Author Archives: Prayetno Soe

I feel pretty upset with myself in this semester. I do not like all my classes. Since the subject I love the most is Mathematics, and I do not have to take it since I passed the AP test, so I have to take all the classes that do not use numbers or formulas. Honestly, I did not do really well in this semester; I just played around, and did not take everything pretty serious. I think I will get lower GPA than I expected. I am disappointed about the time I wasted these three years. I wish I could go back to High School, take more College Now courses which I had chance to take them but I did not take them, then in College, try to concentrate more, study harder, and do not waste most of my time. So in this semester, I did not read any chapters which the professors assigned or sometimes I read them late, I did not do well in the quizzes or tests, and I did not even understand what I learned. But I do not want to give up easily because of the bad start. Next semester I promise myself to do better than this semester because my education is important for my future. I will try my best to read any chapters as soon as possible, finish my homework earlier, and study hard for the quizzes and tests. So I will keep fighting for my grade until I graduate from Baruch College.

I have not changed a lot since I started in Baruch College. I am still shy, lazy, and take everything easy. I am a shy person because I will not talk to new friends if they do not talk to me first. So what I am going to do is I will talk to new friends and make more friends the following semester. Because I think if I have more friends, I can get more information about something they know that I do not know, we can share, and we can help each other. Also I will remove my laziness to improve my grade for the following semester and take everything serious.

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..

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.

There are sixty-eight hundred million people in the world, but how many people can really understand me? The answer is not a lot. But there must be a person who knows me very much, this person is me. I have my own thinking about myself which is really different from other people who know me. Now I am 18, attending college and it becomes the turning point in my life.

People said human have two sides, bad side and good side, however I think people also have ”inside” and “outside”. That’s why it’s hard to understand each other. My outside, I am really polite to people, I open door for people, say thank you if they give me space to walk and say sorry so many times even just block the way for one second. Because I think being polite is the basic respect to the people. And I am working so hard when I was in the school or working place. I can help everyone in the school if they need me, and I can stand whole day without blame anyone in my working place. However, these things are not working to my family and in my house. I feel tired and lazy to do extra works in the house. So I do not want to do anything at home and rarely help my mom to clean the house. But I still respect her and only just help her a little bit. Inside me, I really want to be a good person that always helps people.

In my freshman year at Baruch College, I think all my classes are very boring because I always have to read a lot of books. But I made some friends and we have fun together sometimes. College is so much different from High School, it more work to do, more reading, and more responsible. I have to do all the homework, reading and responsible for all my work. The Professors don’t really care about us, they just need your work and give you grade. So it is my responsible to do all my work. So the first year at Baruch College will change myself become more responsible to do all my work. Because before I was very lazy to do my work since in high School the teacher always gives excuse to us.