my teacher’s assistant to help students and my teacher. I helped the student that had problem understanding the lesson.  I helped my teacher to check homework and grade some tests, and also helped setting up the ‘Smart Board’ so she could you it to teach the class. I help elders outside the school because I feel bad when they want to do something that hard for them to do. They become weak when they get older so I think I should help them if I have time. I am an enthusiastic person, warm as sun and want to help people to share my warmth. And I believe it is a right thing to help people because one day the trouble may happens me, and I hope someone could help me with my problems.

Hi everyone, my name is WenHao Liang. Some of my high school teachers used to make fun of  my name by calling “when” and “how”, and every classmates would laugh at me. Since I am a easy-going person, those kinds of jokes are acceptable for me. Indeed, I never mad at people. Because I think madness and hate can do nothing as we already living in the world that around with grief and pressure. I don’t want to be the one that add pressure to people. I want to be the one that helps people, put smiles on people. Also I am a persevering person, which means I always trying to overcome any problems I have. There is a saying “ out of difficulties, makes miracle”. I am strongly believe in it. I think whenever there is a problem, there is a solution. Remember I was in primary school, third grade. Our school was going to have a class to class basketball Tournament. I was really love to play basketball. Unfortunately, I was the eleventh man of my class. A basketball team normally forms by 5 fronts and 5 substitutions. That means I did not have a chance to play for my class in that year. I was deeply sad. From that day on, I started to aim for improve my basketball skill just for a chance of playing for the class in next year. I practiced basketball day to day, no matter how shining was the sun, how cold was the wind, and how heavy was the rain, you could always see my face on the basketball court. I did not became the best basketball player, but I finally gained the chance to play for the class with millions drops of my sweat.

As you see, I love sport, specially basketball. I like Kobe Bryant. I been watching him playing basketball for almost 10 years. He is the best basketball player in the world. Every move and every shot that he takes could be so attracted to me. I love popular music. I think music is kind of magic. With just a few limited notes, we human can create unlimited songs. And every single song represent a meaning, a feeling, or a story. I always try to get into the story of the songs while I am listening. Music takes me to everywhere, and it inspires and teaches me a lot of truth of our humanity.

Lets go back to class we have right now. I think it is a treasure to knowing each of you guys and become friends of each other. We from different countries and places, and we speak different languages. And now we just met here, in this country, this building, this classroom. We must all treasure this as a part of life.

Hi, my name is Naeun Kim. Im from Korea and have lived in New York for little more than 2 years.

Nowdays, my life in college is both interesting and stressful. I get lots of reading and writing assignments everyday and it gives me lots of stress for me because Im a very slow reader and my lack of English makes it more difficult. Although I studied very hard, I don’t think I did good job on my history test last week and it made me deppressed for a while. Also Im afraid of Anthropology test that is comming this Wednesday.

However, meeting new people and making friends made my college life intereting. Luckily, I met many nice people in Baruch. I think it is good to have block schedule because I could get closer to people who have same schedule with me and make good friends.  Also, I met some nice friends from the Korean Club.

Although I like to make new frineds, Im not a very outgoing person. It takes lots of attemps to say hi and act friendly to new people for me. However, after I get close to them, I talk a lot and get hyper. I really like texting so I text a lot to friends especially whom I like to get closer.  

I really don’t like to be alone. I oftenly feel lonely and always miss and look for people who think about and take care about me. I think that is why I text a lot. I feel kind of relief from texting when I am alone. I was thinking why am I so scared about being alone. I think it is because of my experience in my childhood. Im an only child of my family and both of my parents have worked since when I was a child. So I had to be alone in my home. At that time, I didn’t feel any loneliness or sadness about that since I was a little kid. I was just bored. However, I thinkt that experience hurted deep inside of my heart and remained as a trauma.

So,  I was so worried not only about studying but also about being alone without any friend before my college life began. And now I think it was one of the luckiest things in my life that I met good friends in Baruch.

Mae Ni.

I am an ordinary person, but I enjoy my simple life since living in this world is marvelous. I just think that without mundane people like me, others would never been showed how great they are. I’d like to describe myself as a wonderful piece of music which is composed by light and shadow.

“light” symbolizes the achievement in my life. When I was a little girl, my grandparent let me to learn the piano. I was unwilling and weary to play it at first. Over time, however, I had been affected by the wonderful music. Also, in order to prevent disappointment of my family and attain a higher level, I strived to practice more. Finally, I awarded certificate of Grade 8. From then on, music is an impartibly part of my life. In addition, I have been edified by soft music. I set up a good attitude towards failures and problems and try to deal with them with a calm mind. I became patient and placid because of each dancing notes. I realize college needs harder work than before, but music gives me confidence which supports me to confront all the difficulty.

Shadow is destined to appear where the light is. Failure, suffering and some bad things always flood the life. Once, I participated in a competition for commissary of entertainment of student council enthusiastically. I played the piano to show my talent and also prepared a video which introduced me, but the video could not be played properly. At the moment with all sights from teachers and students on me, my brain had nothing left but said something embarrassedly to end my speech. I did not become a member of student council in the end. However, I did not lose the confidence of myself. Conversely, I realized that I should learn how to accommodate myself to circumstances. Since I have been edified by music, I adjusted my frame of mind and walked away from the failure and shadow gradually.

Friedrich Nietzsche said, “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Therefore, thanks for the piano filling my world with expectation. Working hard and getting good grade is my present goal. Follow the notes upon the journey, I would improve myself and become harder and more serious toward my objects. I would hear a piece of beautiful music; it’s the belief of my future.