Hi, my name is Ye In and I live in Port Washington, which is in Long Island. I chose to attend Baruch College because I wanted to be a CPA, certified public accountant and Baruch College has a good program for accounting. By attending this school for two month, I realized that high school and college are very different.
First of all, I never really “commuted” in high school. For me, commuting takes a lot of time. At first, I hated commuting a lot but now I am getting used to it. In high school, it only took me 10 minutes to go to “commute” to my school but now, it takes up a lot more, which makes me more deligent and responsible person because I try my hardest not to be late for classes.
Also, I realize there are a lot more reading to do in college. In high school, I did pretty well without reading all my materials given. Actually, most of the times, notes in classes helped me more to get high grades in the test. But in college, I realized reading textbook helps me a lot more than notes that I take from the class. Even today, I was studying for Anthropology test and I barely looked at the note but read a lot more, taking notes and highlighting the important parts from the chapters.
Lastly, I find that college classes move a lot quicker than I thought. For example, I took calculus in high school ( even though I did terrible in AP test) and it did not move as fast as college. I feel like if I didnt take the Calc class in high school, I would have VERY hard time in college because of the fast moving class.
I am still adjusting to my new school and its getting better and better everyday. I try to forget about my habits in high school and adjust more to college. Even though the work and commuting is hard, I will overcome all these obsticles to obtain my goals.
